"New Role of the Store in new age retailing"

Keynote Speaker

Bijou Kurien

Member Strategy Board - L Capital Asia, Chairman Managing Committee In-Store Asia 2016

Bijou has been associated with marquee brands in the fast moving consumer products, consumer durables and retail industry in India for over 32 years. His association with the development of Indian retail is over 25 years. After earning his spurs at Hindustan Unilever Ltd., he joined the founding team at Titan Industries, where he helped build powerful brands in the Watch and Jewellery..

"Building a perfect shopping experience for new age expectations”

Keynote Speaker

Venu Nair

Managing Director-Marks & Spencer Reliance India

Venu Nair is Managing Director for Marks & Spencer Reliance India, responsible for M&S’s 56 stores and online presence in India. His role includes bringing the best of M&S to customers across India offering high quality, stylish and innovative clothing with high levels of customer service...

“Against all odds - Trend busting Shopper Marketing Strategies”

Michelle Adams

Founder, Marketing Brainology

Michelle Adams is founder of Marketing Brainology, a consulting practice focused on translating consumer and shopper insights to marketing and corporate America. She speaks globally on in-store decision-making, merchandising best practices, and shopper marketing & key shopper trends. She helps unlock the mystery of human emotion & how it impacts brands & retailers...

“How Shoppers Make Decisions: The Truth About Their Behaviors”

Christopher Brace

Founder and CEO, Syntegrate Consulting

Christopher founded Shopper Intelligence in 2006 based on his 360-degree view of the challenges today’s marketers face. He has held management positions in Shopper Marketing, Brand Management, traditional advertising and promotions on both the client and agency sides...

‘The New Age India Retail - Executive Health Check Report’

Kumar Rajagopalan

Chief Executive Officer, Retailers Association of India

Kumar Rajagopalan is the CEO of Retailers Association of India (RAI). In his current role at RAI, Kumar focuses on creating a positive business environment for modern retail in India. Over the recent years, Kumar has represented RAI as the voice for retailing in India and works with all levels of...

"The changing experience expectations of the New Age Indian consumer"

Sreyoshi Maitra

Director - shopper Practise, Nielsen, India

14 years of experience across FMCG and Media (across agency and the client organisation). Partnered clients across research domains – innovation, brand health and equity, communication effectiveness, consumer dynamics, shopper, retail measurement. Almost 6 years in Nielsen, led both Consumer Research and Trade research teams before leading premier accounts as...

"Design Thinking and its impact on retail brand valuation and profitability”

Dominic Twyford

Client Services Director, FITCH South Asia

Dominic began his career working in the advertising industry, working with McCann Erickson in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Looking for a more strategic and long-term approach to brand building, he then moved to the branding and the design space. Dominic’s current role at FITCH involves understanding the commercial and brand challenges of clients businesses, and ensuring...

"Global New Age Trends in Consumers' Retail Experience Expectations and Retail Environments"

Michale Gerling

CEO, EHI Retail Institute, Germany

Michael Gerling comes with over 33 years of rich diverse experience as an expert in the international retail and wholesale business having built commendable repertoire and personal network in that domain. Michael shares his views on the industry through...

“The Art of delivering Lifestyle Shopping UX in new age phy-gital Environments”

James Breaks

Associate Director - Design, rpa:group, London

I have dedicated nearly two decades working with our management team in developing rpa:group into the successful, creative and innovative consultancy it is today. My personal skills have grown exponentially with the company thanks to a creative architectural education...

Moderator

Surender Gnanaolivu

Sr Consultant Retail Experience & Consulting Editor VM&RD

Surender has over decades of experience in the Indian Retail Industry in Brand Activation, Strategic Retail Planning, Retail Marketing, Store Planning, Store Design, Visual Merchandising, and Store Roll-Out management, Writing, Training and Teaching...

