SKU-ed - Demystifying Digital Commerce Stephen Osentoski & Anando Naqui

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) - collectively Immersive Reality - are hot topics in the tech industry. We often think of them only in the context of gaming, but their use cases are widespread and there's a huge potential for the technology in the world of Digital Commerce. Listen in as we explore what AR are VR are, and how these technologies can be applied your commerce experience. Today we're joined by Mark Persaud, an expert in the IR space who will help us unpack this exciting topic.

Corporate Innovation is incredibly important for businesses as they grow and adapt to a rapidly changing landscape. Today on SKU-ed, we are joined by Nondini Naqui, the Head of Insurance Marketing at John Hancock, to discuss how Innovation is critical to a company’s success and how you can build a culture of innovation at your organization. We will discuss effective approaches to building consensus, establishing a culture, embracing failure, and a number of other items in our conversation.

Accessibility is a tricky subject, and there's a lot hidden below the surface. 98% of companies have some sort of accessibility violation on their site, and accessibility is an important aspect of your eCommerce website. Anando & Stephen talk through how to approach accessibility compliance, why accessibility is important, the different guidelines existing today for Web Accessibility, and how you can structure your teams to implement accessible elements on your website.

Welcome to another episode of SKU-ed! This time, Anando Naqui and Stephen Osentoski discuss the effects COVID-19 has had on the eCommerce industry. We discuss a couple of articles that Anando has written on the topic, covering ways companies have adapted to the pandemic, as well as different focus areas for companies to ensure they're paying attention to.

On the first full episode of SKU-ed, we talk to a couple of experts in Machine Learning, Zach McMahon and Harry Thakkar. They have decades of experience in the eCommerce space and have created their own Machine Learning product, Avatria Convert, to help businesses better align their catalogs to their customers behavior.
 
Listen as they help us dive deeper into the discussion of ML, as well as applications of the technology throughout different industries. 

Welcome to SKU-ed! Anando Naqui and Stephen Osentoski introduce themselves as the hosts of SKU-ed, the podcast where we demystify digital commerce.