ProcureCon Marketing Connect 2025
2 - 3 December 2025
Ashridge House, Hertfordshire
What is Retail CTO Connect
Retail CTO Connect is an interactive, invite-only meeting and community exclusively for the highest level of participants. Only 65 senior IT executives from the most cutting-edge retails participate at Retail CTO Connect, so you can:
- Benefit from confidential peer-to-peer benchmarking and gain detailed insight into your most pressing challenges
- Make the right connections on-site through our concierge service ensuring you meet exactly who you need to, to achieve your business objectives
- Maximise your time by collaborating with solution providers you are actively investing in
- Gain a personalised agenda designed exactly for your unique interests and challenges
Become a part of the Connect community and engage throughout the year to debate and discuss the most pressing innovations and challenges with the who’s who in the digital retail industry.
Sayed Gaffar, Head of International eCommerce, Mothercare
“Getting a mix of high quality executives who are working to overcome similar challenges engaging in open and honest conversations environment without the typical ‘hard sell’ makes it an event not to be missed.”
Attended eTail Connect in September
You’re in great company
We want you to network with fellow executives whose problems are similar to yours and whose insights will help you to be even more successful.
An agenda personalised to your needs
You’ll create your own agenda, tailored to your interests. You’ll meet with solution providers that can help you drive your business further. Connect is supported by a world-class program of keynote presentations and visionary sessions.You can also choose and pick various roundtables and think tanks aimed to drum up brainstorms
Key topics include:
- How to Position IT as a Strategic Advisor to Implement Innovative Solutions that Foster Business Growth
- Re-thinking the Traditional Retail Business Model - How to Embrace Cutting-Edge Technology
- Bringing Emerging Technologies and Innovation into the Business: How to Remove Old Fashioned Retail Thinking and Systems to Drive Business Change and Increase Profitability in a Post Omni-Channel World
- Beyond Mobile Optimisation: Leveraging Mobile Potential to Connect the Customer Journey
- Can You Model Your Bricks-and-Mortar IT Business to Act Like a Tech Start-Up: How to Boost Agility to Turn Your IT Task Force into a Nimble Engineering Team
- How to Create a Seamless In-store and Online Customer Experience: Streamlining Data to Design a Unique Customer Value Proposition
- Creating Stock Visibility to Enable Customers to Buy Across Channels - How to Cut Costs by Driving Internal Change
Although everyone’s agenda is customized and will differ, you can check out the program template here.
Be Part Of The Connect Community
Be part of the Connect Community and engage throughout the year to debate and discuss the most pressing innovations and the challenges.
The Retail CTO Connect Community offers senior decision makers from top UK retailers a platform to share experiences and practical insights. A select group of peers that can actually help to make the changes that have exponential impact. This invitation-only network meets each year at our live retreats, but in this group you can connect all year round.
Applications to attend always exceed the number of retailer guest places available, so do apply as soon as possible if you are interested in participating in this latest addition to the ground-breaking Connect Series. Don’t miss your chance to join the UK’s most influential voices in retail.
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