Agenda

Updates released weekly on Wednesday afternoons.

#RICE22 features three days of compelling keynotes, informative breakouts, collaborative workshops and more!

May 10

2:00 pm CT

Supercharge Product Discovery with Relevant, Goal-Oriented Search

May 10

2:00 pm CT

Exploring Profit-Centric Marketing with Email 2.0

May 10

1:00 pm CT

Store Tours: Master the Magnificent Mile!

May 10

3:00 pm CT

DTC Workshop: Craft Your New Growth Roadmap

May 10

3:00 pm CT

Next-Gen Influencer Strategy: From Digital Campaigns to Physical Experiences

May 10

3:00 pm CT

Turning Data into IP: How to Collect, Integrate and Analyze Data to Power More Integrated, Personalized Experiences

May 10

4:00 pm CT

Maximize Marketplace Revenue: Listings, Operations, Strategy and Optimization

May 10

4:00 pm CT

How a Remarkable Customer Experience Can Be Your Best Sales and Marketing Strategy

May 10

4:00 pm CT

Building the Next Billion Dollar Ad Platform: Lessons from Retail Media Giants

May 10

5:00 pm CT

They Don’t Care About Your Dashboard: Get Your Retail Frontline the Visibility You Both Need

May 10

5:00 pm CT

Unlocking the Senses: Personalized Color Experiences

May 10

6:00 pm CT

VIP Meet & Greet Reception

May 11

8:30 am CT

Opening Remarks & Welcome

May 11

8:40 am CT

Inside the Metaverse Movement: How to Embrace Convergence and Create Transcendent Brand Experiences

May 11

9:30 am CT

Networking Break

May 11

9:30 am CT

How Your High-Performing Peers Are Experimenting to Ace Online Retail Experiences

May 11

10:30 am CT

Top 5 Trends Driving the Future of Store Design

May 11

10:30 am CT

New Perspectives on Global Growth: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities

May 11

10:30 am CT

The Next Era of DTC: Maximizing Growth in an Omnichannel Era

May 11

10:30 am CT

Personalizing Your Digital Economy

May 11

10:30 am CT

The New State of Marketplaces and Their Opportunity for Growth

May 11

10:30 am CT

Inside INDOCHINO’S Omnichannel Growth Roadmap

May 11

10:30 am CT

Next-Gen Diversity, Equity And Inclusion: Sponsorship, Mentorship And More

May 11

10:30 am CT

Activating In-Store Communities with Events, Experiences and Inclusion

May 11

11:30 am CT

Experimenting with “Retailtainment” to Drive Engagement and Customer Loyalty

May 11

11:30 am CT

The New Normal: Top Tips on Using Data to Fuel Personalized Experiences

May 11

11:30 am CT

Growth Marketing Panel: New Priorities and Investments for Acquisition and Retention

May 11

11:30 am CT

Want to Excel at Marketplaces? It’s Time to Diversify

May 11

11:30 am CT

What’s Hot in DTC? VC Investors Weigh in

May 11

11:30 am CT

Championing Brand Authenticity and Transparency: What Does It Really Mean Today?

May 11

11:30 am CT

Creating One-to-One Personalized Experiences: Lessons from the Retail Trenches

May 11

11:30 am CT

Ready Player Three: Commerce Enters the World of Gaming and eSports

May 11

12:00 pm CT

Networking & Lunch

May 11

1:30 pm CT

Creating a Contagious Brand: How to Drive Word-of-Mouth and Influence in an Always-On World

May 11

2:30 pm CT

How Coach Embraces Retail Transformation: From Physical to Immersive Experiences

May 11

2:30 pm CT

Using Social Commerce to Drive Revenue

May 11

2:30 pm CT

Maximizing Marketplace ROI: How to Create a Successful Flywheel Model

May 11

2:30 pm CT

Finding Opportunity in Microsegments

May 11

2:30 pm CT

From URL to IRL: Key Considerations for Scaling Offline

May 11

2:30 pm CT

Taking a Hyper-Local Approach to Customer Experience

May 11

2:30 pm CT

Driving Innovation Forward by Uniting People, Process and Technology

May 11

2:30 pm CT

Tapping Local Creative Communities to Drive Commerce (Powered by MARTK’D)

May 11

3:30 pm CT

DTC vs. Marketplaces: How Next-Gen Fulfillment Helps Brands Win

May 11

3:30 pm CT

Understanding (and Responding) to Shopper Promiscuity: Tips and Takeaways for Marketers and CX Leads

May 11

3:00 pm CT

Networking Break

May 11

3:30 pm CT

What’s Your Omnichannel Personality?

May 11

3:30 pm CT

The Convergence of Retail and Hospitality: Redefining Commerce Through Community

May 11

3:30 pm CT

A Resale Renaissance: How Marketplaces Are Driving the Recommerce Boom

May 11

3:30 pm CT

Bringing Digital Content & Communities to Stores: 5 Fresh Ideas to Test and Scale

May 11

3:30 pm CT

A New Framework for Brand Storytelling: Consistent, Contextual and Credible

May 11

3:30 pm CT

Creating an Employee-First Workplace that Delivers Value and Flexibility

May 11

4:15 pm CT

Creating a ‘Retention-Ready’ Acquisition Plan: Lessons from Booming DTC Categories

May 11

4:15 pm CT

How Neighborhood Goods Creates a Seamless Curatorial Philosophy In-Stores & Online

May 11

4:15 pm CT

Amazon Aggregator Panel: What Makes a Captivating Marketplace Brand?

