RETAIL SUMMIT
Through our Circles and Advisory Committee, we bring forward the questions, experience and perspectives that help shape Retail Summit. In April, that thinking becomes visible across the programme, where we explore it together with the wider industry.
The Club gives Retail Summit its professional core. Retail Summit gives our Club the place where we come together, see what our collective judgment can create and discover what should happen next.
RETAIL SUMMIT 2027 at SCALE
A summit shaped by an unusually large part of the industry.
3,600+
participants
700+
speakers & panelists
18
stages
500+
Club of 369 Advisory
Committee members
18th edition · 65% of participants are C-level executives or directors
The scale matters because Retail Summit is not only attended by the industry.
Hundreds of people from the Club of 369 help shape what eventually happens on its stages.
YEAR-ROUND CONTINUITY
JUNE - Test
We review the strongest signals from Retail Summit and test which decision arenas and building blocks deserve to carry forward. This is where the next Summit's stages and programme structure begin to take shape.
OCTOBER - DEEPEN
Through Advisory Committee meetings and wider Club input, we go inside those arenas: which questions matter, which panels are needed and what should actually be discussed. By the end of October, the programme is substantially formed.
JANUARY - ALIGN
We fine-tune the programme, close the remaining gaps and bring in the final speakers and panelists needed to make the conversations work.
APRIL - ACTIVATE LIVE
The Club of 369 comes together with the wider industry at Retail Summit. The year's work becomes live discussion across the stages - and generates the signals for what should happen next.
AFTER APRIL - EXTRACT & STRUCTURE
The strongest signals, questions and consequences are captured and carried into the next cycle.
Then April brings us together again, with a stronger view of what matters now.
SELECTIVE PROGRAMME OPPORTUNITIES
Advisory Committee, panelist, moderator and speaker roles may become available to Club members, but invitation remains selective and depends on experience, Circle relevance and programme needs.
There is more between us than an agenda.
When we meet at Retail Summit, many of the questions and conversations are already in motion. We meet and reconnect with people from our Circles and the wider Club, while new perspectives from across the industry keep those conversations moving.
Across the stages and the meetings around them, Retail Summit gives us two concentrated days to compare what we are seeing, strengthen relationships and connect with people, perspectives and questions we want to stay close to.
Attending Retail Summit as a Club member
Club members who choose to attend Retail Summit participate through the Club and do not need to purchase a separate delegate ticket
What happens between Summits matters even more.
Make the people, perspectives and opportunities around Retail Summit part of your professional year.
New members can join the Club from 1 June until 30 November each year.
The Club operates on an annual cycle. Members who contribute and remain eligible may continue into the next cycle without starting again as new applicants.
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