Speaker Bio
Ant Duffin is a Vice President Analyst in the Gartner for Marketing Leaders practice based in the UK specializing, and leading Gartner's research efforts in digital commerce. Ant advises on and provides insights into the complete end-to-end digital commerce customer journey across digital marketing, routes to market, and operational capabilities (People, process, technology, structure). Mr. Duffin works with senior leaders from both B2B and B2C to influence and shape their digital commerce strategies to deliver growth and business change across several industries such as CPG, retail, manufacturing, and financial services. He is also responsible for personalization strategy and technology insights as an author of the Personalization Magic Quadrant research. Ant has over 20 years of global digital experience in senior commercial and technology roles across a range of industries including CPG, retail, and Consulting. In these roles, he led a variety of activities including business strategy development and execution, budgeting, and business change such as organization structures, governance, processes, and talent development.
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Sessions
Monday, 11 May, 2026
12:30 PM - 01:15 PM BST
CMO Circle Ask the Expert: Path to Agentic Commerce: Opportunities and Challenges
Ant Duffin,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Agentic commerce is disrupting digital product discovery and buying journeys. Organizations are anxious about how to react to stay ahead. This session will answer your questions on how to increase product visibility and participate in AI checkout programs, how to optimize product data and adapt commerce technologies, and how to mitigate impact on existing channels and risks on trust and ethics.
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Monday, 11 May, 2026
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST
Path to Agentic Commerce: Unlock New Revenues and Reshape Customer Experience
Ant Duffin,
VP Analyst, Gartner
Agentic commerce is disrupting digital product discovery and buying journeys, and organizations must strategize to stay ahead. This session explains the scope of agentic commerce and offers practical guidance on how to capitalize on this disruption to unlock new revenues and engage customers.
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Tuesday, 12 May, 2026
12:00 PM - 12:20 PM BST
Magic Quadrant for Digital Commerce
Ant Duffin,
VP Analyst, Gartner
This session looks at the latest digital commerce market dynamics and how vendors have moved position from 2025. This session will help organizations understand how to make use of magic quadrant for vendor evaluation and the latest trends impacting their selection.
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Tuesday, 12 May, 2026
02:00 PM - 02:45 PM BST
Ask the Expert: How to Evolve Website UX to Seamlessly Integrate AI
Ant Duffin,
VP Analyst, Gartner
This session will facilitate a discussion with an expert about AI's impact on website UX design and features. Attendees will learn about what to prioritize and how to evolve their website experience to integrate and drive customer adoption.
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