We were delighted to be chosen as one of 32 finalists from over 500 startups to be shortlisted for the LVMH Innovation Award as part of the LVMH Lab at Vivatech in Paris this week! Vivatech is held to promote innovation between startups and industry leaders. Innovation is core to LVMH and it was great to hear Bernard Ardault (LVMH Chairman and CEO) speak about this. Bernard’s talk included discussing how Ian Rogers (who used to work for Apple Music) has joined the team to hel

We were lucky enough to be invited to hold a stand at LVMH Explore Day today! LVMH is a world-renowned French luxury goods conglomerate, rooted in the merger of Louis Vuitton with Moët Hennessy in the 1980s. Since then, the management of a number of prestigious brands including Marc Jacobs, Belvedere, Bulgari and Acqua di Parma has fallen under the extremely successful LVMH. The LVMH Explore Day was run for the Perfumes and Cosmetics brands held by the conglomerate, with the

This morning, Miles (Head of Business Development) attended Go to Grow: Cohort Five of The Mayor’s International Business Programme in Mayfair, London. We are delighted to announce that we have been accepted onto this new and exclusive programme. The programme is targeted at fast-growing London based companies operating in the technology, life sciences and urban sectors and provides a tailored mentoring scheme with the aim of facilitating further growth. Partners to the progr

We were delighted to be invited to attend Fung Global Retail & Technology’s event Breakfast with the Disruptors on the 2nd May in New York. Fung Global Retail & Technology is a think tank which tracks and publishes research on emerging retail and technology trends, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between retail and technology. Breakfast with the Disruptors was a fantastic networking opportunity with like-minded individuals. Deborah Weinswig, Managing Director a

Smartzer attended Drapers Digital Festival in London on the 25th April 2017. We had been honoured to have been shortlisted in two award categories: Best Tech Start-up and Best Digital Marketing Campaign for the My Theresa x Burberry shoppable runway. The Festival was a brilliantly busy day full of talks, panel debates and events, and we thoroughly enjoyed the awards ceremony in the evening. We made sure to take advantage of the exciting talks on offer throughout the day. Hear

Karoline and Miles headed to Berlin to attend Vizions by Zalando on the 20th April. Vizions by Zalando is Europe’s platform conference run by the retail giant, exploring the challenges and opportunities afforded by digital platforms via a range of speaker talks, panels and workshops. In a nutshell, a company operating with a platform model facilitates exchange between producers and consumers, utilising technology to build networks and enable communication. More and more compa

From 4th-6th April 2017, Miles (Head of Business Development) attended World Retail Congress in Dubai. Here's his summary about his time at the event: Held annually, World Retail Congress brings together world leaders in retail to share expertise and research in an international extravaganza. This year marked the 10th anniversary of the event and the theme was “Reimagining the customer experience”, an aim which is top priority for so many retailers at the moment. In exploring

Last week, Karoline (Smartzer Founder and CEO) and Miles (Head of Business Development) headed to Las Vegas to attend Shoptalk 2017. Shoptalk is one of the largest and most exciting global retail and e-commerce events with over 5,000 attendees and over 2,000 companies in attendance this year. The event provided the opportunity to learn and share ideas about the changing consumer shopping experience. Emphasis was placed on the use of technology and changes in the ideal shoppin