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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jenny Leckie
Director of Solution Strategy & Innovation, Wayvia
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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
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Prasanna Kumar
Global Director, Connected Commerce, Diageo
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Alex Cogan
Digital Shelf Lead for Europe, Kellanova
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ally Seward
Director of CPG Advertising & Partnerships, Deliveroo

Ellie Price
Head of Digital, Carlsberg Britvic
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Martyn Collymore
Global Director, Connected Commerce Capabilities & Agency Ecosystem
Transformation, Mars Pet Nutrition
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Jason Simpson
Head of Omnichannel, Lactalis
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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
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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