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Trade Show Review: NRF2024, January, New York, US

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Trade Show Review: NRF2024, January, New York, US

NRF2024 was a full return to normal following the pandemic. Visitor numbers back to full force. Very few if any at all exhibitor cancellations. New food innovation zone and some exciting MHE displays. Overall, a lack of excitement despite all the AI talk.

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Amazon's new $1bn Industrial Innovation Fund

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Amazon's new $1bn Industrial Innovation Fund

Amazon $1bn Industrial Innovation Fund announcement

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A review of Retail Without Borders 2020

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A review of Retail Without Borders 2020

1 RWB remains the number one event for cross border trading on marketplaces despite the understandable cancellations from participating marketplaces from South Korea and China. Coupang would have been an exciting addition to the many exhibiting marketplaces at the conference, but we are looking forward to seeing them in 2021 instead! 5 The conference has now been running for five years and 2020 saw the extension of the conference from a one day event to a two day event, inculding some very exciting content including data analytics and augemented reality. 7 The number of years Gerald Ratner spent in bed...

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A Review of Ecommerce Expo, London Olympia, UK September 2019

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A Review of Ecommerce Expo, London Olympia, UK September 2019

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...

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PS None of these people are real

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PS None of these people are real

Amazing new algorithm from Japanese company Datagrid. We are currently working on a new report on V-commerce... Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. However, the stuff from Datagrid blew our minds and appears to be more of alternative reality than anything else. We have reached out to Datagrid for more information on how they pick the clothes etc in the imagery (e.g. are the clothes real if none of the people are?). If you want to follow our work in VR/AR and V-commerce, please sign up to our infrequent email newsletter.

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