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.