Trax Innovation Summit - Virtual Series
April 28-30, 2020
The Innovation Virtual Summit brings like-minded brands and retailers together to learn and share strategies for serving their customers in today’s rapidly changing shopper environment
View Sessions On-DemandFeatured Speakers
Jerry Sheldon - VP of Technology, IHL Consulting Group
Mauricio Montero - Trade Marketing and Category Manager, Kraft Heinz
Unilever
Amazon Web Services
Jeanne Danubio - President, North America, Nielsen
Google Cloud - Cloud Computing Services
Giovanni Arnese - Partner, Perfecting Sales Execution Leader, Bain & Company
Blue Yonder (formerly JDA Software)
Innovation Summit at a glance
Industry Updates
Industry analysts offer their insights on how to succeed short term and long term through COVID 19 challenge.
Customer Stories
Hear how brands are innovating every day processes
- Maintaining in-store visibility.
- Leveraging scalable work forces
..and more.
Technology Innovations
Hear about innovative new technologies AND innovative new ways to use them.
Q&A
A live Q&A session will immediately follow every presentation. A group discussion room will also be available throughout the event.
Networking
We don’t have to be in the same rooms to keep the conversations going. Share thoughts and ideas (#innovation2020) on your favorite social channel.
Agenda
Session Information - All session times are ET (GMT-4). For your convenience, you will find "Add to Calendar" buttons beside each event. You can add one, two or all of the events to your calendar. Please complete the registration form at the bottom of this page to receive instructions for joining your selected sessions.
10:00 - 11:00 AM ET (GMT-4)
10:00 - 11:00 AM ET (GMT-4)
2020 Update - State of the Union
Joel Bar El, CEO Trax
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Meeting consumer needs with confidence
Jeanne Danubio, President, North America, Nielsen
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
The time is now for compliance - Combining category management and IoT to bring compliance to the forefront
Julie Hunt & Tim Bosworth, Solution Executives, Blue Yonder
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Crowd Audits and Merchandising
Panos Bethanis, CEO, survey.com
Day 2 April 29
10:00 - 11:00
10:00 - 11:00
Adapting and Thriving in a new retail world
Jerry Sheldon, VP Retail, IHL Group
11:30 - 12:30
11:30 - 12:30
The perfect store: Journey of digitizing execution practices
Andreas Triantafyllidis, National Field Sales Manager, Unilever
2:00 - 3:00
2:00 - 3:00
Leveraging computer vision to bolster retail execution
Joao Donato, Senior Director IT Business Partner, Molson Coors
3:30 - 4:30
3:30 - 4:30
COVID-19: Understanding the impact on consumer purchasing behaviors
David Gottlieb, Managing Director, Americas, Trax
Day 3 April 30
10:00 - 11:00
10:00 - 11:00
How AWS is helping retailers in the battle of COVID-19
Jennifer Beckett, AWS Global Partner Lead, Retail and CPG, Amazon
11:30 - 12:30
11:30 - 12:30
Providing critical recommendations for brands during uncharted times
Giovanni Arnese, Perfecting Sales Execution Leader, Bain and Company
2:00 - 3:00
2:00 - 3:00
Social distance customer engagement strategies
Brad Godwin, RVP, Shopkick
Session Tracks and Schedule
We are very excited to be collaborating with such an amazing group of Analysts, Technology Experts, and Industry Executives. We are currently coordinating schedules with all of the speakers and will post the final agenda on this page shortly. Please complete the contact form below to receive a notification once all sessions have been published to create your own personalized agenda.”
Why Attend
Facing times of uncertainty, our priorities have never been more clear - family, health and groceries. Now, more than ever, shoppers are counting on you. For FMCG manufacturers and retailers, it’s never been a more critical time to make sure that the products people need most are in store and on shelf. That is where we come in.
Join us as we bring together like-minded brands and retailers from around the globe to learn and share strategies to better serve customers in today’s rapidly changing retail world by adapting and advancing in a time that is more critical than ever.
Thought Leadership
Gain valuable insight on how to navigate the rapidly changing world of retail.
Customer Stories
Learn from a phenomenal line-up of speakers as they share their stories and tips for how to get ahead of the game on the shelf.
Best Practices Open Exchange
Industry experts will outline best practices, future predictions, toolkits and more to help brands adapt to shopper behavior.
Watch highlights from past Innovation Events hosted by Trax
Register for Trax Innovation Summit 2020
Even if your schedule doesn't permit you to attend the live presentations, go ahead and register anyway. We'll provide links to all the recorded sessions so you can view them at your convenience.
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Streaming Live April 28-30, and on-demand starting May 1.
Have a question about Events? Contact us at marketing@traxretail.com
Some of the biggest brands have attended past Trax Innovation Days
This really opened my mind and broadened my perspective about innovation in my industry. It’s really worth going, to learn and see what the future’s going to bring, things that you can back to your own environment and inspire people.
Leonie Ham, Senior Functional Consultant, Heineken
It's good to see what other FMCG companies are doing with Trax, and the benefits they're receiving. It gave us great insight into the new technologies coming down the line, and we're excited about the opportunities!
Kondwani Mhone, Global Commercial Manager, Diageo
I’ll definitely recommend the event to CPG industry leaders to see what are the technologies in a few years to come. Good to network with different people from different companies.
Judith McCance, Project Manager Field Sales, Coca Cola