Agenda

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Our 2026 Agenda was as follows:

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Breakfast Networking Reception

9:00 AM – 9:05 AM

My Digital Shelf Welcome Speech

Sarah Kingham

Conference Director, My Digital Shelf

9:05 AM - 9:15 AM

Co-Chairperson Introduction and Event Overview

Alister Greenwood

Industry Consultant, My Digital Shelf

Andrew Scott

Industry Consultant, My Digital Shelf

9:15 AM - 9:40 AM

AI Isn’t the Problem - Translation Is: Connecting Tech to Business Outcomes

Abhilasha Keshariya

Global Strategic Revenue Management, Product Owner, Mars

  • Learn why AI and technology initiatives often fail without a clear link to business outcomes

  • Discover how to translate complex models, data and AI outputs into simple, actionable business insights

  • Gain practical insights on driving real AI adoption across the business and moving beyond the hype

9:40 AM - 10:05 AM

From AI Experimentation to Adoption

Ishaan Kaul

Product Director, AI in Marketing, Creativity & Adoption, Reckitt

  • Explore how to move beyond experimentation and embed AI into everyday marketing workflows

  • Learn how to drive AI adoption at scale through people, process, data and technology

  • Discover real examples of how AI is improving speed, quality, consumer insights and marketing effectiveness

10:05 AM - 10:30 AM

AI User Consumer Panel: What Shoppers See and How AI Recommends

Ian Rickerby

Head of UK Sales, Checkoutsmart

  • Uncover the real questions, concerns, and decision factors consumers bring to AI before choosing a product, based on insights from our AI User Consumer Panel

  • Learn how LLMs interpret categories, surface recommendations and use different sources, reshaping brand visibility at the point of decision

  • Walk away with practical actions eCommerce and marketing teams can take today to strengthen the signals AI and shoppers rely on

10:30 AM - 10:55 AM

Networking Coffee Break

10:55 AM - 11:20 PM

Buy Design – creative solutions based on knowing how we shop

Andrew Watts

Founding Partner, KHWS

  • Learn how to uncover the Conscious & Unconscious buying behaviours that drive purchase

  • See how they influence design of planogram, category navigation and brand activation

  • Explore real world case studies demonstrating measurable results and brand growth

11:20 PM - 11:45 PM

Retail Time machine: Predictions Missed, Opportunities Found                                                                                    

Eve Kolesova

Marketing & Category Management Director, Henkel

  • Looking Back: What retail predictions got right, what missed the mark and why hype didn’t always match reality

  • Looking Ahead: The key forces reshaping retail now and where the next opportunities really lie

  • Bringing It to Life: A real-world “Store of the Future” case study with B&Q what worked and what’s next

11:45 AM - 12:10 PM

Why great pack designs go unnoticed: the science of shopper attention

Steve King

Co-Founder & CEO, Dragonfly AI

Dr.  Alastair Goode

Cognitive Scientist, Dragonfly AI

  • Explore how to move beyond experimentation and embed AI into everyday marketing workflows

  • Learn how to drive AI adoption at scale through people, process, data and technology

  • Discover real examples of how AI is improving speed, quality, consumer insights and marketing effectiveness

12:10 PM - 12:35 PM

The Power of Focus & Consistency in Delivering Effective Omnichannel Campaigns                                                        

Jo Hollins

Marketing & Category Management Director, BIC

  • Learn why focus beats fragmentation - and how doing one idea brilliantly is what truly connects ecommerce, marketing, and in-store execution into one seamless omnichannel experience

  • Discover how to adapt global campaigns so they land as locally relevant and compelling, using consistent, distinctive brand assets and the right media choices to achieve different objectives

  • Get insights on how to bring the customer on the journey to secure the optimal end result

12:35 PM - 1:35 PM

Networking Lunch Break

1:35 PM - 2:00 PM

How Shopper Behavior Signals Are Reshaping Brand Media Decisions

Scott Friderichs

Director, Customer Experience, EU, Wayvia

Jenny Leckie

Director of Solution Strategy & Innovation, Wayvia

  • Uncover the changing role of brand media in shaping shopper behavior and commerce outcomes

  • See how brands are using commerce and media signals to guide smarter investment and optimization decisions

  • Explore the evolution of omnichannel commerce across retail, social, search, marketplaces, and AI-driven discovery

2:00 PM - 2:35 PM

Panel Discussion: The Future of Shopper Intelligence: AI, Retail Media & Data-Driven Growth

Panel Moderator

Andrew Scott

Industry Consultant, My Digital Shelf

Grace Marks

Head of Shopper Marketing, Carlsberg Britvic

Prasanna Kumar

Global Director, Connected Commerce, Diageo

Maddie Page

eCommerce Key Account Manager, Weetabix

Jo Hollins

Marketing & Category Management Director, BIC

2:35 PM - 3:00 PM

Networking Coffee Break                                                                                                                                                         

3:00 PM - 3:25 PM

How to be recommended by AI Answer Engines: A Framework for the era of Agentic Commerce

