BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20001029T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20000326T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260916T203505Z - 43908@odoo DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220908T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220909T140000 CREATED:20260916T203505Z DESCRIPTION:72nd International Retail Summit\nHome Speakers Programme Informat ion Venue Fees Partner Participants' list Documentation About the conferen ce Flow Commerce: How Shifting Boundaries Reshape Retail The transformatio n continues. Over the past decades\, digitalisation has continuously redra wn boundaries and turned retail upside down. The worldwide pandemic has de stabilised global supply chains. The ongoing war in Ukraine is further int ensifying the situation. After this humanitarian catastrophe\, an economic crisis looms. At the same time\, customers are more demanding than ever b efore. They have learned that there is often less than ten minutes between desire and fulfilment. For them\, consumption has gone from being an acti vity to a state. Because the dividing lines between physical and virtual w orlds of experience are dissolving\, ‘metaverse’ is the buzzword of th e hour. Smooth process flows have never been as important as they are now. Yet they have also never been as challenging. How does commerce stay in f lux? A new poker for procurement has begun\; new bets are being made on cu stomer preferences. At the 72nd International Retail Summit\, we will disc uss questions like: How can we build reliability and trust when supply cha ins and raw materials can no longer be guaranteed?Who bears the additional costs in a low-margin industry?How important does sustainability become w hen the availability of goods declines?How can business models establish t hemselves permanently in a hybrid world?What role does retail play when it becomes more than just the straightforward procurement of goods? Hashtag: #iht22 Speakers Ian Goldin Great Britain Professor of Globalisation and D evelopment at the University of Oxford. Formerly\, Goldin was Vice Preside nt of the World Bank and economic advisor to the South African President M andela. He has been knighted by the French Government. In his 2014 book "T he Butterfly Defect"\, [...] DTSTAMP:20260916T203505Z LOCATION:GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute\, Langhaldenstrasse 21\, 8803 R üschlikon\, Switzerland SUMMARY:72nd International Retail Summit X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:72nd International Retail Summit\nHome Speakers P rogramme Information Venue Fees Partner Participants' list Documentation A bout the conference Flow Commerce: How Shifting Boundaries Reshape Retail The transformation continues. Over the past decades\, digitalisation has c ontinuously redrawn boundaries and turned retail upside down. The worldwid e pandemic has destabilised global supply chains. The ongoing war in Ukrai ne is further intensifying the situation. After this humanitarian catastro phe\, an economic crisis looms. At the same time\, customers are more dema nding than ever before. They have learned that there is often less than te n minutes between desire and fulfilment. For them\, consumption has gone f rom being an activity to a state. Because the dividing lines between physi cal and virtual worlds of experience are dissolving\, ‘metaverse’ is t he buzzword of the hour. Smooth process flows have never been as important as they are now. Yet they have also never been as challenging. How does c ommerce stay in flux? A new poker for procurement has begun\; new bets are being made on customer preferences. At the 72nd International Retail Summ it\, we will discuss questions like: How can we build reliability and trus t when supply chains and raw materials can no longer be guaranteed?Who bea rs the additional costs in a low-margin industry?How important does sustai nability become when the availability of goods declines?How can business m odels establish themselves permanently in a hybrid world?What role does re tail play when it becomes more than just the straightforward procurement o f goods? Hashtag: #iht22 Speakers Ian Goldin Great Britain Professor of Gl obalisation and Development at the University of Oxford. Formerly\, Goldin was Vice President of the World Bank and economic advisor to the South Af rican President Mandela. He has been knighted by the French Government. In his 2014 book "The Butterfly Defect"\, [...] END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR