Agenda

TIME AGENDA
9:00-9:10 Opening Address by Forum Chairman
robert-kinkade_print_112x128 Robert Kinkade
APAC Digital Operations Leader
EY
9:10 – 9:55 What’s Next? – The Really Big Stuff in Omnichannel Innovation

  • The 5 most significant innovations that will impact your strategy over the next three years
  • How organizations are using Customer Work and Social Media to deliver retail transformation, and how the new Opti-channel Customer Experience models will connect to big data and financial models
  • Case studies on how retail organisations are using behavioral engineering to drive change in customer behaviour and how that impacts the bottom line
  • Case studies on how gamification has revolutionised customer journeys and show the latest innovations in Retail Customer Experience design from around the world
morris-112x128 Morris Pentel
Chairman
Customer Experience Foundation
9:55 – 10:40

Breakthrough of Omnichannel Initiative and ROI

  • Implementing Omnichannel and Digital transformation in an established retail network
  • Understand the essentials of explaining omnichannel initiatives to stakeholders
  • How omnichannel and digital transformation initiatives impact customer experience
  • Awareness on the paradigm shift away from transactional to brand based relationships
  • Closing the online-offline customer experience loop
 Gareth-Jude-112x128 Gareth Jude
Retail Industry Executive
Telstra
 10:40 Morning Refreshments & Networking Session
11:00 – 11:45 Creating a Seamless Customer Experience and Bridging Consumers’ Expectation Gap

  • Meeting consumers’ demand by giving them the option to be in control on their own purchase inventory
  • Enable consumers to have a unified view of inventory of the desired products
  • Create a seamless Single Customer View (SCV) for retailers to track their customers and communication across all channels
  • Removing operational silos to enable each channel to be interacted as one
11:45 -12:30 Keynote Session: Leverage Omni-Channel Innovation for Customer Fulfilment

  • Changes in the global retail industry and customer expectations
  • Exploring the transformational power of digital on customer fulfilment and
    supply chain
  • Framework for omni-channel innovation and customer engagement
  • Trends, case studies and actionable insights from global leaders
gaurav-112x128 Gaurav Patni
Global Executive Adviser – Retail, Digital Innovation
Logic Information Systems
12:30 Lunch & Networking
14:00-14:45 Afternoon Keynote: Omnichannel 2016: Shifting Focus to Fulfillment

  • Understand how consumers perceive value in the fulfillment experience
  • Actions retailers can do to upkeep with consumers’ fulfillment expectation
  • How to organize and present fulfillment to increase online sales conversion
  • Welcome to the era of Curated Fulfillment
  • Case Study: How the best online and omnichannel retailers demonstrate how sales can be boosted by removing fulfillment barriers to conversion and loyalty increased through an excellent fulfillment experience
Andy-Powell-112x128 Andy Powell
Co-Founder and Director
Agile Retailing
14:45-15:30 Supply Chain Redesign in Omnichannel Businesses

  • Opportunity in hybrid distribution centers that fill orders for both retail and
    online stores
  • Minimize cost by leveraging on online shopping, brick and mortar shop and
    third party channels with customers’ demand
  • Leveraging a unified consumer’s insight in managing your stock inventory
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Jordan Muir
Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer
Aussie Farmers Direct

15:30 Afternoon Refreshments & Networking Session
16:00-17:00 Panel Discussion: Optimize Your Omnichannel Execution with the Appropriate Investment Decision

  • Which channel offers the best customer value in order to maximize the ROI
  • Are organizations spending too much on such initiatives?
  • How to measure the success of your omnichannel initiatives?
  • What are the actions or changes where investors expect to see?
  • Sharing of success stories of omnichannel investment
Panelist:

Gareth Jude
Retail Industry Executive
Telstra

Morris Pantel
Chairman
Customer Experience Foundation

Gaurav Patni
Global Executive Adviser – Retail, Digital Innovation
Logic Information Systems

 17:00 End of Day 1

TIME AGENDA  
9:00 – 9:10 Opening Address by Forum Chairman  
robert-kinkade_print_112x128 Robert Kinkade
APAC Digital Operations Leader
EY
09:15 -10:10 Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality – The Future Reality of Omnichannel

  • How will AR/VR dramatically change how customers interact with brands,
    products and information?
  • How to influence buyers at point-of-purchase with AR/VR
  • Branding in 3D space: Using VR and AR to enhance brand engagement and
    product information
 
joe-millward-112x128 Joe Millward
Senior Digital Strategist
3M
10:10 -11:00 360-Degree Customer View: How to Leveraging Data Insights to Personalize Your Customer’s Needs

  • How profitable is the impact of customer personalization to the retail industry?
  • Doing it right! It begins from customer services and digital touch points
  • Integration mobile data is the solution of personalization
  • Integrate consumers’ data in all channel and transform it to a meaning to each personnel
  • Identifying influencers, personalization, and content through Big Data that convert to leads and sales
  • Obtain insights through small data to translate to customer personalization
  • Solutions to optimize better omnichannel initiatives:
  1. Unified the silos within the organization to access to more integrated data
  2. Have specific teams on customer analytics
 
dominic-byrne-112x128 Dominic Byrne
Head of Digital
Coco Republic
11:00 Morning Refreshments & Networking Session  
11:20 – 12:10 Leveraging POS Essentials and Beyond in the Omnichannel Era

