Beyond Bricks and Clicks: Smart Phones and Smart Shopping

Near Field Communications (NFC), Geo-location services, and augmented reality (AR) are disrupting the consumer shopping experience while increasing sales and margins for brick and mortar retailers.

Putting interested buyers in front of relevant shelves at local stores is a huge monetizable opportunity for mobile platforms. 400,000 new Android devices are enabled each day, 60-70M phones are shipping with NFC this year alone and 15% of Tier 1 retailers are integrating mobile e-commerce platforms. Come discover how start ups in mobile are making shopping a whole lot smarter...read more at: http://www.vlab.org/article.html?aid=415

Moderator and Panel:

Aaron Emigh, CTO and Co-Founder, Shopkick, Inc. (Presenter)
Nitzan Shaer, Managing Director and Founder of High Start Group (Moderator)
Bob Borchers, General Partner, Opus Capital
Ben Hedrington, Director of Web Strategy, Best Buy Co. Inc
Matt Weathers, VP Product, ShopSavvy