Harish Bijoor is a Brand domain specialist operating out of Bangalore. He runs a unique boutique consulting outfit branded Harish Bijoor Consults Inc., a brand name that has a consulting presence across the markets of Hong Kong, Seattle, London , Dubai and the Indian sub-continent.

Elena Maurer – Director Key Account Development – leads, understands and develops clients at the brand and retail marketing specialists of LIGANOVA. Since more than four years the 32- year-old has been leading the realm Key Account Development and is in charge of the development of another realm Visual Merchandising.Born in Bucharest /Romania in 1976, she attended the international school until the age of thirteen.

An industry expert in development of premium international brands in India, Shailesh is working for the last 4 and half yrs as Chief Executive Officer of Tommy Hilfiger Apparel business in India thru the organization Arvind Murjani Brands Pvt. Ltd. (AMB), a joint venture between the Murjani Group and Arvind Mills.Understanding that Indian business scene will get more internationalized

Simon Ong is the Group Managing Director and Co-founder of Kingsmen, a leading communications design & production group with 16 offices in Asia Pacific and the Middle East.Its fields of activity concentrate on retail, commercial interiors, exhibitions and museums.Besides providing strategic directions for the growth of the group,

Rishi is an Electronics Engineer from NIT Kurukshetra and an MBA from MDI, Gurgaon. He has more than eleven years’ experience in fashion and retail. Rishi joined Arvind Brands in 2007. He has been instrumental in leading a complete makeover of Arrow which has revitalised the brand.

Shankar Subramanian is head of Nokia India’s Retail channel. He and his team work on providing a retail environment, where Nokia’s range of products and services are showcased and consumers are assured of the best possible experience.

A Science Graduate from University of Mumbai majoring in Chemistry ,with a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the same university ,Sudhir has been an accomplished Sales & Marketing Professional with over 30 years of rich experience in Industries

For Damodar Mall, Director, Food Strategy, Future Group, retail and consumer behaviour are areas of passion while observation and ethnography are his trusted habits. Specialising in supermarket retailing and involved in building retail businesses from scratch, he has given shape to many ventures.Having done this significantly in the supermarket space at D Mart, Sangam Direct, Food Bazaar, KB's FairPrice and HUL

Andy has recently joined Reliance Retail, bringing them over 30 years of experience in developing, building and delivering brands across many retail channels. He has worked as a strategic consultant covering brand marketing, business planning and implementation management and has held senior roles across store design, merchandising and operational functions.

Ankur has extensive experience in the strategy and operations of Consumer goods/services and Retail Industries in India, wider Asia , Europe and Americas. He has directly managed multi million dollar businesses with the likes of Procter & Gamble and ICI and has consulted many Fortune 100 organisations during his time with Accenture Management Consulting & Kantar Retail (Glendinning).

An Economics graduate from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata with a PGDM from XIMB, Stephen has spent over 6 years in sales & customer development, first as Area Sales Manager, Karnataka and then as a Regional Sales Manager for the South.

Via value-added experiences, Jim Lucas helps retailers, manufacturers, and service providers motivate shoppers. The acknowledged founder of the science of retail ecology, he is internationally recognized as a veteran marketer and leading retail expert who brings more than two decades of experience

He has an engineering and MBA qualification from India's leading institutions and a rigorous exposure to sales & marketing with some of India's most respected marketing companies. At earlier points of time in his career, he was an Area Sales Manager and later a Category & Channel Manager in Hindustan Unilever Limited.

Jaspreet Bindra spearheads Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division in India. He is responsible for strategy, operations and the marketing and sales efforts for Microsoft’s Hardware products (primarily input devices i.e. mice and keyboards); Gaming (Xbox 360 and games) and Home Productivity software (Windows/ Student Home Office) sales at retail.

Rahul Saigal heads the shopper and trade marketing practice for Ogilvy in India. Rahul has extensive experience in helping brands understand and influence shopper behavior at the critical point of purchase.

Naveen has more than 11 years experience in sales & marketing across FMCG organisations like Cadbury-Kraft, Colgate & Heinz - of which the last 5 years have been in developing expertise in shopper & customer marketing.

Gopi Krishnaswamy is the CEO of Insight Instore and has over 15 years of experience in the brand retail convergence domain. From a corporate role with Marks & Spencer in the Middle East, to consulting with Booz Allen in Europe and his entrepreneurial stints in visual merchandising and consulting,