Industry Leaders to Speak on the Future of Commerce at C-Commerce Summit in May

Samantha Cabrera
Susan Akbarpour
Published in
3 min readApr 17, 2018

From Mavatar to evite to PR Newswire, the C-Commerce Summit boasts a stellar line-up

Join us for C-Commerce Summit 2018!

Napa, CA — April 17, 2018 — The C-Commerce Summit today announced the first round of speakers for the event being held May 3–5, 2018 at The Westin Verasa Napa in Napa, California.

The “C” in C-Commerce is for Consumer-Centric, Contextual, Crypto, Collaborative and Connected Commerce.This is a unique conference where the biggest names in retail and tech meet the cutting edge of the C-Commerce industry. At the C-Commerce Summit industry leaders will talk about commerce trends and real-world applications of blockchain, smart contracts and cryptocurrencies. Through group meals, an awards ceremony and a wine tour, the event boasts a highly interactive atmosphere to maximize networking opportunities and one-on-one discussions between speakers and attendees.

Speakers include:

  • Susan Akbarpour, CEO and Co-Founder, Mavatar
  • Brom Mahbod, CoFounder & President of Mavatar
  • Emmanuel Abiodun, Architect ( VP) Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service
  • Shayan Zadeh, Cofounder & CEO of Trustroot
  • Kevin Akeroyd, CEO at CISION PR Newswire
  • Henry Liu, Chief of Investments at Yeoman’s Capital
  • Prabhjot Singh, President & CEO at PYZE Inc
  • Shirley Tafoya, Regional Vice President and Head of Enterprise at YELP
  • Trevor Koverko, CEO at Polymath
  • Shahin Hedayat, Founding Partner at Candou Ventures
  • Phil Schlein, Former president and CEO of Macy’s California and Partner at U.S. Venture, and Advisor to CEO at MAVATAR
  • Ray Miller, Partner & Steering Committee Member at Pepper Hamilton

For more information on the speakers and the agenda visit the website here. Speakers and agenda updates are added frequently.

If you are interested in speaking at the C-Commerce Summit, email support@ccommercesummit.com. While all topics will be considered, conference organizers are specifically looking for experts on:

  • Complying with GDPR and ePrivacy regulations
  • Leveraging user generated advertising and influence marketing to create a sustainable and crowdsourced salesforce
  • Closing the gap between online and offline sales, shopping and advertising
  • New ways to incentivize your shoppers and brand ambassadors, eliminating middlemen and bottlenecks
  • Creating your own branded affiliate network platform
  • Getting rid of phony metrics like CPM, CPC, and CTR to establish CPT (cost per transaction)
  • Leveraging new contextual, connected and blockchain-based marketplaces to compete with Amazon’s fragmented market
  • racking every advertising dollar to sales dollars
  • Leveraging blockchain or/and cryptocurrency for processing millions of micro-payments
  • Leveraging AI, IoT, VR/AR to create more secure connected and transparent commerce

The C-Commerce Summit is supported by signature sponsor Mavatar, Platinum sponsors, Pepper Hamilton, LLP, Gold sponsors Candou, Pyze, Cision PR Newswire, Internet Marketing Association, evite and Silver sponsors ApplyBoard, Imeve, Virtual Visions.

Registration for C-Commerce Summit is by invitation only. To request an invite or to receive more information about sponsoring or speaking at the event, email support@ccommercesummit.com or call 650–701–0007.

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