Stephanie Tilenius will be a featured speaker at the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE) in June. Her talk will take place on the third day of the conference on June 17, 2009, and is entitled, "The new eBay: What eBay's evolution means to retailers."

Tilenius' address is described as follows: In its more than dozen years of existence, eBay has evolved with the Internet, from providing millions of entrepreneurs an easy way to start a business to enabling established retailers to extend their reach on the Internet. Now, with a change in leadership, eBay is going through further evolution that the company hopes will attract and engage more consumers and boost revenue for eBay sellers. Stephanie Tilenius, one of the eBay executives in charge of transforming the seller and the consumer experience at eBay, will lay out in detail where eBay is heading and how retailers large and small can take advantage of the new eBay.

Todd Lutwak, Senior Director of Seller Development at eBay, will also present on a panel called, "Beyond e-retailing 101: Getting the most out of your third-party platforms" along with Kevin Krim, Vice President of Product & Strategy at Yahoo Small Business and Jack Sheng, CEO & Co-Founder, Eforcity.com. The session will reveal "some of the lesser known but powerful tools that retailers can harness to take their operations to the next level without going to a new system and throwing out the expertise they've acquired along the way."

With eBay canceling its annual June conference this year (the next one is scheduled for August 2010 in Orlando, Florida), this may be some users' only chance to hear these eBay executives speak in person this year.

The keynote speaker at the conference is Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, who will discuss what Overstock is doing to rise above the economic storm and how others can learn from the Overstock experience. Alibris CEO Brian Ellicott will talk about building a brand online.

This is the fifth IRCE conference. Last year it attracted 3,474 paid attendees and 350 exhibitors. This year's theme is "Rising Above - Not Just Surviving - the Economic Storm," and has seven tracks, including one called "Small Retailers: Beating the Big Guys without Breaking the Bank."

http://www.internetretailer.com/IRCE2009