The Summit

23rd – 25th September 2013

NG Retail Summit Europe 2013

Summit Venue
Lyrath Estate, Kilkenny, Ireland

NGR will provide a number of different networking channels to execute and promote business. Our business model is built around the success of networking opportunities, private one-to-one meetings and focused interactive workshops.

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The NG Retail Summit is worth every penny. To get this much attention from big, global brands in just 3 days would normally take months to organize. Very effective, very well organized.

Philipp Kannenberg, Project Manager, Gaxsys GmbH

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Visma have attended the NGR Summit for several years. The events have gradually improved in importance and relevance. We find the summit very helpful in many ways, particularly regarding networking, identification of business opportunities, partner dialogue and cooperation across countries. We will most certainly continue our participation in the Summit in the future.

Gaute Green-Stensrud, Managing Director, Visma Retail

It was a very good opportunity to meet industry peers facing the same problems we are going through.

Victor del Pozo, COO, Privalia

A perfect summit for engaging in thought leadership, sharing insights and challenging direction and strategy. Bringing retailers and technology providers together can only benefit the retail industry and help both parties develop together.

David Stain, EMEA Head of Market Development, Zebra Technologies

NG Retail summit is one of the best retail events I have attended. It's very well organized and the quality of the attendees is very high. I had the opportunity to meet great people and to find answers to some of my organization's current challenges.

Morgan Abbou, IT Director Sales & Marketing Europe, Coty Inc

Excellent event, that provided both insights and in-depth discussion with executives and peers.

Klaus Haberfehlner, Director Category Management & Merchandising, Merkur

This is an inspiring, future-looking event, professionally organized with great delegates.

Robert Beisser, Head of Sales Operations Europe, Staples

Excellent event, well organised and a high caliber of attendees and brands.

Richard Lawrence, Sales Executive Pentaho

Good opportunity to discover new solution providers, really interesting for my company.

José Luis Molina – CTO, Cirsa Group

Great location, good to meet other retailers, very good organisation by the team.

Vishal Bansal - Head of Replenishment Development, Tesco

Good meetings with the right level of people.

Matteo Balzani - eCommerce Marketing & CRM Director Europe, Nike Europe

A number of excellent meetings with senior executives that would take a very long time to organise and execute in any other way, a very productive use of time.

Andrew Blatherwick, President, Manthan Europe

The opportunity to talk in some depth with key decision makers.

Martin Beasley, Retail Principal Consultant, FICO

The location, quality of services and facilities were excellent as were the diversity and quality of the solution providers.

Mihai Ionescu, IT Manager, Flanco

An opportunity to refresh the key options the market is offering and put it into context.

Luigi La Vista, Supply Chain & Service Director, Unieuro

The NGR Summit was very effective in building my business network and getting to know peers in an informal environment whilst getting insight into the trends and various retail topics at a detailed level, enough to stimulate follow up activities.

Luca Conci, Long Term Planning & Forecasting Director, Luxottica

Great opportunity to meet Retail professionals and potential suppliers of the latest technologies whilst creating the opportunity exchange ideas.

Alberto Franchin, Director Logistics, Distribution & Customer Service, Levi Strauss