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Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on the operation of 24/7 unmanned stores and how customer onboarding, self-service, and the role of human support are handled at the start of operations.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic combines the use of AI for routine work, data work, and process automation in companies. At the same time, it emphasizes the need for data quality, governance, human oversight, and a change in people’s roles within the organization.
Explore theme → AI & automationCompanies are dealing with how to use AI and automation amid slowing changes, rising productivity demands, and greater integration of finance with business. At the same time, pressure is growing for digitalization and for technologies that also help with change management and more efficient work by people.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic combines the practical deployment of AI and automation in retail: from self-service operations through customer service to search, inventory management, and security. The common denominator is an emphasis on data, costs, simplicity, and tangible value for both the customer and operations.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic combines the practical use of AI and automation in sales with an emphasis on processes, data, and the benefits for efficiency without hidden costs.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic combines the practical use of artificial intelligence and automation in procurement processes, from support for routine work through negotiation to reporting and collaboration with internal customers and suppliers.
Explore theme → AI & automationRetail teams connect data, AI, and automation in space planning, planogram creation, pricing, and promotional forecasting.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic combines the use of AI and automation in retail logistics, data work, and the subsequent personalization of customer offers. Key factors are process readiness, data quality, and gradual validation on specific use cases.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic combines the use of AI in the checkout zone and in unattended store operations, especially for product recognition, camera surveillance, and risk management.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic connects the practical implementation of AI in companies with questions of data handling and security risks associated with tools and the supply chain.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationArtificial intelligence is changing both attacks and defense in cybersecurity. The key is to understand where it helps attackers, while building defense on anomaly detection, logging, and verified security processes.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic combines the use of AI for people development and skills practice with an emphasis on transparent compensation and related rules.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe panel brought together the view of HR as a strategic part of the company with the question of how to involve AI and automation in it without weakening trust and the human touch.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic combines the use of AI for market research, social listening, and testing marketing and product concepts in retail.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic combines the use of AI and automation in retail logistics and the related work with data, personalization, and security in unattended stores.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationIn retail, AI is mainly being adopted in automated stores, product recognition, and market research. Important parts include working with data, security, and gradual internal adoption.
Explore theme → AI & automationAI in retail is moving into store operations, data work, and testing marketing and research activities. The common themes are gradual adoption, data security, and the transformation of work rather than the wholesale replacement of people.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic combines the use of AI for product recognition in retail stores, especially in automated and self-service operations.
Explore theme → People & organizationsThe topic focuses on the accessibility of services and on the requirements related to people with disabilities in retail and related services.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe topic focuses on changes in procurement after the integration of Pivovary.cz Group into Kofola Group and on the centralization of procurement management.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic focuses on how to use AI in advertising and creative work in a way that does not distort the brand, respects its identity, and remains under human control.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic focuses on the use of anomalies, central log management, and security hygiene in defending against current cyber threats.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic connects the influence of attention, the quality of creative work, and long-term consistency on marketing effectiveness and campaign performance.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe theme combines a view of marketing as part of leadership with an emphasis on measuring attention, creative quality, and business impact. The key is to connect brand, performance, and long-term effect instead of relying only on reach or isolated campaigns.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic connects the development of automated stores 24/7 with the role of a dense store network, customer loyalty, and supplementary services in retail operations.
Explore theme → AI & automationRetail is looking to automation and AI as ways to simplify operations and improve the customer experience in an environment of price pressure and changing shopping behavior.
Explore theme → CybersecurityThe topic focuses on protecting backups in the context of cyber incidents and service recovery.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe theme connects economic pressure on Slovak households with changing shopping behavior and the search for a sustainable business response in retail and FMCG.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic connects integration with bank identity and the operation of self-service and automated stores in 24/7 mode.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic focuses on how companies work with benefits, recruitment, onboarding, and internal communication, and how this relates to turnover and company culture.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic connects the role of benefits with recruitment, onboarding, communication, and the broader setup of company culture and compensation.
