Innovation Trail & Awards

Innovation is crucial to the success of modern multichannel retailing, and that is why it sits at the heart of the Retail Technology Show.

With our Innovation Trail & Awards, we provide a fantastic opportunity for our exhibitors to showcase their brightest solutions and for our visitors to discover what's new and exciting in the industry.

Ten exhibiting products were shortlisted by an independent panel of judges drawn from members of our retail advisory board and industry experts.

The overall winner of the Innovation Trail & Awards 2025 will be announced at The BIG Retail Party hosted at the end of Day 1 in the Carnival Wonderland.

Huge thanks to our senior panel of industry experts who judged the 2025 Retail Innovation Awards

Andrew Busby, Senior Industry Advisory & Global Retail Influencer

Chris Field, Chairman of Retail Connections & Independent Retail Analyst

Natalie Berg, Retail Analyst, Author and Founder of NBK Retail

Oliver Banks, Retail Transformation Director & Consultant

Toby Pickard, Retail Analyst & Retail Futures Senior Partner, IGD

Introducing Our 2025 Innovation Awards finalists: 

Merchandise Planning &  Inventory Management

 

An international trusted AI solution redefining ultra-fresh food management for businesses worldwide, spanning bakeries, supermarkets, and food-to-go providers. Our AI-driven solution leverages over 150 data points to generate precise demand forecasts, ensuring the right product availability while minimising waste and maximising profitability.

In addition to our core AI-driven software, we now offer the Intelligent Store Assistant—a groundbreaking new product that continuously analyses real-time demand. It automates production planning to ensure shelves remain stocked with fresh products while effectively preventing overproduction. With seamless integration into existing systems, AIPERIA provides actionable insights that drive efficiency, profitability, and sustainability at scale.

Data & Analytics

 

PX Insights is the newest solution from Akeneo, the Product Experience (PX) company enabling the creation of customer informed product records. 

This groundbreaking feature organises and integrates customer reviews, ratings, and search behaviour into product data, providing valuable insights for product optimisation and marketing.

PX Insights enables brands to utilise artificial intelligence (AI) to leverage customer communication and intent to shape the product record and create product descriptions that align with actual consumer needs and preferences, translating into authentic PX creating a community of engaged, loyal customers who feel heard and valued while simultaneously increasing sales and reducing returns.

Data & Analytics

 

Boost promotional profits with AI-driven pricing! Differs' AI predicts optimal discounts for every product, minimising profit loss while protecting margins and brand image. Recognised as a Top 10 French AI Innovation of the Year, Differs is trusted by global brands like Vertbaudet, Roberto Cavalli, and Index Living Mall, delivering an average +25% increase in gross profit.

With a no gain, no pay model, we guarantee results—if retailers' promotions don't generate more profit, they pay nothing.

Data & Analytics

 

Glanceable helps businesses make the most of customer feedback by bringing everything - reviews, feedback, and calls - together in one place. Their proprietary AI analyses feedback across channels, helping you focus on what matters most by providing clear, real-time suggestions to improve your services or products. The platform helps businesses to create and track action plans to improve performance based on customer input, and also responds to reviews from a unified platform with AI-generated, personalised responses, streamlining engagement and boosting satisfaction.

Merchandise Planning &  Inventory Management

 

Invent.ai's promo, markdown and pricing optimization solution is a cutting-edge AI-driven platform that seamlessly integrates inventory constraints, financial goals, and AI-driven demand forecasts to dynamically adjust prices and promotions across stores, channels and product categories—empowering retailers to maximize profits, minimize waste and enhance customer experiences. 

Merchandise Planning &  Inventory Management

 

The PervasID TrackMaster 2X fixed RFID reader delivers both real time stock accuracy and 2m location accuracy for all retail store inventory.  By removing the need for handheld scanning and delivering critical data within minutes to the retailer, not only improving the overall customer omnichannel experience ensuring on shelf availability at all times whilst the same data is powering the retailer's inventory systems ensuring the correct stock in the correct place at the correct time removing the need for overstock within stores, streamlining the whole supply chain, reducing their overall cost of procurement.

Customer Experience & Retention

 

Pricer Avenue™ is the newest solution from Pricer, which evolves the role of traditional Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs) and delivers enhanced and connected in-aisle experiences.  This shelf-edge communications system transcends traditional ESLs, often pigeon-holed into simplistic use-cases around pricing/promotions or labour hours savings from replacing paper with digital labels.  Digitally transforming the shelf-edge into a CX and communications platform, Pricer Avenue™ delivers brand-rich in-aisle customer engagement and retail media activations.  The solution's connected rail also elevates ESLs as the ‘glue' connecting other in-store technologies to unlock untapped operational efficiencies and power labour productivity.

Data & Analytics

 

Profitmind continuously finds revenue, profit, and cashflow opportunities that enable retailers and brands to meet their business objectives - immediately. The easy-to-use SaaS solution uses machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI to track competitors, analyze internal data and surface fast-impact revenue and margin growth opportunities. The result: increased productivity, transparency, and profitability. Profitmind is helping retailers achieve industry-leading performance, averaging 21% revenue growth and 14% higher gross margins. All customers have seen a 1-month payback on Profitmind's annual cost.

Merchandise Planning &  Inventory Management

 

Realgram AI is the first AI-powered planogram tool that allows brick-and-mortar retailers to create plans that align with business objectives, real-time inventory, and capacity, and deliver unique planograms to each location all in one click.

Simplified processes, accurate execution, and efficient merchandising strategies come together to maximize fixture profitability in every store.

 

 

Store Operations

 

We uncover footfall and spending patterns, anywhere, in real-time. Originally an idea that won a runners up prize on the John Lewis JLAB 2017 accelerator.

 

 

2024 winner - Orquest

"Being recognised and selected as the 2024 RTS Innovation Award winner means a lot – especially since this is our first year as an exhibitor.  Having visited the show for years, we understand its significance as the premier platform for showcasing cutting-edge technology like ours.  It’s a testament to the dedication of our team and trust of our valued clients.  We’ve long believed in the power of empowering retail workforces though our AI solution, and this award reaffirms the impact of our efforts.  Retailers recognise that an empowered workforce not only enhances employee wellbeing and productivity but also drives operational effectiveness, delivering the exceptional retail experiences customers crave." 
Pilar di Prisco, Key Account Manager UK at Orquest 

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