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Groceryshop Readies for Showtime
1,750+ attendees, including 250 C-level execs and 135 CEOs, slated for Vegas confab. Upcoming conference to feature more than 190 speakers; 1,750+ attendees, including 250 C-level execs and 135 CEOs.
WGB Staff
September 11, 2018
6 Min Read
A lineup of more than 190 speakers from across the grocery business —ranging from digital and e-commerce, marketing, technology, merchandising, supply chain and store operations— are locked and loaded for the upcoming inaugural Groceryshop, which is being billed by its New York-based founders as a “ trailblazing new event for innovation in grocery and CPG.”Illustration courtesy of Groceryshop
A lineup of more than 190 speakers from across the grocery business—ranging from digital and e-commerce, marketing, technology, merchandising, supply chain and store operations—are locked and loaded for the upcoming inaugural Groceryshop, which is being billed by its New York-based founders as a “trailblazing new event for innovation in grocery and CPG.”
Groceryshop organizers report that the event—on deck for Oct. 28-31, at the Aria in Las Vegas—is nearing full capacity, with more than 1,750 registered attendees, including more than 250 C-level executives and 135 CEOs.
With its sights set on becoming the retail food industry’s premier conference, Groceryshop has hammered down its final agenda and speakers’ lineup, the latter of which hail from both established and startup CPG retailers, brands and e-commerce players, as well as tech companies, real estate operators, investors and analysts.
“Groceryshop’s agenda covers the critical trends and technologies transforming grocery and CPG in a digital age,” said Zia Daniell Widger, co-founder and chief content officer of Groceryshop. “These perspectives are shared in more than 75 main stage and track sessions by an unparalleled lineup of over 180 speakers, empowering the industry as it continues through a period of disruptive change.”
Groceryshop was founded by the team that created Shoptalk, which has emerged to become one of the world’s largest conferences for retail and e-commerce, as evidenced by some 8,400 attendees at its third event held earlier this year. Similar to Shoptalk, Widger said Groceryshop “is establishing a new community of today’s leaders and emerging leaders of the future with a wide range of job titles that include digital and ecommerce, marketing, technology, merchandising, supply chain and store operations.”
The conference’s agenda mirrors the diverse speakers lineup, and incorporates number of formats such as track sessions, keynotes, startup pitches, research and workshops, including:
Leading the Digital Transformation
The Future of Brands: Evolving Consumer Expectations
The Future of Brands: Innovations in Marketing
The Future of Brands: New Marketing Strategies and Relationships in the Digital Era
The Future of Brands: New Product Strategies
Next Generation Shopping Experiences: New Technologies and Business Models
Next Generation Shopping Experiences: New Growth Strategies
Next Generation Shopping Experiences: The Evolution of the Store
Next Generation Shopping Experiences: New Customer Engagement Strategies
Innovations in the Supply Chain: Spotlight on Emerging Technologies
Innovations in the Supply Chain: Adapting to Consumer Expectations
Innovations in the Supply Chain: Streamlining and Optimizing Operations
Innovations in the Supply Chain: Advances in the Last Mile
Workshop: Marketing and Loyalty
Workshop: Ecommerce and Emerging Technologies
Workshop: Supply Chain
The agenda also covers an extensive array of next generation technologies such as:
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Fulfillment and Logistics
Ecommerce
Physical Stores
Marketing
Measurement and Analytics
Supply Chain
Sourcing
Food Waste
The final Groceryshop speaker lineup includes:
The Kroger Co. Chief Digital Officer Yael Cosset
Instacart founder & CEO Apoorva Mehta
Kraft Heinz President, Global Growth, Nina Barton
Sam's Club EVP & Chief Merchandising Officer Ashley Buchanan
Albertsons Cos. SVP, digital & e-commerce Narayan Iyengar
BJ's Wholesale Club Chief Digital Officer Rafeh Masood
Google President, Retail & Shopping Daniel Alegre
Boxed CEO Chieh Huang
Brandless Co-Founder & CEO Tina Sharkey
Harry's Co-Founder & CEO Andy Katz-Mayfield
Thrive Market Co-Founder & CEO Nick Green
Ocado Solutions CEO Luke Jensen
AeroFarms Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer Marc Oshima
eos Products Co-Founder & Co-CEO Sanjiv Mehra
RXBAR Chief Operating Officer Sam McBride
