A variety of sessions to choose from
Alongside the ‘classic’ Plenary and Breakout Sessions, the Crash Courses and Debating
Sessions will be back for Berlin, but with improvements to take into account your
feedback from last year.
The Crash Courses for example will be more clearly focused on junior managers.
And we are looking at restricting the number of
pre-registered delegates taking the floor at Debating Sessions in order to have
a more lively debate, but at the same time allowing more people to attend and interact with the main speakers.
You can also expect to see slightly fewer but more detailed cases presented in some of the
Breakout Sessions on some emerging subjects. And expect to see even more top-ranking
CEO's on the platform and taking part in the discussions.
Please look
at the Programme at a glance
to find out when these sessions take place.
Plenary sessions cover high-level, strategic topics
presented by top-level speakers. These sessions take place in the main conference
hall with audiences of up to 2500 people.
Breakout sessions cover tactical, focused topics (e.g. sustainable transport, creating breakthrough shopper insights). They showcase
the latest developments in collaboration, research, technologies and standards and share best practice examples and real-life case studies.
Debating sessions offer participants with a high level of expertise in
the subject an opportunity for discussion with some 15 people on a major topic, watched by an
audience. Active participation in the debate is for pre-registered delegates
only.
Crash courses give junior managers or anyone new to their job the opportunity
to attend a halfday training session on the basics of a specific topic. (e.g. Category
Management, assortment planning). These “classroom” events for up to 50 people are
for pre-registered delegates only.