• Defining smarter store strategies from cloud to the edge: AWS Worldwide Retail Strategist David Dorf described how agile technologies at the edge allow individual stores to synchronize inventory, orders, shipments, payments, and so on “with other stores, warehouses, and the ecommerce site at all times, even when the internet connection goes down.” Smart stores that use modern edge technologies, Dorf said, can maintain “ecommerce-like agility.”