Ian Jindal

Leadership and transformation in multichannel retail and eCommerce

Month: October 2009

  • Global eCommerce Summit (GES): Chairing a roundtable

    I was pleased to be invited to the GES in Monaco, an attempt by our friends and Shop.org and BBP of the Netherlands to work with EMOTA and other associations to create a pan-European high level conference in a similar vein to the big US conferences (like Shop.org and Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition, IRCE).…

  • Internet Retailing 2009 – our best conference to date

    October’s conference season’s highlight (for me, anyway) was the fourth Internet Retailing conference – IR2009. While I’m of course biased (!) the conference saw our highest attendance (just under 1,000 in total, with 450 full delegates), an expanded roster of exhibitors and, crucially, the introduction of our plenary keynote session to open the day. We…

  • London College of Fashion – speaking

    For the last couple of years I’ve spoken at the invitation of the London College of Fashion to their final year students on an aspect of eCommerce. This year I spoke on “The Future of Internet Retailing – considerations for fashion (r)etailing”. Great audience and some excellent questions, and of course the deck’s available on…

  • Closing keynote at the Bazaarvoice Social Commerce Summit

    Last year I spoke at the Bazaarvoice Social Media Summit event at the Magic Circle, so I was pleased to return this year for an enlarged event, held at the wonderful Shakespeare’s Globe. The day’s agenda is here: http://www.socialcommercesummit.co.uk/agenda.html and you can also see photos of the event on the Flickr set – http://www.flickr.com/photos/owiber/sets/72157622418861263/. Ze…

  • FDIH – keynote at the 2009 eCommerce Conference in Copenhagen

    I was extremely pleased to be invited to speak at the Danish eCommerce Federation’s (FDIH) annual conference in Copenhagen on 30 September/1 October by my friend, Morten Kamper, FDIH’s Director. I was still enthusing about my experiences of FDIH, Copenhagen and the knowledgeable Danish eCommerce community from my April visit, but the opportunity to speak…