#621: The evolving buyer's journey with Liz Robillard and Kristin Schoenstein, WBR

The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström®

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Today we’re going to talk about the evolving buyer’s journey, and how good data that drives personalization and effective usage of AI are driving today’s leading e-commerce brands. We’ll also explore what attendees of eTail Palm Springs can expect, including some exciting new features of this leading event for e-commerce brands.

To help me discuss this topic, I’d like to welcome Liz Robillard and Kristin Schoenstein, Worldwide Business Research.

About Kristin Schoenstein

Kristin Schoenstein has been a Program Director at Worldwide Business Research since 2010 and has been producing events since 2004. She currently specializes in the retail and eCommerce sector where she heads up the Future Stores portfolio and co-produces eTail West. She also successfully launched and grew WBR’s customer experience portfolio. In her role, she is responsible for market research, content creation and speaker faculty management for each event. Prior to WBR, she produced events in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sector and got her start organizing educational programming for physicians. In her free time, Kristin heads out to the East end of Long Island where she enjoys boating, yoga, running and days at the beach with her husband and three daughters.

About Elizabeth Robillard

As an Senior Conference Director at Worldwide Business Research, Elizabeth oversees the organization of three business conferences per year. Conference organization includes conducting extensive phone research with 60+ industry experts per event, using call notes to compile a three day conference program that encapsulates top research takeaways, confirming a roster of industry leading speakers for each program, working with our marketing team to write effective copy for all outbound marketing messages, coordinating with sales and logistics teams to ensure the best possible onsite experience and prepping for and running the live event. Most recently, she has joined the eTail team and along with co-producer Kristin Schoenstein, puts together eTail Palm Springs. The other events in her portfolio include Future Branches Austin & Boston. She currently lives in New York City with her cat Wednesday.

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