Sudhir Soundalgekar

Director Projects, Raymonds

An Architect from Academy of Architecture, Mumbai and MBA in Project Management having 29 years of experience in Industry, with Commercial, Departmental Stores, Residential, Pharmaceutical Factory Projects in his portfolio. Currently working for a reputed brand Raymond...

Sasikumar Ramaswamy

Sr VP Store Design and Projects, Landmark Group

Sasikumar Ramaswami, Heading Group-Projects & Store Design for Landmark Group, India a gold medalist & rank holder in Architecture-B.Arch and Masters in Business Administration-MBA. 1. What is your current designation and responsibilities you manage? " Senior Vice President- Group- Store Design & Projects"...

Vishal Kapoor

Chief Design Officer - Future Group India Ltd.

Vishal Kapoor is the Chief Design Officer for Future Group, where he leads the organizational design and build portfolio across multiple business formats .He passionately pursues new ways in which design thinking and management can enhance the strategic, functional and operational domains of the organizational working. In addition he also leads the fashion business as a Concept...

"Breaking the myths of sustainbility in creating Retail Environments”.

Smita Gupta

Director of India Operations, Gensler

Smita offers a highly valued combination of experience in strategic planning, workplace design and building architecture. By working closely with clients and designers to integrate project goals through the design and documentation process, Smita has developed a holistic approach...

Building an Omni-Channel Brand" - The Lenskart story

Peyush Bansal

Founder & CEO- Lenskart

Peyush Bansal is the CEO and Founder at Lenskart. A veteran in the e-commerce space with close to nine years of work experience, Peyush founded Lenskart in the year 2010. Lenskart envisions to solve India’s eye care problem and redefine the complex eyewear category with a hybrid model...

“Decoding new age shoppers in growing Tier 2 and 3 Cities in India”

Sankalp Potbhare

Head: Sales Development & Strategy, Reckitt Benckiser India

Sankalp has a working experience of over 12 years across multiple categories and organizations like Reckitt Benckiser, PepsiCo and Tata’s. Currently working as Head of Sales Development and GTM Strategy at Reckitt Benckiser, he has worked across roles ranging from marketing where he...

Moderator

Rahul Saigal

Group Chief Operating Officer of the Geometry Global Encompass Network

Rahul Saigal is the Group Chief Operating Officer of the Geometry Global Encompass Network. In addition to his role as COO, Rahul also leads shopper marketing at GG; this is a practice he set up for the firm in 2008. Rahul has spent the last 15 years specialising in non-advertising...

Alok Agarwal

Head - Marketing Excellence, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Ltd

Expertise in building Brand Differentiation & P&Ls by developing new products, creating brand campaigns using off-line & online media. As a category head in Asia Pacific, had a rich experience in consumer research, packaging development, communication development. Sara lee Asia-Pacific (Regional Mktg Manager) ...

Prasenjit Ray

Founder & CEO, In-store Consulting Services

Prasenjit is perhaps the most prolific shopper researcher in the country who has personally worked in more than 300 shopper research projects, across a plethora of FMCG categories and brands in India and the APAC region. He founded Instore Consulting, a specialized....

“EuroShop 2017: Seven Dimensions of Success. How the No1 Retail Trade Fair reinvents itself and charts out New Courses for the Future.”

Michael Degen

Executive Director, Messe Düsseldorf

Michael Degen, born in 1963, completed his business administration studies with an MBA. He began his career in the trade show business in 1992 at Messe Berlin, where he worked in various functions in Marketing until 1994. Starting in 1994, he was responsible for international trade fairs as....

V M Challenge - A Window Display Competition at Expo Floor

Anchor

Balaji Natarajan

Creative head - Visual Merchandising, Graphic and Store design, Titan company Ltd.

Balaji Natarajan is presently the Creative head of Visual Merchandising, Graphic and Store design for the jewellery division of Titan company ltd. This includes Tanishq , Goldplus, Mia and Zoya brands. He has been associated with the Tanishq Brand for the last 15 years while the other...