Spotlight: The Host
Saurabh Vijayvergia
US Retail AI Strategy and Engineering Leader and Partner at Deloitte Consulting. In this role, he has delivered several large-scale digital transformation and AI strategy and engineering engagements across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.
Current role
US Retail AI Strategy and Engineering Leader and Partner at Deloitte Consulting
Experience
19+ years in global consulting (Consumer industry)
Focus areas
- Retail AI Strategy & Engg.
- Agentic Commerce
- Gen AI & Agentic AI
Podcast reach
- 9700+ subscribers
- 50+ countries
- 30+ episodes
Host Profile
What to expect
Pragmatic perspectives on how retailers can build and scale AI responsibly — grounded in real constraints, real operating models, and real outcomes.
Publications, Interviews, and Media Converage
A curated set of appearances, interviews, and writing.
Publications
- Agentic Commerce Readiness for Retail and Consumer Products Organizations2026
- 5 Trends Leading the Charge for GenAI adoption in Retail2026
- AI Valuation in the Retail and Consumer Products Industry2026
- The future of luxury goods: AI-powered transformation2026
- Agentic Commerce2025
- AI-sourcing: Digital workers usher in new era for retailers2025
- Data Readiness for GenAI2025
- Generative AI at Scale2025
- Luxury Brands Tap AI to Unlock Growth2025
- From Concept to Consumer2024
- Scaling Generative AI2024
- The AI Dossier (Cross-industry)2024
- Unlocking value with generative AI in retail2024
- Automation with Intelligence2022
- Human with Machines2020
Media & Speaking
- Agentic Commerce at Shoptalk Spring 20262026
- Retail Unwrapped Podcast | The Next Frontier: Agentic Commerce2026
- Retailgentic Podcast | Agentic Commerce2026
- From experiments to enterprise: what's behind the quest to operationalize AI in consumer goods2025
- Retail Reinvented - Powering Change with AI2025
- Titan Award Winner (2025)2025
- Get Data in Good Shape for AI Success2024
- Snowflake Keynote Speaker - Accelerate Manufactuing2024
- Host of several industry leader roundtables across retail and consumer products sector2024–present