Explore theme → CybersecurityThe topic focuses on when biometrics actually increases security and what practical and legal impacts it has in the context of account protection and incidents.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationsThe topic focuses on building brand awareness and subsequent work with brand content, using Bikero as an example.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic focuses on brand consistency in communication and its role alongside long-term collaboration with an agency.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic connects brand content building with the expectations of Generation Z, which influence how brands communicate value, quality, and experience.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationAI in marketing must respect brand identity and not distort the intended message. Human oversight, proper measurement, and compliance with data, legal, and transparency requirements are essential.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic focuses on how a brand communicates its value, builds memorability, and justifies a higher price.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic combines data-driven marketing planning, media effect measurement, and connecting brand with performance in campaigns.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic connects brand, performance, and marketing management as part of leadership. The focus is on diagnosis, a shared language with leadership, and measuring impact on the business, not just reach.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic connects brand management and marketing around Mapy.com, especially positioning, expansion into new countries, and working with data when defending marketing as an investment.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic focuses on how a brand, through a clearly defined value, story, emotions and the right medium, can better justify price and strengthen memorability.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic looks at when consumers switch to private labels and what branded products must offer to keep their place on the shelf and in the purchase decision.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic focuses on attacks through compromised accounts, especially business email compromise, and on the limits of common protection mechanisms.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic focuses on the use of technologies, automation, and artificial intelligence in travel, expense approvals, and related processes.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic combines the use of artificial intelligence in the call center with measuring and improving customer experience. The emphasis is on analyzing feedback, calls, and emotions, as well as on the fact that data alone is not enough without human and process follow-up.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic focuses on the role of central log management in detecting anomalies and speeding up the investigation of cyber incidents.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on how retail can strengthen the resilience and stability of the supply chain through trust, data sharing, and better coordination with suppliers.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe conference session connected a view of commodities with a macroeconomic outlook for the world, Europe, and the Czech Republic.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic summarizes the role of internal communication in connection with recruitment, onboarding, and company culture.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe panel focuses on how company culture, leadership, and skills development support changes in retail.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic focuses on what skills people entering marketing should have and how marketing relies on data, arguments, and connection with the product.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic addresses why efficiency can be misleading and why organizations need to balance optimization with resilience to change.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic addresses the use of computer vision and cameras in retail for control, oversight, and operational automation.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsSlovak households, under pressure from prices and economic concerns, are changing their shopping behavior toward saving, promotional purchases, and seeking better value for money.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsSlovak households in retail are significantly influenced by economic concerns, rising prices, and an emphasis on value for money. This is reflected in sensitivity to promotions, choosing cheaper alternatives, and changes in shopping baskets.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic connects work on company culture, employee engagement, and the way communication, feedback, and information sharing function within an organization.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsDigital compliance is conceived as part of corporate strategy, where people, a common language, and the ability to connect rules with practice matter.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic connects creativity with building brand value, its memorability, and the ability to justify a higher price.
Explore theme → Brand & communicationCulture and identity shape people’s behavior more strongly than demographics alone. For brand communication, it is therefore essential to work with shared meanings, language, and cultural framing.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe topic focuses on currency hedging as part of corporate financial management.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic combines the use of AI, CDP and automation in customer care in retail. The emphasis is on concrete benefits, working with data and practically speeding up service.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic connects work with customer experience with the use of AI and automation in retail. The common denominator is the effort to improve service, personalization and efficiency without losing the human touch where the situation is sensitive or complex.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe topic combines price pressure with the transformation of customer experience in retail. Consumers are watching promotions, value for money and shopping convenience more closely, while retail responds with digital services, loyalty and new formats.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic connects the view of retail innovation through what truly brings value to customers: quality, emotions, availability, and working with data.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomyThe topic summarizes how customers' shopping expectations are changing in 2025 under the influence of inflation, price, health, and new shopping channels.
Explore theme → Data & technologyThe topic focuses on how to make registration, orientation, and first-time use of the service easier for customers in 24/7 and self-service operations.
