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November 4th, 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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Sponsored by Fivetran

What’s Actually Stopping Retail & CPG AI?

Eliminating Data Lag on Retail & CPG Margins

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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