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Through Innovation
RILA’s Retail Innovation Center (RIC) equips leading retailers to navigate transformation through innovation and reorient the innovation ecosystem toward retail needs. The RIC connects innovative technologies, investors, startups and retail companies by leveraging its RTech Networks.
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Discover the Retail Innovation Center
The Retail Innovation Center partners with leading retailers to meet the challenges of a dynamic economy. Through collaboration and thought leadership, we elevate a dynamic industry by transforming the environment in which retailers operate.
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COVID-19 Response Technologies
Showcasing solutions designed to answer the pressing challenges that retailers are facing due to COVID-19 to the forefront.
RILA Startup Innovation Awards
The Innovation Startup Awards recognize new talent in the retail industry who are disrupting the status quo with new innovative ideas and tech.
Retail Innovation Center Insights on-Demand
Insights On-Demand from blogs from partners, pitch videos highlighting members of RTech Startup Network, and Disrupt Webinars on a variety of topics.
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Stay connected! Sign up to receive information on the latest news, Retail Innovation offerings and events.
RTech Startup Network
Startup Network is composed of startups focusing on enterprise technologies that meet the unique needs of retailers.
Become a Retail Innovation Center Strategic Partner
Information on Sponsorship Opportunities for the Retail Innovation Center.
RTech Investor Network
Composed of venture capitalists, incubators, and accelerators with a focus on retail technologies, innovations, and digital transformation.
Retail Innovation Center Digital Sponsorship
Looking to share your innovative insights or solutions? Create your digital pitch today.
Innovative Solutions for Retailers
Brady Digital Pitch
Social distancing floor signs have become a new standard, so make sure they stand up to foot traffic. Work with Brady to get the long-lasting signs
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6River Digital Pitch
How 6 River Systems solutions protect warehouse and store associates during the COVID-19 crisis.
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ThirdChannel Digital Pitch
ThirdChannel’s Retail Safety Auditor app audits retail stores for health and safety compliance, ensuring it is safe to work and shop in-stores
View VideoUnique Hub for Retail Executives to Connect with Peers
“RILA’s Retail Innovation Center serves as a unique hub for retail executives to connect with peers, learn from innovative thought leaders, and be exposed to the technologies and business models advancing our industry. Their work around COVID Response Technologies demonstrated the Center’s ability to pivot resources and provide timely solutions during a time of crisis.”
Mary Dillon
- Chairperson, RILA – Chief Executive Officer
- Ulta Beauty, Inc.
- Bolingbrook, IL
Insights On-Demand Highlights
Providing a Safe Commute is Now a C-Suite Conversation
As employers continue to operate, recruit more staff and others welcome back those working from home, the commute will present a significant hurdle.
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Textile Circularity: The Missing Links Webinar
Discussion with industry experts on what’s still needed to make meaningful progress towards textile circularity.
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On-Demand Labor Marketplace
Veryable's on-demand labor marketplace enables businesses to flex labor up and down with demand. (Members-only. Please log-in to access)
View InsightsStrategic Partner
Intel
We engineer solutions for our customers’ greatest challenges with reliable, cloud to edge computing, inspired by Moore’s Law.
Latest Retail Innovation Center Insights
The Lead Brings Retailers into the Classroom
- By [Noah Gellman]
- 08/25/2020
Changing retail for the evolving consumer
- By [Jill Standish]
- 08/24/2020
Providing a Safe Commute is Now a C-Suite Conversation
- By [Sam Ryan]
- 08/05/2020
Tech Helps Keep Retail Distribution Moving
- By [Jess Dankert]
- 07/28/2020
Textile Circularity: The Missing Links Webinar
- 07/08/2020
CB4 Digital Pitch
- 07/01/2020