Imagine what retail does next
The world is changing faster than ever. Some play catch-up. Others shape what’s next.
Shoptalk Fall empowers senior executives with hands-on workshops, peer-led strategy sessions, tours of Chicago’s boldest retail innovators, insights from 130+ industry luminaries, and highly targeted connections through Meetup: the most efficient meetings platform in retail.
Join retail’s sharpest minds this October to challenge assumptions, test new ideas, and leave ready to win.
Meet everyone who matters in retail and brand innovation
Join thousands of industry players, where 1 in 3 are C-suite from across the retail, consumer brand and tech landscape, ensuring you’re only meeting the decision makers to transform your business.
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Attendee Seniority
Learn from the most innovative minds in retail
130+ senior leaders will reveal the critical trends, strategies, and insights shaping the future of retail.
Ann-Marie Campbell
Senior Executive Vice President
Home Depot
Nicklaus Hasselberg
VP, Performance Marketing & Ecommerce
Every Man Jack
George Chang
General Manager, SHEIN USA Marketplace
SHEIN
Dan DeMeyere
Chief Technology & Product Officer
ThredUp
Kate Gulliver
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Administrative Officer
Wayfair
Karina Dolgin
Chief Product & Revenue Officer
James Avery Jewelry
Key topics shaping the 2025 Agenda
From deploying AI to forecast in chaos to navigating tariffs, rethinking assortments, and redefining loyalty in a world of algorithmic discovery, we’re digging into the mechanics of leading through complexity.
How retailers and consumer brands are turning to adaptive AI and real-time data to forecast, plan, and operate with precision, navigating disruption, inflation, and supply chain volatility.
How product, format, and merchandising teams are rethinking playbooks, flexing inventory, and making bold calls as they navigate volatility, supply chain strain, and platform complexity.
How marketers, CX leaders, and loyalty strategists are building emotional connection and commercial impact amid cultural shifts, budget pressure, and the race to personalize at scale.
How today’s executives are stabilizing while innovating, cutting costs while growing, and unifying while decentralizing, redefining leadership through the lens of geopolitics, labor, and organizational design.
The How Behind the Wow
Shopwalks are exclusive, experiential, curated tours of unique or flagship physical stores in and around Chicago. Learn about strategy and operations from brand executives and store leaders... then see and feel it in person. Gain firsthand insight into store design, tech integration, omnichannel strategy, experiential merchandising, and much more.
Work Hard, Play Hard
This year's headliner at Shoptalk Fall is Timbaland, performing at our signature party at House of Blues Chicago!
From producing chart-topping hits with Missy Elliott, Justin Timberlake, and Nelly Furtado to dominating dance floors worldwide, Timbaland is bringing his iconic sound and high-energy performance to retail’s biggest night out.
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Get your ticket
- 3 days of fresh perspectives from influential leaders
- Endless chances to connect with 3,000+ retail ecosystem executives
- Hundreds of the world’s most innovative tech companies
- A bunch of epic parties, including the House of Blues Launch Party
- …and plenty of food, drinks and other mysterious surprises!
All ticket options include
access to:
- 3 days of fresh perspectives from influential leaders
- Endless chances to connect with 3,000+ retail ecosystem executives
- Hundreds of the world’s most innovative tech companies
- A bunch of epic parties, including the House of Blues Launch Party
- …and plenty of food, drinks and other mysterious surprises!
Retail Innovator Pass
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Total value: $3,250
Now includes $1,250 reimbursement for travel and accommodation!
Hundreds of tech/solution providers will meet their future customers at Shoptalk Fall 2025. We have tons of ways for you to get involved—let's get the ball rolling!