Retail Destination Live is back for 2022 – BOOK YOUR TICKETS NOW!
Retail Destination Live: Future Places brought to you by Retail Destination and Revo is a one day conference culminating in a gala dinner and will take place at Jurys Inn Hinckley Island, Leicestershire on Thursday 14th July.
The conference will focus on four key areas:
- Management Challenges
- Innovation
- Sustainability
- The Future
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Agenda
08:30: Registration – Tea, Coffee & Pastries
09:30: Welcome and open by chairs
David Allinson, Centre Director for Manchester Arndale and Michelle Buxton, Founder and CEO of Toolbox Group
10:00-11:00: Management Challenges
Security – Martyn’s Law, activism and antisocial behaviour – Dawn Osborne, Director at NOVA and Phil Wilkinson – Homeland Security Group (HSG) at the Home Office
Service charge and leases – staffing, marketing, tenants relations – Catherine Lambert, Director at Savills
Customer engagement – footfall, data, online, market dynamics – Hannah Smith, Senior Consultant from CACI
Panel discussion
11:30 – 12:30: Innovation Hour
Urban greening/vertical farming – Ben Dean, Chief Operating Officer, Square Mile Farms
Adaptations in our shopping places – Jen Scott, Founding Partner of Hustle and Heels
Are you up to Data? – Gareth Jordan, ART Software Group Director and Anand Basu-Attwoord, Commercial Operations Manager of Resorts World Birmingham
13:30 – 14:25: Sustainability
Reimagining Retail: unravelling environmental and economic sustainability – Tom Whittington, Director of Retail and Leisure Research at Savills
Retail Place Sustainability – Kevin Duffy, Centre Director at Centre:MK
Property Sustainability: Net Zero, risks and opportunities – David Johnston, Partner at Wedlake Bell
Panel Discussion
14:40-16:10: Future Vision
Integration of online and in-store – Dr. Amna Khan, Senior Lecturer in Consumer Behaviour at Manchester Metropolitan University
The C Word – Chloe Keith, Managing Director at Toolbox Marketing
Future Gazers Panel – top level CEO’s and future gazers from the industry. Hosting the panel is Ibrahim Ibrahim, Managing Director at Portland Design and author of Future Ready Retail. Joining him on the panel is Michael Harrison, Co-Founder of Gravity Active Entertainment, Emma Hindes, COO of Eurofund and Robert Jewell, UK Managing Director of Axis, plus Jen Scott and Dr. Amna Khan.
16:10 – Round up & close by our chairs
David Allinson, Centre Director for Manchester Arndale and Michelle Buxton, Founder and CEO of Toolbox Group
17:00 – Exhibition closes