Explore theme → CybersecurityThe topic summarizes cyber incidents, defense against ransomware, and the practical role of backups, monitoring, and risk management in restoring operations.
Explore theme → CybersecurityThe topic combines cyber risk management with digital compliance, including links to regulations, processes, people, and suppliers. The emphasis is on practical proof of compliance, not just formal documentation.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic connects current cyber threats with preparation for post-quantum cryptography, including the role of AI in attacks and the basics of defensive hygiene.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic combines cyber risk management, regulatory requirements, and the practical setup of processes, people, and responsibilities within an organization.
Explore theme → CybersecurityThe topic combines the protection of digital payments and security measures in retail services.
Explore theme → CybersecurityThe topic connects cybersecurity with digital compliance as part of corporate strategy, risk management, and work with data, people, and suppliers.
Explore theme → CybersecurityThe topic combines payment tokenization with the security protection of digital transactions and access to modern payment services.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic focuses on how data applications and data quality support successful AI transformation. The emphasis is on trustworthy data, its consistency, and practical steps for processing across systems.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on the fact that AI success depends on high-quality, consistent and trustworthy data and on the rules that keep it in order across systems and countries.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe success of AI transformation depends on high-quality, consistent, and trustworthy data. Without it, incorrect outputs and hallucinations are a risk.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic combines the use of data in sales with the role of CRM, which is meant to function as a productivity tool when processes are set up correctly and management uses it actively.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic combines data-driven planning of retail space, planograms, pricing and promotions with the use of AI, automation and new GS1 2D codes.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic focuses on how artificial intelligence brings both speed and risks associated with deepfake, fraud, and uncertainty around truth and trust.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic focuses on how demographic changes, technology, and new demands on work are changing expectations for people in retail.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic focuses on planning and evaluating the destination marketing of Czechia within the broader framework of marketing and media.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic focuses on the use of digital avatars in a sales context and their connection to CRM, data, and support for sales work.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationDigital compliance is presented as part of corporate strategy, reflected in risk management, due diligence, and enterprise value.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic focuses on the use of digital tools in procurement when working with reporting, preparation for negotiations, and managing growing complexity.
Explore theme → Finance & economicsDiscount stores are gaining ground at a time when customer preferences are changing, online sales are growing, and value for money as well as shopping convenience are decisive.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsDiscount retailers are strengthening in an environment where customer preferences are changing, online sales are growing, and convenience, availability, and value for money matter most.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThis topic follows the growth of drugstore chains in the Czech Republic and how customers choose a store based on convenience, assortment, price, and product availability.
Explore theme → ESG & RegulationThe topic focuses on how digital compliance is reflected in due diligence during acquisitions and in assessing the value of a company.
Explore theme → ESG & RegulationThe topic focuses on how procurement is responding to pressure on ESG and reporting, and how it can better describe and measure its activities and link them with internal collaboration and suppliers.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe topic focuses on the long-term limits of Czech education, science and research in the context of the economy’s hidden debts and an ageing population.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyEfficiency is not just about optimizing a single process. What matters is the balance between costs, hidden impacts, and an organization’s ability to respond to change.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationThe topic focuses on how companies track departures in the first months, recruitment, onboarding, and follow-up communication within the team.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic connects low turnover, people’s trust, and the role of HR as a strategic partner to the company. The emphasis is on how compensation, communication, and management affect organizational stability and performance.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomyThe topic connects the hidden debts of the Czech economy with an emphasis on energy as one of the main areas where new capacity and infrastructure are lacking.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic connects employee engagement with internal communication, feedback, and the rules of transparent compensation in HR practice.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe panel focuses on what kind of people retail needs to handle change, work with data, and deliver the customer experience in-store.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic combines expense management with the implementation of automation, chatbots, and other digital tools in purchasing and business travel.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic focuses on the most common attacks exploiting vulnerabilities, compromised accounts, and weaknesses in an organization’s response.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyRetail in the Czech Republic is dealing with weakening customer loyalty and the associated pressure on innovation, investment and changes to business models.
