Inside Simbe’s Strategy for Retail Robotics at Scale with SVP Benjamin Bond | FMI 2026

Recorded live at FMI 2026, Omni Talk Retail hosts Anne Mezzenga and Chris Walton wrap up their conference coverage with Benjamin Bond, SVP, Strategy & Client Success at Simbe, from the Simbe booth.In this final interview of the conference, Ben shares how Simbe thinks about long term strategy while working day to day with retailers to ensure value realization at scale. He explains why shelf intelligence succeeds when entire organizations align around the store associate, and how Simbe’s technology helps teams prioritize, act in real time, and run better stores.The conversation goes beyond the robot demo to explore how retailers move from pilot programs to full chain deployments, how CFOs evaluate emerging technology investments, and why shelf data is becoming one of the most foundational datasets in retail. Ben also looks ahead to how Simbe’s platform, AI, and computer vision continue to evolve across grocery and other retail verticals.Key Topics CoveredBen Bond’s role spanning strategy and client success at SimbeEmpowering store associates with real time shelf intelligenceMoving from pilot programs to large scale deploymentsBuilding the business case and ROI for retail roboticsOperating models that drive long term retailer successThe future of computer vision, AI, and multimodal platformsExpanding beyond grocery into additional retail sectorsThis conversation closes out Omni Talk Retail’s live coverage from FMI 2026, recorded at the Simbe booth.#FMI2026 #OmniTalkRetail #Simbe #RetailTechnology #ShelfIntelligence #RetailOperations #StoreExecution #RetailRoboticsThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy