Retail Technology Show extends e-commerce content and connections tie up with Commerce Futures at RTS 2025

Retail Technology Show (RTS) is extending its partnership with Commerce Futures, an e-commerce event and networking specialist.

Having staged a one-day digital track takeover at RTS 2024, with sessions from e-commerce luminaries including CREED, All Saints, Snug and Raging Bull, Commerce Futures will take the helm of the Retail Futures stage across RTS 2025, set to take place at London ExCel (its home until this point being London Olympia) on 2nd-3rd April, doubling digital retail content at next year’s show. 

Matt Bradley, Event Director at Retail Technology Show, comments: “Commerce Futures live and breathe e-commerce through their handpicked retail community. And that’s why they delivered such a knock-out track last year – and our show audiences just couldn’t get enough of it.”

“With demand for e-commerce content growing among our visitors, Commerce Futures are the perfect partner to deliver the highly curated, immersive levels of insight from the sharpest innovators in online trading, as we expand our focus on digital retail for RTS 2025.”

The Retail Futures stage will bring together e-commerce pioneers from progressive retailers, challenger brands and businesses. It will also bring best-of-breed examples of what’s disrupting the future of digital trading and commerce performance from complementary industries, including holidays and travel.

In addition, co-located next to the Retail Futures stage, Commerce Futures’ Retail Futures stand will also host retailer only deep dive sessions. These sessions will offer smaller, curated groups of brands the chance to hear exclusively from the industry visionaries driving e-commerce forwards outside of RTS’ main stage content.

Commerce Future will also deliver retailer networking opportunities, both in the lead up to and during the show, in a strictly sales free format.

Ahead of the show, in early December RTS will partner with Commerce Futures on its Jingle & Mingle event, a festive celebration of its retail community over drinks and networking in London. This will be followed by a further retailer dinner in February as well as an exclusive dinner held during RTS 2025 on day one, which will bring together senior brand leaders and disruptors.

Jamie Hancox, Founder and MD of Commerce Futures, says: “We’re excited to collaborate with RTS for its 2025 show, building on the success of our partnership in 2024, and bringing our collective communities of digital leaders together to collaborate, knowledge-share and network.”

“We’re all about delivering value led experiences for our retail community, where they’re free to create the authentic connections that are the heart of driving commerce forwards – and our partnership with RTS will help us expand and accelerate that very goal.”

“There’s so much energy and momentum as we build into RTS 2025,” Bradley adds. “With our new larger home at ExCeL, we’ll be packing in even more innovation, even more inspiring content and even more opportunities to connect with the people who matter in retail – watch this space, because the retail carnival really is coming to town!”

2024 RTIH INNOVATION AWARDS

E-commerce is a key focus area for the sixth edition of the RTIH Innovation Awards, which is now open for entries.

The awards, sponsored by Scala, CADS, 3D Cloud, Brightpearl by Sage’s Lightning 50, and Retail Technology Show 2025, celebrate global tech innovation in a fast moving omnichannel world.

Key 2024 dates

Friday, 25th October: Award entry deadline 

Tuesday, 29th October: 2024 shortlist revealed

30th October-6th November: Judging days

Thursday, 21st November: Winners announced at the 2024 RTIH Innovation Awards ceremony, to be held at RIBA’s 66 Portland Place HQ in Central London.