Explore theme → ESG & RegulationThe topic connects the relationship between financing, strategic investments and ESG reporting in companies. The focus is on efficiency, risk, and how reporting supports access to capital and decision-making.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic combines an emphasis on forecasting, planning, and managing seasonal demand in logistics and e-commerce.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on fraudulent calls in the context of cyberattacks and on ways to defend against them.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic focuses on the tension between greater autonomy for people in operations and their responsibility for performance, caring for people, and managing change.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic summarizes how in retail in 2025 the emphasis on fresh products is strengthening alongside convenience, simplicity, and local assortment.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe topic connects a mention of genAI with a broader overview of current changes in retail, pricing, and sales formats.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic focuses on how demographic changes, technology, and new expectations are changing work in retail.
Explore theme → ESG & RegulationThis topic focuses on what Generation Z expects from brands and how to work with it in marketing and brand building.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic focuses on how Generation Z influences marketing messages, expectations of brands, and working with content.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe topic summarizes the macroeconomic outlook with a focus on the slowing global economy and the impact of tariffs on trade.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe topic captures the impacts of inflation after 2022 on prices, sales, and customer behavior in grocery retail, including the growing role of discount stores and omnichannel shopping.
Explore theme → Data & technologyThe topic summarizes the growth of drugstores in Czech retail and the factors that determine store choice.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic connects cost-efficient store operations with cooling, heat recovery, and other energy-efficient technologies.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomyThe topic summarizes the invisible investment and structural debts that are holding back the further development of Czechia.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic combines the state of the Czech labour market with how companies work with motivation, wages, Generation Z, and the involvement of older workers.
Explore theme → People & organizationsThe topic connects a company in the field of hyaluronic acid, which builds growth on quality, research, patents, and strong exports.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic focuses on how identity and culture shape brand perception, people’s behavior, and the effectiveness of new cultural framing without the need to change the product.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaMarketing understanding of people relies more on identity, shared meanings, and cultural patterns than on demographics alone.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsInflation, weaker consumer confidence and economic uncertainty are increasing the emphasis on price, promotions and value for money in purchasing decisions.
Explore theme → Data & technologyRetailers in the Czech Republic are looking for growth through innovations that stem from customer needs, not from technology itself. The topics include personalization, private labels, digitalization, data, sustainability, and the connection between online and brick-and-mortar retail.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe competition block presents the final projects within the Innovator in Retail award and their voting at the conference.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe session focused on the final of the Innovator in Retail competition, the presentation of three projects, and audience voting for the winner.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe block combines competitive innovations in retail with the transformation of e-commerce, logistics, and customer experience. The common denominator is pressure for more practical services, automation, and better customer engagement.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe block connects the final round of the Innovator in Retail competition with topics of changes in e-commerce, logistics and customer engagement. The common thread is how innovation is reflected in operations, delivery and customer experience.
Explore theme → Brand & communicationThe topic connects internal communication with corporate culture, engagement, and feedback in HR practice.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic focuses on the relationship between procurement and internal customers and on how this relationship affects change, collaboration, and support for procurement processes.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic focuses on how artificial intelligence, computer vision, and cameras are used in retail for inventory control, planogram compliance, and operational processes.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic focuses on how companies work with role descriptions, recruitment, and onboarding people into the team.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationThe topic focuses on the pressure that labor shortages create in Czech retail alongside prices, changes in customer behavior, and other regulatory demands.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic focuses on low worker mobility, an ageing workforce, and low adult learning intensity.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on connecting the loyalty card, app and customer data for better offer personalization.
