Lead Sponsor

Disruption is the new economic driver, and impacts every business in every industry. For each challenge this presents, there is an opportunity. At pivotal moments, clients call us for clarity, direction, and, above all else, implementation. They seek us out when decisive leadership is key and experience is vital. When results are measured in days but their impact endures for months and years to come. When they need the advice and support of people who have been there rather than slideware.

At AlixPartners, speed to results at defining moments is in our DNA. A propensity to action is an integral part of every single person’s make-up at our firm—in fact it is something we specifically screen for whenever we recruit. Clients rely on us and our cross-functional teams to deliver results that last, at pace. We're global, we operate in all key industry sectors, and we offer an extensive range of best-in-class consulting services. 

In the face of disruption, we get to the point and we get things done. When it really matters.

Lead Sponsor

Barclaycard Payments is a leading global payment business that helps consumers, retailers and businesses to make, take and manage payments flexibly, and access short-term credit. We help to transform your business through payments, to reach new customers, streamline processes, unlock cashflow and more. The payment part is just the start. 

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NatWest Boxed offers a cloud-native Banking-as-a-Service platform that enables brands and fintechs to seamlessly offer own-brand financial services to their customers, securely and at scale.

Combining our technology stack, banking license, compliance expertise and operational support, our vision is to power the UK’s best embedded financial experiences.

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Whether you’re looking to find greater value and efficiencies, or entirely reinvent your business model, we combine industry expertise with technology capabilities to help you unlock your potential with AI. With 175 years’ experience managing disruption, 5,000 technologists and 15,000 of our UK people set up with GenAI tools and skills, we can tailor a response to any challenge.  Discover our human-led, tech-powered approach to transformation. 

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DHL is the leading global brand in the logistics industry, with over 395,000 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide. DHL connects people and businesses securely and reliably, enabling global sustainable trade flows.   DHL Supply Chain is the global leader in supply chain management and third party logistics, offering customized, integrated logistics solutions, to improve resilience, efficiency, customer satisfaction, and create competitive advantage. As part of its E-Commerce offering, DHL Supply Chain provides its partners with the ability to develop their omnichannel strategy, scale fast and optimize execution, and better manage end-to-end customer experiences.

Lead Sponsor

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realise their greatest potential. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

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The Trade Desk™ is a global technology company that empowers buyers of advertising. Through its self-service, cloud-based platform, ad buyers can create, manage, and optimize digital advertising campaigns across ad formats and devices. Integrations with major data, inventory, and publisher partners ensure maximum reach and decisioning capabilities, and enterprise APIs enable custom development on top of the platform. Headquartered in Ventura, CA, The Trade Desk has offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. To learn more, visit thetradedesk.com or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube

Lead Sponsor

Worldpay’s vision is to unleash the payments potential of every business. We're powering global commerce by providing payments technology, services, and expertise to our clients, which include many of the world's biggest brands. Worldpay helps businesses of all sizes, in all vertical markets, to take, make and manage payments in-person and online. Annually, we process over 50 billion transactions worth more than $2.3 trillion across 146 countries and in 135 currencies. To learn more about us, visit worldpay.com. 

Associate Sponsor

Changing the world through personalised digital experiences. 

When your retail experiences show you understand exactly what customers want, they’ll keep coming back for more. Find out how unified data, dynamic content, and AI at scale can give every customer a hyper-personalized experience to match their needs.

Associate Sponsor

Aveiroe provide audit, forensic accounting and analytical services to leading organisations operating within the retail sector. Our Management Team have served hundreds of businesses in total, many of them multi- national, developing extensive experience and deep knowledge around the trading and supply chain processes deployed within the sector. Over 25 years, and working on a gainshare basis, our team have led audits that have collectively contributed over £3bn towards client profits and we have worked with 17 out of the top 20 UK retailers. By developing bespoke sophisticated audit programmes and audit routines for each client environment, and combining leading-edge technologies with high-calibre professionals, we focus on the financial transactions around both the procure to pay and the receivables processes. Our experts have reviewed millions of complex supply and customer arrangements. The programmes rigorously test the systems and controls operated by our clients, checking compliance and comparing outcome with intent at transactional level detail. 

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BigCommerce Inc. is a NASDAQ-listed ecommerce platform that provides software as a service services to retailers. The company's platform includes online store creation, search engine optimization, hosting, and marketing and security from small to Enterprise sized businesses. 

Associate Sponsor

Clearpay (known as Afterpay outside of the UK) is transforming the way we pay by allowing anyone to buy products now and pay over time - enabling simple, transparent and responsible spending. We are on a mission to power an economy in which everyone wins. Clearpay is offered by thousands of the world’s favourite retailers and used by millions of active global customers. Clearpay is currently available in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom. Clearpay is a wholly owned subsidiary of Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ).

