Ahmed Nuaman

Chaired by: Liberty Mawhood, Chief Operating Officer, L Marks

Hear from 3 of the most innovative start up companies to help you find the next big thing in retail

This exciting Dragon’s Den-style innovation theatre session demos 3 pre-selected technology start-ups. They will pitch their innovative tech so you area able to critique their range of benefits to the in-store experience. You will then have the opportunity to vote live for your winner. Will you find the next big thing for your store?

1. Imagine if you could measure who is using your physical spaces just like you would with page views online. So what is Scout? “Analytics for physical spaces”.

- Empowering you to understand exactly how your spaces are being used. Creating stronger businesses, better communities, and smarter cities.

Meet Scout, the analytics platform for your spaces. Scout processes data captured from its easy to install tracking nodes. Scout then analyses the captured data and provides you with meaningful metrics for local government and businesses worldwide. Our tag line is “analytics for physical spaces”.

Ahmed Nuaman, CEO, Scout

2. Personalisation & optimization of the retail experience using Artificial Intelligence

Retailers & Brands spend £12 Billion each year advertising on digital signage but have no tools to maximize and measure their return on investment. Until now, Real Life Analytics is making digital signage advertising more powerful than online advertising, by providing analytics, tracking and optimization using real time computer vision and artificial intelligence

Adam Carrigan, Co-Founder, Real Life Analytics

3.Future Stores & Fashion: it's a confidence thing...

More than 80% of clothing is sold in store. HOLM has developed Personalisation software via a hosted application that turns store assistants into sales champions, turning customer journeys into highly efficient shopping road trips. Balancing ‘frictionless with stickiness’ to win shopper loyalty on their first visit. Tech working in harmony with humans, taking customer service to new levels, seamlessly across all channels and changing future store layouts for the better.

HOLM is a shopper centric, personal styling business with potent influence of a data alchemist. Matching clothes to customers with such accuracy and satisfaction, we cure diseases to margin (like high returns) and generate individual shopper insight to drive efficiency and significant competitive advantage for our fashion brand / retail clients.

Steve Johnson, Co-Founder and CEO, MyHOLM