SL Retail Forum 2025: AI Reimagining the Industry 📈

• The Sri Lanka Retail Forum 2025, hosted by the SLRA, successfully concluded, gathering over 500 retail leaders and innovators to discuss the future landscape. • Theme: "Retail Reimagined – Where AI Meets the Human Edge," focusing on the convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human creativity to revolutionize customer experiences and operational efficiency. • Keynote speaker Satyendra Khare (Google India) discussed "Inf ‘AI’nite Possibilities," emphasizing AI's power to unlock personalization, streamline supply chains, and transform decision-making in retail. • Discussions centered on the need for structural reforms to achieve stability and sustainability, leveraging consumer insights, and building robust data foundations for AI success. • A key panel featuring leaders from Hemas Consumer and Twinery (Innovations by MAS) explored the evolving role of leadership in an AI-driven era. • The forum emphasized that the synergy between AI and human talent is the key blueprint for accelerating the nation's retail modernization and growth journey.