BRdata World 2023

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BRdata World is an annual conference focused on education and technology best practices for the grocery retail industry. Grocery retailers, wholesalers, service providers, and technology partners meet in a friendly setting to learn, share, and network. Ensure you are getting the most out of your grocery retail technology investments, while learning how other retailers have implemented cutting edge technologies, such as AI, ESLs, and advanced customer loyalty.

There are over 50 planned sessions for this year’s conference, including several sessions from leaders in the grocery industry and your peers.
Additionally, the conference is focused on seven specific solutions that address inflation adjustments, labor, and competing against big chains:

1. Automating pricing and TPRs while tracking competitor retails to ensure gross margin is protected.
2. Implementing actional analytics to provide information enterprise wide within minutes of consumer checkout.
3. Utilizing a vendor portal to automate capture of direct vendor costs, deals, and new items.
4. Utilizing AI and ML (machine learning) for pricing and automatically feed price changes to electronic shelf labels (ESLs).
5. Implementing perpetual inventory to automate ordering with CGO (computer generated ordering).
6. Customer Loyalty: getting started, providing an ROI, implementing AI/ML to track and reward your customers.
7. Data aggregation via NGA Independent Insights to help independent grocers come together and compete against big chains with data.

Additional Information

Pricing Breakout Sessions General Sessions Agenda Post Conference Training Recreational Activites Getting To The Conference Local Area Contact Us

Conference Registration

$799 per person

 

Includes Sunday welcome activity and welcome reception dinner, all meals Monday – Tuesday, and the special Tuesday night dinner event.

Note: Does not include hotel rooms or optional two-day training. If you are registering for 3 or more guests, purchase the group discount tickets below instead to receive a special rate!

 

Conference Registration with Training

$1099 per person

Includes registration for the conference and training immediately following the conference on Wednesday and Thursday, October 4 – 5. Includes Sunday welcome activity and reception dinner, all meals Monday – Thursday, and the special Tuesday night dinner event.

Note: Does not include hotel rooms. If you are registering for 3 or more guests, purchase the group discount tickets instead to receive a special rate!

 

Group Conference Registration

$632 per person

Receive a group discount for conference registration! Pay only $300 for every 3rd registrant: buy 2 tickets at the normal rate of $799 and get the 3rd for $300. Includes Sunday welcome activity and reception dinner, all meals Monday – Tuesday, and the special Tuesday night dinner event.

Note: Does not include hotel rooms or optional two-day training. If the group would like to attend training on Wednesday and Thursday, October 4 – 5, it would be $300 extra per person.

 

Group Conference Registration with Training

$932 per person

Receive a group discount for conference registration! Pay only $600 for every 3rd registrant: buy 2 tickets at the normal rate of $1099 and get the 3rd for $600. This registration also includes training immediately following the conference on Wednesday, October 4 and Thursday, October 5. Includes Sunday welcome activity and reception dinner, all meals Monday – Thursday, and the special Tuesday night dinner event.

Note: Does not include hotel rooms.

 

Training Only

$400 per person

If you are not attending the conference, but would like to attend training, the fee is $400. This is only for training on Wednesday and Thursday, October 4 – 5. Includes breakfast, lunch and dinner on both days.

Note:  Does not include hotel rooms.

Guest Registration

$250 per person

If guests will be traveling with you, but will not be attending the conference, they are welcome to join the conference attendees for all meals, a Sunday activity of their choice, and the Tuesday night dinner event with this ticket. 

Note:  Does not include hotel rooms.

Breakout Sessions

 

