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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. This year’s conference will have a focus on AI technology in grocery. Learn how AI can streamline pricing, forecasting, ordering, and customer personalization and the steps to get started.
There are over 70 planned sessions for this year’s conference, including several sessions from leaders in the grocery industry and your peers.
Additionally, the conference will provide information on how to get started with or fine-tune the following solutions:
- FSMA 204 compliance with BRdata Store Receiving and Cloud.
- Automating pricing and TPRs while tracking competitor retails to ensure gross margin is protected.
- Implementing actionable analytics to provide information enterprise wide within minutes of consumer checkout.
- Utilizing a vendor portal to automate capture of direct vendor costs, deals, and new items.
- Implementing perpetual inventory to automate ordering with CGO (computer generated ordering).
- Customer Loyalty: getting started, providing an ROI, implementing AI/ML to track and reward your customers.
- Data aggregation via NGA Independent Insights to help independent grocers come together and compete against big chains with data
Additional Information
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
$1,099 per person
Includes registration for the conference and training immediately following the conference on Wednesday and Thursday, October 2 – 3. 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 2 – 3, 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 2 and Thursday, October 3. 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 2 – 3. 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
| Accurate GM%: Steps to Take to Ensure Costs are Loaded for All Items Tips and tricks to ensure you are loading costs for all items, to identify and potential low gross margin opportunities. | Achieving ROI and Increased Sales with Loyalty TBA |
| Ad Planning and Forecasting Building and tracking Ad profitability, vendor and broker deals, and store pre-books. | AI Customer Personalization Grow and recapture sales, reward top customers, identify lost and declining shoppers. |
| AI Ordering Take your inventory a step further and use it to power a rules base engine to project order quantities. | BRdata Cloud Dashboard Reporting Sell-through, Sales Summary, Sales Drilldown. Three powerful views that can track sales, profit, purchases, budgets vs. actuals, known loss, dept. transfers, private label, and labor. |
| Building a Winning Customer Engagement Program How to successfully build a consumer engagement program that increases shopper spending! | Cashier Balancing and Bookkeeping Centralized and automated system which can replace existing spreadsheets to streamline daily balancing and bookkeeping process. |
| Chart-busting Cloud Reports Review the most frequently run reports in the BRdata Cloud reporting suite. | Cloud Admin Best practices and procedures around configuring User access to BRdata Cloud Reporting and Mobile App. |
| Connect Consumer App Overview on the BRdata consumer application. | Demand Pricing Using AI / ML to recommend retails to maximize gross profit by category. |
| E-Commerce An e-commerce solution that is affordable, easy, and fully integrated to BRdata back-office pricing and inventory. | Getting Started with Perpetual Inventory How to get started with running a perpetual Inventory at your store! |
| GM Analysis Tool (pricing.brdata.com) Retailer use cases connected to the pricing site included with your cloud subscription. | Grind Log Tracking & Markdown Pricing 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. |
| Labor Analysis in BRdata Importing and analyzing labor metrics within BRdata Cloud reporting. | Loading DSD Receipts to Accounting Resolving invoices and feeding DSD receipts into AP from your BRdata system and how to streamline the process including Document Linking Module. |
| NGA Independent Insights Identify trending items and comparing sales to your peers, identify potential lost opportunities. | Query Smarter, not Harder: BRdata SQL Insights Presentation on extracting data & automated emails from SQL by the Cloud SQL team. |
| Retail Generation Engine Using rules based pricing engine to generate Retails, private label \ National Brand Pricing and TPRs. Using Competitors to drive retail changes. | Shrink Tracking Shrink tracking, department transfers, store to store transfers and much more! |
| Single Pass Ordering Scan items in aisle with Android ordering app to create purchase orders for Warehouse, Wholesaler and DSD vendors. | Singlepoint Promo Management User cases and how to on the single point promo engine for complex offers and deals. |
The BRdata Cloud App | Vendor Billing |
Vendor Electronic Invoice and ASN Imports | Vendor Portal |
Intro Sessions: BRdata Basics: An Introduction to Data Maintenance for New Users, BRdata Hosting Basics, Inventory Management 101: A Beginner's Guide, Label Printing with Aisle Shelf Management, Mastering Imports and Exports, Understanding DSD: A Comprehensive Introduction
