INDIA RETAIL FORUM 2006
8th & 9th Sep 2006, The Renaissance, Mumbai, India |
Exhibition Timing : 9 am to 7:30 pm (1st Day)and 9 am to 6 pm (2nd Day) |
8th Sep ( Day 1 ) Common for IRF & ICSC India Conference
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Conference Theme : Empowering Indian Retail with Global Best Practices
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| 08:30
onwards Registration & Breakfast
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Walk Through IRF Highlights 2006
Common Inaugural Session IRF & ICSC India |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Welcome Address
Krish Iyer,
MD (India), A S Watson & Co. and Immediate Past Chairman, IRF
Bhaskar Bhat, MD, Titan Industries and Chairman, India Retail Forum |
| 10:30- 11:30 |
World View
Kevin Moss , SVP-Operations, General Growth Properties
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| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Inaugural Address
HH Shri S. M. Krishna, Governor, Maharashtra
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| 11:45 - 12:15 | Tea |
| 12.15 - 13.30 | Keynote Address
Robert Spector of the THE NORDSTROM WAY fame, bestselling author and international speaker on world-class customer service
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| 13:30- 14:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:30 |
Retail as Media - an increasing force in brand plans
Anchor : Anish Trivedi , CMD , Banyan Tree Communications
Panel Discussion
Suhel Seth ,MD Counselage
Hemchandra Javeri, President, Madura Garments
Bijou Kurien, President & Chief Executive - Lifestyle & Luxury, Reliance Retail
Vikram Sakhuja, COO, GroupM South Asia
Jitu Mehta , President, Spencers |
| 15:30- 16:00 |
Changing Spending Pattern of Indian Consumers
V Vaidyanathan , Sr. GM & Country Head - Retail Banking, ICICI Bank |
| 16:00- 16:30 |
Tea
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| 16:30 - 18:00 |
Programmes at The Retail Theater
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| 18:00 hrs onwards |
The Evening of Retail Titans
Inspiring Retail
Shiv Khera, Internationally acclaimed motivator, orator and author of three bestsellers - You Can Win, Living With Honor and Freedom Is Not Free - FOR THE FIRST TIME - to talk on the subject of RETAIL Inspiration with Shoppers' Stop MD & CEO, B S Nagesh
Followed by Retailtainment with Cocktails & Dinner |
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INDIA RETAIL FORUM 2006
DAY 2, 9th Sep 2006, The Renaissance, Mumbai, India
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Exhibition Timing : 9 am to 6 pm |
| Conference Theme : Challenges in Organising Retail |
| 08:30 onwards |
Registration & Breakfast :
Walk Through IRF Highlights 2006 |
09:00 - 09:45
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Economic Need for Retail Metamorphosis
Arvind Singhal , Chairman, Technopak
Ravi Deol * President, Bharti Enterprises (Holdings)
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| 09:45 - 10:15 |
Rapid Retail Q&A with Kishore Biyani , CEO, The Future Group
by Shivnath Thukral , Executive Editor, NDTV Profit
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| 10:15- 11:45 |
Setting a Perfect Stage for Retail Drama
Simon Woodroffe , Founder & Chairman, Yo! Sushi |
| 11.45- 12.15 |
Tea |
| 12:15- 13:15 |
Challenges in Organising Retail
Food, Grocery & FMCG
Anchor : Raghu Pillai , President, Strategy, Reliance Retail
Lead Speaker : Andrew Levermore, CEO, Hypercity
Expert Panel :
Douglas Baillie , Group VP, Unilever South Asia
Damodar Mall , President, Food Business Division
Anand Kripalu , MD, Cadbury India |
| 13:15 - 14:15 |
Lunch |
| 14:15- 15:15 |
Challenges in Organising Retail
Innovative Retail Concepts
Anchor : Luca Ferro , Head, Value Partners India
Giacomo Santucci , Former Chairman & MD Gucci
Expert Panel :
Sumit Ray , Chief Retail Initiatives,Tata Steel (Steel Junction )
Hemath Bothra , Director,
Trust ( Diabetic World )
John Lynch, Director & Chief Taster, Cookie Man
Samir Modi , President, Twenty Four Seven
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| 15:15 - 16:15 |
Challenges in Organising Retail
The People Factor in Retailing
Anchor : Rajendra Aneja, Gr Head, Switz , UAE (Former MD, Unilever Tanzania, Africa Bus.Group )
Dr. Bernd Hallier , President, EuroShop & Executive, European Retail Academy
Expert Panel for Q&A
Bijay Sahoo* , H R Head, Reliance Retail
Sanjay Jog, H R Head, Pantaloon Retail
Dr Tanaya Mishra , H R Head, Shoppers' Stop
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| 16:15 - 17:00 |
Tea |
| 16:30 - 18:00 |
IRF CEO Meet
The Game of Retail 'How Big is Big ?' - A Session India's top Retail CEOS
Conducted by Retail Whiz B S Nagesh & Anish Trivedi |
| 19:30 onwards |
Images Retail Awards |
Sessions and speakers are subject to change
*Confirmation awaited |
Retail Captains for the IRF CEO Meet
(names already appearing in other sessions of IRF and ICSC have not been repeated below)
Adarsh Gupta, COO, Liberty
Ajay Mehra, Planet M
Aloke Banerjee, CEO, Total Home Expressions
Amit Jatia, MD, McDonald's, West India
Anagg Desai, CEO, Damas
Anindya Mukherjee, Sr. VP, Sonodyne International Ltd.
