Magento News Weekly #080: Retail Lessons from Walmart’s CEO, Disney Teaches AI, Interview with Hirokazu Nishi, and Tutorials for Your Magento Troubles!

We always welcome weekends with open arms. But before we can sport our party hats and silence the alarms, let’s get an up to date with this week’s Magento happenings! You can learn a lot from experienced people about retail and how to take advantage of the upcoming retail season. So how about retail lessons from none other than the CEO and President of Walmart? Learn from him, and you can surely do much better. Similarly, since ecommerce is turning towards artificial intelligence for its future, it’s important that you are up to date about it as well. And what better company than Disney to teach you all about AI? They know a thing or two about it, so go ahead and see what you can learn from them! Jenna Fallon is the Ecommerce director of Yakima and it’s her dream job. She builds insanely great customer experiences at Yakima, and you can read all about her and how she manages everything. Here are the 3 most important reasons why you should submit a speaker proposal for Imagine 2018. Make sure you get to talk about your ecommerce journey and how your experience can help others out as well. Here are your Interviews of the week: Interview with Hirokazu Nishi by Syed Muneeb Ul Hasan Interview with Co-Founders Of MageBay by Fayyaz Khattak And here are your articles and tutorials for the week: When Did You First Use Magento? by The Magento Marketing Team Magento Open Source 2.2.0 Released by Sunyyan Junaid Here’s How You Can Create A Custom Widget In Magento 2 by Fayyaz Khattak 20 Best Free Extensions for Magento 2 by Anastasia Detinkina Proper Magento 2 Composer Setup by Juan Alonso Popular Marketing Tools For Your Magento Store: E-commerce Stack By Gorgias by Syed Muneeb Ul Hasan Magento 2: Optimizing Site Performance by Bruce Vissing And that’s all you need for this week. See you all back in this space next week!