Technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI have become foundational to our ability to build innovative experiences and ensure our members can get the items they want, where they want them and when they want them. Sam’s Club’s Scan & Go app is a prime example of how we’re always looking to optimize shopping experiences with AI.

Shop with Friends, a beta feature we developed to make social shopping a little easier, enhances the shopping journey, making it simple for customers to connect with their trusted groups.

Discover tools and techniques to leverage Natural Language Processing (NLP) in marketing.

Walmart’s scientific approach to evaluating marketing campaign effectiveness is centred on the 'causal inference' method.

Explore how Walmart powers a seamless holiday shopping experience for customers

Explore the transformative world of Augmented Reality (AR) and discover insights from our experts on creating seamless real-world experiences with this technology.

Discover how we prioritize trust and confidence through responsible AI practices.

By pooling all forecasting projects into a single hub within the organization, Sam’s Club’s Centralized Forecasting Service (CFS)..

PYMNTS features how our GenAI tool empowers customers and associates.

Explore how we’re leveraging emerging tech to transform shopping experiences.

Data protection plays a pivotal role in today’s data-driven world

Sam’s Club is trailblazing the disruptive innovation for Walmart. In this video our leaders expound on the best practices, latest tech and a member-first approch that we adop

The Hindu featured Suresh Kumar in an article where he shares insights into big disruptions in retail.

Business Standard has recently featured Suresh Kumar and Balu Chaturvedula in an article exploring the future of retail tech.

CXO Today has featured Converge @ Walmart as the right platform for discovering retail technologies that are playing a key role in driving growth, personalization and customer delight.

Walmart's Sparkubate program identifies start-ups to improve online search experience Excerpt: Walmart's Sparkubate internal team identified Noogata to improve the online search experience.

At the ETCIO Annual Conclave, Akhil Vishwanatham spoke about how Walmart nurtures its tech talent.

At the ETCIO Annual Conclave, Akhil Vishwanatham spoke about how Walmart nurtures its tech talent.

Analytics India Magazine featured Walmart Global Tech among the top 3 organizations among the 50 best firms for data scientists to work for in 2023.

Get in-depth insights on some of the pioneering inclusive tech worked on by Walmart Global Tech.

Suresh Kumar, Global CTO and CDO, shares his valuable insights on how our people-led value can leverage new-age technologies to serve our customers, associates and communities.

People Matters featured Prashanti Bodugum in an article where she gives the mantra for women to thrive in the tech industry through constant upskilling and development of new competencies.

Walmart Global Tech recently hosted AI@Walmart to discuss the latest AI trends in the retail sector and how latest technological innovations are catalyzing the retail transformation. 

Analytics India magazine recently featured Balu Chaturvedula, VP of Engineering, Walmart, where he shared valuable insights into our future retail strategy and continued investment in making our supply chains more resilient.

Times of India features Suresh Kumar, Global CTO and CDO, Walmart, on his recent visit to Walmart Global Tech office in Chennai, where he shares his insights into how the centers in India are powering the global retailer.

CXO Today summarises the events at AI at Walmart, exploring how it brings together global technology leaders with insights into AI-led innovations powering the global retailer.

India AI featured AI @ Walmart, a world-class event that leverages the power of AI to transform retail.

The Hindu features Hari Vasudev, SVP - Retail Tech Platforms and Country Head, Walmart Global Tech, in an article exploring how the future of global retail is being powered from India.

The Hindu Business Line explores how Walmart Global Tech is leveraging AI, automation and other cutting-edge technologies to drive innovation and power its global business.

Read about how Walmart's in-house Sparkcubate team identifies budding tech startups to create a transformative experience for customers and associates alike

CXO Today covers AI @ Walmart, featuring speakers and other key details toward exploring the power of AI in retail

Here’s how WGT is leveraging frontier technology to make it easier for sellers to advertise and grow with Walmart Connect

Explore how we create and deploy best-in-class tools to protect our customers, business and associates against cyber threats.

Express Computer features how Walmart is re-imagining digital shopping with insights from Hari Vasudev, SVP - Retail Tech Platforms and Country Head, Walmart Global Tech.

Tech Gig recognizes the role of Women in technology with a snippet from Prashanti Bodugum of Walmart Global Tech. She shares how Walmart is nurturing women leaders. 

CXO today explores how leaders at Walmart are continuously investing in strategies that leverage digital capabilities and education to bridge the gender gap in technology.

Discover the exciting ways we leverage AI to engage with our customers, powering exceptional conversation-based experiences.

