Retail Risk 2018 - Stockholm | Retail Knowledge (Media) Ltd | 24 May 2018 | Scandic Klara, Slöjdgatan 7, 111 57 Stockholm, Sweden

During the last 14 months of his nearly 22 year career with Walmart, Brand Elverston worked as the Director of the then newly created Operational Execution Team with responsibilities of evaluating the execution and effectiveness of key, strategic company programs at store level. Retiring from Walmart in March of 2017, he is now the Founder/Principal of Elverston, LLC.

Brand is uniquely qualified to talk about how risk managers are having to adapt their operations in order to deal with changing threats. And he explains how senior management has to support this function like never before; to enable them to protect the business and becoming facilitators of business initiatives rather than obstacles to them.

“Most senior executives have only a loose idea of what risk management is all about. As a result, many Boards do not see the real scale of danger that is emerging. Today organised crime doesn’t just represent a threat to profits, but has the potential to cripple long-establish businesses and destroy brands as recent events have shown. As a result, the true value of loss prevention cannot and should not be under estimated, although currently it generally seems to be, especially at Board level,”commented Paul Bessant, Founder of Retail Knowledge and organisers of the Retail Risk Stockholm conference.

Brand explains from his own many years of top level, international experience at the world’s largest retailer the relationship between digital and physical retailing and, most importantly, why all businesses need to consider having Loss Prevention expertise on the Board to protect their brands and succeed in the modern retail age.

2018 Speakers:

Paul Bessant
Founder, Retail Risk

Erik Jerker Engstrand
CEO and Founder, SAFE Shopping Centers Group

Corin Dennison
Director Global Profit Protection & Investigations, adidas Group

Skip Myers
Director of Loss Prevention/Risk Strategy, Microcenter

David Speights
Chief Data Scientist, Appriss

Geoff Gritton
Sales Manager, Thruvision

Graham Swallow
Retail Segment Lead, Axis Communications

2018 Sponsors:

TITLE SPIONSOR:
• Axis Communications
• Appriss Retail

SPONSORS:
• FICO
• Thru Vision
• Noccela

GLOBAL SPONSORS:
• AI
• Kount

RETAIL RISK EUROPEAN PARTNER:
• Appriss Retail