The Retail Conference

America Square Conference Centre, 17 Crosswall, London, EC3N 2LB, UK
22nd September 2010
8:00am - 5:00pm

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28th June 2010 - 3rd Workshop Announced...

The 3rd workshop to be announced at The Retail Conference 2010 is lead by K3 and entitled 'Microsoft Dynamics AX for Retail - What you should know...' For full details please see the workshops page.

25th June 2010 - Seminar synopsis - Cutting IT Costs, How to Really Cut Cost and Maintain Capability

Ian Woosey, Group IT and e-Commerce Director at Carpetright has confirmed his seminar synopsis. His talk will be entitled 'Cutting IT Costs, How to Really Cut Cost and Maintain Capability' and full details can be found on the seminars page.

23rd June 2010 - Seminar synopsis - Why even brands need to become Known, Liked and Followed in the new online social world

Thomas Power, chairman of Ecademy has confirmed his seminar synopsis. His talk will be entitled 'Why even brands need to become Known, Liked and Followed in the new online social world' and full details can be found on the seminars page.

22nd June 2010 - Seminar synopsis - The Change Imperative - Embedding Transformation

Andy Parkinson from BrightHouse has confirmed his seminar synopsis. His talk will be entitled 'The Change Imperative - Embedding Transformation' and full details can be found on the seminars page.

18th June 2010 - Second Workshop Announced...

The second workshop, presented by CitySprint, is entitled I WANT IT NOW! Why Retail SameDay delivery is a critical element for multi-channel success. This session features guests Hilton Eachus, Customer Delivery Manager from ASOS and Tony Carr, Head of Distribution from House of Fraser, who will be happy to answer any questions about their experiences. For all the details about this session please see the workshops page.

15th June 2010 - Hash Ladha, Group Multi-Channel Director at Aurora Fashions announced as a speaker

Hash Ladha, Group Multi-Channel Director at Aurora Fashions has been confirmed as a speaker. Hash joined Aurora from ASOS and has a strong history in retail. For more about Hash please visit the speakers page. Details of his talk will be announced soon.

11th June 2010 - Naomi Paget from T.M.Lewin announced as a speaker

We're delighted to welcome Naomi Paget, Head of Customer Relationship Marketing at T.M.Lewin as both a speaker and a guest on the end of morning panel discussion. Naomi has been responsible for the launch of T.M.Lewin's 'Off the Cuff' community - a social media based forum that enables real customer engagement and interaction. For full details visit her profile on the speakers page or find out about her talk on the seminars page.

4th June 2010 - First Workshop Announced!

The first workshop on our agenda to be announced is presented by CTS Retail and entitled 'The Reality behind Dynamic Retailing: How to leverage SaaS for business systems change with NO Capex!' - full details can be found on the workshops page.

1st June 2010 - Andy Parkinson, Retail Director of BrightHouse, confirmed speaker

We're pleased to welcome back BrightHouse to The Retail Conference 2010. Following in the footsteps of Hamish Paton, Commercial Director, we can welcome Andy Parkinson, Retail Director. Andy's talk will touch on how their involvement with Retail Trust has really been a significant benefit to staff and how BrightHouse has benefitted through being involved with Retail Trust.

26th May 2010 - Andy Lopata and Thomas Power to participate in end of morning panel

We're delighted that our conference chairman, business networking strategist, Andy Lopata AND speaker, Thomas Power, Founder of social network for business people, Ecademy, will BOTH be joining Nick Tadd on the end of morning panel discussion.

21st May 2010 - Panellist: Nick Tadd confirmed

This week we confirmed that leading online social communications expert, Nick Tadd, will be joining the end of morning panel discussion. Nick has vast experience going back the last 8 years in developing online communities for a wide range of brands and businesses. He will make a valuable contribution to what we anticipate to be a very lively panel debate.

17th May 2010 - End of Morning Panel Discussion: Topic Confirmed

This week we confirmed that the end of morning panel discussion topic will be 'How can retailers leverage social media and social networks to engage customers online to earn their loyalty?

10th May 2010 - Breakfast Meeting: Increase your profit through highly automated store replenishment - a case study

This week we welcome conference sponsor RELEX (retail logistics excellence) who will be running one of the breakfast meetings. This session with be a case study with one of their retailer clients focused on how retailers can increase profit through highly automated store replenishment. More details can be found on our 'Breakfast Meetings' page.

6th May 2010 - Breakfast Meeting: Driving Business Growth from aligned cross channel customer strategies

This week we're also delighted to welcome conference sponsor emnos who will be running one of the breakfast meetings focused on how retailers can drive business growth from aligned cross channel customer strategies. More details can be found on our 'Breakfast Meetings' page.

4th May 2010 - Breakfast Meeting: Exploiting the Local Internet Marketing opportunity for Retail Multiples

This week we're delighted to welcome back conference sponsor e-mphasis who will be running one of the breakfast meetings focused on how retail multiples can leverage an opportunity called 'Local Internet Marketing' (LIM) to drive incremental sales through specific top-of-search positioning. More details can be found on our 'Breakfast Meetings' page.

26th April 2010 - Thomas Power, Chairman of Ecademy, to speak

This week we're delighted to welcome Thomas Power, Chairman of Ecademy, as a speaker at The Retail Conference 2010. As one of the globe's leading experts on the use of social media and social networking for business, delegates will have a great opportunity to hear from a real thought-leader on this topic, which is of growing importance to ALL businesses.

1st April 2010 - Tempting, but we resisted...

We were planning to put an April fool's day news item up, but we managed to resist this urge!

