Microsoft, Ocado Solutions confirmed for Retail Week Live

Microsoft Sector Director, Retail, Consumer Goods, Travel & Transport, Diana Parker, Katherine Chase, Head of Digital Product, Shop Direct and Luke Jensen, CEO, Ocado Solutions are the latest names confirmed for speaker slots at Retail Week Live as it returns to London this month.

Judith McKenna, CEO, Walmart International, will present the opening keynote on 27th March, offering a perspective on both thriving, and surviving in retail in 2019. She will look at the changing landscape of global retail and what it takes to lead a business in these challenging times. Nicola Mendelsohn, President for EMEA at Facebook will also take to the main stage to speak on why social engagement is key to business.

“We’re proud to have such an impressive roster of female business leaders making up 50% of the speaker line up at Retail Week Live. It shines the spotlight on the issue of gender equality for women in the workplace and, specifically, in the boardroom,” says Retail Week Live Programme Director Hannah Tovey.”

Other speakers include Nick Beighton, CEO, Asos, Alex Baldock, CEO, Dixons Carphone, Andy Harding, Chief Digital Officer, Arcadia, Adam Warne, CIO, N Brown and Holly Tucker, Founder, Holly & Co and Notonthehighstreet.

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