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A lot of exiting ideas where presented at Global e-Commerce Summit in Barcelona in May, where new technology has been used to make the shopping experience better for customers in the fashion industry. Technologies with advanced and fast image processing, large touch screens, and VR was presented a nice and considered concept in form of interactive “mirrors”.

VS Live is a travelling conference in a regular basis providing a mix of sessions in web development, most in the Microsoft world, but not exclusively. Some of the sessions are about news and upcoming things, and others how to write code well, and what to have in mind when you as a developer come across problems.

In May I attended e-commerce Stockholm and listened when Pär Svärdsson, CEO, at Apotea, and Anton Jacobsson, CEO at Babyland talked about their recipe to success. We have written about the crucial final mile, before, they talk about transport approach with bouncy steps.

Last month, I wrote about when we attended Sitecore Symposium 2014 in Barcelona in September. Here are a few more reflections that we brought home from the event. We should stop making assumptions about content, and test more. How gamification can be positive for customer loyalty and engagement. And for those who have a need to manage and analyse external web sites as it was an ordinary Sitecore site at the same place, FXM will be fully integrated in Sitecore 8.

Barcelona is a city that always fascinates. The design is present both in the buildings and the clothes. At Global e-Commerce Summit in June, Spanish fashion brands Adolfo Dominquez and Desigual shared some of their strategies to sell fashion online that helped them be successful. They are bold when it comes to e-commerce, and have succeeded.