Wednesday, February 29, 2012
1:30 pmRegistration for Sustainability in Store Brands Packaging Seminar
2:00 pm - 5:00 pmSustainability in Store Brands Packaging Seminar
Anne Bedarf, Sustainable Packaging Coalition
 
Thursday, March 1, 2012
8:00 amRegistration opens
8:30 am - 10:00 amPre-Conference Workshop A – Future of Retail: 2015 and Beyond
Doug Stephens, Retail Prophet Consulting
Presented by GROUP360 Worldwide
8:30 am - 10:00 am Pre-Conference Workshop B – Private Brand Best Practices: What the U.S. Can Learn from the World
Carol Reindel, Daymon Worldwide
Virginia Morris, Daymon Worldwide
Presented by Daymon Worldwide
10:00 am - 10:30 amInnovation Zone Open
10:30 am - 11:15 amOpening Retailer Keynote Session
Mary Rachide, Family Dollar
11:15 am - 12:00 pmEstablishing Emotional Consumer Connections with Packaging
Dan Hill, Sensory Logic
12:00 pm - 1:00 pmLunch in Innovation Zone
1:00 pm - 1:45 pmNew Product Development Based on the Mind Genomics of Flavors
Kantha Shelke, Corvus Blue, LLC
1:00 pm - 1:45 pmPackaging Innovation Supersession – Part I
Mark Moorhead, WS Packaging Group
Suley Muratoglu, Tetra Pak
Derrick Sytsma, Curwood, Inc., a Bemis Company
1:45 pm - 2:30 pmNew Product Development Trends in Store Brands
Tom Vierhile, Datamonitor
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm Packaging Innovation Supersession – Part II
Robert E. Hogan, Zip-Pak
Darcy Meyers, Avery Dennison
Sal Pellingra, Ampac
2:30 pm - 3:30 pmSuccess Stories in Innovation Zone with Refreshments
3:30 pm - 4:15 pmStrategies in Store Brands Shopper Marketing
Matt Egol, Booz & Company
4:15 pm - 5:00 pmSpecial Keynote Session
Integrating Packaging Innovation and Sustainability into Sam’s Club and Walmart
Robert Parvis, Sam’s Club
5:00 pm - 6:00 pmReception in Innovation Zone
 
Friday, March 2, 2012
7:30 amRegistration opens
7:30 am - 8:00 amContinental Breakfast in Innovation Zone
8:00 am - 8:45 amDay 1 Recap and Overview of Day 2
Starting Loyal: Harnessing the Social Internet to Drive Customer Visits and Increase Basket Size
Maz Sharafi, Facebook
8:45 am - 9:30 amStore Brands Opportunities in Non-Foods
Mike Kitz, Office Max
9:30 am - 10:00 amSuccess Stories in Innovation Zone
10:00 am - 10:45 amPrivate Brands Growth 2012: Guidance, Strategies, Actions
Thom Blischock, Symphony IRI
10:45 am - 11:30 amDigital Media Strategies for Store Brands
Julie Krueger, Google
11:30 am - 12:30 pmRetailer Panel – Driving Store Brands Innovation
John Failla, Store Brands Decisions
Wesley Bean, Winn-Dixie
Tom Becker, Ahold USA,
Nancy Cota,Safeway
12:30 pmSummit Concludes – Box lunches available for departure


The Innovation & Marketing Summit is a production of Store Brands Decisions