AGENDA
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| Session | Title | Synopsis |
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| 08:30 | Registration and Networking Breakfast | |
| Welcome and Opening Remarks | ||
| S1 | Capital in Motion: Investing in the Next Generation of Retail | Explore how capital is being reallocated in a rapidly evolving market, and how investment strategies are adapting to the changing environment and prioritising long-term relevance. |
| S2 | Experience as Infrastructure: Turning Places into Destinations | In this session, we’ll be learning more about the importance of nurturing positive customer experience to increase footfall, dwell time, and spend. With expert insight from both sides of the lease, brands and asset marketing experts will share how experience can be leveraged to support success. |
| Networking Break | ||
| S3 | AI in Retail: Innovation or Pressure to Keep Up? | AI has become impossible to ignore. New tools, new vendors, and new promises are emerging almost daily, creating a clear sense that if you are not moving, you are falling behind. But is that pressure leading to better decisions, or just faster ones?
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| S4 | The International Edit: What Brings Brands to London and What Encourages Them To Go Further,” organised in association with the World Retail Congress’s World Brand Partnership Forum | Building on Revo’s Futures Report, this session brings together brands and real estate leaders to explore the challenges of UK market entry, from flagship visibility versus commercial viability to London first strategies versus wider national growth. It will examine how better data, local insight, partnerships and flexible expansion models can help international brands enter, test and scale successfully across the UK.
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| S5 | What makes a place, and how to execute it! | How marketing, experience and perception combine to create destinations that drive footfall, spend and long-term value.
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| Midday Exchange: Ideas, Innovation and Connection
Lunch, stadium tour |
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| S6 | Keynote – fireside chat with an industry leader – “Lessons learned” | An exclusive conversation with FTSE 100, Landsec CEO Mark Allan, exploring his take on the biggest opportunities shaping the future of retail and how the industry can continue to fuel long-term growth for retailers, investors and the UK. |
| S7 | The Operator Perspective: Retail and Leisure at the Heart of Placemaking | Retailers and leisure operators are co-creators of place. As consumer expectations evolve, their role in shaping vibrant, relevant, and experience-led destinations has never been more critical. This session brings the operator voice to the forefront, exploring how brands are redefining physical space and partnering with landlords to deliver destinations that people actively choose to visit. |
| Networking Break Recharge and Reconnect | ||
| S8 | Repurpose to Re‑energise – From Anchor to Asset: Repurposing Department Stores for a New Era | Over the past few years, we’ve all talked about the scale of the challenge: millions of square feet of empty space left behind by the collapse of department stores anchoring our high streets and shopping centres. We’ve also seen no shortage of ideas for what those spaces could become. But now feels like a turning point. |
| S9 | Retail & Leisure Real Estate – No Longer Just Place | Retail and leisure real estate is increasingly defined by the interaction of fast-moving forces, including AI, climate, energy, geopolitics, social divergence, owner-occupier partnership and capital confidence, which reinforce one another and reshape customer appetite, confidence and behaviour. Taking forward Revo’s Forces Driving Retail and Leisure Places research, this session explores these forces as a system of interconnected, continually evolving dichotomies orbiting around the customer and what this means for how the sector invests, owns, designs and operates places. |
| Closing Remarks | ||
| Drinks and networking | ||
| 19:30 | Event Close |
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