IReC 2019 which starts tomorrow will be held on 30th April and 1st May 2019 at J.W.Marriott Hotel, New Delhi, in partnership with ShopX.
On this occasion, Gaurav Marya, Chairman, Franchise India Holdings Ltd., said, “Five years down the line it will be hard to tell who started online first and went offline and who went from offline to online. IReC 2019 is a platform that will get retailers and E-Retailers will look beyond from what is, to what could be. IReC is designed to build a future vision by getting visionary talent to meet future tech.”
This is what disruption in technology has brought to the retail and e-commerce sector. Disruption will bring them on the same platform henceforth! IReC 2019 will witness 500 plus retailers, investors, e-commerce startups, digital payments experts, and consumer tech entrepreneurs reframing traditional debates and challenging what is prevailing, to what could be. It’s the place where forward thinking retail talent meets visionary tech. Where big box retailers share out of the box ideas and small & medium retailers share how digital moves will make their business competitive.
Highlights of 
The Main Stage Conference will have power packed Keynotes and Panels from over 100+ business leaders and innovative game-changers addressing on Experiential Retail, Online to Offline, Digital potential of FMCG, Cross Border ecommerce, Global retail formats, Payments trends 2019, Big Box Retail, Business of Investments. Top Keynote speakers and Panelists include Deepinder Goyal, Founder Zomato; Lui Tong, COO of StrawberryNet, Hong Kong; Amit Sharma, CEO & Co-Founder, ShopX; Brian Bade, CEO, Reliance Digital; Vineet Gautam, CEO, Bestseller India; Sahil Malik, CEO, Da Milano; Vasanth Kumar, Managing Director, Lifestyle International; Johnson Verghese, Managing Director, Fossil India; DhruvBogra, Country Manager, Forever New India, ME & SEA; Osman Arar, Board Member, Orka Holding & General Coordinator, D’S Damat; Vishal Kapil, IT Director Emerging Markets – India, Adidas; Shaurya Seth, Managing Director, Tresor Systems Pvt. Ltd; BalajiViswanathan, CEO, Invento Robotics; Yashwanth Kumar, Head of Analytics & Insight, Titan Company Limited; Aditya Bagri, Director, Bagrrys India Limited; Anchit Nayar, CEO- Retail, Nykaa; Shivani Poddar, Co- Founder, FabAlley&Indya; PreetaSukhtankar, Founder, The Label Life; Amisha Jain, CEO, Zivame; Raghav Verma, Co-founder, Chaayos; Amit Chaudhary, Co-Founder, Lenskart; Aman Gupta, Co-founder, boat; KulpamPeshin, Vice President, Lenskart and more!
The Main stage will also have plenary sessions on Growth capital, Digital payments and a focused tech and Innovation summit
- Top of the Line Investors will take up mainstage to address what it takes to Build the Brand fast and will include: Ravi Kanniganti, Director- Innovation, Target- India , Rajesh, MD, Rabo Equity,VS Kannan Sitaram, Venture Partner, Fireside Ventures, Anchit Gupta, Director, Samara Capital, Ankit Agarwal, Director, InnoVen Capital India Pvt. Ltd.,Anup Jain, Managing Partner, Orios Venture Partners, Raghav Bahl, Head of Investments, Alibaba Group amongst others
- The Panel on Digital Payments trends for 2019 will include Tanya Naik, Director- Payments, PayPal Payments Private Limited, Rohit Kulkarni, Vice President- South Asia, Middle-east and North Africa, Payoneer, Puneet Jain, Vice President-Online Payments, Paytm, Ashneer Grover, CEO & Co- Founder, BharatPe to name a few.
- Tech & Innovation Summit will bring forward the most forward thinking tech leaders who are building the new age tech in AI, Machine Learning, VR, and how it will apply in consumer facing industries. It will have top of the line tech entrepreneurs including: Deepinder Goyal, Founder, Zomato, Balaji Viswanathan, CEO, Invento Robotics, Abhinav Aggarwal, Co-Founder and CEO, Fluid AI, Zishaan Hayath, Founder, Toppr.com, Ashish Kashyap, Founder, INDwealth, Kris Nair, Founder, Kawa Space, Saad Nasser, Co-founder, Ati Motors, Krishna Kumar, Founder and CEO, CropIn Technology Solutions
- Industry Roundtables: Focussing on the functions that are crucial to the industry including Talent Upskilling, Customer Experience, Last Mile Delivery, Big Data & Analytics and Merchandising Intelligence will have top representatives from companies like Miniso, Club Factory, Decathalon, Grofers, Shopclues, Aditya Birla Group, Landmark Group, Flipkart, Amul, Urban Ladder, Jabong, Reliance Retail, Future Group and others
- Innovation Labs that will share the best-in-class tech and experiential for retail and ecommerce across AI, Big data, Robotics including Invento, Shipway.in, Digital Jalebi, Capillary Technologies, Experential Design lab, Blue Star and others
- Food Labs: Over 15 most cutting edge New age FMCG Brands will be showcasing the best of Lifestyle Innovation -New Food and Wellness Consumer Products for Indian shelves including –GreenSnack Co., Brewhouse, Popicorn, Slepy Owl Coffee, Akiva Super Foods, Provee, To Be Healthy Foods, Windsor Chocolatier , Beato ,Medusa to name a few
On the Sidelines, IReC will also have Rapid Pitches sharing the best in class startup Ideas with over 10 shortlisted Startups presenting to early stage Investors and the industry.
The grand finale of IReC 2019 would recognize excellence in Retail & E-Retail Sector at the gala Awards Evening, Indian Retail & e-Retail Awards 2019 to be held on the evening of April 30, 2019.
Amit Sharma, CEO & Co-Founder, ShopX, added, “We are entering into a new era of retail. Like many industries, retail will be left completely transformed over the next ten years. The driver will be technology and business models that understand how to use technology. However, this change will come not from the traditional B2C e-commerce model, which works well for the top 30 million people in India (or India 1). Instead, it will come from a set of technologies that can be called the “Retail Operating System” which will revolutionize everything for brands, retailers as well as consumers. Whether you are a brand, a service provider or a retailer, these new technologies and business models are a necessary part of the future we must co-create.”
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ShopX (a brand and platform owned and operated by “10i Commerce Services Private Limited”) is building an India-centric infrastructure for commerce for the “next 400 Million” people.
