Retail and CPG Conference Sessions

Join us as Joe Park, chief digital and technology officer at Yum! Brands, highlights the company’s transformative use of AI in its digital evolution. Since 2019, digital sales have soared from 19% to over 50%, driven by AI-powered innovations that enhance both customer experiences and operational efficiency. Yum! leverages AI to optimize order customization, streamline kitchen management, and enhance ecommerce platforms. Joe will discuss AI’s pivotal role in creating a smarter, more responsive quick-service restaurant ecosystem tailored to evolving consumer needs.

Important: Near capacity, highly suggest arriving early. Attendees are let in on a first-come, first-served basis.

For over a decade, PepsiCo has been using cutting edge technology, driving innovation across the company. Now, PepsiCo is deploying NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA AI Enterprise in their distribution centers. Join us for a special fireside session featuring PepsiCo’s EVP and Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, Athina Kanioura, and NVIDIA’s Vice President and General Manager of AI for Retail & CPG, Azita Martin. Learn how PepsiCo has built and deployed a physics-based digital twin of its warehouse, combined with Generative AI and computer vision to simulate and optimize operations in distribution centers — improving throughput and transforming operations from planning to production.

Important: Near capacity, highly suggest arriving early. Attendees are let in on a first-come, first-served basis.

Mars is innovating how it builds iconic brand worlds and experiences that engage, inspire and convert consumers, through data driven relationships with no dead ends, which enable personalization at scale and co-creation with fans. In the summer of 2024, Mars' Snickers brand partnered with the legendary soccer coach Jose Mourinho, with the aim of delivering a personalized Snickers experience to every soccer fan during Euro 2024. The response to the brief to their partners at T&Pm took a team of combined talents and disciplines, to design a compelling consumer proposition, backed by an innovative technical solution, and robust safety layers. We will share some of the key organizational lessons learned as they worked to deliver such an ambitious campaign. Responsibility was paramount, and we'll share how we did a mass participative activation with zero harmful interactions. See how we created a generative AI engine for Mars, Inc. that redefines personalized storytelling and brand building. Using custom language models, we crafted on-brand, funny scripts, then paired them with voice and video tech to generate unique content for each consumer. Finally, we'll discuss how this approach will shape consumer packaged goods marketing in the future, as we apply personalized storytelling to new markets and brands — demonstrating the power of innovation through generative AI.

Important: Near capacity, highly suggest arriving early. Attendees are let in on a first-come, first-served basis.

Lowe’s has been at the forefront of leveraging AI in every aspect of their business. From generative AI (GenAI) to digital twins to computer vision, Lowe’s is using AI across their entire value chain to become a more agile digital retailer, optimize merchandising, reduce shrink, and deliver the best customer shopping experience. We'll highlight how Lowe’s has created digital twins of their stores, combined with planograms to optimize merchandising. It created an associate sales advisor using GenAI to ensure store associates deliver the best in-store customer shopping experience. And finally, using computer vision, Lowe’s is preventing shrink and speeding up the customer checkout experience.

Important: Near capacity, highly suggest arriving early. Attendees are let in on a first-come, first-served basis.

We'll introduce a hub-and-spoke model designed to democratize AI across large enterprises, striking the perfect balance between centralized and decentralized AI development. We'll explore the full spectrum — from operating models and governance to technical foundations with the AI Factory and value tracking. We'll take a deep dive into the AI Factory’s technical foundations and showcase how the NVIDIA stack can supercharge AI development and accelerate enterprise-wide adoption. Finally, we'll highlight the tangible benefits of building an AI Factory, including reduced risks, lower costs, and faster time-to-market for business teams.

Important: Near capacity, highly suggest arriving early. Attendees are let in on a first-come, first-served basis.