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
Conference Theme : Empowering Indian Retail with Global Best Practices
08:30 onwards   Registration & Breakfast :
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

11:30 - 11:45

Inaugural Address
HH Shri S. M. Krishna, Governor, Maharashtra

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

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
16:30 - 18:00

Programmes at The Retail Theater

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

INDIA RETAIL FORUM 2006
DAY 2, 9th Sep 2006, The Renaissance, Mumbai, India

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

Economic Need for Retail Metamorphosis
Arvind Singhal ,
Chairman, Technopak
Ravi Deol * President, Bharti Enterprises (Holdings)

09:45 - 10:15

Rapid Retail Q&A with Kishore Biyani , CEO, The Future Group
by Shivnath Thukral , Executive Editor, NDTV Profit

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

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

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

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

15:15- 15:45

Fearless Retail
Tim Eynon , Director Provogue and CEO Prozone

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

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