Summit Connects Retail Waste Execs with Tech Experts

This September, RILA and Austin-based startup Smarter Sorting hosted the first ever Innovation in Action Summit. The two-day Summit was designed to help retail waste management and operations executives imagine the “art of the possible” by connecting them with design thinking leaders and tech experts developing solutions to common challenges.

The Summit included:

• Presentations by retailers;
• “Big data” workshops by technologists; and
• Teams of retailers working with engineering and design professionals.

The result was a collection of specific solutions that, taken together, have the potential to revolutionize how retailers manage regulated consumer products over the course of their lifecycles.
 

Following the Summit, Smarter Sorting will develop a tech-based solution protype and present it to the retail participants this December to demonstrate how new technology can be used to cure old problems.

For more information or to get involved, reach out to Tiffin Shewmake, RILA vice president and executive director of the Retail Compliance Center.