What Companies Are at RetailClub AI Festival 2026?

Target is one of the largest general merchandise retailers in the United States, operating stores alongside a major digital commerce business. Its technology strategy increasingly connects AI with digital shopping, product discovery, personalization, and store operations.

e.l.f. Beauty operates beauty and cosmetics brands with a strong digital and social-commerce presence. The company has been experimenting with AI across customer engagement, digital experiences, content, and consumer interaction.

Pacsun is a fashion retailer focused on youth culture, apparel, footwear, and accessories. Its digital strategy includes new approaches to conversational shopping and product discovery as AI becomes a larger part of how consumers search for products.

SharkNinja develops consumer products across home appliances, kitchen equipment, beauty, cleaning, and related categories. Its growth model combines product innovation with large-scale direct-to-consumer, retail, and digital marketing operations.

1stDibs operates an online marketplace for furniture, art, jewelry, fashion, and collectible design. AI can play an important role in product discovery and personalization across a marketplace containing highly differentiated inventory.

Albertsons Companies operates grocery and pharmacy brands across the United States. The company uses digital commerce, loyalty data, personalization, and technology to improve how shoppers discover products and interact with its retail ecosystem.

At Home is a home décor retailer offering furniture, seasonal products, textiles, and other home merchandise. Its participation brings the perspective of a large physical retailer adapting merchandising and customer experience to an increasingly AI-driven environment.

Bayer operates businesses across healthcare, consumer health, and agriculture. Its commerce and omnichannel operations provide a consumer-brand perspective on how AI can support merchandising, customer engagement, and retail execution.

David's Bridal is a bridal and special-occasion retailer combining stores with digital commerce. Technology plays an increasingly important role in customer discovery, personalization, appointment experiences, and the purchasing journey.

Minted operates a marketplace connecting independent artists with consumers buying stationery, art, gifts, and home products. Its business provides an interesting example of how generative AI interacts with creativity, personalization, and commerce.

Batteries Plus operates a specialty retail network selling batteries, lighting, device repair services, and related products. Its technology organization works across digital commerce and a large physical-store footprint.

Kellanova is a global consumer food company behind brands across snacks and packaged foods. Its presence brings a consumer-goods perspective to how AI is changing marketing, commerce, brand strategy, and relationships with retailers.

Lowe's is a major home improvement retailer operating stores and digital commerce channels. AI can support areas ranging from product discovery and customer assistance to inventory, merchandising, store operations, and project planning.

eBay operates a global marketplace connecting buyers and sellers across a large catalog of new and used products. AI is increasingly relevant to search, recommendations, seller tools, catalog understanding, and shopping assistance.

Sephora is a global beauty retailer combining physical stores, digital commerce, loyalty, and personalized shopping experiences. AI can support product discovery, recommendations, customer experience, and digital merchandising across its assortment.

Fanatics operates businesses spanning licensed sports merchandise, commerce, collectibles, and sports-related digital products. Its technology operations handle complex inventory, personalization, digital experiences, and high-volume consumer demand.

Walmart is one of the world's largest retailers, operating stores, e-commerce, marketplaces, logistics networks, and advertising businesses. The company is applying AI across customer experience, associate productivity, search, supply chain, and commerce.

Sam's Club is Walmart's membership-based warehouse retailer. Its technology teams use automation and AI across e-commerce, checkout, personalization, operations, and the in-store experience.

Ulta Beauty is a major beauty retailer operating physical stores, e-commerce, loyalty programs, and digital experiences. AI can help connect its large product assortment with personalized discovery, recommendations, and customer experiences.

GNC is a health and wellness retailer selling vitamins, supplements, sports nutrition, and related products. Its digital business sits at the intersection of personalized product discovery, customer data, e-commerce, and retail marketing.

Stitch Fix combines fashion retail with data science and personalized recommendations. Its model has long used algorithms and customer information to match shoppers with products, making it particularly relevant to AI-driven retail personalization.

Steve Madden designs and sells footwear, accessories, and fashion products through wholesale, stores, and direct-to-consumer channels. Its digital commerce operations span social commerce, online customer acquisition, marketplaces, and product discovery.

ThredUp operates an online resale marketplace for secondhand apparel. Technology supports cataloging, pricing, recommendations, logistics, and the management of a large and constantly changing inventory.

JD Sports is a global sports fashion retailer selling footwear, apparel, and accessories through stores and digital channels. Its scale makes product discovery, customer data, personalization, and omnichannel experiences important areas for AI adoption.

Lululemon is an athletic apparel company operating stores and direct-to-consumer commerce globally. Its customer experience combines community, physical retail, digital commerce, product innovation, and personalized engagement.

Amazon Web Services provides cloud infrastructure, data, machine learning, and generative AI services used by retailers and consumer brands. Its technology provides much of the underlying infrastructure companies can use to build and deploy retail AI applications.

Shopify provides commerce infrastructure for brands and merchants across online stores, payments, point of sale, marketing, and AI-powered commerce workflows.

As AI agents begin influencing shopping discovery and transactions, commerce platforms such as Shopify sit close to many of the technical changes shaping agentic commerce.

ServiceNow provides enterprise workflow software used to automate processes across technology, customer service, operations, and other business functions. Its AI products increasingly incorporate agents and automation directly into enterprise workflows.

