Director of Strategy
CDW
As Director of Strategy for CDW, Andy Szanger leads the team responsible for helping to bring new retail solutions and services to market and delivering industry expertise. Andy has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry with a heavy focus in the retail sector. He has helped many high-profile retailers implement solutions to enhance their customers’ experience, improve operational efficiencies and remove risk from their business. Prior to CDW, Andy was an Assistant Store Manager in charge of Operations for a big box retailer which inspired him to help brands use technology as a competitive advantage.
Monday Jan 12
2:15pm - 3:00pm
Exhibitor Big Ideas Stage 1
Retail is at a tipping point. As retailers move beyond early AI experiments like chatbots and content creation, a new frontier of intelligent automation is emerging. The next wave is predictive, perceptive and inherently agentic. AI that doesn’t just respond, but senses, reasons, and acts. Imagine systems that anticipate demand before customers do, store operations that adapt in real time, or supply chains that self-correct.
This session will cut through the hype to explore how retailers are moving from science experiments to autonomous value creation. From reducing shrink, to accelerating decisions, and enhancing experiences that are predictive, perceptive, embedded, and actionable.
Join CDW, NVIDIA, and industry leaders for a provocative discussion on what it takes to design, deploy, and scale these new AI frontiers. Discover what it takes to move to value creation, unlocking the potential and differentiating your brand.
