You have a breakthrough concept. Soundboarding with advisers yields a patronizing “good luck with that” and pleas to pursue something more practical. Time to re-start and the place to start is at the end, where success h…

Intermediate

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Peter Burrows

Watch this fast-paced experiment where four strangers come together to launch a product in an hour. One supercoder will launch the back-end for an e-commerce website. One design guru will bang out stylesheets and logos. …

Intermediate

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Bill Hogan, Jess Morse, Pippin Williamson, Shiloh Daniel

In fashion, perhaps more than anywhere else, branding is everything. Many fashion brands have spent decades building up a unique but delicate brand image: they often rely on staying enigmatic, using aspirational photogra…

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Pieter Jongerius

While the first wave of e-commerce was focused on getting access to products, and the second wave e-commerce was centered around recommendations, a third wave has begun to emerge. Taking the best elements of brick and mo…

Intermediate

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Ethan Song, Hicham Ratnani

With millions of sellers online and huge marketplaces like Amazon, can small merchants still compete? eCommerce sales in North America saw double digit growth and hit $364 billion in 2012. This number is expected to grow…

Intermediate

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Andrew Youderian, Billy Murphy, Naruby Schlenker, Sean Work

Charities are always looking for creative approaches to fundraising. Companies like Airbnb, ZipCar, and Zaarly have created new markets that show how companies can profit from the sharing economy. WebThriftStore turns p…

Intermediate

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Douglas Krugman

Consumers and technology play a major role in the evolution of omni-channel retailing. As retailers and advertisers, we can’t deny shoppers' quest for the best available product at the best possible price. How do you cre…

Beginner

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Ly Tran, Tim Lakin

For perspective on the future of online behavior, marketers look to the 18- to 24-year-old Millennial group - the “digital native generation” born around the same time as Google. However, Millennials do not wholly repres…

Intermediate

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Roe McFarlane

This panel will focus on the next-generation of eCommerce. The first wave was Amazon and Zappos - focused on customer service and low price for commodities. The next wave of eCommerce companies now understand that in ord…

Intermediate

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Allison Beal, Brian Garrett, Mike Gammarino, Xander Oxman

Is your website's store just a digital lemonade stand? It could be a powerful revenue driver if it's designed & managed effectively. Get insights from e-commerce and merchandising experts on how to build & run a profitab…

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Heather Lewis, Jay Coyle, Rick Gonzalez, Jason Spitz