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Beach Retreat 2026
Orange County, CA · Sept 29 – Oct 1
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A curated three-day working retreat with retail leaders from some of the most respected brands in the world.
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The Agenda
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Day One
Tuesday, September 29
| 3:00 PM |
Hotel check-in at The Inn at San Juan Capistrano |
| 6:00 PM |
Welcome Dinner Cruise in Newport Beach |
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Day Two
Wednesday, September 30
| 7:30 AM |
Breakfast at the hotel |
9:00 AM
to 12:00 |
Retail Safari at Fashion Island |
| 12:00 PM |
Lunch at JOEY |
| 4:00 PM |
IPORT Welcome + Apple in Retail |
4:30 PM
to 6:30 |
Happy Hour + Sonance Studio & iOS Garage Tour |
| 6:30 PM |
Dinner at IPORT HQ |
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Day Three
Thursday, October 1
| 8:00 AM |
Breakfast at the hotel |
9:00 AM
to 12:00 |
Morning Sessions
· Apple + New Black Technology Discussion
· Operations & AI
· POS & Payments
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12:00 PM
to 1:00 |
Lunch · hosted at the hotel |
1:00 PM
to 3:00 |
Afternoon Sessions
· Streamline Deployment & Frontline Device Management
· RFID
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| 4:30 PM |
Walk to Tecovas · River Street Marketplace |
| 5:00 PM |
Happy Hour at Tecovas · River Street Marketplace |
| 7:00 PM |
Dinner at Heritage BBQ |
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Departure
Friday, October 2
| All Day |
Departures throughout the day based on your flight schedule |
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What You'll Learn
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Retail Safari at Fashion Island
Guided morning walkthrough of one of Southern California's premier open-air retail destinations. Direct observation of how flagship brands merchandise product, run associate workflows on iOS, and orchestrate the in-store experience in the wild.
Takeaway: Benchmark data on how peer brands are running the modern retail floor — from clienteling and POS to fitting-room and check-out.
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Sonance Studio & iOS Garage Tour
A guided tour of two on-site experiences at IPORT HQ:
Sonance Studio — high-performance commercial audio engineered to disappear, trusted across flagship retail worldwide.
iOS Garage — a live retail environment showcasing every partner on the tour, in one working store: POS, payments, RFID, device management, and clienteling systems running side by side on real hardware.
Takeaway: Hands-on evaluation of a curated iOS retail tech stack we could deploy.
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Apple Enterprise Panel Discussion
A direct conversation with Apple's Enterprise team about what's working in retail on iOS right now — and what's coming. Audience Q&A built in.
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Vin South
Apple · Retail Leader
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Takeaway: Roadmap intelligence straight from Apple, plus direct relationships with the enterprise team building the platforms our stores run on.
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Working Sessions
Streamline Deployment & Frontline Device Management
How senior IT leaders are provisioning and managing iOS devices at scale across stores, distribution, and corporate — MDM, hybrid identity, zero trust, passwordless authentication.
Operations & AI
How Zipline is powering store operations — from task management and communications to training and compliance across every location.
POS & Payments
Modern point-of-sale on the store floor — EVA by New Black and IPORT in action — followed by a payments panel discussion.
RFID
A hotel discussion on how RFID is changing inventory accuracy, loss prevention, and the customer moment.
Takeaway: Playbooks and vendor perspectives from senior operators at Kering, LVMH, Crocs, The North Face, Red Wing, and Janie and Jack — on the topics that most directly shape our own store roadmap.
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Who's Speaking
Senior retail operators from some of the most respected brands in the world.
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Vin South
Retail Leader
Apple
Leading the Apple Enterprise Panel — a direct conversation on what's working in retail on iOS right now, and what's coming next.
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Andraya Robinson
Product Manager, Store Operations
Janie and Jack
Ships iOS-first tooling for the retail floor — POS, inventory, and associate workflows for a premium children's retailer.
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Larissa Scott
Vice President, Global Revenue Operations
Red Wing Shoe Co.
Aligns sales, forecasting, and go-to-market across Red Wing's retail and wholesale channels. Presenting the POS session with EVA by New Black + IPORT.
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Joshua Hill
SFO Global Service Manager
Kering
Runs Store Front Office application operations across Gucci, Balenciaga, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, and Alexander McQueen. Panelist on the payments discussion.
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Matt Bethell
Director of Payments Strategy
LVMH
Global payments infrastructure for LVMH's luxury portfolio — Louis Vuitton, Dior, Tiffany & Co., Bulgari. Panelist on the payments discussion.
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Alisha Seguin
Senior Infrastructure Architect
Crocs
15+ years designing enterprise IT foundations across retail, distribution, and corporate. Speaks to modern device management, hybrid identity, and Zero Trust access.
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Brynn Matkoski
Senior Supply Chain Leader
The North Face
Runs supply chain strategy for one of the most iconic outdoor brands in the world — the flow from source to store to customer.
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See you on the coast.
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