Meetup

Experience the most efficient retail meetings programme to ever exist

Shoptalk’s legendary Meetup programme has made retail history across our global shows. We have facilitated hundreds of thousands of hyper efficient business meetings across the industry with 94% of retailers and consumer brands telling us their networking experience was good or excellent.

Now Meetup comes to Shoptalk Luxe. Only this time—elevated. That’s 20,000+ mutually matched meetings on a stunning private beach at Emirates Palace.

✔ Maximise your time

Meetup takes the guesswork out of networking, by providing you with a sophisticated platform to clearly define your needs and identify the perfect people with whom to meet. The outcome? Months' worth of efficient meetings packed into three productive days.

✔ You’re in control

Say goodbye to speculative connections, and hello to meaningful ones. Both you and the decision makers you want to meet are required to opt-in to any given connection. We then facilitate all your meetings for you delivering hyper efficient introductions for your business.

✔ Proven ROI

Meetup has a proven track record with over 100,000 meetings facilitated by us with 94% of attendees rating their networking experience as good or excellent.

✔ Free with your ticket

Every single ticket to Shoptalk Luxe includes complimentary access to Meetup. Plus tech providers can buy upgraded access to connect with retailer and consumer brand tech buyers.

Why participate in Meetup?

With Meetup, you’ll have access to efficient networking and collaboration across every use case:

✔ Meet new partners and target prospects

✔ Connect with existing clients and peers

✔ Recruit and hire or find a job

✔ Buy, sell and discover products, services and solutions

✔ Uncover the newest and hottest startups

✔ Launch products, make announcements and share news

✔ Participate in media and analyst interviews

✔ Fund startups

✔ Raise capital

✔ Reach out to potential acquirers or acquisition targets

✔ Have another business need? You can do that too.

✔ Meet industry leading media