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Upcoming Events

• 12 - 14 & 21-22 January 2021 NRF 2021- Retail's Big Show | Chapter I Moving Forward Together Virtual Event Retail doesn’t stop. We won’t pause, we won’t rewind. Instead, we move forward together. But in retail, forging ahead means nothing if you don’t know where you’re going, or who you’re going with.
  
  Retail’s Big Show. It’s where innovative brands big and small come together to assess, learn and move forward with focus. Where the talks, tech and talent of tomorrow prepare us for the people of tomorrow. Where we learn what’s new, what’s next and what to look out for. Where our industry moves ahead and stays ahead — as one.
  
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• March 21-24, 2021 ShopTalk 2020 Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas Shoptalk is where more than 8,000 retail changemakers come together every year to create the future of retail. For 5 years, we’ve defined the industry’s digital community by bringing established retailers and brands together with direct-to-consumer and tech startups, large tech and Internet companies, venture capital investors, real estate developers, equity analysts, media and others.
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• April 27-29, 2021 World Retail Congress Rome Cavalieri Hotel, Italy New business models and rules for success are emerging that are challenging everything and asking fundamental questions about the very role of retailing. At the heart of all this change is the consumer. They will buy from those that have the greatest relevance to them: by understanding their needs and wants and by having a powerful and clear purpose. The 2020 World Retail Congress will build on its High Velocity Retail theme by focusing on this new “Relevance Agenda”. Being relevant to your consumer, wherever they are in the world, will define your success.
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• 6 - 8 June 2021 NRF 2021- Retail's Big Show | Chapter II Moving Forward Together New York City The beginning of the year is just the beginning. June 6-8 we meet again, this time for an in-person conference and Expo center at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Here we re-up on what’s coming up in retail, build partnerships, and experience the newest technology, so we can continue to move forward, together.
  
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Past Digital Events

• October 27 - 28, 2020 WWD CEO Summit New York, NY Apparel & Retail CEO Summit
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• 14 October 2020 Virtual Sourcing Summit 2020: R/Evolution Overhauling Retail's Supply Chain Virtual Event The 2020 Virtual Sourcing Summit, R/Evolution: Overhauling Fashion’s Outmoded Supply Chain, will unite thought leaders from around the world to reveal how to rebuild everything from sustainability, seasonality and social compliance, to product development, demand planning and purpose. Join us as we outline the opportunities that will come from taking bold steps toward rewriting fashion’s roadmap.
  
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• Webinar Replay Dan Post Boot Camp: Digital Product Testing Drives Speed, Sell-in and New Style Success Digital Product Testing Webinar Replay Learn from Stephanie Greenfield, Managing Director of Product Development at Dan Post Boot Company, how the iconic western brand is leveraging digital product testing and the Voice of the Customer to get to market faster with winning new styles.
  
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• July 2020 FDRA’s Global Shoe Sourcing Digital Series Virtual Event This 4-day event featured insights from industry leaders on retail data and analysis. Read More
• May 28, 2020 Outsmarting Disruption: Navigate Assortment and Pricing Decisions with Voice of Customer Analytics Predictive analytics, Voice of the Customer, Product development Digital Event COVID-19 has shaken retail’s reality. Amid market disruptions and shifts in ways of working, brands and retailers around the world need new ways to triage orders and plan for market recovery by implementing strong, data-driven product strategies and offerings. Strategic digital solutions can help. First Insight and Columbus Consulting are offering an interactive digital session focused on leveraging customer data analytics to navigate assortment and pricing challenges in today’s crisis environment and beyond.
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• Event Replay Texworld Text Talk: Demand Planning During a Crisis Panel Replay Assortment & Demand Planning Event Replay Overstocks—and overcorrections on the flip side resulting in understocks—have plagued the apparel industry for decades. Either way, retailers have struggled with getting assortments right. The outcome: larger markdowns and smaller margins. And that was during the relative good times. With the COVID-19 virus racing around the world, determining which products to make, where to sell them and when consumers might buy has become an even bigger gamble. This panel reveals how the industry can make the right bets using tech tools that add science to the art of buying and planning.
  
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• April 28, 2020 Notable Feet: How Customer-Driven Digital Product Development Helps Crocs Navigate Market Disruptions Product Development, Predictive Analytics, Digital Testing WEBINAR The digital event will include how Crocs enabled remote work while also fostering close collaboration; leveraged data to shorten the distance between the consumer and the brand while boosting creativity and speed time to market
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• April 15, 2020 Agility, Planning and Salvaging Seasons to Come Product Development, Predictive Analytics, Digital Testing WEBINAR First Insight CCO Jim Shea joined Dr. Mark Chrystal, Chief Analytics Officer at rue21, and Greg Flinn, Planning and Optimization Product Solutions Manager at Oracle Retail for a discussion on how to embrace new solutions and processes now that de-risk the supply chain and help with navigating today’s retail market disruptions. Planning and boosting agility to make pricing and product assortment decisions are more important than ever.
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• Webinar Recording Crisis Management: Supply Chain, Technology, and Infrastructure Virtual Event With the Coronavirus pandemic, global retail faces uncertain times. Stay-at-home orders and social distancing have left stores empty and factories low on staff. However, digitalization of the supply chain can help. Watch the Replay
• Webinar Recording Speed and Sustainability: The Digital Supply Chain of the Future Virtual Event First Insight CCO Jim Shea and Li & Fung President of Supply Chain Solutions, Sean Coxall explain the benefits of this exciting collaboration that combines retail predictive analytics and the Voice of the Customer with L&F's cutting edge digital supply chain platform. Retailers and brands all over the world can now leverage the partnership to launch the right products, faster and more sustainably. Watch the Replay