Agenda

09:00 – 09:30

Registration & welcome coffee

09:30 – 10:15

Opening session

Moderator: Christopher Burns , Journalist/Moderator , Burnstorm Communications

Régis Degelcke , President, EuroCommerce
Elżbieta Bieńkowska , Commissioner, Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission

10:15 – 11:30

Celebrating SMEs in retail and wholesale - How the best of them work to succeed in the digital age

Anneleen van Bossuyt , MEP, European Parliament
Anke Pollmann , Entrepreneur, Pollmann
Birgit Winn , Head of Digital Projects, Hospitality Digital
Suzan Kereere , Global Head of Merchant Sales & Acquiring, VISA

11:30 – 11:45

Coffee Break

11:45 – 12:45

Celebrating wholesale- A key engine of the EU economy

Wolfgang Maehr , CEO Alliance Healthcare Germany, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Holger Bingmann , President, BGA (Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services)
Catherine Pardo , Professor, EMLYON Business School

12:45 – 13:45

Lunch

13:45 – 14:45

Changes in consumer behaviour and experience

Věra Jourová , Commissioner Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, European Commission
Monique Goyens , Director General, BEUC
Xavier Garambois , VP EU Retail, AMAZON
Leonor Sottomayor , Head of Public Affairs, Sonae

14:45 – 15:00

Coffee break

15:00 – 15:45

Celebrating 25 years of the single market- A European retail sector fit for the 21st century

Jyrki Katainen , Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, European Commission
Laurent Vallée , General Secretary, Carrefour
Dominique Michel , CEO, COMEOS
Eva Maydell , Member of the European Parliament, European Parliament

15:45 – 16:00

Concluding remarks

Moderator: Christopher Burns , Journalist/Moderator , Burnstorm Communications

Christian Verschueren , Director- General, EuroCommerce

16:00 – 17:30

Networking drinks