This month's event is focused on the transformative power of Big Data in retail (both online and offline), across key areas such as personalization (Sailthru), supply chain visibility (Panjiva), customer service (StellaService), and predictive analytics (Custora).

Our speakers:

Ian White, CTO ofSailthru(one-to-onepersonalization of commerce).Prior to Sailthru, Ian was the chief technologist at Business Insider, where he was responsible for scaling all aspects of the company's technology from a niche online publication to one of the top five global business websites. He also served as lead developer of the music video platform at Music Nation and was one of the key developers at Money-Media, where he met Neil.Ian is one of the inaugural MongoDB Masters and has been a featured conference speaker at MongoNYC, NoSQL Now! and GilbaneSF. He is a frequent presenter for Meetups including the NY MongoDB User Group and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) NYC User Group. He was also named to the The Silicon Alley 100 as one of New York City's most influential technology leaders.

Jordy Leiser, CEO ofStellaService (data and analytics for customer service).Prior to founding StellaService, Jordy worked in investment banking at JPMorgan, where he worked on leveraged buyouts and other transactions for private equity-backed consumer retail brands.After seeing firsthand the value of great customer service for retailers - both from the business and consumer perspectives - Jordy teamed up with longtime friend and college roommate John Ernsberger to create a robust system for measuring and rating the customer service performance of online retailers. Jordy and John officially launched StellaService in March 2010.Jordy has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, CNN, NPR, New York Times, Fox Business, Forbes, Reuters, TIME, Ad Age, WWD, Internet Retailer as well as other TV and print media nationwide.

Josh Green, CEO ofPanjiva (supply chain visibility).Josh began his career at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he provided strategic advice to Fortune 500 clients. Later at iFormation Group, a joint venture of BCG and Goldman Sachs, Josh launched new, technology-enabled businesses. More recently, Josh learned first-hand about the challenges of doing business across borders while at E Ink, a high technology company with a global supply chain. Josh is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvards Kennedy School of Government, and Harvard Business School where he received Baker Scholar honors. Recently, Josh was a featured speaker at the Web 2.0 Summit and at DataContent 09. Josh has been quoted in articles about global trade appearing in Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Corey Pierson, CEO ofCustora (predictive analytics for marketing).

Vijay Subramanian,Chief Analytics Officer atRent The Runway