Discover the customer of the future

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 20 million customers a week in the United States and Canada. With fiscal year 2020 sales of nearly $90 billion, Lowe’s and its related businesses operate or service more than 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
10th March 2021 | 4:30 – 8:00 PM IST
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Lowe’s Innovation Labs, the innovation hub for the Fortune 50 retailer, Lowe’s Companies, Inc., is what’s next for home improvement retail. Through emerging technologies, the Labs has a dual focus: to accelerate the experiences their consumers and associates expect today, while simultaneously developing the capabilities that will power tomorrow.

Overview

CONSTRUCT is Lowe's Innovation Labs' flexible, lightweight start-up accelerator program, open to deep technology companies of all sizes and at all stages. We're focused on reimagining, prototyping and bringing to market the future of home improvement retail.

Join us on the 10th of March as we bring together leaders and start-up founders from across categories, along with the start-ups from CONSTRUCT’s first cohort, for a mini-conference exploring the emerging technological and cultural trends driving the customer of the future. The event will feature thought-inspiring panel discussions, keynotes and pitches by our cohort start-ups.

Startups

Stylumia, a Bangalore-based startup focused on providing product insights through its AI-powered consumer-driven, demand-sensing engine for seen and unseen products.

StoryXpress, a Delhi NCR-based startup with an end-to-end video marketing platform that enables brands and retailers to convert their e-commerce product catalogues into videos at a fraction of the standard time and cost.

Nanospan, a Hyderabad-basedstartup focused on nanotechnology, producing graphene and nano composites with applications in building the next-gen homes, defence tech and energy storage.

Infilect, a Bangalore-based startup with strong computer vision capabilities and AI platforms, helping brands and retailers in measuring, monitoring and improving retail processes such as product distribution, placement and sales.

Rephrase, a Bangalore-based startup focused on building generative AI tools to make professional automated human-like videos with applications involving Hyperreal AI.

Headway.ai, a Bangalore-based HR Tech startup blending AI & behavioural science to power enterprise talent acquisition, talent management and development with analytics & smart-bots to deliver big bang talent outcomes.

Discover Dollar, a Bangalore-based startup helps Fortune 500 companies identify and recover leakages in procurement and payment processes by analyzing email negotiations, contracts and payment data using AI.

Siddhi.ai, a Bangalore-based startup focused on using AI to craft actionable insights from the vast, unstructured resources of the open web to help lifestyle brands and retailers personalise product decisions.

Speakers

Sanjeev Bhikchandani
Co-founder, Info Edge
(Keynote speaker)
Amresh Siva
SVP, Innovation, Data & Supply Chain technology,
Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Ankur Mittal
SVP, Technology and MD,
Lowe's India
Sarv Saravanan
Vice President & Business Leader,
Microsoft
Sheenam Ohrie
VP, Dell Digital Services Online,
Dell Technologies
Cheryl Friedman
VP, Innovation,
Lowe's Companies, Inc
William Bao Bean
General Partner,
SOSV
Swapna Gupta
Director,
Qualcomm Ventures
Manish Singhal
Founding Partner,
Pi Ventures
Saurabh Jain
Founder, Fun2Do Labs
and Ex-VP, Paytm
Himanshu Malik
Head, Technology Commercialisation, AGNIi Mission, Invest India and O/o PSA to GoI
Soumyakanti Ray
Leader,
Global Innovation Centre - P&G
Abhay Hanjura
Founder and CEO,
Licious
Ramakant Sharma
Co-Founder & COO,
Livspace
Manish Chowdhary
Co-founder,
Wow skin science
Reena Sofiya
Sr. Director, Business services, Lowe’s companies, Inc.
Neel Bhatia
General Manager,
Intel India technologies
Anant Arora
Sr. Director, Technology,
Lowe’s companies, Inc.
Karan Mohla
Executive Director,
Chiratae Ventures
Abhay Tandon
Director and Head, Lowe’s Innovation Labs - India
Ross Neumann
Head of Partnerships,
Lowe’s Innovation Labs

