Retail Fest: Australia's #1 community-driven event for killer retail strategies.
Retail Fest brings together leading retailers, solution providers, and industry experts for an immersive three-day conference. Attendees gain actionable tactics through keynotes, panels, and workshops, exploring innovative solutions and fostering meaningful connections. This event empowers retail businesses to stay ahead of the curve and drive significant growth. Learn more at Retail Fest website
Retail Fest 2026 gathers over 2,000 attendees and 100+ exhibitors, creating a concentrated hub for retail and eCommerce professionals.
The event attracts founders, CEOs, and VPs, ensuring a high concentration of leaders with direct influence over retail business strategies.
Attendees gain actionable tactics, explore innovative solutions, and forge 1:1 connections to drive immediate business growth and ROI.
The Challenge
Without preparation, Retail Fest 2026 becomes an expensive networking trip with nothing to show.
2,000+ 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 2,000+ 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 Gold Coast.
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 Fest 2026.
Reach every attendee automatically, even the 30-40% who register late. Land in Gold Coast with meetings booked. Your competitors are still cleaning spreadsheets.
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Retail Fest is designed for a diverse range of professionals, including Retail Founders & CEOs, Retail & eCommerce Leaders, and Emerging eCommerce Startups. It also attracts Solution Providers & Agencies looking to connect with industry decision-makers. With over 2,000 attendees and 100+ exhibitors, the event fosters a vibrant community for anyone seeking to drive growth, explore innovative solutions, and implement actionable strategies in the retail and eCommerce sectors.
Absolutely. Retail Fest offers ROI-driven insights through keynotes, panels, and deep-dive workshops, providing actionable tactics led by retailers for retailers. Attendees can explore innovative solutions from over 100 providers and engage in unparalleled networking opportunities, including curated 1:1 hosted meetings. The event's community-first immersive environment and epic closing concert ensure a unique blend of learning, connection, and fun, making it a highly valuable experience for empowering your retail business and staying ahead of the curve.
Retail Fest focuses on critical areas for business advancement. Key topics include Actionable Retail Growth Tactics, Innovative Retail Solutions Exploration, and High-Growth eCommerce Business Scaling. The event also features Practical Retail Business Workshops and discussions on Current Retailer Challenges & Discussions, ensuring attendees gain relevant insights and skills. Content is delivered through keynotes, panels, and interactive sessions, all designed to provide actionable strategies for driving growth and staying competitive in the dynamic retail landscape.
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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Spivot is an independent GTM automation platform. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to Retail Fest 2026 or any event organizers mentioned on this page.