AppLovin develops advertising technology that helps companies acquire and engage customers through digital advertising. Its role at RetailClub reflects the growing connection between AI, advertising optimization, commerce, and customer acquisition.

Postscript develops SMS marketing and customer engagement software for e-commerce brands. Its technology helps merchants use messaging for customer acquisition, retention, support, and personalized commerce.

Flexport provides technology-enabled freight forwarding and logistics services. For retailers and brands, its platform sits within the supply-chain layer where AI can support planning, visibility, inventory movement, and logistics decisions.

Richpanel develops customer service technology for e-commerce brands. Its platform helps support teams manage conversations and automate parts of the customer experience using AI.

Writer develops enterprise generative AI technology for building and deploying AI applications and agents. Retailers can use enterprise AI platforms across marketing, operations, customer service, analysis, and internal productivity.

Decagon develops AI agents for customer experience and support. Its technology automates customer conversations while connecting AI systems with business processes and enterprise information.

Klaviyo provides customer data, email, SMS, and marketing automation technology for consumer businesses. Its platform helps brands use customer information to personalize communication and automate lifecycle marketing.

Vibe.co provides connected TV advertising technology for businesses. Its platform allows marketers to plan, launch, and measure television advertising using software-driven workflows.

Attentive develops personalized messaging and marketing technology used by consumer brands. Its platform uses customer data and AI to support SMS, email, recommendations, and lifecycle engagement.

Mirakl provides technology for enterprise marketplaces, dropshipping, supplier platforms, and retail media. Its products help retailers expand assortments and manage complex digital commerce ecosystems.

Cloudinary provides image and video management infrastructure for digital experiences. Retailers use its technology to manage, transform, optimize, and deliver visual product content at scale.

Fermat develops commerce technology designed to connect advertising with personalized shopping experiences. Its platform helps brands create and test different post-click experiences for customer acquisition and conversion.

Logicbroker provides marketplace, dropship, and supplier-management technology. Its platform helps retailers connect with suppliers, expand assortments, manage inventory relationships, and fulfill marketplace orders.

DataWeave develops digital commerce intelligence technology for retailers and brands. Its products help companies analyze pricing, assortment, digital shelf performance, competitive activity, and other online market signals.

Bounteous is a digital transformation consultancy working across customer experience, commerce, data, cloud, and AI. Its retail work focuses on connecting technology with practical customer and operational outcomes.

Insider One develops customer experience and marketing technology that helps brands personalize interactions across digital channels. Its platform combines customer data, journey orchestration, messaging, and AI-driven personalization.

Impact Analytics develops AI-powered retail planning and merchandising software. Its products address areas such as pricing, inventory, assortment, forecasting, and decision-making across retail operations.

HotWax Commerce develops order management technology for retailers. Its software helps brands coordinate inventory and fulfillment across stores, warehouses, e-commerce channels, and other locations.

NULogic is building technology around agentic commerce, where AI agents increasingly participate in product discovery and shopping decisions. Its participation reflects one of the festival's central themes: how commerce changes when customers begin interacting through AI agents.

Salesforce provides CRM, commerce, marketing, customer service, data, and AI software. Its expanding agentic AI products are particularly relevant to retailers connecting customer information with commerce and automated customer interactions.

Rise.ai develops store-credit, gift-card, loyalty, and refund technology for commerce brands. Its tools help retailers manage value stored within customer accounts while supporting retention and repeat purchasing.

Mejuri is a jewelry brand operating both e-commerce and physical retail. Its participation adds another example of a digitally native consumer brand combining stores, customer data, online commerce, and technology-led experiences.

Agentic commerce

AI-powered customer experience

Retail data infrastructure

Enterprise AI strategy

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Intelligent supply chains

AI-enabled stores

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What is RetailClub AI Festival 2026?

RetailClub AI Festival 2026 is a retail and AI conference bringing together retailers, consumer brands, technology companies, and AI leaders to explore how artificial intelligence is changing commerce and retail operations.

When and where is RetailClub AI Festival 2026?

RetailClub AI Festival 2026 takes place September 22–24, 2026 in Huntington Beach, California.

What companies are attending RetailClub AI Festival 2026?

Companies represented include Target, Walmart, Sam's Club, Sephora, Ulta Beauty, Lowe's, e.l.f. Beauty, Pacsun, SharkNinja, Shopify, AWS, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Writer, Decagon, Klaviyo, Attentive, Flexport, Richpanel, and others.

Which retailers and brands are attending RetailClub AI Festival 2026?

Retailers and consumer brands represented include Target, Walmart, Sam's Club, Sephora, Ulta Beauty, Lowe's, Albertsons Companies, Lululemon, Pacsun, e.l.f. Beauty, SharkNinja, GNC, Stitch Fix, Steve Madden, ThredUp, JD Sports, and Mejuri.

Which AI and retail technology companies are attending RetailClub AI Festival 2026?

AI, commerce, and retail technology companies represented include Writer, Decagon, AWS, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Shopify, Impact Analytics, DataWeave, Klaviyo, Attentive, Mirakl, Richpanel, Logicbroker, HotWax Commerce, and Cloudinary.

What topics does RetailClub AI Festival 2026 cover?

The 2026 event covers agentic commerce, AI-powered customer experience, product discovery, retail data infrastructure, merchandising, supply-chain AI, AI-enabled stores, marketing, personalization, and enterprise AI strategy.