Tabletalks
Tabletalks are designed to help you make sense of the trends shaping retail, through real conversations with peers who are navigating the same challenges.
These 50-minute, interactive lunch discussions bring together small groups of retailers and consumer brands for open, honest dialogue. You’ll exchange ideas, compare approaches across categories, and build meaningful relationships, walking away with practical insights you can take straight back to your business.
Participation in Tabletalks is FREE with your Shoptalk Spring ticket.
Tabletalks are a deeper, more intimate way to engage with key topics from the Shoptalk Spring agenda.
How it works
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Tabletalk Topics
In this Tabletalk, share what you’re seeing as AI reshapes real-world shopping behavior: how AI is influencing discovery, trust, and decision-making, and how you’re adapting experiences across channels as a result. It’s an off-the-record chance to compare what’s working, what’s surprising, and imagine what’s coming next.
This Tabletalk is an opportunity to share how you’re implementing AI in your professional life and where AI is freeing up time for more strategic work. Join peers to discuss what’s genuinely helpful vs. hype: trade tips, use cases, and honest lessons learned.
This Tabletalk gives you a chance to discuss with peers how you identify, select, and work with creators and influencers. It’s an off-the-record chance to compare how you vet partners, align on audiences and values, structure deals, and measure real impact.
Younger shoppers don’t just want products, they want personality, participation, and stories they can see themselves in. At this Tabletalk, explore Gen Z and Gen Alpha focused retail tactics, like limited drops, social-first storytelling, and experience shopping IRL to stand out from the doomscroll. It’s an opportunity to share what’s really resonating, how you’re building moments of surprise and authenticity across channels, and where you’re still experimenting to turn young scrollers into passionate shoppers.
This Tabletalk invites you to dig into the engagement tactics you’re using to delight customers in ecommerce, while balancing emotion, excitement, and ease. Talk about which ideas have actually increased time on site, conversion, and repeat visits, and how you’ve balanced those engaging moments with the convenience customers now expect as a baseline.
This Tabletalk focuses on how retailers and brands are defining and deploying AEO and GEO: optimizing product data, content, and experiences so generative AI tools surface their products more often—and more accurately. Discuss how you’re auditing your visibility in AI, experimenting with new content and feeds, and building frameworks to monitor and improve your share of AI-driven recommendations.
At this Tabletalk, connect with other leaders to discuss how you’re building and maintaining agile supply chains that can adapt quickly. It’s an off-the-record opportunity to share how you’re responding to disruptions in real time, balancing cost with flexibility, and testing new approaches to stay resilient in an increasingly unpredictable world.
In this Tabletalk, discuss how you’re redefining the purpose of your store fleet, from experiential flagships to high-output fulfillment hubs and everything in between. It’s a chance to compare approaches to omnichannel fulfillment, inventory strategy, and layout/design choices, and to unpack how those decisions are reshaping the role stores play in the broader network.
This Tabletalk focuses on how retailers and consumer brands are finding new ways to work together aligning on audiences and objectives across channels. Discuss how you’re navigating issues like data access, transparency, and profitability, while exploring what “good” looks like for modern partnerships that go beyond the traditional buyer–seller setup.
In this Tabletalk, dig into how the role of merchandising is changing in a world of digital and physical stores. Discuss the ways algorithms, analytics, and AI sit alongside instinct, creativity, and brand vision. It’s an opportunity to share how teams are collaborating, the tools and insights shaping decisions, and how you’re avoiding siloed thinking so customers see a coherent, compelling product story.
This Tabletalk focuses on how brands are evolving loyalty strategies to match modern behavior, including the influence of social platforms, real-time feedback, and the need for constant relevance. Share how you’re tailoring loyalty to different generations, weaving it into content and community, and designing perks and experiences that make customers feel genuinely seen—not just signed up.
This Tabletalk focuses on how you’re using video to stand out in crowded marketplaces. Explore live-shopping campaigns, creator takeovers, curated streams, and snackable clips tied to deals and drops. Come ready to talk about production choices, platform tools, merchandising tie-ins, and how you’re turning passive viewers into active, engaged customers.
