Robert has more than 30 years’ experience in the payments industry. He has seen it grow into the multi-million euro industry it is today. His current role as Director of Product and scheme relationship involves the deployment of next generation POS such as Clover™,and Android terminals , Payment gateway integrations, value added products, authorisation analysis and identification of future product requirements. Robert has previously managed all of AIBMS partner relationships including MSPs, ISOs, and PSPs.

5+ year career in international technology industry with fast growth, leading innovative companies including Salesforce.com, SAP and Hubspot. I lead the Shopify Merchant Success Organisation in EMEA. We work alongside our largest, most complex, fast growth merchants.

Steven is the Director of Product at Signifyd, based in Belfast. Signifyd provide Commerce protection that recognises the identity and intent behind every payment, restoring mutual trust between merchants and their customers.

Andy is a 25 year e-commerce veteran, having worked for agencies, private label brands and major retailers over his career. In the last ten years he has taken a startup brand through to acquisition by Matalan, before growing Matalan’s e-commerce business to £75m in 12 months. Now Andy heads up Venture Forge, partnering with some of the UK’s largest brands on growing their Amazon business in the UK, Europe and America.

Elaine has spent 15 years in the payments industry, 8 years at PayPal and the remainder at various PSP’s and Acquirers where she has consulted with global businesses in Retail, Travel and many other sectors on their payments strategy. She has played an active role in achieving new payment options for businesses, which has helped drive profitability and International growth.

Luke is a well-seasoned eCommerce consultant, eCommerce store founder and international speaker delivering double/triple-digit growth for eCommerce brands. Luke parks himself right in the centre of CRO, growth and SEO disciplines. Having worked with brands spanning both D2C and B2B verticals including CAT, Renault and Mayflex, Luke knows a thing or two when it comes to getting C-suite buy-in and delivering smart, scalable eCommerce growth.

Anna-Marie is the Department Manager for Consumer, Retail & Online within the Technology & Services Division in Enterprise Ireland. She has worked closely with many Irish companies in a variety of industry sectors.

Gordon has over 20 years experience building digital customer experiences in Ireland, The UAE and The UK. He has spent the last decade working with Life Style Sports to build one of Ireland’s largest and most respected digital commerce operations. Gordon believes passionately in harnessing the power of technology as a tool to transform the omnichannel retail experience through engaging and inspiring customers from the point of brand discovery to the establishment of long term relationships.

Rachel has leading authority in systematizing and scaling ecommerce agencies. She is dedicated to maximizing agency efficiency and enabling agency owners to get out of the day-to-day of running their agency so they can focus on taking it to the next level. As former COO of a leading Shopify Plus agency, Rachel has since acted as fractional-COO for over 60 Ecommerce agencies across the globe to help them implement best practice systems and processes to grow profitably. From building scalable retainer models to coaching high-performing leadership teams, Rachel works with Ecommerce agencies to simplify the next steps in scaling their ecommerce agency.

Dave has worked in the eCommerce industry for 10 years, starting off in London with the award winning commerce start up Flubit. He then moved back to Dublin joining the eCommerce team at Facebook, growing the worlds leading brands like Made.com, Alibaba, LEGO, Very and Gymshark. Dave recently joined TikTok in London where he leads the eCommerce Growth team, overseeing the growth of hundreds of eCommerce brands looking to scale on the most exciting platform of the decade.

Vinny has worked in eCommerce for 15 years +. Clients include Tesco, Currys, Littlewoods, Calvin Klein, Superdry and PepsiCo international. He was a formative part of the team in eBay that developed multichannel retailing across Europe. He has been speaking about eCommerce since his participation in the Global Economic Forum in 2012. He has been lecturing professionally across Ireland and the Middle East for the past 7 years. He works in partnership with global accounting firm, BDO and is currently Director of Brand and ecommerce in Crua – a D2C brand based in Kerry and Colorado, USA.