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A look at 2025's holiday shopping season

Recorded
Sept 10, 2025
Sep
, 
2025
12pm ET
Virtual event on-demand
Virtual event
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A look at 2025's holiday shopping season

Recorded
Sept 10, 2025
12pm ET
Virtual event
Register for free

Join Industry Dive’s team of journalists to get a full breakdown of developments heading into retail’s all-important holiday quarter.

This free, virtual event co-hosted by Retail Dive, Supply Chain Dive and Marketing Dive will explore how retailers can navigate the fourth quarter in a particularly volatile year. Our panel of industry experts will offer insights into how the trade war affected retail operations and consumer sentiment, the latest shopping trends and how companies have prepared to overcome obstacles in their supply chains.

Who should attend?

  • Retail executives and employees
  • Logistics and supply chain executives and employees
  • Marketing executives
  • Retail analysts
  • Other professionals and researchers in the retail space

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Agenda

This event will feature four sessions hosted by Dive journalists and industry insiders. The team will discuss marketing to customers amid uncertainty, building resilient supply chains and addressing consumer concerns this holiday season. Specific times for each session to be announced.

Featuring:

  • Daphne Howland, Senior Reporter, Retail Dive
  • Dani James, Reporter, Retail Dive
  • Chris Kelly, Senior Reporter, Marketing Dive
  • Phil Neuffer, Senior Editor, Supply Chain Dive

Sessions

Welcome Welcome and Event Overview Retail Dive senior editor Cara Salpini provides an overview of the event. Sponsored Session The AI Advantage: Winning the Retail Holiday Season For the upcoming holiday season, retailers can find success by building a solid data foundation and strategy. Join Snowflake and Tredence in this fireside chat and explore how to use data and AI to improve forecasting, personalize marketing, and increase efficiency with real-world examples. Learn how GenAI can transform retail operations, from in-store tasks to real-time inventory management. Presented by Snowflake Session 1 The consumer and the economy: What shoppers are looking for this holiday season With tariffs and inflation affecting consumer sentiment, shoppers want deals. In this session with Retail Dive, our expert panelists will offer predictions on how promotional this holiday season will be and how retailers can navigate pricing strategies. Sponsored Session The Carrier Playbook You Need for Peak 2025 The carrier landscape is shifting fast — new strengths, new risks, and new ways to save money before the holiday rush. In this session, we'll break down who’s best at what, how to build a multi-carrier strategy that actually works, and where to find hidden savings this peak season. Presented by EasyPost Session 2 How retailers built inventory resiliency around tariff uncertainty In this session hosted by Supply Chain Dive journalists, attendees will hear about how tariffs impacted the peak shipping season, the state of retail inventories and what strategies retailers implemented to ensure a smooth holiday season. Sponsored Session Unlocking Holiday Success: How Independent Ad Tech Powers Profitable Retail Media Networks Join Dylan Hulser, VP of Retail Media, and Claire Hansen, Director of Customer Success at Kevel, as they reveal how retailers and marketplaces can transform holiday traffic into year-round revenue growth using independent ad tech. Through real-world case studies and actionable frameworks, discover how retailers achieved up to 478% ROAS and 20x revenue growth by building owned retail media networks that leverage AI-powered personalization and first-party data activation. Presented by Kevel Session 3 How retailers are thinking about the store experience this holiday season Retailers are reevaluating how to best use their stores during the holidays, from deciding how to deploy staff during the busiest time of the year to using their brick-and-mortar footprints to fulfill online orders. In this session with Retail Dive journalists, our panelists will discuss strategies retailers are deploying to get customers into stores, seasonal hiring and how to marry the online and in-store experiences. Sponsored Session Rewriting the Holiday Shopping Playbook for 2025 Today’s holiday shoppers are rewriting the rules of the game. So it’s time to adjust your playbook. Join Rithum’s Kellie Martin, VP of Client Success, and Nistaar Chandhok, Senior Manager of Business Development, as they reflect on the trends from summer sales events to help you prepare for maximizing your holiday shopping season. Presented by Rithum Session 4 How marketers can engage holiday shoppers amid economic uncertainty A question at the top of marketers’ minds is how big the appetite will be for shopping this holiday season given ongoing economic turmoil in the face of far-reaching tariffs. In this session with our Marketing Dive reporters, attendees will learn how leaders are balancing rising costs with the need to drive brand awareness and sales. Plus, hear directly from industry experts about how they are connecting with cautious consumers using time-tested strategies like influencer marketing as well as quickly growing tactics like retail media and connected TV.

Questions

If you have questions about registration, if you’re interested in speaking, or have any other questions, contact us at [email protected].

Speakers

Nikki Baird // VP, Strategy & Product // Aptos
Ali Furman // Consumer Markets Industry Leader // PwC US
Noah Hoffman // VP of North American Surface Transportation // C.H. Robinson
David Patterson // Associate Partner // Clarkston Consulting
Matt Pavich // Senior Director, Strategy & Innovation // Revionics
Michael Scrafford // VP of Store Operations // Target
Marisa Thalberg // EVP, Chief Customer and Marketing Officer // Catalyst Brands LLC
Daphne Howland // Senior Reporter // Retail Dive
Dani James // Reporter // Retail Dive
Chris Kelly // Senior Reporter // Marketing Dive
Philip Neuffer // Senior Editor // Supply Chain Dive
Aman Dhupar // {{ Presented by Snowflake }} // Vice President, Retail // Tredence
Leslie Lorenz // {{ Presented by Snowflake }} // Head of Retail Go to Market, Americas // Snowflake
Lori Boyer // {{ Presented by EasyPost }} // Head of Content Marketing // EasyPost
Tim Ranagan // {{ Presented by EasyPost }} // Marketing Director // EasyPost
Claire Hansen // {{ Presented by Kevel }} // Director of Customer Success // Kevel
Dylan Hulser // {{ Presented by Kevel }} // VP of Retail Media // Kevel
Nistaar Chandhok // {{ Presented by Rithum }} // Senior Manager of Sales - EMEA // Rithum
Kellie Martin // {{ Presented by Rithum }} // VP, Client Success - Brands // Rithum

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