Soylent CEO Bryan Crowley
Instacart Chief Business Officer Nilam Ganenthiran
Walmart VP Digital Operations Tom Ward
Walmart VP Food Safety & Health Frank Yiannas
7-Eleven VP of Field Merchandising & Business Development Chris Harkness
Lowes Foods President Tim Lowe
FreshDirect Chief Growth Officer PJ Oleksak
Fairway Market EVP, IT Genine Fargnoli
Eataly VP of Business Strategy & Marketing Ennio Perone
Albertsons Cos. GVP of Digital Product Management Karl Varsanyi
Albertsons Cos. GVP of Loyalty Personalization & Analytics Vivek Kalpande
Freshly Co-Founder & CEO Michael Wystrach
Plated Co-Founder & CEO Josh Hix
ShopCore Properties President & CEO Luke Petherbridge
Mariano's Group VP Merchandising & Marketing Donald Fitzgerald
Sprouts Farmers Market Chief Development Officer Ted Frumkin
Target VP Media Network David Peterson
Morrisons Managing Director, Morrisons.com Matt Kelleher
Loblaw Digital VP, E-commerce KJ Bains
Wakefern Food Corp. VP Digital Commerce & Analytics Steve Henig
Mondelez International GM, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, Enjoy Life Foods, Joel Warady
Hain Celestial SVP Ecommerce & Digital Engagement Julie Bowerman
Mars Wrigley Confectionery Global VP, Digital Commerce, Heather Kang
Kellogg VP of E-commerce Acceleration Oskar Kaszubski
Kellogg VP, Shopper Marketing & Scale Promotions Deborah Hannah
Chobani VP, eCommerce Michele McNamara
Tyson Foods VP eCommerce Tim Madigan
The Boston Beer Company Head of Ecommerce Ethelbert Williams
Anheuser-Busch Head of E-commerce North America Carolyn Littlefield
Remy Cointreau USA Head of E-commerce Heather Bergstein
Earth Fare CEO Frank Scorpiniti
Mondelez International RVP Shopper & Consumer Activation Steve McGowan
General Mills VP Global E-commerce Greg Pulsifer
Campbell's VP of E-commerce Nathan Schwederske
Campbell's VP of Digital & E-commerce Strategy & Operations Veeral Shah
Constellation Brands VP, E-commerce Wayne Duan
Johnson & Johnson VP, E-commerce & Digital Sales Srivatsan Rajagopalan
The Coca-Cola Co. VP, GM E-commerce John Carroll
Danone North America VP, E-commerce Adrianne del Sol
Hormel Foods VP of Digital Experience Stephen Koven
Keurig VP, E-commerce Sales Jamie Dooley
e.l.f. Beauty VP Gayitri Budhraja
Sabra Dipping Company Digital Marketing Director Ryan Saghir
The Wonderful Company Head of eCommerce Jordan Bass
Endeavour Drinks Group, a unit of Woolworths Group, Head of Digital Transformation Benjamin Thompson
Apeel Sciences CEO James Rogers
CommonSense Robotics Co-Founder & CEO Elram Goren
udelv CEO Daniel Laury
Grove Collaborative Co-Founder & CEO Stuart Landesberg
AccelFoods Managing Partner Lauren Jupiter
S2G Ventures Chuck Templeton Managing Director
Big Idea Ventures Managing Director Andrew Ive
BrightFarms CEO Paul Lightfoot
Drizly Co-Founder & Board Member Nick Rellas
Curbside Co-Founder & CEO Jaron Waldman
7-Eleven Director 7-Ventures Marisa Bertha
Function of Beauty Founder & CEO Zahir Dossa
Dirty Lemon Co-Founder & CEO Zak Normandin
Winc Co-Founder & CEO Geoffrey McFarlane
Ritual Founder & CEO Katerina Schneider
NEXT Trucking CEO Lidia Yan
RangeMe Founder & CEO Nicky Jackson
Weis Markets VP of Marketing & Advertising Ron Bonacci
Thrive Market SVP Merchandising & Product Development, Jeremiah McElwee
The Wharton School Patty & Jay H. Baker Professor of Marketing Barbara Kahn
Facebook Industry Manager, Drugstore & Grocery, Carlos Garcia
FreshDirect Head of Private Brand Carrie Mesing
Schnuck Markets VP of IT Infrastructure & Application Development David Steck
Metro Accelerator powered by Techstars Director Innovation Community Andreas Wuerfel
Raley's Supermarkets Head of E-commerce & Loyalty Mike Molitor
Sonae MC Head of E-commerce & Mobile Pedro Santos
HelloFresh VP of Marketing Matt Fitzgerald
RXBAR Head of Quality Lauren Fleming
Flipkart Head of Shopping Experience Grocery Somnath Sinha Mahapatra
Flipkart Head of Grocery Supply Chain Product Anuj Bhagat
More than 160 companies are sponsoring Groceryshop and more than 300 individuals from retailers and brands have enrolled in Groceryshop’s Hosted Retailers & Brands Program, which will facilitate 2,000 onsite meetings for retailers and brands with established and emerging providers of technology and other solutions. The Hosted Program provides retailers and brands with free tickets and travel reimbursements of $750 per participating individual. Retailer and brand attendees wishing to join the Hosted Program can apply through Sept. 21 at https://www.groceryshop.com/networking-program.
Illustration courtesy of Groceryshop
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