Category: Speaking
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Chairing a panel at The Walpole’s Far Eastern Growth Summit on Luxury
I’m a massive fan of the work that Walpole does in creating a voice and forum for the luxury market in the UK, and especially providing a space to discuss digital developments.I was pleased therefore to contribute once more to their events, this time by chairing the panel on digital luxury. The panel comprised Ken…
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Keynote for ScotlandIS’s eCommerce Conference
I was pleased to give the keynote address to the eCommerce Scotland Forum on 13 February in Glasgow.c270 delegates gave a very warm welcome and some direct, tough questioning – both during the Q&A and also over coffee and lunch. Event details are here: http://www.scotlandis.com/events/event-details/1190 The presentation deck is available on Slideshare: Ps258 2014 Trends…
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“Connecting with the Connected Customer” – eCommerce Trends 2014, Warsaw.
Pleased to have been invited to speak at the spring 2014 ‘eCommerce Trends’ conference in Warsaw. You can see the programme and information about the other speakers here: http://2014wiosna.ecommercetrends.pl/program The topic is “Connecting with the Connected Customer” and I’ll be covering: The digital customer is becoming more knowledgeable and more demanding. Even as retailers rush…
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Morrison’s move to online grocery delivery – BBC Radio interview (Shane O’Connor show)
Ian Jindal interviewed on BBC Radio on the topic of Morrisons’ late entry into the online grocery market, 10 January 2014.
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Chairing ChannelAdvisor’s Catalyst EU Conference
It was my pleasure to return as Chair to Catalyst 2013, Channeladvisor’s European conference.This year the format was a mix of presentations and ‘fireside chats’ (even though we had no fire!). I had a fun session with the irrepressible Chris Poad from Amazon – candid, engaging and fun as ever, and continuing his track record…
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Speaking: the Endeca Retail Dinner
Just back from the rarified atmosphere of Mosimann’s for the Endeca Retail Dinner. Great group of people – Shop Direct, RS Components, Wiggle, Game, Tui… fun to catch up with people and meet new faces. Endeca sponsored the last InternetRetailing CEO Dinner (see the photoset of Dinner05) and we had a wonderful and relaxed evening, so…
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TheAppLounge – launched tonight
Just back from Wardour Street where I was pleased to have spoken a few words at the launch of TheAppLounge ‘pop up’ experience store. You can see details at www.theapplounge.com, but in brief it’s a place to meet, socialise, experience and understand software and technology in support of one’s ‘digital life’. Alexander Grünsteidl (Senior Director…
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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).…
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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…
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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…