Smart Commerce 2.0 – Innovating Retail, Empowering Growth

07/10/2025

10:00-16:50

Sergel Hub Stockholm

October 7th - Hybrid Event

Agenda

Theme

Intelligent Infrastructure: Powering the Next Generation of Commerce

10.00

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Opening Remarks: Strategic Leadership in the Era of Hyper-Change

  • Navigating strategic uncertainty: Tech, consumer demands, and market volatility
  • Balancing innovation, efficiency, and agility for sustained competitive advantage
  • Setting priorities that will shape winners and losers in Smart Commerce 2025 and beyond

10.20

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Keynote: The AI Commerce Shift

  • How AI is transforming product discovery, experience, and pricing
  • Navigating between automation and human touch
  • What the next generation of commerce intelligence looks like

10.40

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Panel: Composable & Agile Commerce Architecture

  • Headless, MACH, and flexible ecosystems: What works
  • Breaking silos across physical and digital channels
  • Scaling infrastructure while protecting innovation speed

11.10

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Fireside Chat: Automating the Customer Journey

  • Operationalizing AI in every layer of the value chain
  • Moving from rules to predictive and adaptive CX
  • Measuring success in automation: What really matters

11.30

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Keynote: Innovation Readiness – Are You Set Up to Scale?

  • Barriers to adoption of new tech across silos and teams
  • Future-fit operating models and decision culture
  • Building leadership consensus around smart transformation

12.00-12.40

Networking Lunch

Theme

Data Integrity and Customer Trust

13.00

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Keynote: The Value of Trust in a Data-Driven World

  • Rethinking customer relationships in the era of zero-party data
  • Strategic value of consent, transparency, and ethical use
  • Trust as a growth driver in personalized commerce

13.20

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Panel: First-Party Data & Identity Strategy

  • New loyalty playbooks driven by data ownership
  • Integrating CDPs and real-time analytics into CX
  • Turning compliance into competitive advantage

13.50

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Fireside Chat: Balancing Privacy with Performance

  • Challenges in personalization vs. regulation
  • The next phase of customer identity management
  • Rebuilding trust in fragmented commerce environments

14.10

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Key Note: The New Data Gameplan

  • How data strategy drives margins, not just marketing
  • Creating business models around data value
  • Tools and team structure for real-time commerce intelligence

14.30-15.00

Networking Break

Theme

Sustainable and Global Commerce Strategies

15.00

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Keynote: Designing Circular & Purpose-Driven Models

  • What sustainability means beyond brand messaging
  • How leading retailers embed circularity in operations
  • ESG meets margin: Making it work long-term

15.20

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Panel: Borderless & Localized – Building Global Commerce

  • Scaling without losing local authenticity
  • Adapting to fragmented regulations and cultures
  • Aligning tech, supply chain, and customer experience

15.50

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Fireside Chat: The Future of Payments & Cross-Border Transactions

  • Enabling seamless international commerce experiences
  • The evolution of BNPL, wallets, and open banking
  • Connecting local payment preferences to global growth

16.10

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Standalone Session: Global Readiness – What’s Coming in 2026

  • Regulatory shifts, supply chain resilience, digital sovereignty
  • New markets and emerging consumer expectations
  • How to prepare for the next global leap in smart commerce

16.30

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Closing Remarks: AI, ESG & the Race for Relevance

  • Global Strategy and Local Adaptation – A Winning Combination
  • Driving growth while meeting global ESG and regulatory demands.
  • Innovation for Global Success – Identifying and scaling innovations that resonate worldwide.

16.40

End of Day

17.30

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