2025 Digital Shelf Summit Spotlight
Explore the most critical takeaways from the 2025 Digital Shelf Summit, including the Salsify Academy Day, Salsify Customer Day, and Digital Shelf Institute (DSI) Day.
Explore our content below to gain the most critical takeaways from the event — and get started on your own digital shelf journey.
Salsify Academy Day
Hands-On Learning and Certifications To Boost Salsify Skills
Salsify Academy Day launched the week with deep-dive training designed to level up customer skills and confidence across the platform. Tailored for both new and experienced Salsify users, this day offered hands-on learning with Salsify experts, practical walkthroughs, and immersive exercises focused on real-world scenarios.
Attendees explored everything from data modeling and governance to product content syndication best practices — all with the goal of mastering the core capabilities needed to win on the digital shelf. Whether earning certifications or refining workflows, participants walked away equipped to drive more value, faster.

Salsify Customer Day
Advanced Strategies and Peer Insights To Accelerate Digital Shelf Success
Salsify Customer Day built on the momentum of Salsify Academy Day with role-based tracks and advanced strategies for digital shelf success. The day featured targeted sessions for ecommerce, IT, marketing, and operations teams, each designed to solve challenges and accelerate business outcomes.
With solution clinics, expert panels, and customer-led success stories, attendees had direct access to the knowledge and community that powers the Salsify ecosystem. It was a day for sharing, learning, and scaling what works.
“Driving your book of business while transforming your processes from the inside is exactly like jazz. Improvisation — built over a ton of structure. Conversation and compromise. You're both artists and mathematicians.”

Peter Crosby, VP of Corporate Communications, Salsify
Get a Taste of the 2025 DSS
DSS content is reserved exclusively for attendees, but we’re making two standout mainstage sessions available to everyone for a limited time. Think of it as a sneak peek into the kind of bold ideas, expert insights, and practical strategies shared at the event.
Making Every Product Experience Matter
Piyush Chaudhari, CEO of Salsify, and Rob Gonzalez, co-founder and chief strategy and innovation officer at Salsify, opened the 2025 Digital Shelf Summit by examining how growth across consumer and customer touch points — including digital, in-store, customer service, marketing, sales, and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven shopping — relies on best-in-class product content. They outlined an expanded mission for the digital shelf, emphasizing personalization by category, retailer, and individual shopper or business-to-business (B2B) buyer.
On the Horizons Salsify Product Vision and Road Map
Julie Marobella, chief product officer at Salsify, and Todd Buffum, director of product management at Salsify, presented the company’s product vision and road map for 2025 and beyond. Building on the context of the opening session, they outlined how Salsify’s upcoming innovations are designed to help brands and retailers capitalize on growth opportunities with greater efficiency. The session combined strategic insights with product details and live demos to show how future investments will support richer, more effective product experiences.
Digital Shelf Institute (DSI) Day
Big Ideas and Expert Perspectives on the Future of Commerce
DSI Day closed out the week with a forward-looking lens on commerce. Hosted by the Digital Shelf Institute, the agenda brought together industry leaders, analysts, and changemakers to explore the future of product experience, consumer behavior, and omnichannel growth.
Keynotes, panels, and fireside chats delivered bold insights and sparked critical conversations — all focused on what’s next for brands competing on the digital shelf. The day inspired attendees to think bigger and lead with innovation in the face of rapid retail evolution.
“We are at an inflection point in our industry where the rules are being rewritten and the way we have been operating will not lead us to success in the next five years. Organizations' existing team structures are built for brick-and-mortar, the way they account for ecommerce sales is muddy and the concept of the category and product discovery is fundamentally changing in the wake of AI [artificial intelligence].”
— Lauren Livak Gilbert, Director, Digital Shelf Institute
Digital Shelf Summit 2025
|
3 minute read
2025 Digital Shelf Summit: Building Omnichannel Growth and Future-Ready Strategies
Read More
Featured
|
5 minute read
2025 Digital Shelf Summit: Big Ideas, Bold Innovation, and a Second Line to the House of Blues
Read More
Digital Shelf Summit 2025
|
5 minute read
2025 Digital Shelf Summit: Lessons From Salsify Academy Day and the Digital Transformer Awards
Read More
Ready for the 2026 Digital Shelf Summit?
Sign up to get early access to the 2026 Digital Shelf Summit event updates, speaker announcements, and exclusive content.
Sign Up