Full Agenda | 2008 Supermarket Executive Summit

MONDAY, June 16, 2008 / ARRIVAL DAY
3:00 - 7:00 pm	Registration Open
6:00 - 7:00 pm	Grocery Leadership Cocktail Reception Fourth Annual Grocery Leadership Awards PRESENTERS * Dave Weinand, Publisher, RIS News * Joe Skorupa, Group Editor-in-Chief, RIS News Who will be this year's winners for combining outstanding business achievement with best-in-class IT execution? Winners will be named and honored in the following categories: * Shopper Experience * Merchandise Excellence * Supply Chain Excellence * Outstanding Achievement * Supplier of the Year
7:00 on....	Sponsor Dinners
TUESDAY, June 17, 2008 / FIRST DAY OF SESSIONS
7:30 - 11:30 am	Registration Open
7:30 - 8:15 am	Networking Breakfast
8:15 - 8:20 am	Opening Remarks
8:20 - 9:25 am	Opening Keynote 2008 Supermarket Benchmark Study: Findings, Analysis & Discussion ANALYST Scott Langdoc, Vice President, Research & Business Leader, Global Retail Insights EXECUTIVE DISCUSSION MODERATOR Joe Skorupa, Group Editor-in-Chief, RIS News EXECUTIVE PARTICIPANTS 1) Mark Chandler, Vice President, Supply Chain Integration, Price Chopper (Golub) 2) Justin Honaman, Director of Customer Intelligence, Coca-Cola Customer Business Solutions 3) Scott Langdoc, Vice President, Research & Business Leader, Global Retail Insights 4) Ian Mitchell, C.A., Vice President, Finance & IT, M&M Meat Shops, Ltd. Our opening keynote super session features the live debut of the RIS/Global Retail Insights 2008 Supermarket Benchmark Study, presented by the report's chief research analyst. Look for key take-a-ways and insightful analysis to help you hone a competitive edge by staying on top of key business trends, technology initiatives and action items in the grocery vertical. In the session's second segment, RIS News Group Editor-in-Chief Joe Skorupa hosts an executive discussion of the study highlights and analysis with leading grocery executives and a top industry supplier.
9:30 - 10:15 am	General Session Marketplace Trends: New Strategies to Serve Diverse Customers Speaker: Michael J. Haaf, Sr. Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Business Strategy, Food Lion LLC In this era of rapid change, new customers are emerging with new demands that challenge current store formats, concepts, product lines and assortments. As Food Lion SVP Michael J. Haaf will explain, Food Lion has redesigned itself over the past four years both conceptually and functionally to focus the business on its customers. Find out how Food Lion uses metrics that are mutually exclusive yet comprehensively exhaustive to find and understand its diverse customer groups and bring them the most powerful value proposition on a store-by-store basis.
10:15 - 10:45 am	Networking Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:30 am	General Session Better Tools, Better Customer Service MODERATOR *Joe Skorupa, Group Editor-in-Chief, RIS* News EXECUTIVE PARTICIPANTS 1) Steve Methvin, Vice President Retail Technology & eCommerce, Bozzuto's Inc. 2) William S. Noakes, Co-Founder & President, The NoakesGroup; Former Executive Vice President, Meijer, Inc.** How much technology is too much? If you install it, will they use it? In a world with numerous IT options, which of these are working and which are not: digital signage, contactless payment, self-service POS and kiosks, to name a few? In this session, hear case studies and discussion of customer touchpoints from retailers in the field.
11:30 am	Break for Golf
7:00 - 8:00 pm	Networking Reception
8:00 pm on.....	Sponsor Dinners
WEDNESDAY, June 18, 2008 / CLOSING DAY
7:30 am - 11:20 am	Registration Open
7:30 - 8:30 am	Networking Breakfast with Topic Tables
8:30 - 8:35 am	Opening Comments
8:35 - 9:20 am	Day Two Keynote Tesco Storms Ashore: Analyzing the Execution and Impact SPEAKER Mike Griswold, Research Director, AMR Research After a long period of rising expectations, the launch of the new Tesco concept in the U.S. is six months old. Has it lived up to the hype? Was it a flawless launch? Have competitors responded? Why does it matter? AMR Research's Mike Griswold provides in-depth analysis of the Tesco invasion to open our closing day.
9:25 - 10:05 am	General Session Fresh Food Management & Organics MODERATOR *Dave Weinand, Publisher, RIS* News EXECUTIVE PARTICIPANTS 1) Jim Clendenen, Sr. Vice President & CIO, Bashas' Inc. 2) Tripp Hughes, Director, Marketing & Sales, Analysis & Planning, Organic Valley Farms** Supermarkets are turning to enhanced fresh food assortments. While a fresh focus can build customer traffic, it can present challenges, particularly for efficiency-driven traditional supermarkets. Organics are hot and high ticket. But they may not work everywhere. Other challenges revolve around generating the right turn/margin balances, labor allocation and creation of market-specific strategies. Fresh must also be factored into a retailer's overall business plan and should compliment vendor-dollar driven center store selections.
10:05 - 10:30 am	Networking Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15 am	Closing Keynote Sustainability: Economics, Food and the Environment SPEAKER Phil Lempert, Industry Analyst; "Supermarket Guru" Macro-trends are forcing big changes in the food business and consumer food consumption. Prices are climbing, organics are rising in popularity, locally grown is growing at a fast pace, and green is the color of money and the color of social responsibility. At the same time, consumer consciousness of healthy eating habits is at an all-time high. This special closing keynote will feature Phil Lempert, known to consumers as The Supermarket Guru and seen on the Today show and heard weekly on radio. For more than 20 years, Lempert, an expert analyst on consumer behavior, marketing trends, new products and food trends has identified and explained impending trends to consumers and some of the most prestigious companies worldwide. Today he will focus on trends around sustainability in terms of economics, food and the environment and the implications of sustainability on the food business in 2008 and beyond.
11:15 - 11:20 am	Summit Closing Comments
11:20 am	2008 Supermarket Executive Summit Concludes