The invitation-only forum for IT leaders from UK’s top retailers, offering bespoke benchmarking and vendor evaluation.
Retail CIO Connect is an exclusive, invitation-only forum bringing together senior IT leaders and budget holders from the UK's top retailers with hand-picked technology solution providers. Attendees engage in private, closed-door sessions and tailored 1-1 meetings to benchmark strategies, evaluate leading service offerings, and brainstorm practical ideas for transforming their businesses through retail technology innovation. Learn more at Retail CIO Connect website
Retail CIO Connect gathers 90+ senior IT leaders from top UK retailers for 13 hours of focused networking and peer-to-peer insights.
Attendees are pre-qualified senior-level budget holders from leading UK retailers with direct investment priorities.
Customised 1-1 meetings with selected vendors enable efficient evaluation, accelerating strategic benchmarking and solution adoption.
The Challenge
Without preparation, Retail CIO Connect becomes an expensive networking trip with nothing to show.
attendees. No way to filter by ICP. Finding ideal prospects means manually clicking through thousands of profiles.
30-40% of attendees register in the last 2-3 weeks. Finish reaching out to one batch, hundreds more registered. Always behind.
Without scoring and segmentation, all attendees look the same. Teams waste cycles on low-fit prospects instead of focusing on high-value targets.
Reaching prospects across email, LinkedIn, phone, and in-app manually is impossible at scale. Most teams pick one channel and miss opportunities.
Best Practices
Winning teams follow two phases: preparation and execution.
Monitor attendee lists continuously as 30-40% register in the last 2-3 weeks.
Add verified emails, LinkedIn profiles, company data, and tech stack to raw attendee names.
Score by role, title, job level, company size, revenue, location, industry. Match to target personas and ABM accounts. Focus on top 20%.
Email, LinkedIn, phone, in-app. Goal: pre-book meetings with high-value prospects.
Calendars should be 60-70% full with high-fit prospects before arriving at Twickenham Stadium.
Know ICP score and context for every interaction. Focus on high-value targets.
These practices work. But 30-40% of attendees register in the last 2-3 weeks. Manual execution takes 5-7 days per batch. Teams would need to repeat identification, enrichment, scoring, and outreach continuously across email, LinkedIn, phone, and in-app. Most don't have the bandwidth.
The question isn't what to do. It's how to execute continuously at scale.
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Best Practice: Monitor attendee lists continuously as registrations come in.
How Spivot Helps: Connect to the event portal or upload the CSV. We identify target prospects and refresh daily as new registrations come in. Catch the 30-40% who register late without lifting a finger.
Best Practice: Transform basic attendee lists into rich prospect profiles with verified contact data.
How Spivot Helps: Connect Apollo, ZoomInfo, or any other enrichment provider. We add verified emails, LinkedIn profiles, company data, and tech stack. Full control over provider and costs.
Best Practice: Score prospects against ICP and match to target personas to prioritize outreach.
How Spivot Helps: AI scores every attendee by role, title, job level, company size, revenue, location, and industry. Match to target personas and ABM accounts automatically.
Best Practice: Sync enriched, scored prospects to existing workflow.
How Spivot Helps: One-click sync to Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, Salesloft, Apollo, or export to Google Sheets. Enriched, scored lists ready for outreach.
Best Practice: Start personalized outreach 3-4 weeks before the event to schedule meetings.
How Spivot Helps: Launch campaigns in Outreach, Salesloft, or Apollo. Reach prospects across email, LinkedIn, phone, and in-app automatically. Track engagement, responses, and meetings. All attributed to Retail CIO Connect.
Reach every attendee automatically, even the 30-40% who register late. Land in Twickenham Stadium with meetings booked. Your competitors are still cleaning spreadsheets.
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Retail CIO Connect is exclusively designed for senior IT leaders and budget holders from the UK's top retailers, including CIOs, CTOs, Heads of IT, Technology, and Information Security. It also welcomes hand-picked best-of-breed technology solution providers. The event focuses on connecting decision-makers with relevant solutions and peer insights, making it ideal for those actively seeking to transform their retail businesses through technology and strategic partnerships.
Absolutely. Retail CIO Connect offers unparalleled value through its invitation-only, bespoke format. Attendees benefit from a customised schedule of private, closed-door sessions and pre-arranged 1-1 meetings with relevant vendors, saving weeks on vendor evaluation. The luxury, all-inclusive experience fosters quality networking with over 90 senior executives, ensuring actionable takeaways and strategic benchmarking opportunities that directly address current investment priorities and business challenges.
Retail CIO Connect stands out as an invitation-only, highly curated forum. Unlike larger conferences, it offers a personalised experience with customised agendas, ensuring every interaction is relevant to your strategic priorities. The event features private, closed-door sessions with market leaders and pre-qualified 1-1 meetings with hand-picked vendors. This, combined with a luxury venue and all-inclusive hospitality, creates a focused, distraction-free environment for high-level learning and networking among top UK retail IT leaders.
Connect to the event portal or upload attendee data. Spivot automatically identifies, scores, and enriches prospects as new attendees register, with daily updates to catch late registrations.
Yes. Spivot is an AI agent that automates event workflows for any event where attendees are available in the event portal. The same workflow applies across all events.
Spivot's AI uses multi-factor analysis across role, title, job level, company size, revenue, location, and industry. Match attendees to target personas and ABM accounts automatically. Built-in intelligence recognizes equivalent roles like 'VP of Growth' and 'Chief Revenue Officer.'
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