AI x CPG: The New Playbook for Retail Growth
Opener, the leading AI-powered wholesale engine, is hosting a Toronto Tech week event where Canada's cutting edge CPG & AI worlds collide.
Unilever's Global AI lab is our feature keynote, discussing their newly released agentic whitepaper.
Next, several of Canada's hottest emerging CPG brands are on a panel using real life examples of how they are using AI to grow their companies over 100% each year.
The brands winning the next decade of retail aren't waiting for a distributor to make calls on their behalf. They're utilizing AI powered tools and building like it's 2026. Join 200 emerging CPG founders, CPG enterprise leaders, retail buyers, investors, and operators for an evening of hard-won insights, live product tasting, and real talk on how AI is changing the way emerging brands get to market and stay there. This is the room where the next wave of Canadian consumer brands gets built.
Hosted by Opener: CPG's AI powered wholesale growth engine.
IS THIS FOR ME?
This event is for you if you want to know what's actually happening at the intersection of AI and CPG right now.
You'll leave knowing how the CPG industry is using AI right now and what outcomes they produce. What AI tools brands are actually using to grow. And what the next 6 to 12 months looks like for brands who get this right versus brands who don't.
You belong here if you're a CPG founder who needs to move faster. A retail buyer who wants to spot the next wave early. An investor or operator tracking where consumer is actually heading.
If you're still running your retail growth playbook from 2022, this room will change that.
AGENDA
6:00 PM — Doors Open: Brand Mixer Sample products from some of Canada's most exciting emerging CPG brands. Meet founders, buyers, and investors over before the main stage kicks off.
7:00 PM — Introduction from Gilad Rom, Opener's Founder & CEO
7:15 PM — Keynote feature: Unilever's AI Lab: Agentic white paper presentation
8:00 PM — Founder Panel: Canada's hottest CPG brands share real playbooks on how they are leveraging AI
9:00 PM — Event Closes
Toronto Tech Week is a citywide celebration of the people building what’s next. From May 25–29, 2026, founders, investors, and builders come together for hundreds of community-led events across Toronto, connecting tens of thousands of people around Canadian tech. Torontotechweek.com