Thank you to our 2024 Title Sponsor
Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
Our 2024 Sponsors Include
Axon Industries
Axon offers a smarter set of de-escalation and incident management tools to help security companies protect customers, employees and facilities more efficiently. With a mission of protecting life, our technologies give customers the confidence, focus and time they need to keep their communities safe.
Gladly Software
Gladly is the only customer service software built around people, not tickets. Gladly applies AI differently, to help brands deliver radically personal customer service at scale, enabling consumers to help themselves and turning customer service agents into heroes by making them more productive. Every conversation starts with a real-time understanding of the customer. And with every channel built-in – voice, email, SMS, chat, social messaging, self-service – companies have one, lifelong conversation stream with their customers. The world’s most loved brands including Allbirds, Bombas, Crate & Barrel, Ulta Beauty, and Warby Parker leverage Gladly to build lifelong loyal customers. For more on how to make customer service your business, visit www.gladly.com.
Gordon Brothers Group, LLC
Since 1903, Gordon Brothers has helped management teams, lenders, advisors and investors move forward through change. The firm brings a powerful combination of expertise and capital to clients, developing customized solutions on an integrated or standalone basis across four services areas: valuations, dispositions, financing and investment. Whether to fuel growth or facilitate strategic consolidation, Gordon Brothers partners with companies in the retail, consumer products, commercial and industrial sectors to provide maximum liquidity, put assets to their highest and best use and mitigate liabilities. The firm conducts more than $100 billion worth of dispositions and appraisals annually and provides both short- and long-term capital to clients undergoing transformation. Gordon Brothers lends against and invests in brands, real estate, inventory, receivables, machinery, equipment and other assets, both together and individually, to provide clients liquidity solutions beyond its market-leading disposition and appraisal services. The firm is headquartered in Boston, with over 30 offices across five continents.
Invent Analytics
Invent Analytics enables retailers to profit-optimize their supply chain planning and delivers significant financial improvement with its AI-powered, omni-channel inventory and price optimization solutions.
Invent Analytics’ solutions are:
Omni-Network Design, Omni-Plan Suite: Demand Forecasting, Store & DC Replenishment Optimization, Allocation Optimization, Transfer Optimization, Markdown Optimization, Assortment Optimization, Dynamic & Competitive Price Optimization, and Omni-Fulfillment.
Invent Analytics has been named as a representative vendor in Gartner 2022 Market Guides, including Retail Forecasting, Allocation and Replenishment Solutions and Retail Unified Price, Promotion and Markdown Optimization Applications – Short Life Cycle.
Visit www.inventanalytics.ai for more information.
IRI Consultants
For over 40 years, IRI Consultants has empowered organizations to resolve workplace challenges, improve employee engagement and productivity, manage labor relations, and develop effective communication
strategies to achieve their business and advocacy goals.
THE IRI DIFFERENCE
Our extensive in-house capabilities allow us to design and implement sustainable strategies to address client challenges. Our multi-disciplinary team of experienced senior professionals are guided by a strong desire to serve our clients in a way that fits their organizational culture and expectations.
Optoro
Optoro is a fast-growing SaaS company that is revolutionizing the retail industry. Optoro’s Return Management System offers a suite of products that make data-driven decisions for you. Our Returns Portal and Express Returns adds ease and convenience for your customers, which improves brand loyalty and satisfaction. Returns Processing will increase your speed-to-stock and banish your backlog by using AI to quickly route returned items to the best path, putting inventory back in customers’ hands faster. Retailers and brands – including Gap, American Eagle Outfitters,and Best Buy – trust Optoro to make returns a strategic advantage for their business. Learn more about Optoro's solutions at www.optoro.com.
Riskified
Riskified empowers businesses to realize the full potential of eCommerce by making it safe, accessible, and frictionless. We have built a next-generation platform that allows online merchants to create trusted relationships with their consumers. Leveraging machine learning that benefits from a global merchant network, our platform identifies the individual behind each online interaction, helping merchants—our customers—eliminate risk and uncertainty from their business. We drive higher sales and reduce fraud and other operating costs for our merchants and provide superior consumer experiences, as compared to our merchant’s performance prior to onboarding us. See www.riskified.com
Rithum
Rithum™ is the industry’s most influential and trusted commerce network, helping brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver connected e-commerce experiences.
The Rithum platform helps brands and retailers accelerate growth, optimize operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimized consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end. More than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Rithum is the heartbeat of commerce.
Learn more at rithum.com.
Talent Solutions
ManpowerGroup Talent Solutions RPO is the global leader in customized recruitment process outsourcing services for large-scale recruiting and workforce-intensive initiatives. We take complex internal recruitment processes and reshape them into proficient, streamlined, and purposeful solutions, ensuring that recruitment becomes more agile, effective, and cost-efficient. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and data-driven insights, we drive best-in-class hiring programs by taking ownership of part or all of the recruitment lifecycle – from designing recruiting strategies to onboarding the new hire. Feature services include full cycle recruiting, candidate source and screen, project RPO, on-demand RPO, professional search, recruitment marketing, talent and technology consulting, direct sourcing and total talent management.
With 4,700 recruiters active in over 92 countries, Talent Solutions RPO is recognized among the world’s largest RPO service providers by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) and named a global RPO leader by Everest Group for the thirteenth consecutive year. To learn more, visit www.mpgtalentsolutions.com/about-us/rpo.
Workday, Inc.
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics have been adopted by thousands of organizations around the world and across industries—from medium-size businesses to more than 45 percent of the Fortune 500. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.