  • POS as a channel in the Omnichannel ecosystem
  • Why modernising POS is vital for a successful Omnichannel strategy?
  • Why cash is not king at POS?
  • Benefits of personalised experience at POS
 
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Davor Bisko
Enterprise Architect on Omnichannel, Customer Experience, Technology and Architecture

12.10

Lunch

13:30-14:20 Privacy in the Age of Omnichannel

  • Balancing privacy and innovation
  • To track or not to track – giving consumer choice
  • Keeping your privacy promises
  • The risks of getting it wrong
troy-wild-112x128 Troy Wild
Legal Director
National Retail Association
14:20-15:10 Fireside Chat: Digital Transformation – A Necessity for Omnichannel Execution

  • Bridging the gap between in-store and online
  • Explore new technologies that potentially can be future touch point
  • Integrate digital with human touch
  • Implementing Augmented Reality for more human touch for consumers
  • Introduction of world’s first virtual reality department store by eBay and MYER
 
Steve-Brennen-112x128 Steve Brennen
Senior Director Marketing, Advertising Sales & Retail Innovation
eBay
 
 15:10  Afternoon Refreshments & Networking Session  
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Big Data Insights into Omni-Channel Retail Trends to Drive Customer Spend

  • What are customers really doing on their smartphones in store?
  • Who are the price leaders and who are the price followers?
  • How do retailers leverage special events to drive consumer spend?

Michael Stone
Director of Products
Invigor Group

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Shopper Engagement in the real-world: Using Data and Technology to your competitive advantage in boosting shopper engagement

  • What does personalization mean in a mobile first era?
  • How can contextual data like location, ancillary interests and situation influence shopper engagement and response?
  • Who is doing it well and gaining a competitive advantage?

Claire Mula
Executive Director
Sprooki Lte

16:10-17:00 Power Panel Discussion: Best Practices and Prediction of Omnichannel Retail

  • Best practices of omnichannel retail and what retailers could pick and improve on?
  • What are the prospect of omnichannel retailing could offers?
  • Is omnichannel just another marketing buzzword and will this term sustain in future?
  • What is the predication of the future of omnichannel retailing in the next 5 years?
Panelist:

Peter Ratcliffe
Head Of Digital
The Retail Apparel Group

Julie Mathers
General Manager Multichannel & Technology
Masters Home Improvement

Graham Jackson
Chief Executive Officer
Fluent Retail

 17:00 End of Day 2

TIME AGENDA
09:00-13:00

Workshop A: THE PRINCIPLES OF ONLINE ENGAGEMENT & FULFILLMENT

 Andy-Powell-112x128 THE PRINCIPLES OF ONLINE ENGAGEMENT AND FULFILLMENT

To be conducted by Andy Powell, Co-Founder and Director, Agile Retailing

Omnichannel business has transformed its focus from consumer to fulfillment in 2016 and it is crucial for retailers to ensure they meet the expectations set by consumers. Many retailers have yet to grasp the get-right model to engage with the consumers based on what online consumers want.

In this half-day workshop, Andy will bring you the best strategy in changing the dynamics between retailers and consumer, as well as effective fulfillment that can improve your sales conversion and customer loyalty. Delegates will be introduced to the game-changing curated fulfillment model which extends the shopping experience and complements the brand which will enhance the retail experience greatly for consumers. As a proven expert, Andy will share the best practices and trends in online fulfillment and consumer engagement model implication.

AGENDA:

  • Strategy – the changing retailer-consumer dynamic and the challenges retailers face
  • The consumer engagement model and what online customers want
  • Back of house – How online changes internal retail operations
  • How fulfillment can improve sales conversion and loyalty
  • Introduction to the Online Fulfilment Operating Model
    • Service architecture
    • Order management
    • Inventory management
    • Storage / Pick / Pack
    • Fulfilment and delivery
    • Systems
  • Curated fulfillment – best practice trends in online fulfilment
  • Get-rights in each area of the model
  • Review of service providers in fulfillment and where / how to use them to full advantage
14:00 – 17:00 Workshop B : HANDS-ON STRATEGIES FOR TRANSITIONING A TRADITIONAL RETAILER TO AN EFFECTIVE OMNI-CHANNEL RETAILER
davor-ok-112x128 HANDS-ON STRATEGIES FOR TRANSITIONING A TRADITIONAL RETAILER TO AN EFFECTIVE OMNI-CHANNEL RETAILER
To be conducted by Davor Bisko, Enterprise Architect on Omnichannel, Customer Experience, Technology and Architecture

Reaching out to the heart of customer journey and reacting to them seamlessly creates a stronger customer experience which in return offering retailers a wider marketing opportunity. However, with the rise of different channels, many retailers struggle to offer the expected seamless customer experience. Do you share the same struggle with implementing a true click and collect, in-store fulfillment, customer personalization and loyalty across your online and brick and mortar platform?

In this half day interactive workshop, Davor will lead you to explore the effective solution to optimize your Omnichannel implementation roadmap that in returns to boost your organization’s sales. Delegates will gain insights with the best strategies to build a full Omnichannel model landscape and able to measure the ROI for the Omnichannel strategy at the end of the workshop. This half day workshop will be fully interactive with activities that enlighten you the holistic view of implementing a successful Omnichannel strategy.

AGENDA:
• Gain insights on your organization’s Omnichannel architecture
• Define business objectives and goals for Omnichannel execution
• Design the Omnichannel execution roadmap
• Measures success criteria and KPIs to determine the ROI of Omnichannel strategy