From Store to Supply: Making AI Work Across Retail Operations

An invite-only roundtable with senior retail leaders to explore a critical planning question for 2026: as AI becomes embedded across operations, is it truly simplifying execution, or introducing new layers of complexity?

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Most retail organizations are running multiple AI pilots across service desks, CX channels, store operations, logistics, and IT support. But the challenge in 2026 is no longer experimenting with AI but operationalising AI at scale without creating chaos. 

As automation increases, retailers are facing new challenges: 

  • Ensuring ensure quality, compliance, and accountability when AI makes frontline decisions 
  • Designing coordination when automation, agents, and other teams all touch the workflows 
  • Who owns the exceptions: and how are escalations routed across CX, IT, supply chain, and store ops? 

This closed-door roundtable brings together retail GCC leaders to share their views the “orchestration layer” behind AI-enabled service, maintaining human-in-the-loop control, cross-functional visibility, and operational continuity as automation scales.

Proposed Speakers

Vikram Ahuja

Co-Founder ANSR

Graham Calder

CIO, Doc Martens

We will focus on:

  • What’s actually working beyond pilots
  • Where AI workflows break down in real retail environments
  • What GCC capabilities will matter most going into 2026

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