The Supernova Theatre is the beating heart of CustomerX.
Supernova is where CustomerX brings the new market into view. Built around customer contexts rather than sectors, it explores the moments in which customers now discover, decide, buy and belong across multiple categories at once.
Through collaborative keynotes featuring three to five leaders, Supernova shows how businesses from different sectors meet the same customer in the same moment, and how they can copy, collaborate and compete to win a greater share of disposable income and discretionary spend.
The "Threenote" Format
We’ve reinvented the keynote for a new era of collaboration...Think of it as the Graham Norton Commerce Couch.
We bring together three industry rockstars from different sectors for an unscripted, high-energy conversation. Sitting on one couch, they move beyond the "what" of their business to the "how" of our collective future.
The focus is simple: Connection, Collaboration, and Customer Attention
To understand the Supernova Theatre, you have to look at the Collisions - where paths meet around the customer.
- The Couch: Vevo + Just Eat + TikTok
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The Collision: When a customer sits down to stream, they aren't just a "viewer." They are a diner and a consumer. This session explores how media platforms can trigger hospitality transactions and FMCG purchases in a single, seamless flow, maximising the value of that "Friday Night" window.
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The Couch: Pernod Ricard + TripAdvisor + ACCOR
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The Collision: An airport is no longer just somewhere you pass through; it is a compressed commerce ecosystem where travel, hospitality, retail, loyalty and digital platforms compete for the same passenger in the same window of time. This Threenote explores who owns that customer moment, how shared identity can connect fragmented experiences, and how businesses can turn dwell time into spend without adding friction.
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The Couch: Unilever + DAZN + SailGP + Uber Eats
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The Collision: Fandom no longer starts and ends with the match. It stretches across content, gaming, food, retail and lifestyle, creating an always-on commercial relationship. This session explores how brands can connect fan identity across sectors and turn moments of passion into year-round attention, loyalty and spend.
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The Couch: Oura + Boots UK + WHOOP
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The Collision: The dawn of "Bio-Commerce". These leaders discuss how biometrics are reshaping decisions across food, travel, retail, insurance and wellness - and where the opportunity to personalise, prevent and predict collides with the customer’s expectations around trust, consent and value.

Why These Sessions Matter
The Supernova Theatre teaches you to master two essential skills:
- Maximise Total Economic Value: Learn to collaborate across sectors to extract the most value from the customer's finite wallet and attention.
- Capture Share of Life: Understand how to fit into the story of your customer's habits and aspirations, rather than just competing for a single transaction.
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We have moved past the era of separate industries competing for the same transaction; we are now in the Post-Channel Era, where focus converges entirely on the customer’s life, not just the touchpoint.
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A 400-capacity space dedicated to the how. We move past the polished highlight reels to focus on implementation stories that admit the mess—the projects that succeeded because of, or despite, significant obstacles.
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Designed for leaders who need to bridge the gap between high-level strategy and technical delivery. We strip away the vendor jargon and replace it with practical methods, patterns, and tools you can actually use.
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The Executive Briefs are our "vetted" spaces for decision-grade discussion. We move past stage-managed presentations to focus on the strategic trade-offs that determine board-level success.
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Located in themed hubs across the show floor, the Learning Labs are high-impact, vendor-led sessions designed to show you exactly how to solve the friction points in your customer journey.
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This theatre is a high-energy mix of live shopping in action and "under the hood" analysis, showing you exactly how to turn engagement into instant conversion.
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Unscripted conversations with commerce trailblazers. We strip away the slide decks and the corporate script to get to the grit. The bold ideas and insights that are actually moving the needle.
