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AI FOR INDEPENDENT RETAILERS: SMARTER BUYING, FASTER MARKETING, LESS WORK

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Moderator: Michael Fisher, Editorial Director

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AI is reshaping retail by streamlining operations, enhancing creativity, and freeing up valuable time. This session explores how brands can accelerate go-to-market and how retailers can automate to focus more on the customer. Omid Saadati, Co-Founder and CEO of Sonans AI, brings deep experience from Google, Meta, and Cisco, and shares how AI-driven platforms are enabling smarter, faster, data-led decision-making across the retail lifecycle. John Wagner is the founder and CEO of ACANA, an AI and automation firm helping companies implement AI across sales, marketing, operations, and customer experience.

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