May 11

4:15 pm CT

Out with the New, In with the Old: Defining Success in Reuse and Resale

May 11

4:15 pm CT

Metaverse, Beyond the Hype: Making the Business Case for Immersive Digital Environments and Communities

May 11

4:15 pm CT

Small Businesses that Scaled During the Pandemic and Proved Resilient

May 11

4:15 pm CT

From Online to Brick & Mortar: How to Leverage Technology to Deliver the Best Retail Customer & Employee Experience, and Thrive in Physical Retail

May 11

4:15 pm CT

Using Visual Merchandising to Bring Digital Storytelling to the Store

May 11

4:30 pm CT

Opening Night Reception

May 11

5:00 pm CT

Brand Experience Awards Ceremony

May 11

6:30 pm CT

40 Under 40 Awards Reception

May 12

8:55 am CT

Opening Remarks & Welcome

May 12

9:00 am CT

LOVE IS A VERB: Rethinking Relationship Building in a “Digital Retail” World

May 12

9:45 am CT

Expanding Growth Horizons: Insights from Senior Retail Leaders

May 12

10:30 am CT

Ending Buy Now, Default Later: AI’s Role in Sustainable Profit

May 12

10:30 am CT

Radical Retail: Back to the Future

May 12

10:30 am CT

Inside Perspectives from 7-Figure Sellers

May 12

10:30 am CT

What’s Driving Innovation in CPG? Market Forces Making an Impact

May 12

10:30 am CT

The Future of Social Commerce: Embracing Content and Community to Drive Customer Loyalty

May 12

10:30 am CT

The Future of Fulfillment: Building a Foundation for Innovative Last Mile Experiences

May 12

10:30 am CT

Revolutionizing Consumer Choice in the Shopping Journey

May 12

10:30 am CT

Bringing Tar-zhay to Target’s Food & Beverage Business: Inside an Innovator’s Framework for Growth

May 12

11:30 am CT

Experience Innovation from the High-Growth Cannabis Market

May 12

11:30 am CT

NFT-Powered Communities: Just a Fad or Here to Stay?

May 12

11:30 am CT

Inside the Expectations of Modern Shoppers: BNPL, Embedded Payment and One-Click Checkout

May 12

11:30 am CT

Meeting Customers Where They Are Through Personalization

May 12

11:30 am CT

ERP: CPG’s Secret Ingredient for Omnichannel Success

May 12

11:30 am CT

Incorporating Sustainability to Deliver a Business ROI

May 12

11:30 am CT

Elevating Customer Experiences with High-Touch Service and Interactive Technology

May 12

11:30 am CT

The Next Innovative Retail Platform: Helping Partners Win at Home

May 12

12:15 pm CT

How Ring Creates Connectivity Across a Growing Brand

May 12

12:15 pm CT

Beyond Millennials: Using Buy Now, Pay Later’s Growing Adoption to Attract New Customers

May 12

12:15 pm CT

Developing a Cohesive Sustainability & Social Impact Strategy for Consumer Products

May 12

12:15 pm CT

Reframing Sustainability: How to Turn Lofty Long-Term Goals into Immediate Outcomes

May 12

12:15 pm CT

Optimizing Ecommerce Conversions with Modern Day UX

May 12

12:15 pm CT

Maximizing Retail Media Networks

May 12

12:15 pm CT

Compliance Check: How New Privacy Regulations Will Dictate Your CX Tech Decisions

May 12

12:15 pm CT

Creating Supply Chain Resilience and Staying Competitive with Localized Product Sources

May 12

12:45 pm CT

Networking & Lunch

May 12

1:30 pm CT

The Power of the Physical: How M&M’s and Landor & Fitch Launched Multiple Memorable Experiences Worldwide

May 12

1:30 pm CT

How Conversational Commerce Streamlines the Customer Buying Journey to Better Fit Today’s Buy Now Pay Later Expectations

May 12

1:30 pm CT

Embracing IoT Innovation On-Pack and In-Store for Connected CX

May 12

1:30 pm CT

How 3D is Impacting the Future of Ecommerce Engagement

May 12

1:30 pm CT

Revving the CPG Growth Engine with DTC and Omnichannel Strategies

May 12

1:30 pm CT

Farm-To-Table Tables: A New Model for Sustainability in Global Furnishings

May 12

1:30 pm CT

From East to West: How Innovation in APAC is Creating New Western Opportunities

May 12

1:30 pm CT

Resale as a Meaningful Growth Channel

May 12

2:15 pm CT

The Power of the Physical: How M&M’s and Landor & Fitch Launched Multiple Memorable Experiences Worldwide

May 12

2:15 pm CT

Roles and Skills Driving Next-Gen CPG Brands

May 12

2:15 pm CT

Harnessing Data to Drive Customized Brand Experiences

May 12

2:15 pm CT

The State of the Creator Economy and Revamping the Influencer Marketing Model

May 12

2:15 pm CT

Tackling Inhibitors of BNPL Growth: Industry Disruption, Regulation and Consumer Hesitancy

May 12

2:15 pm CT

Community Commerce and the Explosion of Shoppable Content

May 12

2:15 pm CT

Session TBA

May 12

2:15 pm CT

Reinventing the In-Store Fitting Room: Beyond the Four Walls of the Store

May 12

2:15 pm CT

Enabling Micro-Fulfillment with Real-Time Store-Level Product Data