The program of the Jubilee 25th Retail Summit was published
Published Retail 10. 12. 2018
Published Retail 10. 12. 2018
Retail Summit 2019 that will take place on February 4 - 6, 2019, has published its detailed program. Its range and quality is a prove of a highly representative meeting of the most important players of the Czech and Slovak market.
The Jubilee 25th Year of this greatest professional and social event for retailers and their suppliers in CEE is dedicated to the topic of Customer Experience. The debate over how to shift from negative or neutral experience to a truly positive one will involve almost 120 of top personalities representing companies literally from A to Z / from Alza to Zebra.
A great line-up of speakers and panellists
In the program of Retail Summit 2019 there are represented all types of players, who are involved in building the future of Czech and Central European market, specifically:
Emphasis on both traditional and very innovative topics
Retail Summit 2019 will deal with a number of subtopics, relevant to the senior and middle management of retail companies and their suppliers of goods and services. In the main plenary and 13 parallel sessions attention will be given to cooperation between producers and retailers, human capital development, optimization of logistics, communication and sales in multichannel environment or implementation of new technologies. Particular accent will be given to the topic of digital transformation that is gaining a very specific outlines and brings a number of positive results.
Retail Summit 2019 will open also a range of new topics that will become crucial in the near future. For example, the issue of a new mega-category "Smart Home", a new perspective on the growth of categories based on delivery experience of consumers, or on a new generation of retail brands. Organizers are also very pleased to succeed in building a highly representative program block dedicated to sustainability.
Basic facts about Retail Summit 2019
The important event. is prepared by Czech Confederation of Commerce and Tourism, University of Economics and Blue Events company. The biggest partnership support was given by the companies TCC, Plzeňský Prazdroj, Mastercard, SAP and Mibcon, followed by other important partners like COOP, Deloitte, Diebold Nixdorf, GfK, GS1, Kofola, Logio, Yieldigo, Nielsen, P3 Parks, Rondo, Seznam, The Boston Consulting Group, Toyota and U & Sluno. The detailed programme and online registration are available at Retail Summit web. Tickets with a discount for a timely registered can be purchased till the end of 2018, certain discounts are also for common registration for corporate teams.
Barbora Krásná, Blue Events
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