Roundtables: Actionable Analytics and Loss Prevention, AI & ML in Grocery, AI / ML Pricing System, Central Price Management, DSD Best Practices, FSMA 204 Compliance, Improving Enterprise Application Usability, Inventory, Why?, Loyalty and Customer Engagement Programs, New User and First Time Attendee Feedback, Single-store Operators, Staffing Host, TPR Tips and Tools, WMS
BRdata World 2024 Agenda
Sunday, Sept 29th
| 8:00 – 5:00 | Conference Check-in |
| 8:15 – 5:00 | Pre-Conference Activity NYC Walking Tour: (departs 8:15 AM) Golf Tournament at Wind Watch Golf & Country Club (8 AM start) Brewery Tour (departs 11:15 AM) Fishing in The Great South Bay (departs 9:15 AM) |
| 5:00 – 6:00 | First Time Attendees Meeting |
| 6:00 – 9:00 | Welcome Reception Dinner |
Monday, Sept 30th
| 7:30 – 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 – 12:15 | Day One General Sessions |
| 8:30-9:25 | BRdata Update / AI in Grocery, John Abbene, President, BRdata |
| 9:25-11:00 | BRUG (BRdata User Group) – User Experiences |
| 9:25-9:40 | Tyler Davis, IT/Pricing Systems, Woodman's Markets, BRUG president |
| 9:40-9:55 | Analytics and Inventory, Cesar Rodriguez, Manager Corp. Data Support, Vallarta Supermarkets |
| 9:55-10:15 | Coffee Break |
| 10:15-10:30 | Implementing automating ordering, Scott Phillips, Retail Technology Manager, Associated Food Stores |
| 10:30-10:45 | Cloud App, Actionable Analytics in the palm of your hand |
| 10:45-11:00 | Loyalty Rewards, Frank Dentici, Chief Operating Officer, Kuhn's Quality Foods |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Economic Challenges for Consumers, Data-Driven Marketing, and AI in Grocery, John Ross, President and CEO, IGA |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 5:10 | Breakout Sessions |
| 5:15 – 6:30 | Partner Showcase / Networking |
| 6:30 – 9:30 | Dinner |
Tuesday, Oct 1st
| 7:30 – 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 – 11:00 | Day Two General Sessions |
| 8:30-8:45 | ROI and Efficiencies of wall-to-wall ESLs, Alex Walker, Director of Operations, David Food and Drug |
| 8:45-9:00 | Employee "Loyalty" Engagement Programs, Sarah Schwartz, Pricing and eCommerce Data Management, Kowalski's Markets |
| 9:00-9:30 | Election 2024 and the Impact on the Independent Grocery Industry, Greg Ferrara, President and CEO, NGA |
| 9:30-9:45 | Retail, TPR, Margin, and Competitor Management, Robert's Company Inc., and AWG |
| 9:45-10:05 | Coffee Break |
| 10:05-10:20 | Cloud Reporting, Shawn Bolerjack, Marketing, Pricing, and Data Supervisor, Town and Country Markets / Country Mart |
| 10:20-10:35 | Best Practices for DSD item management, Caitlyn Faucher, Senior Pricing Specialist, Associated Food Stores |
| 10:35-10:50 | Tracking Markdowns and Shrink versus Sales, Bridger Oswald, System Administrator, Broulim's Fresh Foods |
| 10:50-11:00 | Implementing Computer Generated Ordering in Liquor Dept, Eric Mackay, Owner, Mack's Market |
| 11:10 – 12:00 | Breakout Sessions |
| 12:00 – 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 – 4:30 | Breakout Sessions |
| 4:45 – 5:00 | Closing Statements |
| 6:00 – 9:00 | Top Golf Networking Event |
Wednesday, Oct 2nd
| 7:30 – 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:00 – 9:30 | Conference Debrief Board of Directors/BRUG Members |
| 8:30 – 12:30 | Optional Basic, Advanced User, and Technical Training |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 4:30 | Optional Basic, Advanced User, and Technical Training |
Thursday, Oct 3rd
| 7:30 – 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 – 12:30 | Optional Basic, Advanced User, and Technical Training |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 4:30 | Optional Basic, Advanced User, and Technical Training |
General Sessions and User Experience Sessions (2024 Tentative Lineup)
| BRdata Update John Abbene | BRUG President Tyler Davis, Woodman's |
| John Ross, IGA President and CEO, Keynote | AI Ordering |
| Sales Drilldown Dashboard | AI Personalization |
| AI Pricing and Forecasting Joseph Dwyer, BRdata | Achieving ROI with Loyalty |
| Advanced Pricing User Interface AWG | Vendor Portal |
| Perpetual Inventory in Liquor Department | Labor Forecasting and Sales per Labor Reporting |
| NGA Independent Insights | Cloud Reporting and App Usage |
| FSMA 204 Compliance w/ BRdata Store Receiving | Tracking Inventory Shrink and Markdowns |
| ESL Benefits | Cashier Balancing |
| IGA National Digital Offers |
Wednesday and Thursday, October 2-3 , 8:30AM – 4:30PM
Take advantage of the optional post-conference training on Wednesday and Thursday, October 2nd-3rd, 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, September 29
NYC Walking Tour
Join us for a historic tour of NYC. Location to be determined.
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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Brewery Tour and Tasting:
Head out East to visit two brewery locations.
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.