Associate Sponsor

Founded in 2017 by CEO Jaroslaw Kutylowski, DeepL is a global leader in Language AI, and provides highly accurate, human-like translations to businesses, organizations, and individuals across multiple languages. DeepL combines AI research and engineering expertise with that of leading linguists – curating AI tools whose models have a deep, nuanced understanding of language. DeepL’s cutting-edge AI technology is transforming business communication on a global scale, providing a best-in-class translation experience in 30+ languages, accessible via a web translator, browser extensions, desktop, mobile apps, and an API. DeepL is supported by world-renowned investors such as IVP, Benchmark, and b2venture.

Associate Sponsor

GenM is the menopause partner for over 100 brands and retailers, and home of the MTick – the universal symbol and signage for menopause-friendly products. With partners including Boots, Tesco, QVC, TENA, Morrisons, Sanex, Colgate, Charles Worthington and Sainsbury’s, GenM is empowering the UK’s most purposeful and progressive brands to better understand, serve and respect menopausal consumers, a 15.5 million audience in the UK and 1 billion globally.

Backed by the irrefutable insight of their annual Menopause Market Report, GenM is igniting a new vibrant marketplace whereby retailers and brands to deliver visibility, trust and choice to the menopause market, united by the trusted shopping symbol for menopause-friendly products, the MTick.

GenM’s game-changing MTick is transforming the way women search, source and shop for products that can support any of the 48 menopause signs. The MTick is exclusively available to GenM Partners and only products that meet the strict qualifying menopause-friendly criteria of this accreditation can display the symbol. Alongside their Partner Collective, GenM is empowering women thrive by delivering trust and choice for them to manage their menopause, their way.

Associate Sponsor

GXO is the world’s largest pure-play contract logistics provider. GXO is committed to providing a diverse, world-class workplace for more than 130,000 team members across more than 970 facilities totaling approximately 200 million square feet. The company partners with the world’s leading blue-chip retailers to solve complex logistics challenges with technologically advanced supply chain and ecommerce solutions, at scale and with speed. GXO creates customised warehousing and transportation solutions that drive operations excellence and unlock growth, allowing retailers to discover logistics at full potential.

Associate Sponsor

Mirakl is the SaaS (software-as-a-service) solution chosen by leading enterprises worldwide to manage their third-party marketplace and dropship business. Mirakl’s intuitive, secure and scalable technology powers profitable digital growth in all angles of commerce – from platform model to retail media and payments. 

Associate Sponsor

Tech Mahindra offers technology consulting and digital solutions to global enterprises across industries, enabling transformative scale at unparalleled speed. With 145,000+ professionals across 90+ countries helping 1100+ clients, TechM provides a full spectrum of services including consulting, information technology, enterprise applications, business process services, engineering services, network services, customer experience & design services, AI & analytics, and cloud & infrastructure services. It is the first Indian company in the world to have been awarded the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Terra Carta Seal, in recognition of actively leading the charge to create a climate and nature-positive future. Tech Mahindra is part of the Mahindra Group, founded in 1945, one of the largest and most admired multinational federation of companies. For more information on how TechM can partner with you to meet your scale at speed imperatives, please visit www.techmahindra.com 

Associate Sponsor

Uber Direct is a last-mile delivery solution that enables you to add on-demand delivery to your own website or app. Powered by the same technology and network of couriers as Uber Eats. From Food to Fashion, Health & Beauty to DIY – get your customers whatever they need, whenever they need, with real-time delivery tracking.

Speaker's Dinner Sponsor

Writer is the full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises. We make it easy for organizations to deploy AI apps and workflows that deliver impactful ROI.   Our integrated platform consists of our top-scoring Palmyra LLMs, our highly accurate graph-based RAG, AI guardrails to enforce brand and compliance rules, easy-to-use development tools, and a library of prebuilt apps, extensions, and desktop experiences to get started quickly. With Writer, enterprises build highly-customized AI apps that accelerate growth, increase productivity, and ensure AI compliance.  Our enterprise-grade platform can be deployed flexibly, keeps your data private, and adheres to global privacy laws and security standards. Leading enterprises choose Writer, such as Vanguard, Intuit, L'Oreal, Accenture, Dropbox, and Kenvue.

Trade and Investment Partner

The Department for Business & Trade (DBT) is the UK’s department for economic growth. It supports businesses to invest, grow and export, negotiates market access and trade deals, and champions free trade. The Department has overall responsibility for promoting UK trade across the world and attracting foreign investment to the UK economy. It is a specialised government body with responsibility for supporting business, negotiating international trade policy, as well as delivering an outward-looking trade diplomacy strategy. Its role is to ensure the success of UK based companies in international markets. It also works to encourage international businesses to look to the UK as their global partner of choice. The Department offers expertise and contacts through its extensive network of specialists in the UK and in British embassies and other diplomatic offices in over 100 markets around the world. DBT’s Retail & Luxury, and Digital Commerce divisions help retail, luxury and ecommerce companies with the advice and support they need to attain success internationally. They also work closely with non-UK based brands in this space, promoting the UK as an ideal destination to set up or expand their business. For more information on how DBT’s sector specialists can help your business, please contact digital-exporting@businessandtrade.gov.uk

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