Featured Speakers

Jamie Tenser has devoted his entire career to explaining how consumer goods are made, marketed, moved and merchandised. A "recovering journalist," armchair futurist, media ecologist and unapologetic retail nerd, he holds relentless fascination with the world’s most pervasive industry.
A frequent past presenter at the LEAD Marketing Conference and other industry events, founder of the VSN Strategies advisory practice, unabashed commentator on his Tenser's Tirades blog, author of two books, Tenser is now Storyteller-in-Chief at CPGMatters and President of its parent company CPG Planet Inc.

Georges Mirza is a retail and CPG technology innovator who has helped shape the evolution of category management solutions and retail analytics. He has led the development of market-leading solutions widely adopted across the industry and pioneered advances in robotic data collection and image recognition to address critical retail challenges including out-of-stocks and inventory accuracy.
Today, Georges advises retailers, CPG companies, and technology firms on innovation strategy, solution evaluation, and growth initiatives related to emerging retail technologies.

For more than 30 years, Lempert, an expert analyst on consumer behavior, marketing trends, new products and the changing retail landscape, has identified and explained impending trends to consumers and some of the most prestigious companies worldwide. Known as The Supermarket Guru® Lempert is a distinguished author and speaker who alerts customers and business leaders to impending corporate and consumer trends, and empowers them to make educated purchasing and marketing decisions.

Dr. Brian Harris is internationally recognized as the “father of Category Management”, a concept he pioneered in the late 1980’s. Since that time, he has been a leading ambassador and thought leader teaching and delivering the benefits of Category Management methods to retailers, manufacturers and students across the globe.