Explore theme → ESG & RegulationThe topic summarizes how customer decision-making is changing when choosing a store and how loyalty programs, time, price, and ease of shopping come into play.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomyIn retail, loyalty programs are addressed as a tool for maintaining the relationship with customers during periods of higher price sensitivity and changing shopping behavior.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsCompanies and experts are dealing with slower growth, inflation, interest rates, and the impact of uncertainty on investment decision-making. At the same time, pressure is emerging on productivity, digitalization, and more effective use of data in corporate management.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyRetail is facing a combination of price pressure, weaker customer loyalty, labor shortages, and regulatory demands, while remaining attractive for investment.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic combines a view of the economic conditions that shape investment, price pressure and volume growth in Czech retail.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe topic combines the impact of inflation on retail sales, margins, and customer purchasing behavior. Customers remain price-sensitive, but they are increasingly focused on quality, convenience, and the availability of fresh and local products.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic combines the use of marketing mix modeling for decisions about investments, campaign timing, and budget allocation across channels in retail.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic focuses on marketing personalization in retail, supported by work with data, CDP, and customer care automation.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic combines an emphasis on brand management, the connection between marketing and product, and work with the brand and its content with the aim of building value and trust.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaMarketing understood as part of leadership, connecting business, the customer, and the brand, and relying on diagnosis, a shared language with management, and measuring real impact.
Explore theme → Marketing & mediaThe topic combines the use of marketing mix modeling as a data-driven approach for evaluating marketing effectiveness and making budget decisions in a retail environment.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationAI in marketing, research, and media helps test and evaluate creative content, but it must remain aligned with the brand, data, and human oversight.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationAI is used in media monitoring for classification, entity detection, news clustering and logo recognition, but the results must be continuously checked by a human.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic combines brand work, creativity, and media selection so that communication increases memorability as well as business results. The emphasis is on connecting data, emotions, and the right timing in the purchasing context.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomyThe topic of mental health appeared at retail conferences as part of the search for balance in business and care for people in companies.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic focuses on the growing emphasis on the mental health of people in retail in the context of changes in work, performance, and responsibility.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsMental health appears in retail discussions as part of the search for balance in business alongside price pressure, operational changes, and customer work.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe panel focuses on the role of middle management as a key link between innovation, people, and customer experience in retail.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic summarizes how customer expectations are changing in 2025 and how retail is responding through changes in assortment, services, format, and digital elements.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic connects work with multi-buy as an important promotional tool in retail and its relationship to data, pricing, and promotion planning.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic combines work with multibuy as a significant part of pricing policy and promotional management in retail. The emphasis is on a data-driven approach, planning, and evaluating the impact on turnover.
Explore theme → ESG & RegulationThe topic focuses on preparing for and conducting procurement negotiations in a context of price pressures, inflation, and reporting requirements.
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Explore theme → ESG & RegulationThis topic summarizes the growth of online grocery and drugstore sales, along with changes in how customers choose stores and which formats are gaining strength in the market.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic connects brand work with creativity, emotions, data, and effective media planning. The emphasis is on how a brand communicates its value, builds memorability, and supports price and growth.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe block at Retail Summit and New Retail Summit 2025 included the final voting for the Retail Innovator award. Participants chose between three projects and decided the winner directly in the hall.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on how procurement should function as a partner for suppliers and internal customers, and how to approach this in negotiation, data sharing, and risk management.
Explore theme → CybersecurityThe topic combines payment tokenization with the security of digital transactions in a retail environment.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationThe topic focuses on people development in companies, including working with feedback, internal communication, and the use of AI in training.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic combines the use of AI in retail with the personalization of services, marketing, and customer experience. The emphasis is on high-quality data, clearly defined processes, and a concrete benefit for operations and the customer.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic focuses on how AI is used in retail for personalization, and on the conditions without which deployment does not deliver good results.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic connects communication personalization with measurement and feedback handling in customer experience, especially where AI is involved in the process and the human approach remains important.
Explore theme → CybersecurityThe topic focuses on phishing as a common initial attack technique and on how to build effective defense against it using processes, detection, and security hygiene.
Explore theme → CybersecurityThe topic combines phishing with follow-on fraud, account abuse, and weaknesses in organizational defenses. The emphasis is on practical attacker techniques and on what determines successful detection and response.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic focuses on the use of AI in phishing campaigns and the creation of fake websites, while also emphasizing the risks of working with data in AI tools.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on planograms as a tool for managing assortment, space, and in-store execution.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic connects the impacts of population ageing on the Czech labour market, productivity, and the need to change how people are managed and skills are developed.
