Ian Jindal

Leadership and transformation in multichannel retail and eCommerce

Category: Speaking

  • Closing keynote at aDigital’s #FashTech conference in Bilbao

    At InternetRetailing we’ve know aDigital – the Spanish Association for the digital economy – for a number of years, so it was a great pleasure to be able to join them in Bilbao for their FashTech Conference on 29 November, 2016.The event was very well-attended, with some 450 delegates at any one time in an impressive…

  • InternetRetailing Conference 2016 – our 11th annual event

    I was pleased to open both www.edeliveryconference.com and www.internetretailingconference.com and welcome the usual senior gathering of multichannel professionals to our intense multi-track conference and expo.https://twitter.com/CelenyDaSilva/status/786192026412941313 #irc2016 is now open for business as our good friend @ianjindal takes to the stage pic.twitter.com/7z3XFXblf2 — Julian Wallis (@JulianWallis) October 12, 2016 @ianjindal The internetretailer Guru #irc16 #ehandel pic.twitter.com/pLAx6IFIM2…

  • Opening presentation for the International Association of Department Stores (IADS.org)

    Opening presentation for the International Association of Department Stores (IADS.org)

    I’ve long been a great fan of the IADS and have contributed in the past to their events. I was therefore particularly pleased to be invited to open their conference in London on Omnichannel/multichannel on 15 September, 2016.Department stores have been at the forefront of multichannel development in the U.K. And Europe and so it…

  • Chairing Millennial 2020’s inaugural conference in Singapore

    After the successful launch event in London earlier this year the Millennial 2020 concept is taking shape globally. I was pleased to chair the first Asia event, held at the high-impact Art Science Museum in Singapore, and equally pleased to see London, New York and Singapore dates confirmed for 2017.The event is a global gathering…

  • Closing keynote at IBM’s European eCommerce conference

    I was honoured to be invited to close IBM’s first get-together of its European eCommerce team, bringing together over 400 professionals from across Europe for a couple of days in Windsor to kick off their newly-structured team.We’ve worked with IBM on a number of editorial projects and I was asked to bring to life some…

  • Chairing at Millennial2020

    Congratulations to @RupaGanatra, Viktoria de Chevron Villette and Simon Berger for an impressive debut conference in Millennial 2020.The conference addressed the business challenge of how to approach the millennial customer, and key themes throughout were insight, authenticity and experimentation. This was brought to life on the conference stage with a real wealth of speakers – I was…

  • Brief appearance on the BBC’s ‘Christmas at John Lewis’ documentary

    Provided you didn’t blink in the wrong place you may have caught my contribution to a BBC documentary on how John Lewis prepares for Christmas. I had great fun contributing to a topic that we’ve covered ourselves – namely how the elite retailers prepare for peak. An interesting take within the programme was that #BlackFriday…

  • BlackFriday and CyberMonday comments on BBC Radio

    It’s all go in retail-land with BlackFriday and CyberMonday and I was pleased to be asked to contribute to a fun piece on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire, commenting on the phenomenon. Great questions from Paul Marriott on his show, details are here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p037v012You can hear my clip from the programme on Soundcloud:

  • Postnord’s E-handelsforum 2015 – video presentation

    I’ve spoken in the past at the well-produced E-Handelsforum by Postnord.se and I was pleased to be invited to their 2015 event.Unfortunately I was travelling in Australia (speaking on the Westfield World Tour series of events) and so couldn’t be at the event in person. Rather glamorously they suggested I do a video covering my…

  • Speaking at Gladstone’s customer event

    I was pleased to provide an opening address to Gladstone’s Health and Leisure summit.I took as my theme some of the lessons that software and services providers to the leisure sector could learn from retail, but as I worked on my presentation it was clear to me that this is not a ‘one-way street’. Gladstone…