Top executives from CE retail to meet at 6th TCG Summit

Amazon, Dixons Carphone, Google among keynote speakers

On April 2-4, 2019, the “Who’s who” of the leading international and national electrical retailers as well as industry captains of the global brands will gather in Geneva to share the actual challenges of today′s high velocity retail. 

Last year, the TCG sector witnessed a continuation of the development which started a couple of years ago. And the speed even seems to accelerate. Through the eyes of today’s consumers, it is no longer a question of shopping stores versus online. Customers simply don’t see channels, or separate physical from digital shopping. They expect a seamless experience across time and place, with multiple choices of how and when to acquire their purchase.

It is these rising customer′s expectations for real time retail that are outstripping the capacity of individual retailers, distributors and manufacturers to independently deliver. The future of electrical retail is becoming a transformation from a “stand-alone” system into an ecosystem of strategic collaboration. This is the reason why the overarching theme of the 6th TCG Summit has been named “Collaborate to accelerate”.  

Chen Zhang, CTO, JD.com at last year’s TCG summit, sharing the vision and latest technology implementation of JD.com with the audience

Amazon, Dixons Carphone and the prime French food retailer Monoprix will present their strategy going forward and elaborate how a strong ecosystem of strategic collaborations will be vital to this. Google will share its latest development in the field of Artificial Intelligence and demonstrate what it will mean for TCG retail. International experts will share best practice collaboration models from other sectors and share how new techniques can result in to a stronger retailer-industry engagement. Another highlight will be the announcement of the winners for the 2nd TCG Awards. which were successfully kicked off at last year’s conference in Berlin. 

In Geneva, top management from the leading EMEA tech retailers and the global brands from the TCG sector, home appliances, consumer electronics, photo, information technology, telecommunications and accessories will attend.