Ad Planner
Building and tracking Ad profitability, vendor and broker deals, and store pre-books.
BRdata SQL Query Roundtable
Learn some of our most popular SQL Queries to easily extract data from BRdata database and share your own.
Cloud Admin
Best practices and procedures around configuring User access to BRdata Cloud Reporting and Mobile App.
Cloud Analytics
Maximize cloud subscription value by seeing the most popular reports/views and learning how to use them.  
Cloud App
Access your data from the palm of your hand!
Cloud Bookkeeping
Centralized and automated system which can replace existing spreadsheets to streamline daily balancing and bookkeeping process.
Cloud Pricing
Review Online Pricing site to access item and price data from a browser and how to implement for your chain.
Computer Generated Ordering
Take your inventory a step further and use it to power a rules base engine to project order quantities.
Demand Pricing Presentation + Roundtable  Use AI and ML (machine learning) to maximize category gross profit and revenue.   DSD/Inventory Roundtable
Open discussion for best practices and procedures around DSD, Inventory, and costing.
DSD Receiving
Streamlining procedures when validating costs at the back door and electronically.
E-commerce
An e-commerce solution that is affordable, easy, and fully integrated to BRdata back-office pricing and inventory.
Grind Log/Markdowns
Android application for product tracking. Grind Log will help track components of meat grind according to USDA\FSIS Regulations. Markdown will track discounted products throughout the store at the individual item level.
Getting Started with Loyalty
TBD
Host Pricing Roundtable
Open discussion on best practices and procedures in your BRdata Host Pricing system.      
Inventory Management
Tracking and costing products, from shrink tracking to perpetual Inventory controls.
Loyalty AI Personalization
Using AI to identify trends, potential lost shoppers, while targeting and rewarding your best customers and shopper segments.
NEW Loyalty Marketing
How to successfully market a loyalty program.
NGA Independent Insights
Data aggregation for independent retailers to analyze sales data like big chains, discovering trending items for benchmarking and sales opportunities.
Price Optimization
Protect gross margin by automatically keeping up with changing costs, while tracking price image against competition.
Single-Pass Ordering
Scan items in aisle with Android ordering app to create purchase orders for Warehouse, Wholesaler and DSD vendors.
NEW Single Point/Central Promotion Management
POS Promotion management tools, including our new Loyalty promotion management engine.      
Vendor Portal
Streamline the imports of Vendor new items, cost and deal changes. Get rid of costly data entry mistakes by enforcing data consistency and constraints and even allow your vendors to shoulder some of the burden!
Warehouse Management
WMS (Warehouse Management System) integrated directly into your MDM (Master Data Management)/Pricing system.

Intro Sessions: BRdata Basics, Hosting, Imports and Exports / Label Creation, DSD, Inventory, Ordering, and Reporting

General Sessions and User Experience Sessions

Data-driven Marketing
Michael La Kier, IGA
 
BRdata Update
John Abbene
BRUG President
Josh Estafen, Mustard Seed
Sales Drilldown Dashboard
Jon Albrecht, Acme Fresh Markets
Ad Planning
Acme Fresh Markets
AI Pricing and Forecasting
Joseph Dwyer, BRdata
Achieving ROI with Loyalty 
Advanced Pricing User Interface
AWG
DSD zone price management/Vendor Portal
Josh Smith, AFS
Perpetual Inventory in Produce Department with Advanced Costing Metrics
Vicki Justice, Jungle Jim’s International Market
Labor Forecasting and Sales per Labor Reporting
Fresh Encounter 
Independent Insights Cloud Reporting and App Usage 
Computer Generated Ordering Tracking Inventory Shrink and Markdowns 

Sunday, Oct 1st

8:00 – 5:00Conference Check-in
9:45 – 5:00Pre-Conference Activity
Time Square/Hell’s Kitchen/Central Park Walking Tour: (Departs 8:15 AM)
BRdata Golf Tournament at Wind Watch Golf & Country Club (Meeting 10:30 AM)
Wine Tour (departs 10:15 AM)
Fishing in The Great South Bay (departs 9:15 AM)
5:00 – 6:00First Time Attendees Meeting
6:00 – 9:00Welcome Reception Dinner

Monday, Oct 2nd

7:30 – 8:30Breakfast
8:30 – 12:15Day One General Sessions
8:30-9:20BRdata Update John Abbene, BRdata
9:20-11:15BRUG (BRdata User Group) – User Experiences
9:20-9:35Josh Estafen, Mustard Seed Markets, BRUG president
9:35-9:50Sales Drilldown Dashboard, Acme Fresh Markets
10:00-10:20Coffee Break
10:20-10:30Partner Presentation  
10:30-10:45Achieving ROI with Loyalty
10:45-11:00AI Pricing and Forecasting, Joseph Dwyer, BRdata
11:00-11:15Labor Budgeting and Reporting
11:15 – 12:15Michael La Kier, IGA, Data-driven Marketing
12:15 – 1:15Lunch
1:15 – 4:30Breakout Sessions
4:30 – 6:30Partner Showcase / Networking
6:30 – 9:30Dinner

