Monday June 9th - 12th, Orderbot goes to Chicago to attend the Internet Retailer show. Be sure to stop by for daily updates and pictures.
Internet Retailer has completed its selection of the 125 e-retailing professionals who will speak at the Internet Retailer 2008 Conference & Exhibition at Chicago's McCormick Place West convention center on June 9-12. It is the largest group of speakers ever to address an e-retailing conference—a 20% increase from IRCE 2007.
The June 10 Keynote Speaker is Mike Boylson, marketing chief of J.C. Penney Co., a rare mainstream retail chain that has adopted the web as a centerpiece of its multi-channel strategy. The June 11 keynoter is Buy.com's CEO, Neel Grover, who heads up a young company that has become a profitable, mainstream mass merchant by doggedly pursuing its web-only strategy and by adopting the latest web marketing tools. Sharing the top billing with these keynoters are three featured speakers. They include: Eric Faintreny, CEO of Redcats USA, who has overseen the transition of a major catalog firm from print to Internet; Laura Christine, the ecommerce vice president of SKETCHERS, a manufacturer that uses its well-known brand to sell directly to consumers on the web and has grown online sales by more than 100% for each of the last three years; and Christian Friedland, the CEO of Improvement Direct, an online home improvement site he founded in 2000, whose success story typifies that of thousands of niche merchants who have found new life on the Internet."