Fast Company identifies Walmart as one of the most innovative companies, leveraging technologies like automation, AI, robotics and drones to reshape the retail industry.

Times of India features Aloka Sudhodanan’s insights on building an AI-powered solution for Walmart’s marketplace business. Explore how Aloka and her team’s foray into developing a data science model helps sellers get optimum visibility.

As a forward-thinking organization, Walmart Global Tech in India invests in some time-tested ways to foster a creative culture.

Financial Express explores era-defining opportunities in the retail shopping experience with an interesting perspective from Walmart Global Tech’s Hari Vasudev

Tech Brew explores how Anshu Bharadwaj and her team collaborated over a big-ticket deal with Salesforce to help commercialize Walmart’s tech and position it as a business service.

Forbes explores how Walmart uses blockchain to track the farm-to-store journey of 1,500 food products from 70 suppliers. It delves into Walmart’s experimentation with blockchain-based invoices and their impact on business.

Axios reports Walmart's intent to evolve into a tech giant with concerted efforts going into building robust cybersecurity features that ensure customer trust and safety.

Our associates talk about the in-house technologies Walmart uses for cutting-edge automation at Walmart's fulfillment centers (FC) and distribution centers (DC)

Frank Holland from CNBC discusses Walmart's extensive investments in cybersecurity and automation. Watch how we are bolstering our cybersecurity tech as we continue adding more services for our customers.

INFORMS selects Walmart among one of the six finalists for the annual Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Operations Research, Management Science, and Advanced Analytics. It is the world’s most prestigious award for achievement in the practice of analytics and operations research.

Marketplace discusses Walmart’s collaboration with Salesforce. This partnership will enable retailers and others who run their websites on Salesforce platforms to use Walmart’s fulfillment and delivery technology.

Here is how Walmart Global Tech in India is winning Walmart customers' hearts across the globe with tech advancements powering the supply chain.

In Episode 1 of the Adventures of Tim and Vinod, they share how their teams deliver omni solutions for our members. Also, between the two of them, they shoot a combined 54-over par.

In Episode 2 of the Adventures of Tim and Vinod, they take on holiday shopping at Sam’s Club.

The video offers an overview of our international markets and how we innovate for them. Hear our leaders share insights on building global technologies, tailored services and offerings to suit the needs of our customers across the globe.

How did Walmart Global Tech in India pivot to the evolving supply chain needs during the pandemic? Let's find out.

Delve into how Walmart addressed issues related to its food supply chain with tech solutions rooted in Blockchain technology.

Analyzes the trends in Conversational Commerce and how Walmart pioneers this space through the use of AI-integrated tech.

eWeek recently featured Srinivasan Venkatesan, Executive Vice President, U.S. Omni Tech, Walmart Global Tech, in an article where he discusses automation and how it is driving efficiencies across the organization.

Fast Company features Hari Vasudev, SVP, Retail Platforms Head and Country Head, Walmart Global Tech, as he shares his insight into the top technology and their applications shaping the future of retail.

Fast Company picks Walmart’s ‘Choose My Model’ as one of the 120 Next Big Things in Tech. Choose My Model helps customers make the right choice while shopping for clothes, enabling convenience through technology.

In this interview with SC Media, Rob Duhart Jr., Vice President, Deputy CISO and eCommerce CISO, Walmart elaborates on our security plans across our vast operations. He also talks about Walmart being a champion of trust and security excellence while ensuring the best services for our customers.

VentureBeat, in an article featuring Vinod Bidarkoppa, SVP, Walmart, explores how organizations are leveraging AI-centered applications and powering ML models across applications.

Marketplace: What Makes it the Holy Grail of E-tail

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Technology has proven to be a powerful equalizer for many women today, offering rewarding careers and providing them with intellectual and financial autonomy. At Walmart, we invent in grooming Women in Tech to emerge as leaders and foster a diverse and inclusive workplace.

With an Every Day Low Price and Every Day Low Cost as the bedrock, Walmart’s Marketplace drives cost optimization for the sellers so that they can translate the savings to low prices for Walmart customers.

Apple Podcast, in this episode, features insights from Suresh Kumar, CTO and CDO, Walmart, and Prakhar Mehrotra, VP, ML, Walmart Global Tech, into how AI is enabling the transition of the convenience of e-commerce to physical environments.

The Economist discusses how rapidly artificial intelligence is taking over business functions across industries with real-life use cases on the future of AI-led business environments.

