Spectrum’s 8th eCommerce Leadership Dinner took place on 26th September in London in association with Ardent Advisors, the corporate finance firm.
The roundtable dinner discussion began by examining the impact of the EU Referendum, and moved on to consider how the US presidential election might impact business.
The most notable discussions points were:
Read more >Spectrum’s 7th eCommerce Leadership Dinner took place on 25th April in London in association with Ardent Advisors, the corporate finance firm.
The roundtable dinner discussion began by examining the impending EU Referendum. The most notable points raised were:
What Black Friday means for you tomorrow…
Spectrum’s 6th eCommerce Leadership Dinner took place on 23rd November in London in association with Ardent Advisors, the corporate finance firm.
Perhaps it was the fast-approaching festive season that made this evening a particularly jovial affair – or, was it something to do with the excitement associated with the even closer ‘Black Friday’?
Read more >Spectrum’s 5th eCommerce Leadership Dinner took place on 28 September in London in association with Ardent Advisors, the corporate finance firm.
The most notable discussion points were:
Read more >Spectrum’s 4th eCommerce Leadership Dinner took place on 22 June in London in association with Ardent Advisors, the corporate finance firm.
As usual, the debate was wide-ranging, this time with the customer experience, and, in particular, the role of the physical store explored in detail.
The most notable discussion points were:
Read more >Goldman Sachs has described the Internet of Things (IoT) as the next technology mega trend, representing the 3rd wave of the internet. Samsung’s CEO has said that all of its products would be connected to the internet within five years. IoT has been reported as the number one trend at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, and Gartner’s research indicates that 4.9 billion ‘things’ will be connected by the end of this year.
But what is IoT? What are the opportunities and the threats for incumbents and innovators? To find out, we partnered with Mike Kennedy and Tim McSweeney at tech specialists, Restoration Partners, to host 23 senior TMT executives and IoT pioneers for a discussion over dinner in central London on 11 June 2015.
With an agenda entirely driven by the attendees, the key discussion themes were:
Read more >Spectrum’s 3rd eCommerce Leadership Dinner, co-hosted with corporate finance firm Ardent Advisors, focussed deeply on one topic: the role of content in eCommerce. The impact of mobile, and data security were also discussed. The key points of debate and discussion were:
Read more >Following the positive feedback received after our inaugural eCommerce Leadership Dinner held in October last year, Thursday 22nd January 2015 marked our second dinner debate. Held at The Lansdowne Club in London and co-hosted as before with Ardent, the eCommerce sector focussed corporate finance house, fifteen ‘C’-level executives and institutional investors from across the European eCommerce ecosystem joined hosts Gareth Williams (Ardent) and Daniel Osmer (Spectrum) for a stimulating dinner discussion on the key themes of the day.
Read more >Tuesday 14th October 2014 marked Spectrum’s first eCommerce Leadership Dinner hosted in partnership with corporate finance firm Ardent Advisors.
An exclusive mix of CEOs, chairmen and investors from the European eCommerce community made for an animated, round table dinner discussion.
Key themes dominating the thinking of today’s eCommerce executive leadership emerged from the evening’s discussion:
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