Max Sinclair

Co-Founder and CEO, Azoma

  • Explore the 5 Cs Framework for Agentic Commerce Optimisation: Completeness, Context, Citations, Correctness and Customer Acquisition

  • Learn how to optimise your brand for AI-powered shopping assistants by improving product data, trusted-source visibility and correcting AI hallucinations

  • Discover how to move beyond fragmented AI experiments with a measurable strategy that drives customer acquisition and sustainable growth

3:25 PM - 3:50 PM

From Hype to Habit: How a Challenger Brand Turns Cultural Relevance into Commercial Growth

Carlotta Cattelani

Head of Marketing UKI, CELSIUS

  • Learn how Celsius moves shoppers from awareness to action, using culture, social, experiential, and sampling to build demand and drive trial

  • Discover how brand and retail work in lockstep to connect the path to purchase — closing the gap between wanting the brand and finding it on shelf

  • Get insights on turning trial into habit, using shopper data and retail activation to convert first purchase into repeat behaviour, and repeat behaviour into growth

3:50 PM - 4:15 PM

Tension to Traction: How Category Vision Activates the Connected Shopper Journey

Efrain Rosario

Global Head of Shopper Marketing & Insights, Diageo

  • Identify the consumer tensions and shopper barriers that reveal new category growth opportunities.

  • Translate those insights into connected retail activation across physical and digital touchpoints.

  • Use practical execution and customer collaboration to strengthen category leadership and deliver measurable, incremental value for shoppers, retailers and brands.

4:15 PM - 4:25 PM

Co-Chairperson's Event Summary and Closing Remarks

Alister Greenwood

Industry Consultant

Andrew Scott

Industry Consultant

4:25 PM - 4:30 PM

My Digital Shelf Thank you and Closing remarks

Sarah Kingham

Conference Director, My Digital Shelf

4:30 PM - 4:35 PM

Networking Drinks Sponsor Welcome Speech

Colin Butcher

Creative Partnerships Director, n-fuze

4:35 PM – 5:35 PM

Networking Drinks Reception

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Breakfast Networking Reception

9:00 AM – 9:05 AM

My Digital Shelf Welcome Speech

Sarah Kingham

Conference Director, My Digital Shelf

9:05 AM - 9:15 AM

Co-Chairperson's Introduction and Event Overview

Alister Greenwood

Industry Consultant, My Digital Shelf

Andrew Scott

Industry Consultant, My Digital Shelf

9:15 AM - 9:40 AM

A Connected World (Touchpoints- Consumer- Teams)

Swagat Choudhury

Global Digital Commerce Director - Perfect Digital Store, Mars

  • Explore how social commerce is enabling discovery and purchase to happen in the same moment

  • Understand how AI search is replacing keywords with intent, as machines become personal shoppers

  • Gain insights into how on-demand ecosystems are going beyond delivery to redefine immediacy, convenience and engagement

9:40 AM - 10:05 AM

The AI Execution Gap: Keeping Pace with Retailer Algorithms That Never Clock Off

Dan Shering

GM EMEA & APAC, CommerceIQ

  • Explore why the defining challenge for brands is not AI adoption, but the gap between knowing and doing, and how fast algorithms that never pause exploit that gap

  • Discover why so many AI pilots fail to scale, what fragmented tech stacks cost brands, and what a genuinely different operating model looks like for brands competing across EMEA

  • Gain a clear framework for evaluating whether your current operating model is built for the speed the market now demands, and a practical understanding of what the shift to AI-driven execution looks like for lean eCommerce teams

10:05 AM - 10:30 AM

Winning the Digital Shelf: From Easy to Find to Easy to Choose

Simon Swan

eCommerce Development Director, Karo Healthcare

Amy Goldring

eCommerce Manager, Karo Healthcare

Jack Reid

eCommerce Manager, Karo Healthcare

  • Learn how Karo Healthcare has evolved from CARS to an “Easy To” framework, giving markets a clearer, shopper-led way to act

  • Discover the sequential approach of making products easy to find, then easy to choose

  • Explore how a Centre of Excellence model sets standards centrally, enables markets locally and measures what matters

10:30 AM - 10:55 AM

Networking Coffee Break

10:55 AM - 11:20 AM

From Cold Start to Category Contender: How to Launch New Products That Actually Stick on the Digital & Agentic

Amanda Wolff

CMO, Product Wind

  • Learn how to overcome the digital shelf “cold start” problem and give new products the signals they need to gain early algorithmic trust