Anoop Sequeira, CEO, Global Franchise Architects (Pizza Corner, Coffee World)
Arun Mahajan, MD, Style Spa, KK Birla Group
Ashish Chordia, CEO, Thanks
Ashish Kapur, MD, Yo! China
Atul Goel, CEO, Fun Republic
B. A. Srinivasa, Director, Viveks
Bhupendra Nagpal, CEO, RSH
Bipin Gurnani,CEO, Piramyd Retail
Biren Vaidya, MD, Rose Group of Companies
C. Gopalakrishnan, MD, Nilgiri's
Chetan Desai, Director Retail, Raymond Shop
Chetan Shah, Country Head, Pepe India
Chitranjan Dar, CEO, ITC (LRBD)
Farah Malik, ED, Metro Shoe
Hemu Ramaiah, CEO, Landmark Ltd.
Inder Dev Singh Musafir, Director, M&B Footwear
Lalit Kumar, CEO, Ebony
Manoj Bhatia, CEO, Inox
MC Kini, CEO - Lifetime Healthcare
Mohit Mohan, COO, EMART (Next)
N P Singh, Dy. Director (Retail), Samsonite South Asia
Nirup Malkani, MD, GBMI
Pankaj Mehra, Sales Director, L'Oreal India
Partha Datta Gupta, CEO, Barista
Rajan Malhotra, Head, Big Bazaar
Rajeev Karwal, President & CEO, Reliance Retail, Consumer Durables
Rajiv Handa, VP & Retail Head, Tata Teleservices
Rajiv Kant Chaturvedi, COO, Retail Marketing, Reliance Industries
Rajiv Mehta, MD, Puma India
Ratan Jalan, CEO, Apollo Health and Lifestyle
Rishab Soni, MD, Sports Station
Sandeep Ahuja, MD & CEO, VLCC
Shumone Chaterjee, MD, Levis India
Subhinder Singh, MD, Reebok India
Sunil V Raheja, COO, Weekender
T S Ashwin, MD, Odyssey
Tan Ngoranga, COO Sathyam Cinemas
Vijay Jain, CEO, Orra
Vijayant Chhabra, ED, Archies
Vinay Nadkarni, CEO, Globus
Virendra Singh, Chairman, NCCF
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Retail Theater
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INDIA RETAIL FORUM 2006
8 th & 9 th Sep 2006, Hanger A, The Renaissance, Mumbai, India |
| Workshops, Presentations & Talk Shows |
| Retail Design, Shopfit & Systems, IT, Security, Logistics & Supply Chain, etc. |
| Anchor : Jayant Kochar |
| 08:30 onwards both days Registration & Breakfast : |
| DAY 1 Agenda 8th Sep 2006 |
| 09:30 - 10:00 |
Walk Through IRF Highlights 2006 |
| 10:00 - 13:30 |
Common Sessions IRF & ICSC India |
| 13:30- 14:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:15 |
How to create differentiation in malls?
Anchor: Kunal Banerji , VP, Marketing & Corporate Communication, Ansal API
Panelists:
Sanjay Sachdeva , VP Marketing, Advance India Projects Ltd
Sonica Malhotra, ED, MBD Group
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| 15:15- 15:45 |
Fearless Retail
Tim Eynon , Director Provogue and CEO Prozone
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| 15:45- 16:15 |
Training Retail Manpower
Dr. Bernd Hallier , President, EuroShop & Executive, European Retail Academy |
| 16:15 - 16:30 |
Tea |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Best Practices in Supply Chain
John Boe , Director, Strategic Supply Chain Optimization, JDA Software Group Inc. |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
e-Retail: The Online & Multi-Channel Opportunity for Retailers
Ms. Kelly Baker , VP Marketing & Corporate Strategy, Novator Systems |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Transforming the Economics of Retailing
Parakh Davé , Sr Director, Solution Strategy, Oracle Retail, Global Business Unit for Asia Pacific/ Japan |
| 18:00 hrs |
Move for The Evening of Retail Titans at the Grand Ball Room |
| DAY 2 Agenda 9th Sep 2006 |
| 08:30 - 09:00 |
Registration & Breakfast |
| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Workshop : Leveraging IT for Mastering Business Dynamic
Tariq Farooqui, Director - Vertical Business Development, for Microsoft Dynamics, Asia Pacific
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Loss Prevention Strategy
Marie-Louise Jacobsen , Sales & Mktg. Director, Tyco Fire & Security |
| 10:30- 11:00 |
Rubal Jain, Safexpress |
| 11:00- 11:30 |
Tea |
| 11:30- 12.00 |
Mark Down Optimization |
| 12:00- 13.00 |
Retail Architecture and Design
Dieter Blocher , Blocher Blocher Partners |
| 13:00- 13:30 |
Presentations & Panel Discussion on Shopfit |
| 13:30 - 14:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30- 15:00 |
Logistics
Vineet Agarwal , ED, TCIL |
| 15:30 - 16:30 |
Raising Maintenance Standards
B P Tyagi, Manmachine |
| 16:00 - 16:30 |
Tea |
| 17:00 - 18:30 |
CEO's debate at IRF conference hall |
| 18:30 |
Move to Intercontinental The Grand, Sahar Road, Mumbai for The Images retail Awards |