Giri Agarwal

Wholesale leaders are navigating a challenging market with greater focus on efficiency, smarter growth and stronger retailer relationships. Yet while the commerce landscape is expected to see single-digit growth, 67% of leaders report a digital gap where their technology isn’t meeting expectations or keeping pace with their strategy.   Drawing on our latest research, this session explores how forward-thinking brands are taking a more proactive role in retail success through data sharing, demand forecasting and curated assortment—and how AI is beginning to reshape what comes next.   As wholesale technology becomes more connected and intelligent, the opportunity for AI is also evolving from surfacing insights to helping teams act on them. That could mean identifying replenishment opportunities earlier, making smarter assortment recommendations, reducing manual work across the order cycle, or helping retailers discover brands and products that better fit their business. These emerging capabilities also lay the groundwork for a more agentic future, where AI can increasingly support and automate multi-step wholesale workflows.   We’ll explore how brands and retailers are navigating this shift, what an increasingly connected and agentic wholesale ecosystem could look like, and how technology can help create a more scalable, intelligent model for growth.