Welcome to the first episode of the first series of the eCommerce Growth Show USA!

In the first episode of the eGS, Steve Dennis who’s a known consultant, keynote speaker, and author focused on retail growth and innovation and who’s been named a top global retail influencer by multiple organizations and his thoughts on the future of shopping are regularly shared in his role as a Forbes Senior Contributor shared very valuable insights and nuggets from his latest book Remarkable Retail: How to Win and Keep Customers in the age of disruption. Steve covered his thoughts on retailers no longer being able to count on scarcity to drive sales. Further, Steve has explained his views on why Retailers must adopt a human-centered, harmonized, mobile, personal, ultra-connected, and memorable approach to surviving and eventually thrive in the age of disruption.

Welcome to the second episode of the first series of the eCommerce Growth Show USA!

In the second episode of The eCommerce Growth Show, Carl Boutet who’s a Montreal-based retail strategist and board advisor with over 25 years of hands-on operational, marketing, merchandising, and retail executive experience. He has worked across a full array of retailer environments from the very large, such as 10 years with Costco Wholesale to working as a strategy consultant for a group of 800 independent retailers across Canada. As the founder of StudioRx, he guides senior retailer leaders to better leverage their combined choices of technology, analytics & design to create positive outcomes both for their customers and bottom line. He also advises technology companies on how to best tailor their solutions to address needs that matter most to retailers. He spent the last year working with a team of computer vision (AI) researchers as their retail strategy & global commercial lead. He holds an MBA from Queen’s University and advises on several retail innovation labs including CieTech and the recently announced Bensadoun Retail Management School at McGill University.

In this episode Verokina Sonsev, entrepreneur and Co-founder @NextCommerce shares her background, how did she start working in the event industry.

Veronika also shared where we are at in Retail, the 2020 holiday results, the winners and losers; technology areas that seem to have the most momentum; What were the most important transformations in North American Retail during COVID-19, and how her company adapted to the new moment. She also shares some insights from the latest research that NextCommerce produces with leading retailers and brands in North America. Lastly, we also took time to promote the Next Commerce online event coming which will gather over 50 speakers provided that 25+ are in the C-suite from brands such as Sephora, Wayfair, J.Crew, 1800 flowers, and many more.