Retail IT leaders optimize operations, protect data, and harness intelligence for AI, cyber threats, and consumer shifts.
Retail IT Connect 2026 gathers senior retail IT leaders, Heads of Digital, and Innovation for a curated, peer-driven event. Participants exchange strategies, discover future-focused solutions, and forge partnerships to optimize operations, protect data, and harness intelligence, propelling IT initiatives forward in a fast-evolving landscape. Learn more at Retail IT Connect website
Retail IT Connect 2026 offers a curated, intimate environment for senior retail IT leaders to exchange strategies and forge partnerships.
The event attracts senior retail IT leaders, CIOs, CTOs, and Heads of Digital, all profiled as decision-makers actively seeking solutions.
Pre-scheduled 1:1 meetings and peer-driven content enable attendees to discover future-focused solutions and propel IT initiatives.
The Challenge
Without preparation, Retail IT Connect 2026 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 Nashville.
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 IT Connect 2026.
Reach every attendee automatically, even the 30-40% who register late. Land in Nashville with meetings booked. Your competitors are still cleaning spreadsheets.
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Retail IT Connect is designed for senior retail IT leaders, including CIOs, CTOs, Heads of Digital, and VPs of Product & Technology. It brings together innovators and decision-makers from the retail sector who are focused on optimizing operations, protecting data, and leveraging technology to stay competitive. The event fosters an exclusive community for peer-to-peer strategy exchange and solution discovery.
Yes, Retail IT Connect offers significant value through its invitation-only, curated format. Attendees benefit from transformative, peer-driven content and pre-scheduled 1:1 meetings with relevant technology partners, making it easy to identify solutions. The intimate environment fosters deep connections and open discussions on critical priorities and challenges, helping propel IT initiatives forward. Past attendees praise the meaningful networking and high-potential vendor relationships.
Retail IT Connect focuses on critical areas shaping the retail technology landscape. Key topics include AI innovation in retail, cybersecurity and data protection strategies, and optimizing retail operations. The event also delves into customer-driven technology decisions, e-commerce and digital strategy, and leveraging retail analytics for intelligence. These discussions aim to equip senior IT leaders with insights to navigate evolving consumer behavior and technological advancements.
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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