Last Chance to Register for Canada’s Biggest Retail Event, STORE 2018

Craig Patterson
Craig Patterson
Now located in Toronto, Craig is a retail analyst and consultant at the Retail Council of Canada. He's also the Director of Applied Research at the University of Alberta School of Retailing in Edmonton. He has studied the Canadian retail landscape for the past 25 years and he holds Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws Degrees. He is also President & CEO of Vancouver-based Retail Insider Media Ltd.

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There’s still time to register for Canada’s biggest retail conference, STORE 2018, taking place May 29-30 at the Toronto Congress Centre in Toronto. The annual conference is hosted by Retail Council of Canada

Join over 2,500 retail leaders from across North America for two days of discussions and learning at STORE 2018. There will also be ample networking opportunities, as well as two awards dinners, with more details to follow. 

Packed with more than 85 speakers – representing the “who’s who” of retail in North America – this year’s two-day conference will identify critical trends and shifts in retail and provide retailers and their partners with information, contacts, strategies and tactics for ongoing success.

The conference has been structured to provide retailers with the choice of attending both provocative keynote presentations that cover matters affecting all retailers, as well as concurrent sessions that focus on store operations, marketing, merchant and supply chain, and digital and mobile. Content at STORE 2018 is also developed so regardless of a retailer’s size or type, whether large, medium or independent, mass merchant, apparel or grocery, there is a stream with relevant topics.  

Several of the ‘Top 100 Retail Influencers of 2018’, as featured in Vend’s Top 100 Retail Influencers for 2018, will speak at STORE 2018 including:

  • Deborah Weinswig, Managing Director, Fund Global Retail & Technology
  • Rachel Shechtman, Founder & CEO, STORY
  • Nicole Leinbach Reyhle, Founder, RetailMinded.com
  • Kevin Graff, President, Graff Retail
  • Eric Morris, Director Retail, Google Canada 
  • Doug Stephens, Founder, Retail Prophet
  • Harley Finkelstein, COO Shopify

As well, tickets are available for the Excellence in Retailing Awards taking place on the evening of Tuesday May 29, as well as the Grand Prix Gala that takes place the evening of Wednesday, May 30.

The full listing of STORE 2018 speakers is available at StoreConference.ca/speakers, and you can view the entire agenda at: StoreConference.ca/agenda.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit StoreConference.ca/tickets.

As well, on Monday, May 28, Retail Insider’s editor-in-chief Craig Patterson and Retail Council of Canada’s Michael Leblanc will be hosting a tour for retailers in Toronto that begins at CF Toronto Eaton Centre at 1:00 pm and ends at Yorkdale Shopping Centre several hours later. The tour is only available to retailers and interested parties can sign up here

We look forward to seeing everyone at STORE 2018. 

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