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Keynotes, panels and fireside chats on LTV:CAC, data culture, agentic AI and what elite retail brands know that the rest don't.

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25 topics, six tracks

Fractional data leadership

  1. 01When should retail brands hire a Chief Data Officer?
  2. 02What happens during a Chief Data Officer's first 90 days?
  3. 03Does your CFO need a Chief Data Officer?
  4. 04WTF is a Chief Data Officer?
  5. 05A Chief Data Officer, a Head of Analytics, and a Data Scientist walk into a bar.

Data culture

  1. 06Humans are the weakest link in your data strategy
  2. 07Why can't ecommerce teams agree on the same metrics?
  3. 08Why can't the C-Suite agree on the same metrics?
  4. 09A/B testing and building a failure-tolerant culture
  5. 10What are we supposed to learn from an A/B test, anyways?

LTV:CAC

  1. 11Why your LTV:CAC spreadsheet says you're profitable and your bank account doesn't
  2. 12Is LTV:CAC the Moneyball metric for retail brands?
  3. 13Are the best retail brands playing Moneyball?
  4. 14LTV is not a number, it's a story

Return on analytics spend

  1. 15Return on Analytics Spend: is your data stack actually making you money?
  2. 16Should your analytics team be making you money? (And why they're not today)
  3. 17How to build dashboards that generate revenue

Elite brands

  1. 18The data science agency helping retail brands become elite retail brands
  2. 19What do elite retail brands know that the rest of us don't?
  3. 20Five things retail brands can do to become elite: the customer data habits of the best operators
  4. 21The SMART Framework: five numbers that show where your customer revenue is hiding

Marketing data warehouse

  1. 22When do brands need a marketing data warehouse? 5 signs you've outgrown spreadsheets
  2. 23Is AI making the modern data stack irrelevant?
  3. 24How long does it take to get marketing data into a warehouse? Weeks, not years
  4. 25The Shopify brand's guide to a marketing data warehouse: what to buy and what to skip
On stage

Past stages

Tim Shea speaking on stage at the Supermicro and AMD Enterprise AI and HPC Summit
Supermicro & AMD Enterprise AI & HPC SummitPanelist
Tim Shea with panelists from Snowflake, SurveyMonkey and Hex after moderating Zeitgeist of Big Data x AI
Zeitgeist of Big Data x AIModerator, with Snowflake, Hex & SurveyMonkey · Agentic X × AI Infra Ignite
Full Interview at IAB NewFronts West 2019IAB NewFronts West
The Media Industry Is Increasingly a Data Integration GameFivetran panel
Why Human Expertise Trumps Hype in an AI WorldThe Entrepreneur's Logbook
Agentic X

The room for agentic AI

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Tim founded Agentic X, a community of developers, creatives and executives exploring AI agents in retail, advertising, media and entertainment. Eight events across three cities so far.

  • 01

    Getting AI Agents Ready for Prime Time

    LangChain · Arcade · Latticework

    Los Angeles · Jun 2025
  • 02

    Reimagining SEO & the Rise of the Agentic Web

    AWS · IBM · elk · Latticework

    Los Angeles · Sep 2025
  • 03

    AI Powering the Future of the AdTech Supply Chain

    Meta · Fivetran · Creatify

    San Francisco · Nov 2025
  • 04

    McKinsey & Company presents Agentic SF

    McKinsey · Snowflake · Ignite · Clarifai

    San Francisco · Nov 2025
  • 05

    The Big Data Zeitgeist: Where Do Agents Belong in the Analytics Stack?

    Hex · Snowflake · SurveyMonkey

    San Francisco · May 2026
  • 06

    Retail Analytics in the Era of Agentic AI

    Theta · sweetgreen · hazel · channable

    New York City · May 2026

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