70th International Retail Summit
Urban Retail 2030: Embracing the Next Normal After the Crisis
Speakers
André Maeder
Germany
Group Managing Director at The KaDeWe Group. Maeder looks back on a long and international retail career. His focus has been on premium and luxury brands. At Harrods, he was Chief Operational and Merchandise Officer, at Hugo Boss MOB and Head Global Retail. As Chief Retail Officer, Maeder als worked for Karstadt.
Dana Thomas
USA
Author of "Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes, Gods" and "Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano" and the New York Times bestseller "Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster". Thomas began her career writing for the Style section of The Washington Post, and for fifteen years she served as a cultural and fashion correspondent for Newsweek in Paris. She is currently a regular contributor to The New York Times Style section and to British Vogue. In 2016, the French Minister of Culture named Thomas a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Bruno Maçães
Portugal
Former Europe Minister in Portugal (2013 to 2015). Bruno Maçães is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington and the author of two recent books, The Dawn of Eurasia and Belt and Road. The Dawn of Eurasia was selected as a book of the year by both the Financial Times and Foreign Affairs in 2018. His new book, History Has Begun, will be published in 2020.
Kristian Skovbakke Villadsen
Denmark
Partner & Director, Gehl Architects. In his role Villadsen operates in the span between political visions and the detailed urban design. His focus is always on livability and sustainability, whether in mobility, masterplanning, revitalization strategies or urban policies. Villadsen has worked with a number of leading cities, developers, organizations and NGOs, across Europe, North America and China. For his input to the development e.g. of the Huang Pu River Waterfront Development Strategy and of Nanijang Lu shopping street, he was honored with Shanghai’s «Magnolia Award».
Stephanie Kelton
USA
Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Stony Brook University, New York. Kelton is a leading authority on “Modern Monetary Theory”, a new approach to economics that is taking the world by storm. She served as chief economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee (Democratic staff) in 2015 as well as a senior economic adviser to Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Torsten Toeller
Germany
Founder, owner and chairman, Fressnapf Holding. With the founding of Fressnapf in 1990, Toeller brought the idea of a discounter for pet supplies to Europe. For his work, Toeller has been awarded several times, among other as "Entrepreneur of the Year" or with the "Goldener Zuckerhut".
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.
Markus Laenzlinger
Switzerland
CEO, Migrolino. Laenzlinger has been managing the subsidiary of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives for eleven years. Previously, he held various management positions. Among others, he was CEO of Cevanova, a joint venture of SBB, Migros and Valora, and Head of Commercial Use at SBB’s real estates department.
Paul Myers
Great Britain
Co-founder and Managing Director, Farm Urban. The company's goal is to rethink agriculture, bring it to urban areas and thus change society's relationship to food and the environment. Myers holds a PhD in epigenetics from the University of Liverpool.
Thomas Sevcik
Switzerland
Co-founder of the Think Tank arthesia. Thomas Sevcik is one of the masterminds of the Autostadt project in Wolfsburg. Furthermore, he developed the idea, strategy and content of the Airport City project The Circle at Zurich Airport and the LabCampus idea for Munich Airport. He is networked worldwide and is a regular author, panelist and commentator.
Emmanuelle Hoss
France
Managing Director, Semaest. Hoss has worked for several years as a technical advisor to the Mayor of Paris. At the planning office Semaest, she developed and implemented a support program for Parisian shop owners. Semaest takes care of the preservation of Parisian retail and is commissioned and financially supported by the Parisian City Hall.
Guy Bloch
Israel
CEO of the Israeli delivery orchestration platform Bringg. Bloch has nearly 20 years of experience leading large organizations in the global enterprise software market, and transforming them into highly successful hyper-growth environments. He joined Bringg after spending six years in senior leadership roles at Splunk, most recently as COO EMEA.
Matt Heiman
Great Britain
Co-Founder and Chairman, Cocoon. Cocoon is a London-based monthly subscription service for luxury handbags that allows consumers to access new-season, pre-owned and limited edition vintage styles from over 30 luxury brands, ranging from Dior, Saint Laurent and Bottega Veneta to younger labels like Rejina Pyo and Jacquemus.
Uwe D'Agnone
Germany
Managing Director, Creapaper. For more than thirty years, D'Agnone has been working as an independent entrepreneur on ecological paper alternatives. In 2012, D'Agnone developed a process for producing grass paper. For this invention, he and his company were awarded several times, among others with the “Red Herring” Top 100 Award Europe 2019.
Jacob Keidar
Israel
Ambassador of Israel to Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein. Previously, Keidar was Inspector General of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and held various diplomatic positions in Africa and Asia.
David Sandström
Sweden
Chief Marketing Officer, Klarna Bank AB. Sandström joined Klarna in 2017 where he has lead the fintech company from one of many financial institutions to a rethinking lifestyle brand. The campaign "Get Smoooth", with Snoop Dogg as the front figure, has become one of the most mentioned ever in Sweden and has also attracted great attention internationally.
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.
Moderator
Reto Brennwald
Switzerland
TV journalist, filmmaker and media trainer. From 2008 to 2011 Reto Brennwald presented SRF's politics programme "Arena". Prior to that, he had been moderator of the "Rundschau" for seven years. Reto Brennwald has been active in the electronic media sphere for 25 years. In 2015 he founded the Talk&Film GmbH for communication, moderation and film production.
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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
Leiter des Departements Handel und Mitglied der Generaldirektion des Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund. Vor seinem Einstieg bei der Migros war Michel Gruber bei Valora während neun Jahren in verschiedenen Funktionen tätig, zuletzt als Geschäftsführer von Valora Food Service Schweiz.
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.