IRCE 2009 is a four-day conference featuring 179 speakers in 94 sessions devoted to the strategies and tools that e-retailers can use to thrive in a recession that pulls the rest of retailing down. Hence the theme: Rising Above—Not Just Surviving—the Economic Storm. The agenda, which has fewer general sessions than last year and many more specific breakout sessions and tracks that are targeted to specific e-retailer needs.

A retail web site's design is what engages shoppers and ensures that they stay to explore more of the site. The Internet Retailer Web Design Conference '09 will help online retailers understand all the elements of design: analyzing ROI, picking a partner, optimizing for search marketing, making sure the design continues to do what it was intended to do, and more.

Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition 2008 explores every aspect of what it will take for retailers to succeed in the new, more competitive environment, including such issues as making sure your corporate investments are going to the right channels in the right proportions, how to break down the corporate barriers that prevent cooperation among channels, how to prepare for the new demanding customers who expect fast web sites and fast order delivery, how to deepen your use of online marketing tools and how to determine if new methods are worth the investment, how to analyze whether that Web 2.0 initiative is right for your web site, how to make sure that technology implementations won't trip you up and how to find the right staff to help you grow.

The inaugural Internet Retailer Web Design `08 Conference: Designing Web Sites that Sizzle—And Sell features 33 experts on design and usability looking specifically at what it takes to create a successful retail web site. Keynote speaker is Debbie Kristofferson, vice president, user experience, Walmart.com. Featured speaker Feb. 1 is Brian Siegel, vice president, consumer direct, SonyStyle.com.

The agenda of the Internet Retailer 2007 Conference & Exhibition explores every aspect of how the web is reinventing retailers and retailing-including new marketing and merchandising methods, the changing competitive landscape and relationships of different sales channels, the new relationship with the retail shopper and the technological innovations that make it all possible.

The Internet Retailer 2006 Conference & Exhibition will examine the factors that are laying the groundwork for this expected growth in e-retailing and highlight the strategies, technologies and practices that are being developed by leading e-retailers who even now are beginning to take online retailing to the next level of performance. Those attending IR2006 will learn what they need to do to take their e-retailing business to the next level and thereby claim their share of e-retailing's second decade of booming market growth.