When a member of one of the 600 Sam’s Clubs across the U.S. wants a fresh pumpkin pie to serve this holiday season, Vinod Bidarkoppa, SVP and chief technology officer at Sam’s Club, wants to make sure it’s on the shelf and ready to go.

Cybersecurity Dive features insights from Jason O'Dell, VP, Security Operation, Walmart Global Tech, where he shares how automation is helping Walmart secure about 6 trillion data points annually.

Fast company’s Next Big Things in Tech awards for 2022 were given away to honor innovation in tech. Walmart received the ‘Retail Transformed by Tech’ award recognizing Walmart’s customer centric innovation across two new-age AR integrated apps - Choose My Model and Be Your Own Model.

Forbes features Walmart for radically enhancing its user’s online shopping experience. It shares our year-long efforts in bringing more personalization and our pioneering efforts into virtual queuing.

Yahoo Finance features an interview with Suresh Kumar, CTO and CDO, Walmart, where he dives deeper into the new-age technologies that are transforming retail and empowering our customers.

As shoppers return to stores, Insider is highlighting innovators seeking to give them a reason to get out of the house and aiming to make the in-person experience as effortless as e-commerce. Insider's retail team selected them based on nominations and our reporting on the retail industry.

While Sam’s Club at first glance may seem like a typical warehouse retail membership club, look beyond the pallets of packaged food and tabletops stacked with designer clothing, and you’ll see an operation committed to using technology to improve the experience of customers – or members, as they are called – and its own operations.

Over the past six months, we’ve launched five new augmented reality (AR) shopping experiences across apparel, home and optical. Today, we’re launching our most transformative one to date: Be Your Own Model, our newest virtual try-on experience, which we brought to market in less than a year.

The retailer, which already let customers see clothing on a variety of models, will now show lifelike images of apparel on a specialized selfie.

I’m incredibly proud to announce the launch of qualitative research in Walmart Luminate, as a part of our Customer Perception product. Now, charter members of Walmart Luminate can see the “why” behind the buy, through self-recorded video clips from our Customer Spark Community. This unlocks candid answers from real customers to strengthen product strategies and sharpen concepts, including sentiment analysis; concept testing; product feedback; rebranding; and store experience, to name a few.

Select Walmart suppliers now have access to customer commentary.

Meet Store Assist - Walmart Commerce Technologies’ tech product offered to other businesses.

Walmart Rewards fueled by Ibotta should sweeten pot for advertisers like P&G by collecting more data.

An AR technology called VizPick is letting the company accelerate inventory management in 4,500 U.S stores.

Hear from Carrie Roberts about her cybersecurity career journey.

Walmart is utilizing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) capability and employee expertise to streamline digital product discovery for Spanish-speaking customers.

The talent pipeline and career development in cybersecurity is a complex issue that is vital to the future of our digital world. Jerry Giesler, CISO, leds his voice to the conversation.

The retail giant has rolled out a hybrid cloud platform that it hopes will simplify how software developers consume infrastructure and best-of-breed cloud services.

Walmart is expanding its array of virtual try-on services for shoppers with today’s news that it’s planning to acquire Memomi, an AR optical tech company and current Walmart partner offering a virtual try-on experience for eyewear. Deal terms were not disclosed, but Memomi has enabled digital measurements for all Walmart and Sam’s Club customers since 2019, the retailer said.

We believe the closest store to our customers is in their pocket, and we are focused on making that always-on experience as easy, engaging and personalized as possible. Today, we announced two brand-new augmented reality (AR) features on the Walmart app designed to making shopping easier.

Walmart Cloud Platform

At Collision Toronto 2022, Walmart Global CTO Suresh Kumar spoke about how technology is helping the company deliver on its brand promise. Technology has always been a big part of Walmart’s success. From its early days as a small discount retailer in Arkansas to its current state as a global retail giant, Walmart has always used technology in shopping to improve its operations and provide a better shopping experience for its customers.

Organizations, across industries ranging from healthcare to banking, are in a period of transformation. In a world where increased efficiencies and enhanced experiences go hand in hand, investing in the modernization of technology is crucial to meeting present-day and future demands. Hear a panel of experts discuss how retailers are rising to meet the challenge of new customer expectations, pioneering new business models and turning the new reality to their advantage through automation and digitalization.

From ensuring all customers get the same experience to optimizing shelf space, engineers impact all areas of the grocery business.

