Optimizing Brand Performance Through Trading Partner Collaboration
October 19-22, 2008  |  The Ritz-Carlton at Grande Lakes  |  Orlando, FL

With the continued congregation of business and IT teams, the annual CGT Fall Conference remains committed to providing a centralized leadership forum for CG executives to network with peers, share ideas and experiences, and learn about important industry trends.

Topics covered will include:

- Sustainability
- Retail Perspective
- Talent Acquisition
- Traceability
- Tech Trends Panel
- Loyalty
- Collaboration
- Analytics / Business Intelligence
- Forecasting / Planning
- Category Management
- Consumer Trends
- Social Networking
- Shared Strategy Panel
- Tesco Update

FEATURING OPENING KEYNOTE:  E. Jeffrey Hutchinson, Chief Information Officer - The Dannon Company, North America CIO - Groupe Danone

"Focus on the Future: Driving productivity and growth through emerging technologies"
With the global workforce and workplace changing, what is needed to ensure the future readiness of an IS/IT organization to enable business success going forward? In addition to the daily “blocking and tackling”, business and technology leaders need to consider the needs of the next generation workforce, leading communication and collaboration technologies and their impact on sustainability. Those entering the workforce today are moving beyond e-mail in favor of online presence and social networking. This new talent will change the way business is conducted, and CG companies need to be ready with new skills and tools to attract this new talent and to help their companies innovate and remain relevant in the global community. In this session hear how Groupe Danone's North America's IS/IT organization created the “I&I” team ("Informing and Innovation”) to enable The Dannon Company's business initiatives in leveraging leading unified communications and unified collaboration tools, with a focus of enhancing market share, generating sales and increasing internal operational and employee efficiency.

The full agenda provides powerful insights into more effective retail partnerships, consumer trends data and tactical analysis. Additionally the CGT Fall Conference offers the chance to network with 200+ consumer goods executives charged with aligning business strategy with IT investment.