RBTE, the retail show, this month saw 15,452 visitors at London’s Olympia to visit RBTE, and the co-located Retail Design Expo and Retail Digital Signage Expo; with 2,156 visitors making the journey from overseas. There was a 28pc increase in overall attendance compared to the 2015 show, that had more than 350 exhibitors including the likes of HP, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, BT, Oracle and blue sky solutions showing the possible future of retail including robots, drones and droids.
In addition to the exhibition floor there were over 80 free conference sessions at five theatres. Speakers included:
•Angus Thirlwell, Co-founder and CEO of Hotel Chocolat
•Andrew Livingstone, CEO of Screwfix
•Tim Mason, Chairman of Eagle Eye and former Chief Executive of Bon Marche and Tesco US
•Terry Duddy Non-executive Director of Debenhams
•Oliver Meakin, Managing Director of Maplin; and
•Hayley Tatum, Executive Director, Senior Vice President- People and Stores for ASDA.
In addition to the central conference there were two themed theatres; the Payments Theatre with Barclaycard and the eCommerce theatre sponsored by IBM Marketing Cloud. RBTE will run next year later; May 8 and 9, 2017. Visit www.rbtexpo.com.