Agenda

Main Track
04:30 PM - 04:40 PM
Opening Notes | Lowe's Leadership
Ankur Mittal - SVP Technology & MD India, Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
Amaresh Siva - SVP, Innovation, Data & Supply Chain technology, Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Cheryl Friedman - VP, Innovation, Lowe's Companies, Inc
04:40 PM - 04:45 PM
Opening Note | Lowe's Innovation Labs - Bangalore 2020
Abhay Tandon - Director and Head, Lowe’s Innovation Labs - India
04:45 PM - 05:15 PM
Startup Demos | Session 1
Stylumia
Stylumia, a Bangalore-based startup focused on providing product insights through its AI-powered consumer-driven, demand-sensing engine for seen and unseen products.
Nanospan
Nanospan, a Hyderabad-based start-up focused on nanotechnology, producing graphene and nanocomposites with applications in building the next-gen homes, defence tech and energy storage.
Infilect
Infilect, a Bangalore-based startup with strong computer vision capabilities and AI platforms, helping brands and retailers in measuring, monitoring and improving retail processes such as product distribution, placement and sales.
Rephrase.ai
Rephrase.ai, a Bangalore-based startup focused on building generative AI tools to make professional automated human-like videos with applications involving Hyperreal AI.
05:15 PM - 06:45 PM
Stellar panel discussions on the customer of the future on track one and two
07:00 PM - 07:25 PM
Startup Demos | Session 2
Headway.ai
Headway.ai, a Bangalore-based HR Tech startup blending AI & behavioural science to power enterprise talent acquisition, talent management and development with analytics & smart-bots to deliver big bang talent outcomes.
StoryXpress
StoryXpress, a Delhi NCR-based startup with an end-to-end video marketing platform that enables brands and retailers to convert their e-commerce product catalogues into videos at a fraction of the standard time and cost.
Discover Dollar
Discover Dollar, a Bangalore-based startup helps Fortune 500 companies identify and recover leakages in procurement and payment processes by analyzing email negotiations, contracts and payment data using AI.
Siddhi.ai
Siddhi.ai, a Bangalore-based startup focused on using AI to craft actionable insights from the vast, unstructured resources of the open web to help lifestyle brands and retailers personalise product decisions.
07:25 PM - 07:55 PM
Fireside Chat with Sanjeev Bhikchandani
Sanjeev Bhikchandani - Co-founder, Info Edge
Abhay Tandon - Director and Head, Lowe’s Innovation Labs - India
07:55 PM - 08:00 PM
Closing Remarks
Abhay Tandon - Director and Head, Lowe’s Innovation Labs - India
Track 1
05:15 PM - 06:00 PM
GCC Playbook: Capabilities and Customers
Sarv Saravana – VP, Microsoft
Sheenam Ohrie – VP, Dell
Ankur Mittal, SVP Technology & MD, Lowe’s India
Panel chair: Reena Sofiya, Sr. Director – Business services
06:00 PM - 06:45 PM
VC Panel: Disruptive Funding
Manish Singhal – Managing Partner, Pi Ventures
Swapna Gupta - Director, Qualcomm ventures India
Karan Mohla -  Executive Director, Chiratae Ventures
William Bao Bean, Managing Partner, SOSV
Panel chair: Ross Neumann, Head of partnerships – LIL
Track 2
05:15 PM - 06:00 PM
The Indian Founder story: Building for new customers
Ramakant Sharma, Livspace
Abhay Hanjura, Licious
Manish Chaudhary – Co-founder, Wow cosmetics
Panel chair: Abhay Tandon, Director & Head, Lowe’s Innovation Labs - India
06:00 PM - 06:45 PM
Innovation Panel: Re-imagining the customer
Saurabh Jain, Founder, Fun2Do Labs and ex-VP, Paytm
Himanshu Malik, Head, Technology Commercialisation, AGNIi Mission, Invest India & O/o PSA to GoI
Soumyakanti Ray -  Leader, Global Innovation Centre - P&G
Neel Bhatia, GM, Intel India technologies
Panel chair: Anant Arora, Sr. Director - Technology

Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 20 million customers a week in the United States and Canada. With fiscal year 2020 sales of nearly $90 billion, Lowe’s and its related businesses operate or service more than 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ over 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Lowe’s Innovation Labs

Lowe’s Innovation Labs is the innovation hub for Lowe’s with operations in Kirkland, Washington; Mooresville, North Carolina; Bangalore, India; NYC, New York; San Francisco, California. The Labs’ expertise and partnerships in augmented and virtual reality, robotics, computer vision, blockchain and other new technologies enable Lowe’s to solve everyday customer and associate challenges in entirely new ways. The Labs explores how emerging technologies can advance home improvement; rapidly prototypes solutions and puts them to the test in real-world, living labs; and scales solutions that drive value for Lowe’s customers and associates. For more information, visit lowes.co.in/lowes-innovation-labs-bangalore

Lowe’s India

Lowe’s India, the Bengaluru-based retail technology, analytics and business operations center for Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW). With over 3000+ associates, Lowe’s India focuses on technology, analytics and shared services. For more information, visit Lowe’s India on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

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