73% of sellers are still exploring AI, and an industry event wants to close the gap

The widest gap in e-commerce today is not product selection or ad spend, say the organizers of an April conference in Nashville. It is the gap between sellers who merely talk about AI and those who genuinely use it to run their business, with 73 percent of sellers still in the exploring phase.

The event, running April 8 to 12 at the Grand Hyatt Nashville, promises four days spent on the implementation side of that line alongside more than 200 operators who have already made the bet.

The 41-speaker lineup spans the full range of marketplace expertise: a creator averaging a billion monthly views, a seller doing $21 million a year on TikTok, a PPC specialist who has managed more than $1 billion in ad sales, systems architects behind multiple eight-figure brands, a teenager who reached millionaire status at 17, a former Amazon insider, Google and YouTube ads specialists, AEO and listing optimization experts, and veterans of branding, sourcing, supply chain and exit strategy.