Strategic Partner

Equal Experts is a global technology consultancy that helps organisations design, build and modernise the technology that powers their businesses. Since 2007, we’ve worked with major retailers, financial institutions and government departments.

We’re different from traditional consultancies. Our network of over 4,000 highly experienced consultants averages 17+ years in the industry. Our associate-led, employee-owned model gives clients direct access to senior experts who self-organise, make decisions faster and deliver with smaller teams, reducing both risk and cost. And our knowledge-sharing culture strengthens both our consultants and our clients, long after a project ends.

We have strategic partnerships with leading retailers including Marks & Spencer, John Lewis, Waitrose, Tesco and Kingfisher, modernising legacy technology and creating AI and data platforms that revolutionise personalisation, loyalty, inventory and supply chain.

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Lead sponsor

Microsoft Advertising is the partner for the AI era, helping brands connect with people in ways that meet the expectations of the next-generation consumer. We bring together trusted, AI-forward environments across work, life, and play, including Copilot, Bing, Xbox, LinkedIn, Outlook, Edge, Windows, MSN, and a global ecosystem of premium publishers. Powered by signals from more than one billion people, Microsoft Advertising delivers performance‑driven advertising, commerce, and monetization solutions that help businesses protect brand value, earn preference, and drive results in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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Associate sponsor

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's leading cloud platform, offering over 200 fully-featured services from data centers globally, including agentic AI, to help organisations accelerate innovation, lower costs, and increase agility. With AWS, you can provision resources on-demand, scale automatically based on demand, and only pay for what you use, eliminating the need for upfront infrastructure investments. AWS maintains the highest standards of security and compliance, protecting your data with advanced encryption, network security, and access controls while meeting requirements for major certifications like SOC, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. Whether you're running applications, storing data, or building new services, AWS provides the tools and infrastructure needed to power your business in the cloud. 

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Associate sponsor

Ping Identity helps retailers deliver seamless, secure experiences that build customer trust and boost loyalty. Whether your customers are browsing online, tapping through your app, or making repeat purchases in-store, Ping Identity ensures every digital interaction is smooth and secure. Our flexible platform fits around your existing systems - so you can simplify sign-in, reduce drop-off at checkout, and keep customers engaged across all channels. With advanced tools like passwordless authentication, AI-enabled fraud prevention, and unified customer profiles, Ping Identity helps you personalise journeys and protect revenue, without adding friction. No vendor lock-in. No disruption. Just stronger conversions, happier customers, and measurable commercial impact.

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Associate sponsor

Founded in 2012, Mirakl has been at the forefront of marketplace innovation, empowering every business to compete in the platform economy. Today, Mirakl’s operating system combines an enterprise marketplace solution (Mirakl Platform) that enables retailers and B2B organizations to launch, scale, and operate marketplaces and dropship, AI-powered multichannel selling (Mirakl Connect), retail media (Mirakl Ads) and an agentic commerce infrastructure (Mirakl Nexus).

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Associate sponsor

Rithum is a leading global commerce solution that supports the entire commerce journey—from product listing and discovery to order fulfillment and performance optimization. By streamlining the path to purchase, Rithum enables brands and retailers to operate more efficiently, so they can maximize profitability. With AI-powered automation, unified insights, and seamless integration across commerce and media channels, Rithum enables your team to focus on growth strategies while we handle the complexity of omnichannel orchestration.

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Associate sponsor

Zipline is the AI-first frontline operations platform that helps retail’s best brands — Sephora, The Fresh Market, American Eagle Outfitters, and more than 200 others — turn headquarters strategy into flawless store execution. Built by retail veterans, Zipline unifies tasks, communication, learning, and operational insights for every level of the field.

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Networking Sponsor

Multisite retailers lose margin every day to fragmented consumables supply chains: hidden costs, stockouts, and wasted time managing too many suppliers. Acopia fixes that. We partner with multisite retail, hospitality, and charity operators to take control of their consumables management, from sourcing and supply through to ongoing process improvement. Our More with Less Methodology drives measurable efficiency gains, backed by MyAcopia, our platform giving full visibility and control of spend. The result: measurable EBITDA improvement, without compromising supply or service. Come and talk to us about what "more with less" could mean for your bottom line.

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Networking Sponsor

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) is a driving force in the evolution of cybersecurity and the convergence of networking and security. Our mission is to secure people, devices, and data everywhere, and today we deliver cybersecurity everywhere you need it with the largest integrated portfolio of over 50 enterprise-grade products. Well over half a million customers trust Fortinet's solutions, which are among the most deployed, most patented, and most validated in the industry. The Fortinet Training Institute, one of the largest and broadest training programs in the industry, is dedicated to making cybersecurity training and new career opportunities available to everyone. Collaboration with esteemed organizations from both the public and private sectors, including CERTs, government entities, and academia, is a fundamental aspect of Fortinet’s commitment to enhance cyber resilience globally. FortiGuard Labs, Fortinet’s elite threat intelligence and research organization, develops and utilizes leading-edge machine learning and AI technologies to provide customers with timely and consistently top-rated protection and actionable threat intelligence. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, and FortiGuard Labs.  

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Networking Sponsor

Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global AI cybersecurity leader, protects our digital way of life with a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity solutions and platforms across Network, Cloud, Security Operations, AI and Identity. Trusted by 70,000+ customers and powered by Unit 42 threat intelligence, our AI-driven platforms eliminate complexity, empowering enterprises to modernize with confidence and securing the speed of innovation. Explore the future of security at www.paloaltonetworks.com.

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Networking Sponsor

For more than 30 years, Thoughtworks has helped shape how the world builds technology. Today, by harnessing AI to scale what is possible, guided by human judgment and experience, we aim to be the force behind the world’s most consequential technology transformations. We combine our engineering and design expertise with AI to modernize systems, unlock data and create AI-powered products. 

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Networking Drinks Reception Sponsor

AbsoluteLabs provides technology consulting and digital transformation services to leading brands across customer-centric industries. We help clients stay competitive and innovative by anticipating rapidly changing customer behaviors and market dynamics. Our deep expertise, honed within the business sector, gives us a unique advantage in understanding complex business challenges and delivering tailored solutions. We empower our clients to stay relevant, rapidly adapt, and innovate in a digital consumer era.

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