Tom McElroy | eTail Palm Springs

eTail Palm Springs 2025

February 24 - 27, 2025

JW Marriott Desert Springs, Palm Springs, CA

Tom McElroy

Senior Director, eBusiness Dell Technologies

Tom McElroy is a seasoned digital executive with over three decades of proven success in driving digital transformation and eCommerce strategies for global technology companies, including Dell Technologies, LEXIS-NEXIS and FedEx Supply Chain. In his current role as Senior Director of Search at Dell Technologies, Tom leads the Pan-Dell commerce search team, overseeing search engine optimization and global site search. His teams influence over $3 billion of annual revenue. Tom joined Dell in 1997, departed in 2011 and rejoined in 2019 as part of a strategic initiative to transform and modernize Dell.com. His scope increased in 2021 to include Dell’s B2B online website, Dell Premier. Looking to the future, Tom is leading Dell’s adoption of Generative AI technologies to assist Dell.com customers with complex technology purchase decisions. Tom holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BS in Finance from Miami University (Ohio). He lives in Austin, Texas.


Monday, February 24: The Artificial Intelligence Summit (retailer only)

10:45 AM Keynote Case Study: We Doubled Dell.com Conversion With A Gen AI Product Advisor

Dell began customer testing an AI virtual assistant product advisor in August 2023 and fully launched in April, 2024. Initial results saw improvements of 200%+ and we’ve continued to evolve with technologies like retrieval augmented generation (RAG), more sophisticated models, better user interfaces and robust guardrails and safeguards. Join us for a real-world implementation of AI in eCommerce and discover:

  • Are you ready? Key business and technology considerations to launching an AI product advisor 
  • Keeping AI in the right guardrails and minimizing risk 
  • Measuring AI performance for continuous improvements 
  • What to consider for full site AI implementation

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Tom.

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