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IBM

Sponsored by IBM Global Services

The Retail Summit provides a unique forum for executive-level discussion on how leading retailers leverage business systems architecture that simultaneously enables insight, fosters interaction, and optimizes operations to transform the customer experience.


Who Should Attend:

  • Executives in the retail industry
  • CIOs, EVPs, SVPs, VPs of IT and other departments

When: October 2, 2012
Where: Westin St. Francis, Elizabethan D
Retail Summit Agenda: (subject to change)

TUESDAY, October 2, 2012

 

Where: Westin St. Francis, Elizabethan D, 2nd Floor

Oracle Retail Welcome

Mike Webster, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Retail

10:00 a.m.–10:20 a.m.

 

Retail and the Nexus of Forces

Jeff Roster, Research Vice President, Gartner

10:15 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

 

Customer Executive Case Study

Marcy Zelmar, Vice President eCommerce, Sephora USA

Savio Thattil, Vice President Engineering, Sephora USA

11:00 a.m.–11:45 a.m.

 

Transit to Saks Fifth Avenue

11:45 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

 

Saks Fifth Avenue Executive Luncheon

Windell Manuel, Senior Vice President and CTO, Saks

12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.

 

Transit back to Westin St. Francis

1:30 p.m.– 1:45 p.m.

 

Retail Business Transformation

Building an Action Plan for Your Experience Platform

Melanie Rose, IBM GBS Oracle Retail Practice Leader, IBM

1:45 p.m.–2:15 p.m.

 

Global Executive Panel Discussion

Moderated by Mike Webster, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Oracle Retail

Panelists:

Jeff Roster, Research Vice President, Gartner

Soren Norgaard, Director Solution Architect, LEGO

Tanay Taank, Global CIO, Molton Brown

Torsten Balselv, CIO, Nilson Group

2:15 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

 

Retail Summit Closing Comments

3:00 p.m.

 
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