Posted in Consulting, Digital Commerce
January 21, 2025
Event Recap
NRF 2025: Acro in the Big Apple
Kicking the year off in style, we sent a team to represent Acro Commerce at one of our biggest shows. Jeff Clark gives us a rundown of the three-day event and what’s to come.
National Retail Federation’s Big Show
Acro Commerce recently returned from exhibiting at the NRF Big Show 2025 in New York City from January 11th to 13th. The Acro team had a busy few days interacting with the thousands of attendees, meeting potential new clients, fostering relationships with current partners and exploring opportunities with new vendors.
Three Big Takeaways From NRF 2025
- AI is everywhere. You couldn’t miss AI! From big tech companies like Google and Salesforce making it the focal point of their enormous booths to numerous sessions focusing on AI, it is clear that AI is not the future but the “now.”
- In-store shopping is changing. Countless vendors exhibited new technologies to enhance, transform, and excite the in-store shopping experience. If those vendors have their say, in-store shopping experiences will look very different soon.
- Partnerships, partnerships, and more partnerships. The number of discussions and interactions that centred around creating partnerships was countless. The Acro team was no different. With over 1,000 exhibitors and tens of thousands of attendees, the opportunity to meet with current and potential partners was vast.
Partnerships Manager Calvin Barrett chatting with Dominik Angerer from Storyblok
The Javits Center in NYC is a fantastic venue.
Seeing our partner, Shopify, getting some fanfare, up in lights in NYC.
Moving Forward
Many follow-up discussions will be had over the coming days and weeks stemming from all of the interactions over the three-plus days of NRF’s Big Show 2025. The year always starts with one of the biggest events, and this year was no different. Acro looks forward to building off the momentum to blaze forward with a massive 2025.
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