November 25th, 2026 Virtual UK
Fivetran
Join us for an exclusive executive virtual panel exploring how Retail and CPG leaders can break the data lag bottleneck and build the trusted, real-time data foundation needed to power AI, automation and scalable analytics.
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12:00 - 1:30pm
Virtual Panel
Conference details shared upon registration
About Invitees: This event will include data and Engineering leaders
About your sponsor
Fivetran + dbt Labs deliver the data infrastructure layer that makes agents trustworthy — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context an agent reasons from.Sponsored by Fivetran
What’s Actually Stopping Retail & CPG AI?
Whether optimizing direct-to-consumer store inventory or predicting wholesale trade promotion performance, Retailers and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands face a shared barrier to profitability: The Data Lag Tax. Every hour that transactional streams, supplier EDI feeds, e-commerce APIs, and legacy ERP data remain delayed or trapped in disconnected silos, margins erode through stockouts, miscalculated promotions, and bloated engineering overhead. While 68% of retail executives plan to deploy agentic AI and automated workflows over the next 24 months, most implementations stall before reaching production. The primary bottleneck isn't model performance—it is pipeline exhaustion, schema drift, engine-bound lock-in, and stale context. Join an exclusive group of Retail and CPG data leaders for an interactive, peer-led discussion on breaking the data lag bottleneck. We will explore how leading organizations are moving away from fragile, custom ETL pipelines toward an Open Data Infrastructure (ODI). Learn how decoupling storage from compute, automating ingestion across complex retail platforms, and standardizing business logic via reusable semantic layers creates the trusted, real-time foundation required for AI agents and scalable analytics.
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