INNOVATION³:
New Channels, Technologies & Customers
October 1-3, 2008  |  The Four Seasons Westlake Village  |  Los Angeles, CA

RIS is proud to announce the 2008 Cross-Channel Retail Technology Conference taking place October 1-3, 2008 at the Four Seasons Westlake Village in Los Angeles. Combining a premier executive resort setting with an agenda focused on strategic business and technology imperatives in the world of cross-channel retailing, the 2008 Summit will provide strategic content and outstanding opportunities for peer-to-peer relationship-building for our invitation-only audience of senior retail and e-tail executives from the most successful cross-channel merchants in the world.

* Opening Keynote: John R. Thompson, SVP and General Manager, BestBuy.com, Best Buy Company

 

* Day Two Keynote: Sylvia Marino, Executive Director, Community Operations, Edmunds.com Inc.  

* Millennial Generation Research and Focus Group with presenters Jayne O'Donnell, Business Reporter for USA Today and Kit Yarrow, Consumer Psychologist
* Borders Charts a New Course - a presentation-demo of the execeptional capabilities of the completely revamped and enhanced Borders Web site presented by Borders Vice President of E-Business, Kevin Ertell

* Presentation and analysis of key findings from the Second Annual RIS News / AMR Research Cross-Channel Technology Trends Study

* The Fifth Annual RIS News Fusion Awards, recognizing leading retailers who have successfully fused technology solutions with cross-channel business strategies

Addtional Presentations from:

 

* Follet Higher Education Group

 

* Neiman Marcus

 

* Restoration Hardware