FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SAN FRANCISCO FASHION AND MERCHANTS ALLIANCE, INC. Presents
RETAIL TECH SUMMIT: “Core Values, Design Innovation & the New Relevant Consumer Experience” Retail Founders and Executives Panel for SF Design Week 2014
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(June 11, 2014 - SAN FRANCISCO) San Francisco Fashion And Merchants Alliance Inc. is pleased to announce Retail Tech Summit for SF Design Week 2014 on June 16th 6-9pm, where we’ll look at how San Francisco’s leading public policy initiatives on Sustainability, Transparency, Accessibility and The Share Economy can translate into compelling business models for retail with a Retail Founders and Executives Panel “Core Values, Design Innovation & the New Relevant Consumer Experience” to be held at General Assembly - The Hattery, 414 Brannan Street, on Monday, June 16th, 2014. Doors open at 6pm. Tickets can be purchased online for $10-$20 - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/retail-tech-summit-core-values-design-innovation-consumer-experience-tickets-11392087039 and at the door subject to availability
“Core Values, Design Innovation & the New Relevant Consumer Experience” San Francisco has been named the Greenest City in North America and the Innovation Capital of the World. For San Francisco Design Week 2014, Retail Tech Summit will explore how San Francisco’s leading public policy initiatives of Sustainability, Transparency, Accessibility and The Share Economy can translate into core-value-driven design innovation, compelling business models and new relevancy in consumer experience for an emerging crop of highly successful Bay Area retail startups.
In the modern retail landscape, where the promise of technology and retail is the ability to have anything-anytime-anywhere, brands and business must continue to differentiate. We’ll talk with a panel of startup founders and execs about core-value-driven design, retail innovation and the benefits for consumers, brands and businesses alike.
Retail Founders and Executives Panelists include: Rakesh Tondon, Co-founder and CEO, LE TOTE; Tristan Pollock, Co-founder and COO, Storefront; Christoph Frehsee, Co-founder and CEO, Amour Vert. Moderator: Robert Burns Nixon, CFO,SFFAMA / Executive Producer, San Francisco Fashion Week.
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- About RETAIL TECH SUMMIT / www.retailtechsummit.net
Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the Future of Retail - happening now in San Francisco. The Next Big Thing. Once the conversation turns to the entirety of retail experience, the optimization of omni-channel and contextual marketing, and the technological promise of “anything-anywhere,” you have to go BIG. We’re turning the entire City of San Francisco into a Retail Incubator.
- About FASHION TECH MEDIA LLC / www.fashiontechpr.com
Digitally styling fashion with media and tech… FashionTechPR | Fashion Tech Media ® LLC is a brand development consulting firm and boutique publicity relations entity specializing in digital media and focused on fashion & technology sectors. FashionTechPR works with fashion tech, retail tech & wearable tech startups in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles: Silicon Beach and Silicon Valley.
- About SFFAMA INC / www.sffamainc.org
RENAISSANCE BY THE BAY – In San Francisco, we’re working on rebalancing the tech-heavy economy by leveraging our world-leading technology and innovation assets to redevelop other strategic cultural and economic sectors – as a 501c3 education and economic development nonprofit and the largest fashion industry organization in California, SFFAMA implements this economic strategy by combining technology, innovation and entrepreneurship with creative communities in fashion, wearables, retail, design, and the arts