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<p style="text-align:center;">There has never been more opportunity to transform the customer experience and accelerate profitable growth than there is today! The good-old-days of retail are in front of us, but they do not look like our past. In 2020, everyone was forced to use digital solutions in new ways, which dramatically accelerated the exponential pace of technology-driven change. Retailers, including grocery adapted quickly, but today agility and adaptability are no longer enough! Accurately anticipating technological changes, as well as customers’ changing needs, provides the biggest advantage.</p> <p style="text-align:center;">Thanks to Daniel Burrus’ award-winning Hard Trend methodology and his proven track record of accurate forecasts spanning the past 40 years, disruptions and new growth opportunities can be identified long before they disrupt, allowing you to turn rapid change into your biggest advantage.</p> <p style="text-align:center;">In this eye-opening and highly insightful and motivating presentation by one of the world’s leading global futurists, disruptive innovation experts, and serial entrepreneurs, New York Times bestselling author of seven books Daniel Burrus blends rich industry examples as he shares the most important Hard Trends shaping the future, and the opportunities they provide, to redefine the customer experience and dramatically accelerate growth. You will learn how anticipatory leaders use the certainty of Hard Trends to drive transformational change and actively shaping the future rather than reacting to it.</p> <p style="text-align:center;"><a href="https://www.groceryconnex.com/2022/speaker/576885/daniel-burrus" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img alt="" height="270" src="https://assets.swoogo.com/uploads/medium/2039997-6323af50a85f4.png" width="300" /></a><a href="https://www.groceryconnex.com/2022/speaker/576885/daniel-burrus"><span><span title="Click and drag to resize">​</span></span></a></p> <p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Daniel Burrus is considered one of the World’s Leading Futurists on Global Trends and Innovation.<br /> The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker.</strong></p> <p style="text-align:center;">He has delivered over 2,800 keynote speeches worldwide, and is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies, helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. His client list includes companies such as Microsoft, GE, American Express, Google, Deloitte, Procter & Gamble, Honda, and IBM.</p> <p style="text-align:center;">Daniel is the author of seven books, he has been the featured subject of several PBS television specials and has appeared on networks such as CNN, Fox Business, and Bloomberg, and is quoted in a variety of publications, including Harvard Business Review , The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times , Fortune, and Forbes.</p> <p style="text-align:center;">His accurate predictions date back to the early 1980s, when he became the first and only futurist to accurately identify the twenty technologies that would become the driving force of business and economic change for decades to come. Since then, he has continued to establish a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of predicting the future of technology-driven change and its direct impact on the business world.</p>

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<p style="text-align:center;">As the dust settles on the pandemic-related pressures of the past two years, consumers have landed in a divergent economic reality as inflation becomes the new strain on consumer wallets. Consumers are polarized based on their ability and willingness to spend and this is impacting retailer and brand trends. With economic uncertainty continuing to rise, is Canada heading for a recession? NielsenIQ’s Carman Allison will review six leading indicators to determine the state of Canada entering a consumer recession.</p> <p style="text-align:center;"><img alt="" height="251" src="https://assets.swoogo.com/uploads/medium/2039972-6323ada71453f.png" width="275" /></p> <p> </p>

<p style="text-align:center;"><img alt="" height="87" src="https://assets.swoogo.com/uploads/full/634361-5f60f52ac71aa.png" width="248" /></p> <p style="text-align:center;">Presented by <em>Canadian Grocer</em>, the GenerationNext Awards recognize emerging leaders — innovative thinkers (under forty) — who are having an impact on the grocery industry not only today, but in the years ahead. Join us as we reveal the 2022 GenNext award winners.</p> <p> </p>

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<p style="text-align:center;">Being data-driven and using data effectively can be complicated. In order to drive meaningful results while being privacy compliant, brands, retailers and consumers need assurance that the use of data and analytics follow best practices and leverage the most powerful tools available. In this session, Jan Kestle, President and Founder of Environics Analytics, will share how new technology solutions can make a significant difference across your entire business: from insights to activation and attribution to measurement.</p> <p style="text-align:center;"><img alt="" height="249" src="https://assets.swoogo.com/uploads/medium/2182041-636a711da3619.png" width="168" /></p> <p> </p>

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