NRF Europe 2026 Day 3: 9 Retail Innovation 1 Min Pitches + Q&A

Nine retail companies pitch their solutions at NRF Europe 2026. Host Alex Rezvan then asks what makes each worth choosing over a competitor, before an audience challenge on patents and lasting differentiation.

Recorded at the Innovation Stage in Paris, the session moves from short product propositions to a practical buying question: what makes this company different from the next supplier?

The pitches cover crowdshipping, charitable cookie consent, AI-supported retail decisions, unified payments, bottle protection, assortment planning, agentic commerce, market intelligence, and marketing activation. The Q&A tests the case for choosing a supplier, then explores how physical loss prevention can preserve self-service shopping.

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SPEAKERS IN THIS RECORDING

Host: Alex Rezvan, Founder & Host, The Retail Podcast

Shopopop — Antoine Truong, Global Head of Retail

Gimii — Thomas Gicquel, CEO

MARQL — Evan Kazakov, CEO & Founder

Aurus — Rishi Soni, Vice President, Client Relations

Saekor — Raphael Tirone, CEO

Clair — Eerika Savolainen, Co-founder & CEO

Veliu — Gianmaria Monteleone, CEO

InTribe — Mirna Pacchetti, CEO & Co-founder

Sift Lab — Linda Hellström, CEO

Originally aired: Thursday, 17 September 2026, according to the supplied event programme. The event’s one-minute pitch format includes contributions of varying length; stage handovers and Q&A are retained.

The recording contains nine pitches. Additional companies on the published programme are not presented here as recorded participants. Product capabilities and results discussed on stage are vendor claims, not independent tests or endorsements.

Event resources: https://www.nrfbigshoweurope.com/en

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