And now for something completely different.

(No, this isn’t our version of Monty Python’s flying circus but rather, another concoction out of China’s fascinating retail innovation story.)

We’ll be meeting Shanghai’s coolest bartender and I don’t mean that in the colloquial sense, rather in terms of body temperature.

This takes us to Shanghai’s first café-by-day | cocktail-bar by night, operated by a most charming robotic bartender who can also make you a cuppa! We’ll be drinking cocktails (or mocktails) of course and we can meet its creator. Gavin Pathross, former Chief Digital Officer, Yum! China and now Founder & CEO, Ross Digital, the company providing AI and robotics solutions for the F & B industry. Gavin built the store of the future for Pizza Hut in Shanghai using robots, mobile pre-ordering and A.I. He’ll be there to chat to the members about next-gen automation technologies for China’s exciting retail space.