64th International Retail Summit
Retail 2020: Shaping future markets with man and machine
Speakers
Claus Meyer
Denmark
Entrepreneur, gastronomy innovator and co-founder of the Noma, repeatedly labelled "Best restaurant in the world". For more than 20 years, Meyer has been rethinking agriculture, food production and cooking. His cookboks and TV shows triggered a renaissance of Nordic cuisine.
Nadia Shouraboura
USA
CEO of Hointer. Hointer is a new kind of fashion store using technology to improve customers' shopping experience while minimizing costs. Shouraboura was Technology Vice President at Amazon and served on Jeff Bezos' senior leadership team responsible for overall direction and operations.
Jean-Jacques van Oosten
Germany
Chief Digital Officer of Rewe Group. Van Oosten has extensive experience in scaling, transforming and internationalising online and multichannel businesses. Before joining Rewe, he held executive positions at Tesco, Kingfisher and Unilever.
Gill Linton
USA
CEO of Byronesque.com. The website is an e-commerce platform and online medium for vintage fashion. With Byronesque, Linton aims at freeing used clothes from nostalgia and kitsch and modernising the second-hand industry. Prior to that, Linton worked as account director at M+C Saatchi, Head of Strategy at dRush and a contributing writer for PSFK.
Richard Cristofoli
Great Britain
Marketing Director and member of the board at Debehams department store chain since 2011. Before that, Cristofoli worked in leading positions in marketing at W.H.Smith and Sainsbury’s. Debenhams is present in 27 countries with 230 stores.
Martina Hörmer
Germany
As managing director, Martina Hörmer is responsible for the private-label department of Rewe International AG. She is also president of the International Advertising Association. As a graduate in business studies, she has had many years of management experience in the branded-goods sector both in Austria and abroad.
Gunter Dueck
Germany
Professor of mathematics, philosopher and former CTO of IBM Germany. Dueck publishes satirical-philosophical non-fiction on the manager scene. In 2011, he was ranked among the 100 most influential people in IT by "Computerwoche".
Anna Alex
Germany
CEO and co-founder of Outfittery, an online men's outfitter. Prior to that, she worked for Groupon and Zalando. Born in Hamburg, Alex graduated in economics after studies in Freiburg and Paris and then started working for Rocket Internet in Berlin.
Doug Glenwright
Great Britain
General Manager Retail Transformation at Tui Travel PLC. Glenwright is responsible for the development of the retail customer experience. He was a Senior Account Manager at Carlton Screen Advertising and Product Manager Barclaycard.
Birgitta Erdmann
Germany
Vice HR Manager for H&M Germany. Erdmann has been in leading positions for H&M since 25 years, mostly in sales and logistics. She focuses on the learning organisation, employee relations, devlopment and leadership.
Ning Li
Great Britain
Founder & CEO of Made.com. Made designs, manufactures and retails furniture, disrupting the traditional value chain and offering aspirational design at affordable prices to the customers. Made.com currently employs 150 persons and is one of the fastest growing companies in the industry.
Jason Kibbey
USA
CEO of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, an group of apparel and footwear brands, retailers, manufacturers, NGOs and researchers. The coalition is working to reduce the environmental and social impacts of apparel and footwear products around the world.
Nadine Stojanov
Switzerland
Founder of The Key of Aurora, an online brand store for bespoke goods. Stojanov was a brand manager for Manor, Switzerland’s biggest department store. She has also worked in art banking at UBS and in the retail and textile machinery industry at Bain & Company.
Oliver Altherr
Switzerland
CEO of Marché International, a division of Mövenpick AG. Marché employs 3900 people in 209 sites in twelve countries. Altherr has held leading positions at Mövenpick since 1999. Prior to hat, he worked with Mandarin Oriental Hotels.