At Walmart, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are everywhere. You won’t see it as you walk down the aisles of a Walmart store. You won’t feel it when you pick up a Walmart package from your stoop. And you won’t notice it when you search Walmart’s website for everything from paper towels to toys. But today, AI and ML is embedded throughout the Walmart organization – from supply chain management and shopping to search.

The technology powering next-gen fulfillment centers.

Most public reporting on SocGholish revolves around the usage of fake software updates either through drive-by downloads or through links in email spam. However as we will demonstrate in this report they have the ability to do specific campaigns throughout the year.

Organizations face an urgent need to overhaul their tech architecture and operating model to keep pace with the changing landscape. Five concrete actions can accelerate the transformation journey.

Walmart’s recent announcement it will create a new global tech hub in Toronto is another indicator of both retail’s increasing reliance on technology and the Greater Toronto Area’s growing importance in the sector.

A conversation with Monika, a member of Walmart's Merchandising Data Science Group.

Why Top Companies pay billions so employees can earn degrees

Its expansion could bring more convenience to employees and customers but also more use of people’s data.

Walmart Global Tech, the technology organization within the retail giant, says it will hire 5,000 tech pros in cybersecurity, software engineering, data science, and other specialities in 2022 after growing its numbers by 26% last year.

Walmart’s tech presence should not be ignored: It’s only going to get bigger.

New rewards program introduced for Sam’s Club members.

Omnichannel fulfillment is critical for retailers as they look to leverage their local store footprint to lower their fulfillment costs and manage supply chain challenges while also unlocking experiences like store pickup, last-mile delivery, and returns.

The association is expected to help further empower the teams, collaborate on digital innovation and strengthen the education ecosystem in the country, says Walmart’s global chief technology officer.

Now offering more member convenience and accessibility with EBT

Today, we’re launching a Beta version of the Zeekit technology, starting with the Choose My Model feature. Through this, customers will be able to select from among 50 different models to find one who best reflects their own skin tone, height and body shape to get a better sense of how a clothing item will look on them.

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Automated ‘market fulfillment centers’ extend omnichannel reach

As it dives deeper into store fulfillment, retailer is redesigning tech to support new supply chain model

Walmart’s Last Mile Delivery Strategy

Walmart Global Tech India developed applications to improve customer satisfaction and employee efficiency during the pandemic.

Our security researchers share insights into a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) that appears to primarily focus on individual computers.

The proposed rule could spur adoption of a farm-to-fork food traceability program used by companies including Walmart and Nestlé.

National, chain-wide roll out of Inventory Scan that will be added to fleet of robotic scrubbers in partnership with Brain Corp and Tennant Company.

Transforming the future of retail and commerce takes bold vision, shared mission, dedication to purpose and strong collaboration. That is exactly how Walmart’s Store No8 and Global Tech teams worked together to incubate, design and build new voice and text shopping experiences that will enhance how customers interact with Walmart.

We as technologists and leaders are often motivated by opportunities to transform, to change the world for the better, and to work with some of the best colleagues in the world.

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Open Infrastructure Foundation

Walmart is here to make the shopping process simple and convenient. An innovative customer experience is exactly what we build every day. And while Walmart has offered voice shopping for years, text shopping is just getting warmed up.

Linux Foundation

The impact of sound, resilient and repeatable information security practices are critical to day-to-day business operations and to ensure the security of the Walmart digital ecosystem through seamless integrated trust. Jerry Geisler, CISO, shares InfoSec’s guiding principles.

Customer buying behaviour is going through a tectonic shift.

Walmart Go Local

New tech feature gives members shopping in-club access to direct-to-home shipping.

Walmart will offer several of its own technologies and capabilities to other businesses and brands seeking to better serve customers as they increasingly shop across digital and physical storefronts.

Walmart announces their plans to commercialize some of their tech solutions to other businesses.

Walmart celebrated ten years of enabling buy online and pick up in store (BOPIS) capabilities for our customers.

How a solution to bring the checkout experience to the outdoor Garden Center laid the foundation for global solutions today like curbside checkout, Scan & Go and self-checkout in the U.S., Canada, Japan, U.K. and more.

Smart substitutions

It’s no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic has changed the way we shop, especially when it comes to groceries.

Vizpick Technology

Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit, which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. The company leverages a combination of real-time image processing, computer vision, deep learning and other AI technology to show shoppers how they would look in an item by way of a simulation that takes into account body dimensions, fit, size and even the fabric of the garment itself.

Pop-up Ecommerce Distribution Centers – Preparing us for our holiday event

New mobile pay-at-the-pump solution.