  • Discover why traditional 3–6 month launch timelines are too slow in today’s AI-driven search environment, and what faster, more coordinated execution looks like

  • Get insights on how to sequence content optimisation, organic visibility, agentic strategies, and retail media to build launch momentum and drive sustainable growth

11:20 AM - 11:45 AM

How Digital Commerce is driving Connected Commerce Transformation for Kellanova Europe

Sarah O'Brien

European Director of Digital Commerce, Kellanova

Alex Cogan

Digital Shelf Lead for Europe, Kellanova

  • Learn about Kellanova Europe’s Digital Transformation Team and journey

  • Discover how the business is creating multi-lingual written DCOM content with AI at scale

  • Explore how Kellanova is creating automated visual content at scale through a connected ecosystem

11:45 AM - 12:20 PM

Panel Discussion: Beyond the Campaign: Building a Connected Retail Media Growth Engine

Panel Moderator

Adrian Percival

Industry Consultant, My Digital Shelf

Laura Belchier

Retail Media Director, Ocado Retail

Sally Bennett

Head of Grocery and  Beverages, Amazon Ads, Amazon

Oisín Singh

Commerce and Retail Media Lead, Northern Europe, Kenvue

Warwick Elliot

Global Head of eCommerce Excellence, BEL

12:20 PM - 1:20 PM

Networking Lunch Break

1:20 PM - 1:45 PM

From Presentation to Practice: 12 Months Embedding Digital in a Traditional FMCG

Jason Simpson

Head of Omnichannel, Lactalis

  • Hear honest, real-world lessons from a full year of embedding digital thinking into everyday commercial processes within a traditional FMCG business

  • Understand how to navigate organisational friction, AI adoption and digital shelf development without a dedicated digital team

  • Get practical insights on influencing change and making digital part of everyday commercial processes

1:45 PM - 2:10 PM

Beyond Media: Unlocking the True Business Power of Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC)

Sahiba Sachdeva

Amazon  Director, L'oreal

  • Explore how AMC’s actual, observed shopper data can go beyond media target-ing to deliver real business insights

  • Learn how AMC analytics can optimise the entire consumer journey to drive con-sumer growth and retention

  • Discover how integrating AMC data into eRGM can measure how assortment drives Customer Lifetime Value and move beyond simple promotion metrics to long-term profit measurement

2:10 PM - 2:35 PM

We Managing Channels – or Designing Decisions?

Geraldine Tosh

eCommerce Acceleration Lead, Arbex  UK & Ireland

  • Explore why connected commerce is a decision problem, not a channel problem, and why more touchpoints don’t necessarily create more connected shopper experiences or growth

  • Learn what changes when every touchpoint is designed around one shopper decision rather than one channel

  • See through a live category case study how a household essential was given a credible role in a new shopper mission

2:35 PM - 3:00 PM

Networking Coffee Break

3:00 PM - 3:35 PM

Panel Discussion: From Discovery to Delivery: Connecting the Digital Shopper Journey

Panel Moderator

Swagat Choudhury

Global Digital Commerce Director - Perfect Digital Store, Mars

Ally Seward

Director of CPG Advertising & Partnerships, Deliveroo

Ellie Price

Head of Digital, Carlsberg Britvic

Martyn Collymore

Global Director, Connected Commerce Capabilities & Agency Ecosystem
Transformation,
Mars Pet  Nutrition

Jason Simpson

Head of Omnichannel, Lactalis

3:35 PM - 4:00 PM

Stop Recycling Sales. Start Creating Them.

Anita Gouland

UK Head of eCommerce, Arla Foods

Paisley Torevell

Senior eCommerce Specialist, Arla Foods

  • Explore why growth starts with the shopper, not the media plan, with practical examples from Arla

  • Learn how treating the digital shelf and media as one connected growth system can create greater commercial impact

  • Discover why brands need to brief for incrementality rather than ROAS, and what the industry needs to stop doing differently to unlock new growth

4:00 PM - 4:25 PM

Building Content & Data Foundations to Thrive in an AI-First World

Maxime Lamagat

Digital Marketing Director, Pernod Ricard

  • Learn how Pernod Ricard is rebuilding its content and data foundations for an AI-first future

  • Discover how connected content and data are enabling greater scale, agility and efficiency

  • Gain insights into how the business is adapting its people, processes and technology for the AI era

4:25 PM - 4:35 PM

Co-Chairperson's Event Summary and Closing Remarks

Alister Greenwood

Industry Consultant, My Digital Shelf

Andrew Scott

Industry Consultant, My Digital Shelf

4:35 PM - 4:40 PM

My Digital Shelf Thank you and Closing remarks

Sarah Kingham

Conference Director, My Digital Shelf

4:40 PM – 5:40 PM

Networking Drinks Reception

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