Staying Ahead of the AI Retail Boom

• Apply the strategies on staying ahead of the AI landscape on a personal and professional level
• Learn how you can leverage AI for growth, efficiency, and revenue
• Understand the rise and uncover use cases of Generative AI

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  Sharon Gai

  AI Expert, Author, Rethink Retail Top Expert, Ex-Alibaba

Sharon Gai
AI Expert, Author, Rethink Retail Top Expert, Ex-Alibaba
Sharon Gai is a culture fluid expert in ecommerce, digital transformation and AI. She helps organizations become agile disruptors in their industries so they can increase revenue and retain users. In her tenure at Alibaba, she advised brands and heads of state in crafting their digital strategy with programmatic marketing and AI. She has been the keynote speaker at TEDx, Singularity University, UBS, Deloitte, LVMH, Nestle, Ecomworld, and Etail.

Sharon Gai is in the AAE list of Top Keynote Speakers in 2023. She is also one of 2024’s RETHINK Retail’s Top Retail Expert and a Linkedin Top Voice in Public Speaking 2023. She has appeared on Bloomberg, ABC, CBC, CCTV, Techcrunch, Retail Asia, Wired, and The Next Web. She is the author of the book, Ecommerce Reimagined: what we can learn in retail and ecommerce from China. Sharon has an Honors Bachelor’s degree in International Development from McGill and a Masters in Knowledge Management from Columbia University.
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  Nicholas Kontopoulos

  Vice President of Marketing for Twilio, Asia Pacific & Japan


Nicholas Kontopoulos
Vice President of Marketing for Twilio, Asia Pacific & Japan
As the Asia Pacific & Japan Vice President of Marketing for Twilio, Nicholas Kontopoulos harnesses over 30+ years of professional experience, built across multiple industries and geographies. He’s passionate about challenging the 'status-quo' and 'management dogma' that stifles the creative thinking processes that are paramount to delivering amazing customer experiences, Nicholas ensures that ‘Customer Experience’ is a core business ideology at the heart of the brand.

Previous to this, Nicholas was the APAC Head of Growth Marketing at Adobe DX and the Global VP for Fast Growth Markets Marketing at SAP, and has also held a number of highly strategic global and regional, Sales and Business Development and Marketing roles during his career across the globe.

During the course of his career, Nicholas has passionately pursued business strategies that both harness, and intelligently exploit the power of available technologies, both within the businesses he has worked for and those clients he has served. An international speaker, Nicholas has been regularly published on Forbes.com, News Asia, Bloomberg, CampaignAsia.com, Marketing-Interactive.com, THEDRUM.com and Customerthink.com.