26th March 2010 - Andy Lopata: Conference Chairman

For the third year running our well regarded conference chairman, Andy Lopata, returns to keep the day flowing!Andy is one of Europe's leading business networking strategists, an author, speaker and professional conference chairman. We know when we work with Andy that The Retail Conference will run like clockwork. We look forward to working with him once again.

23rd March 2010 - BRC Multi-Channel Retailing Event

The Retail Conference team had a great day out today at British Retail Consortiums Multi-channel retailing conference. As they ran their event at America Square conference centre it was an opportunity for us to find out what it's like to experience their service as a delegate. The good news is it was excellent - facilities, food, space - nothing was wanting. We look forward to holding The Retail Conference 2010 there!

22nd February 2010 - Sainsburys to speak at 2010 event

Today, we can announce that Sue Round, Head of Learning and Development at Sainsburys, will be speaking at The Retail Conference 2010. Sue will be talking about the benefits that Skillsmart Retail, the sector skills council for retail, has brought to the industry as a whole - and in her role she is well placed to comment!

12th February 2010 - ASDA to speak at 2010 event

Today, we are delighted to announce that Clive West, Operations Director - New Business from ASDA will be speaking at The Retail Conference 2010. Clive's talk, entitled 'Maximising Profits Through A Seamless, Engaging Multichannel Customer Experience' will focus on 5 key areas, namely:

Evaluating what today's multichannel customer expects from the retailer
Maximising loyalty through ensuring your offering is synchronised across each channel
Establishing best practices of delivering an engaging multichannel customer experience that maximises profits
Saving money through understanding how to effectively tackle the HR implications of a multichannel strategy
Delivering multichannel ROI through avoiding costly pitfalls made by many multichannel retailers

We're really looking forward to hearing Clive's talk, and think he'll be a great addition to our fantastic speaker line up.

18th January 2010 - CitySprint to sponsor in 2010

Today, having attended the 2009 event, CitySprint confirmed they will be sponsoring The Retail Conference 2010. CitySprint are the UKs leading same-day courier service and provide ASOS with their leading-edge same day delivery proposition. We look forward to working with them over the next year.

9th December 2009 - Charteris to sponsor once again in 2010

Today, we are pleased to welcome back a regular sponsor of The Retail Conference - Charteris - who have been supporting us since 2008. Charteris offer a rare blend of business expertise and technological flair, providing impartial advice and advanced solutions, bridging the gap between business and technology, to deliver true enterprise agility.

12th November 2009 - K3: The Retail People to sponsor in 2010

Today, we are pleased to announce that K3 (The Retail People) will be sponsoring The Retail Conference 2010. K3 deliver multi-channel solutions based on Microsoft technology to retailers, helping them create joined up shopping experiences for their customers, whether they choose to buy on-line, direct or in-store. We look forward to working with K3 in the coming months.

11th November 2009 - Carpetright & Crabtree & Evelyn to speak

Today, we are pleased to announce that both Ian Woosey, Group IT Director of Carpetright and Catie Callendar, Global Chief Operating Office of Crabtree & Evelyn will be taking centre stage and delivering presentations at The Retail Conference 2010. More details about their topics will be published nearer the time.

10th November 2009 - Service Management Group sponsor 2010

Today, having attended the 2009 event, Service Management Group confirmed they will be sponsoring The Retail Conference 2010. Service management group's focus is on providing actionable analysis that improves the customer experience. We look forward to working with them over the nbext year.

28th October 2009 - Retail Trust & Skillsmart Retail

Today Retail Acumen confirmed that both Retail Trust and Skillsmart Retail would benefit from involvement at The Retail Conference 2010 for no charge. In the past years Retail Acumen has donated sponsorship to Retail Trust. For 2010, given the impact on retail employees in the previous year, it was decided that Skillsmart Retail (the sector skills council for retail) should also benefit from a donation of sponsorship.

Together Retail Trust and Skillsmart Retail not only provide all the assistance for those who find themselves out of work (through Retail Trust's rework outplacement programme) but with Skillsmart Retail there are now opportunities to develop the skills base, making staff more effective and more employable should the worst happen.

We look forward to working with Retail Trust once again and welcoming Skillsmart Retail onboard this year.

27th October 2009 - Emnos to Sponsor 2010

Emnos first attended The Retail Conference in 2009 and today decided to join us as a sponsor for the 2010 event. We look forward to working with Emnos, whose mission is to deliver customer-centric growth, throughout the coming year.

22nd October 2009 - CTS Retail to Sponsor 2010

We're delighted to welcome back CTS Retail once again as sponsors for The Retail Conference 2010. At 2009 they launched their phenomenal product - Cervello - which is complete EPOS solution offered on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model - meaning retailers can have the best in class solution without upfront captial costs. We look forward to hearing about CTS Retail's progress over the past year when they join us once again.

15th October 2009 - New Venue Announced for 2010 Event

We're pleased to announce that The Retail Conference 2010 will be taking place at America Square Conference centre in The City of London.

The winner of the Sustainable Tourism Award at the Visit London Awards, Cavendish Conference Venues will no doubt provide a top notch experience.

Still part of the group that operates Cavendish Conference Centre (which has been our home for the past 2 years) America Square will enable us to provide a greater choice of workshops / break-out groups with greater capacity - adding to delegate comfort and choice and ensuring we really can offer something for everyone.

We're delighted to be able to change to this great venue, with the extra space and facilities it affords without the need to move away from the fantastic service, quality and attention to detail we have come to expect from Cavendish Conference Venues group!

We look forward to seeing you at America Square on 22nd September 2010!

1st October 2009 - Registrations Open for 2010 Event

The Retail Conference 2010 takes place on 22nd September at America Square Conference Centre in the City of London.

Registrations for this event are now open. To register please simply click on 'register now' on the main menu.

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