Daniel Bobroff
Co-founder and Investment Director of ASOS Ventures
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About Daniel Bobroff
Daniel is the Founder of Coded Futures, a creative technology advisory firm focused on the future of retail. He is also a Special Advisor at HTEC Group, a global engineering company supporting organisations through large-scale digital and AI-driven transformation. In these roles, Daniel works closely with leaders across retail and technology to explore how innovation can improve customer experience, streamline supply chains and create new growth opportunities.
Earlier in his career, Daniel was the Co-founder and Investment Director of ASOS Ventures, the venture capital arm of global fashion retailer ASOS. There, he focused on identifying and investing in the next generation of retail and fashion technology companies. His work brought him into close contact with pioneering startups developing solutions in AI, digital commerce and retail technology, helping shape one of the most exciting innovation networks in the industry.
Daniel’s career has always been defined by exploring the next wave of technology. He is widely recognised as a pioneer of in-game advertising, helping create what has become a multi-billion-dollar global industry. He founded Microtime, one of the first specialist digital agencies in the sector, before later establishing Deibus Studios, a successful video game development company whose titles sold more than 50 million units across PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo platforms.
Beyond gaming, Daniel has founded, advised and invested in companies working in areas such as virtual reality, visual search, e-commerce and advertising technology. Throughout his career he has focused on how new technologies can transform customer engagement and create more immersive digital experiences.
Today, Daniel speaks widely about the AI-driven future of retail. His talks explore how artificial intelligence is changing marketing, product discovery, supply chains and customer service. He explains how tools such as predictive analytics, automation and hyper-personalisation are already reshaping shopping experiences. He also explores how technologies like immersive commerce and the metaverse may influence the next generation of retail.
Daniel is a highly sought-after international keynote speaker, having delivered talks for more than one hundred global organisations including Google, Facebook, Salesforce and Mastercard. Known for his energetic and insightful presentations, he helps audiences understand complex technologies in simple terms while offering practical strategies for businesses looking to innovate and stay competitive.
As a speaker, Daniel Bobroff brings deep industry knowledge, entrepreneurial experience and a forward-looking perspective on AI and retail innovation. His talks leave audiences with a clearer understanding of the future of commerce and the confidence to embrace technological change.
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Time To Play – Gamifying Retail – We have all played our part in how technology has disrupted the traditional world of retail. But in the shadow of the recent pandemic, technology has emerged as retail’s saviour. And as retailers scramble to accelerate their digital capability, a superpower exists that most know, yet few have mastered. It is the art of Gamification.
This practical keynote provides the latest thinking in how gamification is changing the world of retail, across its entire value chain, and reshaping organisations. Learn how to use simple techniques for your customers today, and leverage gamification as the winning effect for your business, culture and bottom line.
Game Changer – The keynote focuses its learning to the challenges currently faced by retailers. It proposes a detailed roadmap that can be adopted by any CEO or senior executive to ensure that their organisation is best placed to emerge from a period of meteoric change and establish itself as a leading force…a winner…a game changer.
With its motivational tone, the Game Changer keynote is about inspiring change and making tangible progress, in the belief that it is within everyone’s gift to be the game changer.
Is Shopping Fun Anymore – The keynote distills the learnings from thousands of disruptive retail technologies around the world, recent retail initiatives as well as the key learnings from a forerunner and undoubted leader in creating digital experiences, the video game business.
“Is Shopping Fun Anymore?” will challenge your thinking about how and why emotion must be placed at the very core of your digital strategy, whilst providing you with the key tools to make it happen. It will be one of the most important keynotes you will hear this year.
The Retail Power of “We” – The keynote proposes a step by step framework that retailers can either adopt fully or use to gauge their current progress. The system draws upon best practices, both internal and external, seen across thousands of challenger brands versus their incumbent competitors. Noteworthy real-world examples underscore the various teachings and are used throughout. Emerging trends are considered.
With its inspiring tone, “The Retail Power of We” keynote will leave its audience motivated to take action and capitalise upon one of the most exciting periods of change in its history.
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