The 2025 Programme

Chair's welcome and opening comments: Darren Sanderson-Williams, General Manager, Specsavers

Retail Rockstars Panel: Approaches to retail innovation and automation in a human-centric environment

Panel: The future of the high street - going back to strategic basics to future proof retail

The past few years has had a dramatic impact on the retail landscape, we bring together a highly experienced panel who will discuss the challenges that lie ahead. The session examines 'strengthening conventional retail’, where ‘self-reinvention’ is necessary - embracing a new hybrid retail-model between brick-and-mortar shops and web shops come into play - and where the premier tool is live shopping.

Networking Break

Panel: Digitising the high street - can retail technology can deliver on ‘store of the future’

Panel: Understanding consumer behaviour - insights from a collective shopping experience

Networking Lunch

Opening Afternoon Address: ‘UK retail plc’ - outpacing the world of property

Networking Break

Panel: Enhancing the shopping experience through seamless omnichannel - attracting shoppers back to the high street

Closing Keynote Address: The changing role of retail - creating an identity on the High Street to regenerate towns and cities

Chair's closing comments