By invitation only: Future of Shopping 2019
An exclusive twelve week program designed to accelerate your business through collaboration with key actors.
Welcome to Future of Shopping – a PwC initiative designed to bring scale-ups, corporates, and industry leaders together in order to shape the future of shopping by exploring solutions related to optichannel development and sustainability. Through collaborative efforts, the aim is to extend to the current ecosystem as well as to find mutual business opportunities and accelerated commercial growth.
"We received great input from other participants. The opportunity to find direct partnerships is of great value in our business, and developing concepts without the client is often an effort in vain."
Anette Nordvall, Covr
"What has been really good is cross-fertilization of companies. PwC has contributed with the packing of information and has acted as an enabler by offering master classes of high standards."
Björn Ragnarsson, Länsförsäkringar
Schedule spring 2019
April
Kick-off
- Setting the scene for the future of shopping and business partnerships
- Participants present their businesses and goals for the programme
June
Inspiration day, Stockholm
- Networking opportunity with industry executives
- Exclusive access to discussions with thought leaders, PwC partners and investors
- Discuss integral dimensions of the future of shopping and get inspired by selected leaders in the ecosystem
May
Workshop / Design sprint
- Participants work together to identify the customers' key pain/gain points and explore new business models
- Facilitated by consultants from PwC Experience Center
July
Demo day at Almedalen
- Demo day with the opportunity to present results and insights from the programme
- Network and promote the brand at our event during Almedalsveckan
Continuous master classes and round table discussions prepared by PwC based on the participants needs
Why Future of Shopping?
Shopping does not look the way it used to. Back in the 1960’s, we saw a big revolution. The economy in large grew, and so did consumerism. It was during this time we started to see the rise of shopping malls, as well as a large array of branded products. Around the year 2000, we saw a new big shift, as online sales started taking off significantly. Since then, we have seen the introduction of social media, changes in customer preferences, rapid technology development and adaptation, and the ability to collect large numbers of individual data, to name a few examples. As technology provides solutions for many current problems, it also poses a number of challenges to new ones.
The retail industry needs to be reinvented, and it has already started. More and more companies are thinking in terms on how to reduce their carbon footprints, as it is an increasing demand from stakeholders: regulators, consumers, and even investors. At the same time, consumers demand new touchpoints, as the world gets more mobile and new tech offer solutions to problems we have never faced before.
That is why our next Future of-initiative will revolve around shopping, with focus on optichannel and sustainability. Our ambition is to gather some of the most innovative, influential, and ambitious organizations and actors in the ecosystem to come together and find new ways to cooperate and innovate to accelerate their commercial growth and simultaneously address some of tomorrow’s challenges for the future of shopping.
Interested in learning more about the program?
Contact our team!
