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Ecommerce Expo, 26 Sep, 2019 Olympia, London, United Kingdom STIQs verdict (of 5 possible): Event link: Ecommerce Expo EcommerceExpo is collocated with two other shows in the Olympia trade show halls in West London and frequently has a queue of people outside waiting to get in. This year we were invited to participate in one of the many ongoing presentations at the show. While these are frequently overcrowded, the talk we participated in was perhaps only 40% full (audience). I was invited to talk about ecommerce fulfilment robotics when the other panellists were talking about PUDO which may have been...

FT Future of Retail Conference, 18 Sep, 2019 Royal Garden Hotel, West London, United Kingdom STIQs verdict (of 5 possible): Event link: Financial Times Live Where else can you share a table with the Group CEO at Tesco, chit chat with the CFO of Ocado, pose difficult questions re the competition to the Group CEO of Ahold Delhaize and share your love for Propercorn with its founder? Not many. However, the FT Future of Retail conference is one of these. While it may not be the cheapest conference to attend, it is almost guaranteed you will bump in to a...

OUR VERDICT: LogiMAT is held annually at Messe Stuttgart in Germany. It is one of the key logistics events in Europe. Download Styleintelligence's free Goods to Person robotics report here 10 halls, feet hurting after a day running around The intralogistics event is held over 10 large exhibition halls each full of interesting exhibitors.Since we only had one day to visit the show which runs over three days we practically ran through the halls to see all G2P suppliers we are covering in our Goods to Person Robotics 2019 report. One of the key impressions is that AutoStore is now...

EuroCIS 2019 was a relatively small trade show spread out over two halls (9 & 10) at Dusseldorf Messe. A majority of exhibitors showcased POS hardware and there was also a large contingent from Asia (mainly China, Korea and Taiwan). Our verdict: Approximately half of all the exhibitors were domestic to Germany, or companies we have not heard of before (this was our first visit to EuroCIS). The size of the show may be due to the much larger EuroShop show (next opening in Feb 2020) opening every other year. However, as a trade show country, Germany is definitely one...