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Discover three ways Zalando drives creative disruption in fashion retail through AI innovation, ZEOS infrastructure, and cultural storytelling.

Matthieu Tebaus makes it clear: broad assumptions kill growth in MENA. Brands that generalise across countries or even within cities risk wasting spend and missing demand. He sees AI as a partner, not a replacement—empowering planners and sales teams to evolve from admin roles to trusted growth architects.

Mobile app downloads may be soaring, but retention depends on deeper factors. Experts from Intellect, Plaza Premium Group, and Bitsmedia reveal why trust, timing, and touchpoints are the real engines of mobile app growth.

Amir Rasekh, Managing Director at Nectar360, argues that retail media has outgrown its bottom-funnel stereotype. With AI-powered platforms like Pollen and unified customer views, retail media is now driving full-funnel strategies, from awareness to loyalty, while reshaping how brands and retailers collaborate.

Invalid traffic is silently draining ecommerce ad budgets and corrupting tROAS signals. To scale efficiently, marketers must block fake clicks before they distort campaign data.

Forget what you knew about sales funnels. AI is reshaping how CMOs drive growth, from leading revenue strategies to pioneering AI-driven metrics and owning the future of search with AEO.

As enterprises scale AI-generated content, the pressure to stay compliant, consistent, and brand-safe is rising. Without proper governance frameworks, even the most advanced AI can produce hallucinations, misinformation, and non-compliant messaging.

More than a back-end task, product feed is turning into a growth strategy. Elizabeth Azide, Senior Director of Marketing, EMEA at Commerce reveals how optimised product feeds drive visibility, cut ad waste, and boost conversions.

Around 25% of marketers cite difficulty in measuring ROI, and 21% struggle to scale their partner programs effectively. This has sparked a growing investment in technology platforms that streamline operations, providing fraud protection, unified reporting, and simplified partner payouts.

CMOs are burning out not from doing too little, but from doing too much without direction. Brand strategist Andrej Persolja unpacks why clarity, not complexity, will define the next era of marketing leadership, and why the best CMOs will start thinking more like investors than executors.