Nearly six years ago Walmart sent 500 shelf-scanning robots home after concluding that workers picking online orders could see the
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Reinventing Retail – Featuring Martin Gilliard – Co-Founder & CEO, Arteli
Join Shawn Harris for Reinventing Retail, a group and series dedicated to examining the impact of AI, robotics, Web3, the metaverse, and other major digital transformations that are rapidly reshaping the retail industry.
Shawn’s guest for this conversation is Martin Gilliard, Co-Founder & CEO of Arteli for a discussion about the past, present, and future of in-store experiences.
About Martin Gilliard
Martin Gilliard is Co-Founder and CEO of Arteli, an AI/ML platform for showroom retailers. Martin previously led Meta’s consumer retail business globally, which launched the company’s first retail store.
With expertise in data analytics, digital transformation, and retail, prior to Meta, Martin worked as the CIO of Barney’s New York and was the founder and CEO of a data analytics company.
About Shawn Harris
Shawn is a cross-functional leader, who has turned concepts into revenue generating businesses, in both startups and in enterprise, focusing in store technologies, eCommerce, supply-chain management, robotics, intelligent process automation, analytics, systems thinking, and applied artificial intelligence (AI/ML/DL).
He has been involved with artificial intelligence, robotics, store systems, eCommerce, and order management technologies for over 15 years, having held management positions in, or consulted to, numerous tier 1 retailers including Walmart, Target, TJX, Staples, BJ’s, O’Reilly Auto Parts, and Uniqlo (Fast Retailing).
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