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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
Conference Registration
$599 per person (extra early bird rate -- save $200)
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
$899 per person (extra early bird rate)
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
$499 per person (extra early bird rate)
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
$799 per person (extra early bird rate)
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 (2023 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 (2023 sessions) Check back for 2024 lineup
| 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 |
2023 agenda. Check back for 2024 agenda.
Sunday, Sept 29th
| 8:00 – 5:00 | Conference Check-in |
| 9:45 – 5:00 | Pre-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 – 6:00 | 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 |
| 8:30-9:20 | BRdata Update John Abbene, BRdata |
| 9:20-11:15 | BRUG (BRdata User Group) – User Experiences |
| 9:20-9:35 | Josh Estafen, Mustard Seed Markets, BRUG president |
| 9:35-9:50 | Sales Drilldown Dashboard, Acme Fresh Markets |
| 10:00-10:20 | Coffee Break |
| 10:20-10:30 | Partner Presentation |
| 10:30-10:45 | Achieving ROI with Loyalty |
| 10:45-11:00 | AI Pricing and Forecasting, Joseph Dwyer, BRdata |
| 11:00-11:15 | Labor Budgeting and Reporting |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Michael La Kier, IGA, Data-driven Marketing |
| 12:15 – 1:15 | Lunch |
| 1:15 – 4:30 | Breakout Sessions |
| 4:30 – 6:30 | Partner Showcase / Networking |
| 6:30 – 9:30 | Dinner |
Tuesday, Oct 1st
| 7:30 – 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 – 11:15 | Day Two General Sessions |
| 8:30-8:45 | Ad Planner |
| 8:45-9:00 | Perpetual Inventory in Produce Department, Vicki Justice, Jungle Jim’s |
| 9:00-9:30 | NGA State of Industry, Chris Jones, NGA |
| 9:30-9:45 | DSD zone price management / Vendor Portal, Josh Smith, AFS |
| 9:45-10:05 | Coffee Break |
| 10:05-10:15 | Partner Presentation |
| 10:15-10:30 | Automated Ordering in Liquor Department |
| 10:30-10:45 | Advanced Pricing User Interface, AWG |
| 10:40-10:55 | Independent Insights |
| 10:55-11:10 | Tracking Markdowns and Shrink |
| 11:15 – 12:15 | Breakout Sessions |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 4:30 | Breakout Sessions |
| 4:30 – 5:00 | Closing Statements |
| 6:00 – 9:00 | Off Site 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 |
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 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.