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Grocery Innovations Canada offers more learning opportunities this year with concurrent morning workshop sessions.
The annual trade show and conference taking place at the Toronto Congress Centre on September 28 & 29, will offer various workshops covering everything from sustainability to mobile payment technology.
On Monday, September 28, attendees will be able to choose from five workshops 10:00am-10:45am, repeated again 11:00am-11:45am.
Topics include:
- Shrink Reduction and the bottom line with Bill Alford, International Lighthouse Solutions
- How to compete as an independent with Sylvain Charlebois, University of Guelph’s Food Institute
- Store design and centre store best practices with Harold Lloyd
- Mobile Payments – Pitfalls and Opportunities – with Interac
- Snack Attack! Snack Attack: Unlocking Snacking Growth. Robert Kolatschek of Mondelēz reveals key shopper and activation insights in the $11 billion Canadian snacks market
On Tuesday, September 29, workshops will start at 8:45am-9:30am; repeated again 9:45am-10:30am. Topics include:
- Industry state of Sustainability, Steven Sage of Kruger Products
- Independent Grocers’ Financial Survey Results with FMS
- 7 Global Innovation Trends & How Your Business can Stimulate Innovation to Improve Sales with J.C. Williams‘ John Williams
- Canada’s Favourite Grocers 2015 with Field Agent’s Jeff Doucette
- Halal Opportunities and the Growth of the Halal Consumer with Halal Food Fest founder Salima Jivraj
On the trade floor, there are also retailer education sessions on the Insights & Innovations stage twice daily (1:00pm-1:30pm and 2:30pm-3:00pm).
Check out the full schedule here.
Don’t miss EARLY BIRD RATES (end August 18, 2015).
Register here now.
