GRMA Executive Leadership Forum
Speaker Agenda

Embracing Big Data and Analytics

Tom Davenport - Professor in Management and Technology at Babson College, Visiting Professor at Harvard Business School, Co-founder and Research Director of the International Institute for Analytics, and a Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics.

It is time for retailers to embrace analytics and “big data.” In this session, Tom Davenport will describe the rise of data-intensive retailing, and the reasons why analytics and big data form critical opportunities for businesses.

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We’re Not Consumers, We Are People:
Marketing with Social Media

Douglas Rushkoff - Author, CNN Commentator, Media & Technology Theorist. Winner of the first-ever Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity

In this talk, the inventor of concepts such as “viral media” and “social currency” will share the fundamental but generally unrecognized impact of social media on the retail industries, as well as exactly what to do about it.

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Forces That Will Move Global Markets in 2013: The Geopolitics of the 21st Century

Nader Mousavizadeh - CEO Oxford Analytica, Columnist at Reuters and Former Special Assistant to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, is a highly regarded global thinker known for his sharp insights into macro trends and how they impact corporations, investors and countries at the intersection of economics, politics and emerging risks.

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The Future is in the Cloud

Tom Koulopoulos - Named one of the industry’s most influential consultants by InformationWeek Magazine, Tom Koulopoulos frequently has articles in national and international print and broadcast media such as BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist, CNBC, CNN and NPR. Author of nine books and founder of Delphi Group, Tom is also an Executive in Residence at Bentley University, the past Executive Director of the Babson College Center for Business Innovation and past Executive Director of the Perot Systems Innovation Lab. Mr. Koulopoulos' most recent book is Cloud Surfing.

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The Edge to Success: Intrapreneurship

Linda Rottenberg - CEO and Co--Founder of Endeavor, named one of "America's Best Leaders" by U.S. News & World Report and one of 100 "Innovators for the 21st Century" by Time Magazine.

Linda Rottenberg shows how to discover your organization’s entrepreneurial potential and foster a culture of innovation.

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Death to Dumb Promotions

Marco Bertini - Assistant Professor of Marketing at London Business School. He leads the popular Pricing Strategy elective in the MBA, Executive MBA, and the Sloan Fellowship curricula, and teaches in the Customer Focused Marketing and Market Driving Strategies weeklong executive education programs.

Marco presents thought strategy through shared-value approach to pricing as well as a dry mechanics look at “running the numbers” while recognizing the revenue generating options.

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Connecting for a Higher Purpose:
What For-Profit Companies can learn from High Performing Non-Profit Organizations

Marc Kielburger - Co-founder of Free The Children and Me To We

Marc Kielburger is one of the world's leading figures in corporate social responsibility, social activism and youth empowerment.

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CEO Session:
Glimpse of the Future

Moderated by Tom Koulopoulus
Featuring Robert Moran, President & CEO of PetSmart and
Jill Braff, Executive Vice President of Digital Commerce of HSN

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CMO Session:
Changing Role of Marketing in Customer Powered Environment

Moderated by Doug Rushkoff

Featuring:

Kim Feil, EVP & Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, OfficeMax

Don Hamblen, Group Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer, Roundy’s Supermarkets

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