Speakers

Inauguration. The corona crisis – a time of visionaries and effective solutions in the food industry (main debate)

The corona crisis – a time of visionaries and effective solutions in the food industry (main debate)

• The new reality of the food industry: How to adapt quickly to the changes taking place?
• Can crises become strengthening experiences? How has COVID-19 strengthened the food production sector? What has the pandemic revealed?
• What do food producers and consumers really need and will need?
• Trends and formats that have passed the lockdown test. Effective product range management
• A quick storm on online services – sales, communication and marketing
• This is not the end of the world – it is just a crisis! Is it so that what awaits us is an evolution of consumer behaviour, instead of a revolution?
• There is no turning back from innovation and new trends. Which of them are the most obvious?

Retail as a hero – a new image and new requirements

• A new role for shops – as havens of social stability
• More requirements, less rights: Is retail capable of bearing the new responsibilities?
• Retail under close scrutiny by authorities, suppliers and consumers
• Reformatting market expectations: more local suppliers and shorter payment terms
• The evolution of stationary retail. New shopping centre formats and hybrid development models
• Will retail be hiring or firing?

E-commerce and click&collect: ‘must-haves’ of retail chains

• Digital as the strategic direction of development
• E-commerce as the winner of the corona crisis
• New tools – technologies, logistics, infrastructure, and payments
• E-grocery – a sprint from a gadget to necessity
• E-option not only for shops, but also for manufacturers
• New digital competences in urgent demand

Ecological, socially-oriented, and environmentally friendly – chains and producers join forces to follow trends

• What is trendy and what is passé? Who should we believe?
• Substitutes and alternatives, or trends of the future on shelves
• The shelf knows better, or what the shop knows and the producer should know
• Seducing consumers with the idea of ‘no waste’ – from a product range to equipment
• Wishful thinking or rational thinking: How long will it take to get to ‘no plastic’?
• The new face of plastic: a revival or regress?
• Healthy and responsible – changing the habits versus caring for the environment