Including RTS and Shoptalk Europe: eight must attend retail technology events in 2025
Want to keep your finger on the pulse of the latest retail technology trends? Then you can't afford to miss these rather excellent conferences, exhibitions, and awards events taking place over the next 12 months.
1. The Delivery Conference 2025
The Delivery Conference 2025 is the leading e-commerce delivery event, taking place on 11th February in London.
Every year, TDC is attended by retailers, carriers and technology companies as they gather to discuss the e-commerce challenges in the year ahead and share strategies for success.
Start the year right by securing your place today.
2. RTS 2025
Connect with retail’s pioneering change-makers! Enhance and accelerate your business growth plans at the return of Retail Technology Show, the flagship event for all retail and hospitality organisations.
Bringing together Europe’s most forward thinking retailers and leading tech pioneers, take advantage of invaluable opportunities to uncover the latest insights and innovations, and embrace endless networking opportunities with 15,000+ industry professionals.
Discover tools and future thinking to boost your strategies for success. Learn from the brightest minds throughout the show’s exceptional conference programme, tackling the industry’s most pertinent issues and trends. Hear from 100+ market leaders and gain practical takeaways from their inspirational keynotes and ground-breaking success stories.
3. 2025 RTIH Innovation Awards
The sixth edition of the RTIH Innovation Awards closed for entries in October of last year.
The awards, sponsored by Vista Technology Support, Scala, CADS, 3D Cloud, Brightpearl by Sage’s Lightning 50, Business France, and Retail Technology Show 2025, celebrate global tech innovation in a fast moving omnichannel world.
Our winners were announced on Thursday, 21st November at the 2024 RTIH Innovation Awards Ceremony, held at RIBA’s 66 Portland Place HQ in Central London.
Check out our 2024 winners here.
The 2025 RTIH Innovation Awards will open for entries in March, with winners being announced at an event in Central London during October (venue and date TBC).
4. Shoptalk Europe 2025
Shoptalk Europe will take place in Barcelona on 2nd-4th June 2025.
Attendees from large retailers and brands, startups, technology companies, investors, media and analysts will come together to learn, network, collaborate and evolve.
Furthermore, hundreds of companies will be demonstrating the latest innovation and trends that continue to transform the sector globally.
Shoptalk Europe will also host industry leading speakers - from established retailers to innovative new startups and prolific investors.
5. RTIH AI in Retail Awards
RTIH this year proudly brings you the first edition of the RTIH AI in Retail Awards, which is now open for entries.
As we witness a digital transformation revolution across all channels, AI tools are reshaping the omnichannel game, from personalising customer experiences to optimising inventory, uncovering insights into consumer behaviour, and enhancing the human element of retailers' businesses.
Our 2025 winners will be those companies who not only recognise the potential of AI, but also make it usable in everyday work - resulting in more efficiency and innovation in all areas.
Winners will be announced at an evening event at The Barbican in Central London on Thursday, 3rd July. This will kick off with a drinks reception in the stunning Conservatory, followed by a three course meal, and awards ceremony in the Garden Room.
6. eCommerce Expo
eCommerce Expo is the UK's largest e-commerce event and the ultimate destination for every B2C and B2B that operates in the UK and sells online.
Co-located with Technology for Marketing and supported by the UK’s eCommerce Association IMRG, the show connects 12,000+ e-commerce professionals with 300 technology providers and industry speakers.
Explore all things e-commerce, from customer acquisition to logistics and operations, in two days filled with innovative content sessions, networking, and solution discovery.
7. The FT Future of Retail Summit
The FT Future of Retail Summit returns in 2025 as the retail industry navigates record high global inflation, more calculated consumer spending and the rise of revolutionary technologies.
For brands in the sector to continue to thrive, they must respond to these challenges and maintain strong customer loyalty, whilst ensuring they are tapping into new growth opportunities within e-commerce, advertising and in-store, which will allow them to create additional revenue streams and engage highly connected customers.
The one-day FT Future of Retail Summit gathers the biggest names in the industry, from e-commerce, digital, marketing, tech, sustainability and supply chains, who are helping to create a customer led and technology enabled next generation of retail.
8. NRF Retail's Big Show Europe
Paris Retail Week becomes NRF Retail's Big Show Europe in 2025, featuring three days of business, networking and conferences in September.
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