Retail Drinks Industry Summit

To continue to succeed in business, we need the latest information, trends and ideas to help make business decisions. The annual Retail Drinks Industry Summit sees business experts and industry leaders come together to share their knowledge and expertise to reveal key insights and strategies so together we continue to succeed in liquor retailing and help grow business and profits responsibly and sustainably.

This year’s Summit will be held in Sydney on Wednesday 30 November, in conjunction with Retail Drinks’ Annual General Meeting and the 2022 Retail Drinks Industry Awards. The Summit is Retail Drinks' annual flagship event.

It’s the first time the event will be held in person since 2019 so we’re more than excited, as are our members. Despite last year's Summit and Awards being held live and online due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, the events attracted over 1000 attendees from across the country and proved highly successful despite the change in format, with 96 per cent of survey respondents saying they would attend the event again in the future, and 90 per cent reporting that the event met or exceeded expectations.

Whether you’re an independent, chain or online-only liquor retailer, retail banner group, wholesaler, beverage producer, supplier, or service provider to the retail liquor sector, this is one event you really should make the time to attend.

The Summit will deliver another cracking ‘6-hours of power’ program featuring more than 20 speakers and over 10 presentations and panel discussions on relevant and current topics, including regulation, responsibility and sustainability; industrial relations reform; workplace wellbeing; talent attraction and retention; market, category, shopper and consumer insights; online alcohol sale and delivery; the evolution of the online shopper; and omni-channel retailing.

As our industry, society and economy continues its recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, a real highlight of the day’s agenda will be a thought-provoking keynote presentation by world-renowned futurist, media commentator and author Rocky Scopelliti: “How do we increase our capacity to adapt in a world of accelerated change?”

Rocky’s keynote will explore the collision of eight megatrends that collectively will define Australia politically, economically, environmentally, regionally, socially, trustworthily, knowledgably, scientifically and technologically over the coming decade, and share insights that will empower you to turn change into opportunity, ideas into innovation and customers into advocates.

For more information, or to register to attend the 2022 Retail Drinks Industry Summit, visit www.retaildrinksindustrysummit.com.au – we look forward to seeing you in Sydney in late November!

Michael Waters is the Chief Executive Officer of Retail Drinks Australia & Drinks Trade is a sponsor of the Retail Drinks Industry Summit & Awards.