In a special bonus episode of the Space Bar Podcast, we have an exclusive interview with former Magento Evangelist, Ben Marks on the day he officially announced he had joined German based eCommerce platform Shopware.

We get the inside scoop on his decision to join Shopware and what led to him moving on from Magento after nearly 7 years. We discuss his new role at Shopware and how he hopes to continue on his mission to promote Open Source eCommerce.

We also discuss the importance of eCommerce communities in driving innovation within the digital industry and what the future of eCommerce communities will look like in a SaaS era. Is there still a place for communities to thrive and if so, where do we see these working well?

If you're not sure if SaaS or open source is the way forward, we have an open discussion on where each technology fits in the market.

Also giving their take on these topics are Tom Robertshaw, Innovation Director at Space 48 and Jon Woodall, Managing Director at Space 48.

Presented by Pete Robertshaw, Digital Commerce Consultant at Space 48.

On this special edition episode in honour of International Women’s Day, we’re discussing the subject of pushing for a gender balance in tech. 

It’s no secret that there is a gender imbalance in the industry. We want to know what’s behind this gender imbalance and how can we encourage more women into the industry and the less represented roles?

Our host, Erica is joined by three amazing women in the industry who all have their own experience to discuss what’s behind this gender imbalance and how we see things progressing.

Our guests:

Hosted By: Erica Mackay - Head of people and culture at Space 48

On this week's episode we're unpicking the top eCommerce stories of the past few weeks and discussing what is happening on the high street and what it will look like when we get out of the current lockdown.

We specifically cover:

1. Primark 'refusing' to go online despite suffering a rumoured £1bn loss during the pandemic

2. The Boohoo acquisition of Debenhams

3, ASOS acquiring the Arcadia group brands such as TopShop, TopMan and Miss Selfridge.

To help us dissect these stories, we're joined by industry experts Richard Marshall, the VP of Buying at Sweaty Betty, Gordon Newman, the Go To Market Director at Life Style Sports and also by Paul Casey, Digital Commerce Consultant and Co-Presenter of the Space Bar Podcast.

Presented by Pete Robertshaw, Digital Commerce Consultant at Space 48.

In this week's episode we have an open discussion around the impact we've seen so far of Brexit on both retailers and customers in the UK and in the EU. There's been so many stories coming out in the news over the past few weeks with consumers being hit with large duty and import tax charges, we wanted to get to the bottom of what's going on and how the trade deal is affecting merchants shipping into and out of the UK.

We're joined by our guests Marc O'Donnell who is the eCommerce Manager at luxury country boot manufacturer and retailer, Dubarry of Ireland along with James Hayes, Director of Business Development at Parcelhub, who are a shipment aggregator helping merchants get the lowest rates on their parcel shipments, and Stephen Kenealy, Strategy Director at Space 48 to give his take on the Brexit trade deal and what the world is making of it all.

You'll hear all about how Dubarry have been coping with the changes, the problems they've faced, what they're doing for their customers and how their business strategy is changing to cope with the new rules. You'll also hear some great insight into how the parcel carriers have had to adapt and the issues they're seeing which is leading to huge numbers of returned freight returned back to their source, as well as some great advice for retailers going forward.

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In this week's episode of the Space Bar Podcast, we're joined by Tom Robertshaw, Director of Innovation at Space 48 and Oliver Lees, Head of Data Insight. We review some of the eCommerce news stories from 2020 which you might've missed and we also discuss how 2020 will shape retailer's strategies for 2021. We also make some predictions for what 2021 will bring for retailers and technology developments we're hoping to see, including an insight into Oliver's innovative idea for online clothing returns - it's an episode you do not want to miss!

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Presented by Pete Robertshaw, Digital Commerce Consultant at Space 48

In this episode we are going to talk about how front end development has changed with Dan Davies who is a Commerce Interaction Designer from our CX Team and Peter Hicks who is a Technical Lead in one of our development squads.

We cover a range of topics including:

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In this week's episode, we're discussing the importance of offering a human element to the commerce experience and what that actually means for customers and retailers.

We also discuss common pain points for customers during the commerce journey as well as discussing some great retailers who are really getting this right for their customers.

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Host: Pete Robertshaw, Digital Commerce Consultant at Space 48

Guests: Holli Barrett, Head of CX at Space 48 and Katy Collins, Head of Partnerships at Threekit.

Welcome to the Space Bar. This is the podcast by Space 48 made for the e-commerce community.

The main topics we are going to discuss in this episode are:

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Host: Paul Casey

Guests: Tom Robertshaw and Pete Robertshaw