Explore theme → Brand & communicationThe topic focuses on decisions about positioning, linking marketing with the product, and how to justify marketing as an investment.
Explore theme → People & organizationsThe topic focuses on the low current adoption of post-quantum cryptography and on the steps organizations should already be taking now as they prepare for migration.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyRetail is accelerating innovation due to weakening customer loyalty, price pressure, labor shortages, and growing regulatory demands.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe topic describes how inflation and promotional habits are changing the importance of price in purchasing decisions and how formats, services, and assortments in retail are adapting to it.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic focuses on data-driven pricing in retail, including its link to promotions and other business decisions.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationPrivate labels in retail are growing thanks to price, perceived quality, and better category management. At the same time, it is becoming clear that they do not have to be only a cheap alternative, but can build on emotions, differentiation, and added value.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic connects the growth of private labels with the fact that customers do not look only at price, but also at quality, emotions, and added value. Brands and retailers must clearly show differentiation and the reason why the offer should work in the long term.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic connects procurement systems with automation, chatbots, and selected AI scenarios for travel, expenses, and internal user support.
Explore theme → ESG & RegulationThe topic focuses on the role of procurement in managing price pressures, working with multiple suppliers, negotiation, and collaboration with internal partners and ESG reporting.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on the management and sharing of product data in retail through the GDSN standard and on the importance of data quality for business processes.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationsThe topic focuses on product placement as part of a brand’s work with media, attention, and memorability. This is also related to the role of creativity, emotions, and the correct naming of brand value.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic focuses on product recognition as part of self-service and automated stores, especially when purchasing fruit and vegetables and related operational elements.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on weak productivity as one of the main barriers to the growth of the Czech economy and on areas where there is room for improvement.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsPrice pressure and inflation are strengthening customers’ focus on promotions, price, and perceived value for money. This is reflected in purchasing decisions and the structure of shopping baskets.
Explore theme → People & organizationsThe topic combines practical attacks that begin with a breach through identity, phishing, or exploitation of a weakness and can culminate in ransomware. The emphasis is on early detection, response, and protection of critical systems.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic combines practical methods of breaching the corporate environment and related ransomware, including identity abuse, weak access controls, and slow incident response.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on ransomware, cyber incidents, and practical resilience through backups, segmentation, monitoring, and risk management.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationThe topic summarizes how flexibility, team culture, and ESG support recruitment in companies and how the role of finance teams is changing under pressure from change and digitalization.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationThe topic focuses on how companies handle recruitment, the first months in the company, and setting roles and communication around starting a new job.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic focuses on how retail media enables precise planning of reach by region, time, and store type while also measuring the commercial impact of campaigns.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on how to strengthen supply chain stability in times of demand fluctuations, inflation, and cost pressure through data, digitalization, and collaboration.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic explores why efficiency can be only apparent and why it is important to balance optimization with resilience to change.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic summarizes how retail media in shopping mode support precise targeting, timing, and measurable sales growth.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic combines the use of retail media, data and artificial intelligence in the retail environment as well as in related marketing and research processes.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationRetail media connect digital and physical retail with targeted communication based on data, purchase context, and the stage of the customer journey.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic connects retention marketing with customer experience and the use of AI for working with feedback, communication, and analysis of customer reactions.
Explore theme → People & organizationsThe topic focuses on the use of reverse mentoring in the environment of Česká spořitelna as a concrete way of involving younger people in corporate decision-making.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic focuses on sales floor planning in retail, including work with planograms and the connection to merchandise layout and in-store execution.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic focuses on the transformation of search in e-commerce toward conversational and intent-driven discovery.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic connects self-checkout kiosks, automated stores, and related technologies for control, security, and a more convenient shopping experience.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on self-service and 24/7 retail locations, including the role of technology and customer adoption.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationsThe topic focuses on the use of self-checkouts and scanning in Czech retail as part of the shopping process and the changes in the checkout zone.
