External event

Shoptalk Spring 2026

Name: Shoptalk Spring 2026 | Board
Start: 2026-03-24T07:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-03-26T14:10:00-07:00
Location: Las Vegas

March 24-26 | Las Vegas

Manadalay Bay Resort and Casino, 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89119

Mar 24-26

2026

7:00 AM

PST

Retail planning is still organized around merchandising, supply, and finance as separate functions optimizing locally while enterprise value leaks between them. Under margin pressure, demand volatility, inventory imbalance, and tariff uncertainty, functional optimization no longer delivers enterprise performance.

The issue isn’t process maturity. It’s decision orchestration enabling finance, merchandising, and supply to shape decisions together from the start,

At Shoptalk 2026, Board, the leading enterprise planning platform, and Quisitive, an award-winning Microsoft partner, are meeting with retail leaders who want to move from siloed planning to continuous planning, aligning commercial intent, financial guardrails, and execution feasibility before execution, not reconciling them after.

If improving forecast accuracy, managing inventory risk, protecting margin, and making faster, enterprise-aligned confident decisions are on your 2026 agenda, let’s connect.

Our Speakers

Thomas Ironstone

Director, Management Solutions at Quisitive

Matt Meiners

Sr. Account Executive at Quisitive

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Private Retail Leaders Dinner

March 24 | 6:30 PM
📍Stripsteak at Mandalay Bay

Join a select group of retail leaders for a private networking dinner hosted by Board and Quisitive. We’ll discuss how leading retailers are redefining retail planning, shifting from functional excellence to enterprise decision leadership.

Seats are limited. Let us know if you’re interested in joining.

Deliver Decision Confidence Under Volatility

Most planning tools look backward, but retail leaders need to evaluate trade-offs looking forward — while decisions are still reversible. Board strengthens retail planning leadership by embedding macroeconomic foresight, expert-curated industry signals, and domain-specific AI agents directly into shared decision scenarios across merchandising, finance, and supply teams.

Board Foresight

Improve forecast accuracy using external economic and consumer signals.

Board Foresight extends decision visibility forward enabling retailers to stress-test growth, margin, and inventory exposure before capital is committed.

Retailers use Foresight to:

Model tariff and cost scenarios against margin and cash guardrails

Anticipate demand shifts and test buy strategies under multiple futures

Stress-test category investments before OTB is locked

Align commercial ambition with financial resilience

Foresight does not simply improve forecast accuracy— it integrates millions of global datasets and applies analytical AI to identify which signals truly drive your business.

Board Signals

Executive-ready economic intelligence for retail decision makers.

External volatility impacts merchandising, finance, and supply simultaneously, but most retailers respond sequentially. Board Signals connects macroeconomic, consumer, and retail indicators directly into shared planning scenarios and executive-ready dashboards, so teams respond together, not in isolation.

Retail leaders use Signals to:

Monitor consumer sentiment and spending patterns

Quantify inflation and purchasing power impact

Track retail-specific leading indicators

Adjust strategy proactively, not reactively

At Shoptalk, many vendors promise dashboards. Board delivers economic clarity embedded directly into your retail decision workflows.

Introducing Board Foresight and Signals

Foresight

Signals

Combining internal and external data

Agentic AI Built for Merchandising

The Merchandiser Agent

Retail merchandising requires balancing demand, inventory, margin, and cost-to-serve continuously.

The Merchandiser Agent strengthens merchant judgment by evaluating decisions against enterprise guardrails in real time.

It helps retailers:

Surface inventory imbalance before it erodes margin

Stress-test OTB and buy decisions against financial targets

Expose trade-offs between service, margin, and capital

Reinforce alignment between category strategy and enterprise goals

This is not automation replacing the merchant. It is decision coherence at scale, ensuring commercial choices are evaluated once and trusted across the organization.

Unified Enterprise Planning for Retail

Board connects merchandising, finance, and supply chain in one planning environment so retailers can:

Move from siloed planning to decision orchestration

Improve omnichannel inventory responsiveness

Increase profitability while maintaining flexibility

Align strategy to real-time demand signals

At Shoptalk, we’ll demonstrate how continuous retail planning aligns decisions across the value chain so execution reflects intent rather than compromise. For retailers evaluating planning transformation, Board provides a modern alternative to disconnected tools and fragmented AI.