Some say the rise of eCommerce portends the fall of Retail. But both Retail and eCommerce increasingly rely on progressively sophisticated Machine Learning solutions to get better business insights and drive demand. In advance of the Data Science Salon taking place in Seattle on October 17, we asked our speakers to shed some light on how Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are impacting one of America's most disruptive industries – retail and ecommerce. There's no doubt that the landscape is changing quickly, and the next big ideas are being driven by most robust ML deployments. We're definitely seeing the needle move on the business analytics side according to Dhivya Rajprasad, Data Scientist at Levi Strauss & Co. "ML is slowly moving from primarily in the area of technology to retail from inventory forecasts to assortment planning to empower and make business decisions which rely on intuition to becoming more data driven."