| DAY 1 - DECEMBER 2, 2011 |
| 10:00 - 11:30 |
Session 1 – Inaugural Session:
Session Highlights
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| 11:30 - 11:45 |
Tea |
| 11:45 - 12:45 |
Session 2: Government's Initiative
Focus Area
- FDI in multi-brand Retail
- Ensuring small retailers security
- Goods & Service tax
- India as a sourcing hub
- Dr Arpita Mukherjee, Professor, ICRIER
- Akash Gupt, Executive Director, Tax & Regulatory Services, PwC India
- Asitava Sen, Senior Director & Head, Food & Agri Business Research & Advisory, India, Rabobank
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| 12:45 - 13:30 |
Session 3: Planning for the competitive markets
Focus Area
- Research Involved
- Fixing the Pricing Points
- Positioning & Branding
- Promotions
- Harminder Sahni, Founder and Managing Director, Wazir Advisor
- Niyat Parekh, CEO, Gitanjali Brands
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| 13:30 - 14:15 |
Session 4: E-retail defines new age retail
Focus Area
- Exploring the e-retail opportunities
- Its reach beyond metros
- Building up customers’ trust
- Challenges
- Shailen Amin, Co- Founder & CEO, Bestylish
- Sundeep Malhotra, Founder and CEO, Home shop 18
- Kashyap Vadapalli,Director-Category Management & Emerging Markets, ebay India
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| 14:15 - 15:15 |
Lunch |
| 15:15 - 16:00 |
Session 5: The Latest Trends in Marketing
Focus Area
- Surveying the catchment area
- Right combination of ATL & BTL
- Enhancing customer engagement
- Digital Marketing
- Mukund Mohan, CEO, Jivity
- Viraj Malik, MD & CEO, Percept Knorigin
- Rakesh Yadav, Head AGL India, Ad global 360-agl
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| 16:00 - 16:45 |
Session 6: Loyalty Program
Focus Area
- Its functions
- Retaining customers
- CRM through loyalty program
- Girish Khare, CMO, RewardPort
- Aneesh Reddy, Co-founder & CEO, Capillary Technologies
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| 16:45 - 17:00 |
Tea |
| 17:00 - 17:45 |
Session 7: Mall: The ultimate retail destination: the science of management & leasing
Focus Areas
- Selection criteria for the right mall
- How effective management can increase sales
- The criteria for mall leasing
- Sanjay Prabhu, Chief Managing Officer, Beyond Squarefeet Mall Management Pvt.Ltd.
- Abhishek Bansal, Executive Director, Pacific Development Corporation Limited
- Ananta Singh Raghuvanshi, Director, DLF India Ltd
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| Day 2 - DECEMBER 3, 2011 |
| 10:00 - 11:00 |
Session 1: Realising the efficacy of IT in business operations (Main Hall)
Focus Area
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Large Data Storage
- Cloud Computing
- Solutions for Small and mid-sized retailers
- Nitin Kaushal, Regional Director, SAP
- Puneet Kumar Bhatia, Director-Internet Business Group, Cisco Systems
- Siju Narayan, Retail Industry Lead, Microsoft India
- Anshu Dubey, VP- Retail Sector, Global Business Service, IBM India/SA
- Rahul Dravid, Global Consulting Practice- Retail & CPG, Tata Consultancy Services
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| 11:00 - 11:15 |
Tea |
| 11:15 - 12:00 |
Session 2: Understanding consumers' preference
Focus Area
- Making the services special
- The groundwork involved
- The brand communications
- Devangshu Dutta, Chief Executive, Third Eyesight
- Asim Dalal, MD, The Bombay Store
- DK Jairath, COO & Business Head, Hindware Home Retail Pvt Ltd.
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| 12:00 - 12:45 |
Session 3: New age store designing
Focus Area
- Effective space management
- In-store communications
- Conveying brand philosophy
- Green design & power saving technology
- Jo Pennycuick, Founder & Chairperson, Redesign Group
- Sanjay Agarwal, MD, Future Research Design Company Pvt Ltd
- Ken Nisch, Chairman, JGA
- Huzefa S Merchant, Founder & CEO, Insync Retail Project Management Limited, Director, Safe Group
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| 12:45 - 13:00 |
Session 4: IT in Retail
Session Highlights
The IT applications in retail for the long term benefits, that ensure error free faster operations
- Navin Ladha, CEO, Rance Computers Pvt Ltd
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| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:15 |
Session 5: Expertise Required in CDIT Retail
Session Highlights
- Importance of sales training and product knowledge
- Requirement of experiential environment
- Parveen Sahni, Director-Retail, Canon
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| 14:15 - 15:00 |
Session 6: MBOs vs EBOs in Fashion Retail
Focus Area
- Strategy for distribution: MBOs or EBOs – when & why?
- Fashion retail is all set to capitalize on its wider scope. Besides core merchandise, fashion retailers are utilizing their expertise for product expansion.
- Anupam Bansal, Director, Liberty
- Deepak Deshpande, Vice President-Retail, Tata International Ltd
- Kiran Kothekar, Founding Director, Vector Consulting Group
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| 15:00 - 15:45 |
Session 7: Lean Supply Chain Management
Focus Area
- Monitoring Shrinkage
- Maintaining mean stock level
- Effective Supply Chain-leveraging Theory of Constraints
- Overcoming challenges
- Prasun Chowdhury, CEO, Avenir
- Jasjit Sethi, CEO, TCI Supply Chain Solutions
- Pyush Lohia, Director, Lohia Warehouse
- Vineet Kanaujia, General Manager, Safe Xpress
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| 15:45 - 16:00 |
Session 8: Raising a ton: the Hard Truth of Raising Finance
Session Highlights
- Debt financing
- Angel Loans Vs Preferred Loans
- Growth Finance and experience
- Equity Financing
- Credit Rating
- Session Leader: Padmaja Ruparel, President, Indian Angel Network
- Anand Lunia, Executive Director, Seedfund
- Imran Jafar, Managing partner, Gaja Capital
- Rob Rider, Partner, Bradford Licensing LLC
- A K Goyal, General Manager, IDBI Bank
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| 16:00 - 16:45 |
Keynotes:
Focus Area
- Entrepreneurship the road ahead
- Marketing : How & How Much
- Satya Narayanan, Chairman, Career Launcher
- Mahesh Murthy, Founder & CEO, Pinstorm
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| 16:45 - 17:45 |
Session 9: Handling a fast moving Business: Slow Down and Speed up
Focus Area
Keynote:
- Measuring your Business performance
- Why focusing on core business helps
- Managing your finances & Risks: Juggling Growth with consolidation
- Marketing : How & How Much
- National is the sum of many locals and Balancing being a national /International Brand whilst also presenting a relevant local offer in each community is the key to meet the needs of the 'globally connected consumer'.
- Session Moderator: Shreyasi Singh. Managing Editor, Inc. India, 9 DOT 9 Media,
- Jagdeep Chhabra, Chairman and Managing Director, Chhabra555
- Sandeep Ahuja, MD, VLCC
- C K Kumaravel, MD, Naturals Beauty Saloon, India Ltd.
- Mahesh Murthy, Founder & CEO, Pinstorm
- Ritu Kumar, Founder Ritu Kumar
- Mr. Harish Bahl, Founder, Fashion and You
- Pradeep Hirani Managing Director, Kimaya Fashions Pvt. Ltd
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