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Rajlakshmi
Shankaran
Chief Merchandising Officer
Retail Scale
Rajlakshmi (Raj) Shankaran is the Founder and Chief Merchandising Officer of Retail S.C.A.L.E., and one of the few retail operators who has sat at the table where agentic commerce decisions are actually made. With nearly two decades scaling $1B+ omnichannel P&Ls at Fortune 1 Walmart and PE-backed Circana, Raj brings a perspective missing from most AI product conversations: what it actually takes to win a retail shopper, and why the most sophisticated AI products keep losing at the point of sale. At Walmart, her category bets consistently moved the needle at scale — from introducing Chromebooks to mass retail and reaching $112M in 18 months, to building the digital wireless business that drove $550M in activation sales and accounted for more than 20% of Walmart's enterprise eCommerce profitability. At Circana, she steered retail and brand-centric product strategy across a $500M+ global portfolio through the complex post-merger integration of IRI and NPD.
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10 June 2026 13:45 - 14:30
Fireside chat | Competitive intelligence driven product roadmaps
It’s easy to chase what others are doing. It’s much harder to decide what’s actually worth building. In this fireside chat, Product and competitive intelligence leaders share how they turn competitive signals into clear, confident roadmap decisions without falling into reactive feature-building. You’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at how the best teams spot real opportunities, avoid costly distractions, and decide what gets built (and what doesn’t). In this session, you’ll learn how to: - Turn competitor moves into clear product decisions - Spot opportunities early, instead of reacting too late - Build products that stand out, not blend in