Tuesday, Oct 3rd

7:30 – 8:30Breakfast
8:30 – 11:15Day Two General Sessions
8:30-8:45Ad Planner
8:45-9:00Perpetual Inventory in Produce Department, Vicki Justice, Jungle Jim’s
9:00-9:30NGA State of Industry, Chris Jones, NGA
9:30-9:45DSD zone price management / Vendor Portal, Josh Smith, AFS
9:45-10:05Coffee Break
10:05-10:15Partner Presentation
10:15-10:30Automated Ordering in Liquor Department
10:30-10:45Advanced Pricing User Interface, AWG
10:40-10:55Independent Insights
10:55-11:10Tracking Markdowns and Shrink
11:15 – 12:15Breakout Sessions
12:30 – 1:30Lunch
1:30 – 4:30Breakout Sessions
4:30 – 5:00Closing Statements
6:00 – 9:00Off Site Event

Wednesday, Oct 4th

7:30 – 8:30Breakfast
8:00 – 9:30Conference Debrief
Board of Directors/BRUG Members
8:30 – 12:30Optional Basic, Advanced User, and Technical Training
12:30 – 1:30Lunch
1:30 – 4:30 Optional Basic, Advanced User, and Technical Training

Thursday, Oct 5th

7:30 – 8:30Breakfast
8:30 – 12:30Optional Basic, Advanced User, and Technical Training
12:30 – 1:30Lunch
1:30 – 4:30 Optional Basic, Advanced User, and Technical Training
Wednesday and Thursday, October 4-5 , 8:30AM – 4:30PM

Take advantage of the optional post-conference training on Wednesday and Thursday, October 5th-6th, from 8:30AM – 4:30PM. Choose from either Advanced, Technical or Basic training.  $300 for conference attendees, $400 for non-conference attendees.

 

 

Training Track Options

 

 
  • Basic
    Intended for new users, this track will review everyday BRdata tasks. Topics include: Product Master Basics, BRdata Hosting, DSD and Ordering, Inventory, Imports and Exports, Reporting.
  • Advanced
    Topics TBD
  • Technical
    Topics TBD

All conference attendees are invited to join us in a Sunday recreational activity and a special Tuesday night dinner event.  When you purchase your tickets you will be prompted to specify which activities you would like to attend.

 

 

Sunday, October 1

 

NYC  Walking Tour

Join us for a historic tour of Times Square, leading into a Hell’s Kitchen culinary tour, and finishing with a tour of Central Park.

Please note that this is a walking tour. 

Departs: 8:15 AM

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BRdata Golf Tournament:
Wind Watch Golf & Country Club, Hauppauge, NY

Wind Watch Golf & Country Club is a semi-private Hauppauge Country Club open to the general public. We provide our Members and guests with one of Long Island’s most unique and challenging golf courses, as well as exceptional professional catering services for any private function, Long Island networking events, and corporate golf outing facilities. Out elevated first hole, one of Long Island’s highest summits, will challenge your skills and capture your attention. 

From the tremendous range of golfing amenities that abound from our 11-acre grass and artificial turf practice facility that is unique to any other public Long Island country club, to our luxurious, well-appointed clubhouse overlooking the course; our superbly conditioned daily fee Long Island Golf Course is one the best!

Note: Rental clubs are available for $60 and must be reserved in advanced.

Meeting: 10:30 AM

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Winery Tour and Tasting:
Head out East to visit two winery locations for a Wine Tour and Tasting. 

Departs: 10:15 AM

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Fishing:
Spend the day Fluke fishing out in The Great South Bay — departing from Captree State Park. 

Based on minimum occupancy.

Departs: 9:15 AM

 

 

Nearby Airports

  • LaGuardia Airport (LGA)
  • John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK)
  • Long Island MacArthur Airport (ISP)
 

Transportation

The hotel provides complimentary shuttle service (based upon availability) for destinations within a 10 mile radius. If you are renting a car, there is complimentary on-site parking. We recommend the following transportation company:
Eco Taxi NY:  (631) 624-3727

 

Dining/Shopping/Local Attractions

For information on dining, shopping, and local attractions in and around the hotel, please click HERE.

Manhattan

Travel to Manhattan using the Long Island Railroad.  Leave from Central Islip Train Station and arrive at Penn Station.  The Central Islip Train Station is about 3 miles from Hyatt Regency Long Island.

Questions? Comments? Contact Us!

Please email us at conference@brdata.com or (631)391-8840 with any questions you have.