Explore theme → Data & technologyThe topic focuses on the operation of self-service stores and related technologies for entry, surveillance, goods recognition, and connection to bank identity.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on how customer decision-making is changing in the Czech Republic when choosing a store and what influences their shopping today.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe panel emphasizes that retail needs people with strong soft skills who can work with data, technology, and customer experience.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic focuses on the need for unified metrics and a market overview for retail media in the Czech digital ecosystem.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe panel at the CFO Congress 2024 touched on how uncertainty, inflation, and regulation affect startup funding and investment decision-making.
Explore theme → ESG & RegulationThe topic connects store modernization with how customers choose a store at a time of growing online sales and changing formats.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic summarizes what determines how customers choose a store and which store parameters influence their purchasing decisions.
Explore theme → Data & technologyThe topic focuses on modifications to retail locations, renovations of existing spaces, and related changes in layout, technologies, and costs.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe panel connects investments, risks and growth management across logistics, manufacturing, energy and the bathroom business. The focus is on pressure for efficiency, data, digitalization, quality and financing.
Explore theme → Brand & CommunicationThe topic focuses on how a brand works with emotions, storytelling, and the medium to better reach its audience and defend its value.
Explore theme → CybersecurityThe topic focuses on the fact that the supply chain represents a security risk and requires ongoing, practical management.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic connects digital compliance with working with suppliers, risks, and internal processes within corporate strategy.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic focuses on verifying what suppliers and third parties can actually do in the company environment, and why a paper declaration alone is not enough.
Explore theme → CybersecurityThe topic combines supplier risk management, control of their permissions in the company environment, and an ongoing approach to third-party security.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on how procurement responds to supply shocks, inflation, and pressure on reporting, ESG, and collaboration with suppliers.
Explore theme → ESG & regulationSustainability in retail is linked here with pressure for innovation, investment, and managing growing regulatory requirements.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic connects sustainability with operations, assortment, and the supply chain in retail. The emphasis is on reducing waste, energy efficiency, packaging, reporting, and the economic return on change.
Explore theme → ESG & RegulationThe topic connects the modernization of retail locations with an emphasis on sustainable fixtures, materials, and the refurbishment of existing spaces.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe topic focuses on how technologies in retail are connected with the customer experience, assortment, and sales in both brick-and-mortar and online environments.
Explore theme → Marketing & MediaThe topic focuses on selection procedures and on how to set up long-term collaboration with an agency within marketing and branding.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe text connects purchasing with how to clearly show the company the benefit, target audience, and the specific problem it solves.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe topic focuses on why the Czech economy is growing only slowly and where it has the greatest room for improvement.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic focuses on how demographic changes, technology, and greater demands for flexibility are changing the work of people in retail.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsEfficiency is not just about optimizing one process; it can create hidden costs elsewhere and weaken an organization’s resilience.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationThe topic connects the impacts of technology, flexibility and demographic changes on people in retail, with an emphasis on compensation, mental health and the pace at which the legal framework can keep up.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic connects transparent compensation with its impact on salaries, employee communication, and the legal framework in HR and people management.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsThe text describes transport infrastructure in the Czech Republic as one of the areas of hidden debt that requires long-term investment.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic focuses on experiences with transport from China and the related operational impacts on procurement.
Explore theme → People & organizationsThe topic connects low turnover in the Czech labor market with questions of wages, motivation, and job changes across companies.
Explore theme → AI & AutomationThe topic focuses on the use of AI and automation in unstaffed stores, mainly on people’s safety, data quality, and practical validation of solutions in a specific use case.
Explore theme → Finance & EconomicsPrice pressure and inflation are strengthening customers' focus on value for money, promotions, and a more economical mix of purchases.
Explore theme → AI & automationThe topic focuses on video surveillance as part of automated retail operations, where customer entry, movement through the store, purchase, and receipt are linked into a single record.
Explore theme → Data & TechnologyThe competition segment presented three finalist projects, and conference attendees decided the winner by voting in the hall.
Explore theme → People & OrganizationsThe topic focuses on wage fairness, employee motivation, and related barriers in the Czech labor market.
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