Simona Scarpaleggia
Switzerland
Manager and former CEO, IKEA Switzerland. Scarpaleggia had been HR manager in different companies in Italy for 20 years. Since joining Ikea in 2000, she has held various management positions. Between 2010 and 2019, Scarpaleggia was CEO of Ikea Switzerland. She has been CEO of Edge Strategy since September 2020.
Ståle Økland
Norway
Ståle Økland is a Scandinavian trend expert, globetrotter, writer, thinker and public speaker. He has experience and distinctive insight across a wide range of strategic, technological and specialist disciplines. Ståle has written four books. One of his suggestions: learn from rockstars!
Martina Kühne
Switzerland
Senior Researcher at the GDI. Kühne analyses economic and social changes and their impact on retailing and the consumer-goods industry, and is the author of a number of studies focusing broadly on shopping.
David Bosshart
Switzerland
Dr. David Bosshart was CEO of the GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute for consumption, economic and social studies from 1999 to 2020. Since 2020 he has been President of the Gottlieb and Adele Duttweiler Foundation.
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Über die Internationale Handelstagung
Die Internationale Handelstagung ist eine führende Strategieplattform für Entscheidungsträger und Vordenker im Retail und in der Konsumgüterbranche. Teilnehmende sind Führungskräfte aus dem Handel und verwandten Branchen, Unternehmer, Akademiker und Journalisten von Schweizer und europäischen Qualitätsmedien.
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Advisory Board
Simonetta Carbonaro
Expertin für Konsumentenpsychologie, Professorin für Humanistisches Marketing und Designmanagement und eine international anerkannte Vordenkerin in der Konsumgüterindustrie. Sie ist Mitbegründerin von REALISE, einem strategischen Beratungsunternehmen, das auf Markenführung und strategisches Designmanagement spezialisiert ist.
Caroline Drucker
Director EMEA Strategic Partnerships bei Instagram. Zuvor war Drucker bei Etsy Global Brand Manager und gestaltete die kreativen Abläufe des Unternehmens neu. Sie war die erste Produktmanagerin bei der Community-gesteuerten Musikplattform SoundCloud. Ihre Karriere begann im Verlagswesen, wo sie eine Schlüsselrolle bei der Etablierung des VICE-Magazins auf dem deutschen Markt spielte und die digitale Strategie für den Relaunch von Freitag, einer überregionalen Wochenzeitung, entwickelte.
Stephan Fetsch
Partner, Deal Advisory-Valuation, EMA Head of Retail von KPMG. Fetsch verantwortet den Handelssektor bei KPMG in Deutschland und KPMG Europa. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte liegen auf der Unternehmensplanung, der Bewertung von Unternehmen, immateriellen Vermögenswerten, Joint Venture sowie wertbasierter Entscheidungsfindung und transaktionsorientierter Beratung.
Michel Gruber
As managing director, Martina Hörmer is responsible for the private-label department of Rewe International AG. She is also president of the International Advertising Association. As a graduate in business studies, she has had many years of management experience in the branded-goods sector both in Austria and abroad.
Dominique Locher
Als Unternehmer, Angel Investor, kreativer Förderer und Innovator begleitet Dominque Locher Unternehmen wie Edeka, Utkonos, Farmy.ch, Bring! oder LuckaBox in die digitale-Welt. Als Vorstandsmitglied der Swiss Retail Federation treibt er die Digitalisierung im Schweizer Handel voran. Er baute LeShop.ch mit auf, einen der ersten Online-Supermärkte der Welt. Bis 2017 führte er das Unternehmen als CEO.
André Maeder
CEO der KaDeWe Group. Maeder blickt auf eine langjährige internationale Karriere im Retail zurück. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt auf Premium- und Luxus-Brands: Bei Harrods war er Chief Operational und Merchandise Officer, bei Hugo Boss Vertriebsvorstand und zuständig für Global Retail. Als Chief Retail Officer arbeitete Maeder auch für Karstadt.
Mariann Wenckheim
Partnerin und Vorstand von 20.20, einem Unternehmen für strategische Designberatung für die Handels- und Freizeitindustrie.