Tom Ebling

Tulip is the world’s largest cloud-based retail customer engagement platform provider, with best-in-class Clienteling and POS capabilities that let retailers realize the full potential of omnichannel commerce. The worlds most iconic retailers like David Yurman, Versace, Jimmy Choo, Mulberry, Saks Fifth Avenue, Ferragamo, COACH, and Michael Kors use Tulip to modernize the shopping experience, creating personalized shopping journeys that increase sales and improve customer loyalty across channels. Partnered with Apple and Salesforce, Tulip enables retailers to build deeply personal connections with customers, fulfill orders, close out purchases, and maximize store associate productivity and performance.

Nuance Communications is a technology pioneer with market leadership in conversational, ambient, and generative AI. A full-service partner trusted by 77 percent of U.S. hospitals and more than 75 percent of the Fortune 100 companies worldwide, Nuance creates intuitive solutions that amplify peoples ability to help others. Nuance is a Microsoft company.

Flow simplifies the complexity of selling internationally to help -commerce teams maximize cross-border revenue. Deliver frictionless shopping experiences, streamline global logistics, and reduce operational risk with the most advanced cross-border technology on the market.

Stores are under immense pressure to do more with a smaller team and maximize sales opportunities from reduced traffic. To stay solvent, stores must now operate at maximum efficiency, make smarter decisions, and agilely respond to risks and opportunities. That’s where Blueday helps. Using the power of AI, Blueday crunches a retailer’s troves of data in real-time and finds the relevant patterns to drive action at the speed and detail of retail. This creates a powerful, data-driven approach to planning, execution, and optimization that’s tailored to each store and responsive to changing conditions. Trusted by over 50,000 users, across 5,000 stores around the globe, the Blueday Store Performance System enables stores to be more efficient, make smarter decisions, and agilely adjust to risks and opportunities. The results – time savings, less wasted efforts, maximum usage of labor assets, improvements in sales efficiency, and a path to long term success. With your system live as soon as you provide your data, Blueday is the solution your stores need now to succeed in the new retail landscape.

Acquiring net new customers in today’s fiercely competitive performance marketing landscape presents many challenges. Rising marketing and customer acquisition costs are causing brands to experience declining performance and increased CPAs. Reaching the right customers has become increasingly complex, and traditional marketing channels are not cutting it anymore. What if there was a more efficient way to acquire net new customers for your brand and diversify your channel mix? Enter Nift Advertising for Brand - a game-changing alternative channel to help your brand unlock net new customer acquisition. Leading brands, including HelloFresh, Bj’s Wholesale Club, and Blenders Eyewear, use Nift as a 100% trackable performance marketing channel to meet their CPA and ROAS targets while growing their database with first-party data collection, including emails for remarketing. Here’s How Nift Advertising Works for Brands: 1) Nift partners with top apps like TripAdvisor, ParkMobile, and Mindbody that want to “surprise and delight” their users at key lifecycle moments with exclusive gifts that can be used to discover and try your brand. 2) When the app users complete an action, like leaving a review or paying for parking, they receive one-of-a-kind gifts from select Nift Network advertisers. 3) Consumers discover your brand’s product or service using Nift’s proprietary A.I. technology and receive unique incentives to purchase that keep them coming back for more. Dont wait – learn more about Nift Advertising for Brands today and discover a new path to acquiring net new customers at GoNift.com/Business.

Tulip is the world’s largest cloud-based retail customer engagement platform provider, with best-in-class Clienteling and POS capabilities that let retailers realize the full potential of omnichannel commerce. The worlds most iconic retailers like David Yurman, Versace, Jimmy Choo, Mulberry, Saks Fifth Avenue, Ferragamo, COACH, and Michael Kors use Tulip to modernize the shopping experience, creating personalized shopping journeys that increase sales and improve customer loyalty across channels. Partnered with Apple and Salesforce, Tulip enables retailers to build deeply personal connections with customers, fulfill orders, close out purchases, and maximize store associate productivity and performance.

The GreenLight Fund works at the intersection of community need and social innovation. GreenLight helps open opportunities for children, youth and families experiencing poverty by engaging deeply with the community and running a consistent annual process to: elevate priority issues not yet being addressed; invest in innovative, proven programs that have a significant, measurable social impact; and galvanize local support to accelerate the selected program’s launch and ensure growth and long-term viability. We envision a national network of GreenLight Fund cities, working together and learning from each other to harness the vision and ambition of social entrepreneurs and accelerate the spread of proven programs that make lasting change for children, youth and families. Currently operating in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago Cincinnati, Detroit, Kansas City, Greater Newark, Philadelphia, San Francisco Bay Area, and the Twin Cities.

Welcome to WorldBoston, an essential convener on international topics affecting Boston and the world since 1949. The mission of WorldBoston is to foster engagement in international affairs and cooperation with peoples of all nations. As globalization increasingly shapes every aspect of life on our planet, so does our Greater Boston region increasingly experience, and even help shape, these global trends. By means of our nationally-recognized global engagement and citizen diplomacy programs and our networking and community events, every year WorldBoston provides people from all over the world – and people right here – hundreds of opportunities for learning and connection. Our community includes professionals in every field, including government, business, media, education, science, and the arts; young people; and citizen diplomats. It’s easy to get involved. WorldBoston membership is the best way to be sure not to miss any WorldBoston news and events at discounted prices. If you are interested in citizen diplomacy, we invite you to join our database of volunteers and home hospitality providers, and help us in creating unique people-to-people connections. Finally, your donations and sponsorships provide critical support for the sustainability of our mission. Please explore our website or contact our office to learn more about these opportunities. We hope you’ll be part of WorldBoston.

Nuance Communications is a technology pioneer with market leadership in conversational, ambient, and generative AI. A full-service partner trusted by 77 percent of U.S. hospitals and more than 75 percent of the Fortune 100 companies worldwide, Nuance creates intuitive solutions that amplify peoples ability to help others. Nuance is a Microsoft company.

Flow simplifies the complexity of selling internationally to help -commerce teams maximize cross-border revenue. Deliver frictionless shopping experiences, streamline global logistics, and reduce operational risk with the most advanced cross-border technology on the market.