Fortune Innovation Dinner
Join Fortune's AI Editor, Jeremy Kahn, and Shopify’s Field CTO, Peyman Naeini, for an exclusive roundtable and dinner conversation tailored for senior tech leaders in retail . This peer-to-peer gathering will explore how AI is redefining retail, from hyper-personalized customer experiences to supply chain optimization.
This event will bring together CTOs, CIOs, and senior retail tech executives from leading global brands to discuss:
AI-driven personalization: How can AI help retailers leverage first-party data to create real-time, hyper-targeted customer engagement?
The future of AI-Powered shopping assistants: Exploring the role of AI chatbots and virtual shopping assistants in shaping customer interactions and driving sales.
Optimizing supply chains with AI: How leading retailers are using AI to improve forecasting, reduce inefficiencies, and streamline operations.
Balancing automation with human oversight: Ensuring AI enhances rather than replaces human decision-making in retail strategies.
AI disrupting retail marketing: From third-party chatbot interfaces to AI-powered recommendation engines—how are retailers adapting?
Speakers:
Peyman Naeini, Field Chief Technology Officer, Shopify
Jeremy Kahn, Fortune AI Editor
The evening will feature:
Exclusive insights on AI’s transformative impact on retail
Actionable strategies to drive measurable AI-powered business growth
High-level networking with fellow retail tech leaders shaping the future of commerce
Event format:
Doors open: 6PM
Dinner start - 7PM
Roundtable Discussion - 8PM-8.30PM
Dinner ends - 10PM
Speakers bio:
Peyman Naeini is the Field CTO at Shopify in EMEA, where he provides strategic technological guidance to enterprise clients, optimising their e-commerce operations and driving digital innovations. His background includes creating and managing large-scale global teams and platforms at Capri Holdings (Michael Kors, Jimmy Choo and Versace), as well as advising and leading the end-to-end delivery of multi-million euro enterprise-level systems involving multiple product vendors, consulting partners, and in-house engineering capabilities. Known for his friendly demeanour, passion for technology, and commercial acumen, Peyman excels at bridging the gap between technical innovation and business strategy
Jeremy Kahn is Fortune’s award-winning AI Editor and the author of Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future (Simon & Schuster 2024). He spearheads Fortune’s reporting on artificial intelligence, leading a small team that covers the topic globally. He also writes stories on AI for Fortune magazine and across Fortune’s digital properties. He writes and edits Fortune’s “Eye on AI” newsletter and co-chairs its Brainstorm AI conferences. Before rejoining Fortune in 2019, he spent eight years at Bloomberg, where he covered tech, including artificial intelligence, as well as finance and economics. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, The Boston Globe, Fast Company, The New Republic, and Slate. He is a former managing editor of The New Republic. From 2007 to 2011 he was based in New Delhi, India, and he has reported from throughout South Asia, as well as the Ivory Coast, Iraq, Venezuela, and most countries in Western Europe. He holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, he now lives with his family in Oxford, England.