The Retail Conference

The complete agenda for The Retail Conference 2010 will be published in due course, however the structure of the day is available now. Please see the link on the right to view this in PDF format.

The Retail Conference offers engaging content, delivered by retailers for retailers, enabling you to expand your knowledge and gain insight into what the rest of the market is up to!

The agenda enables registered delegates the opportunity to participate in:

• Your choice of 4 Breakfast Meetings - to get your day off to a great start!
• Your choice of 16 Workshops - interactive sessions giving delegates the opportunity to delve a little deeper into specific topics
• Auditorium Seminars, where you can hear from 8 engaging Seminar Speakers - all guaranteed to be retailers, all delivering insights and real-life case studies from their own experiences
• Two Interactive Panel Discussions - your chance to explore relevant, current issues with the panellists

The flexible agenda ensures you can make best use of your time on the day, take advantage of networking opportunities during the breaks and enables you to take time-out to think about how you would apply the ideas that come up on the day to your business.

Until the detail of the 2010 agenda is published you can download the agenda structure - simply click on the link below.

The Retail Conference 2010 Agenda Structure

Each year there is a main theme that connects all of the event content, keeping it relevant for you, the audience.

In 2007 the theme was intelligent retailing, and in 2008 it was efficient retailing. We explored an efficient shopping experience - easily navigable stores, informed sales people, great product information, available product, well presented on shelf and excellent customer service - to an efficient supply chain - from best sourcing, to product flow, to range, assortment and merchandising decisions. We then reflected on how that ultimately tied back to the efficient shopper experience...

In 2009 the theme was responsive retailing. Given the economic environment in the period running up to and including the event, the fact that the UK and much of the developed world is in recession, asset write-downs, consumer confidence issues, rising levels of redundancies or hours / pay cuts, and the continuing "credit crunch", this theme enabled us to explore how survival, and growth, in a recession was (and is) all about YOUR ability as retailers to respond to the consumer, the economic environment, and ideally to pre-empt it.

With 3 years of history now at The Retail Conference and with each year raising the bar on the last, we have decided on the theme of "Dynamic Retailing" for The Retail Conference 2010... More details coming soon!