This Week in Innovation
Business > Entrepreneurship
Technology > Various
About the Podcast
Our tagline for This Week In Innovation : Jeff Roster (the analyst) and Brian Sathianathan (the VC) will explore the retail sector startup community. We will discuss the trends driving the retail industry and examine the technologies being built to take advantage of them. Our Hypothesis: There are 5 Forces that are driving innovation in retail and CPG. They include: 1. Artificial Intelligence 2. IoT 3. Blockchain 4. Startups 5. Data We use the 5 Forces of innovation to frame our pod. Anybody focusing on any of these things are people we want to talk to. We focus on four pillars. 1. The Startup Community working in retail and CPG. 2. Retailers involved in either innovation on the business side or technical side. 3. Analysts, professors, reporters, economists anybody that has retail data or opinions. 4. Charity anything that involves retailers or tech working in the retail industry Who is the audience: Founders, VC’s focused on the retail/CPG space, retail executives interested in innovation, tech executives, reporters, analysts and academics interested in retail. Our subjects and guests: * Low code * Social Commerce with Shiv Dutt, VP Customer Experience, Pampered Chef * Blockchain with Anoop Nannra, Global Blockchain Segment Leader, AWS * Corporate investments and M&A for Startups with Yvanna Perez Morel, Head of Corporate Development M &A Ulta Cosmetics * AI’s Emerging role in Safety * Can AI Be Biased?
About the Host
Jeff Roster
Jeff Roster (Gartner & IHL retail sector analyst) and Brian Sathianathan (the VC) explore the retail sector startup community on This Week in Innovation podcast. We discuss the trends driving the retail industry and examine the emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain, machine learning, low code, cloud computing, SaaS, data, robots, augmented reality, virtual reality, livestreaming, personalization, recommendations and QR codes being built to take advantage of them. We interview founders, VC’s, entrepreneurs, retail executives and CIO’s to better understand the digital transformation and innovation happening in the retail sector.
