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Over 70 Heads of eCommerce and Digital from Europe’s top brands and retailers already confirmed and qualified for budget responsibility and investment areas.


The only event uniting pre-qualified Digital and eCommerce leaders from Europe’s top F&B brands and retailers.

At Digital Food & Beverage Connect, you’re in control. Your schedule is customised so you can get your strategic benchmarking and vendor evaluation needs covered within days, not weeks.

As attendance is restricted to 80 Heads of eCommerce & Digital from the top food and beverage brands and retailers and a select group of best-of-breed vendors, you will:

  • Brainstorm real and practical ideas to transform your business through private, closed-door sessions led by market leaders
  • Efficiently evaluate the leading service offerings during conveniently arranged 1-1 meetings with vendors that you select based on your current investment priorities.

It’s a Platinum Members’ Club offering a bespoke experience for those shaping the future of food and beverage. It’s where you make the connections you need to make, when you want to make them.

What are our attendees investing in within the next 12 months?

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2023 Speakers

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Emma Carrera

Global Director Digital & eCommerce B2B
Unilever

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Emma Cathie-Harris

eCommerce Channel Development Director
PepsiCo

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Vladimir Sushko

Global eRetail Director
AB InBev

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Sarah Masters

Digital & Ecommerce Director
Unilever

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Nina Tatsiy

Chief Information Officer
BAT

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Stuart Heffernan

Global Head of eCommerce
Pernod Ricard

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Johanna Widomski

Director Digital
Fazer Group

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Ben Higginson

Head of D-Comm Operations
Britvic

The Connect Difference

Transformative Content

We only cover strategic content and hand-pick senior-level speakers and attendees. And because we pre-qualify based on decision-making responsibility and budget, you get invaluable peer-to-peer information and take-aways.

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Personalised Connections

Because you tell us your priorities, we create closed-door tailored interactive sessions and connect you with the right solutions partners in 1-1 meetings, saving you time on competitor benchmarking and vendor evaluation.

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A Luxury Experience

We only select luxury venues in a captive location, a perfect environment for quality learning and networking with no distractions. Plus, we pick up the tab for your pass, hotel stay, including various drinks and dinner experiences!

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Highest Priority Content. Created for Decision-Makers.

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Adapting your people, processes and technology to meet the shift in customer behaviours

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Optimising your omnichannel offering to deliver a seamless customer experience across all touchpoints

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Harnessing advanced analytics to transform your digital and ecommerce capabilities and stand out from the crowd

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Leveraging innovative UX and CX tools to better attract, engage and retain your customers in a highly competitive market

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Building successful data-driven collaborations with retailers and customers to increase brand awareness and drive sales

What our VIPs say about Connect

“ Offered the best balance of keynote panels and speakers, with group discussions and time for 1-2-1 catch-ups and idea sharing - it is the leading event for those in the food and beverage eCommerce industry.”

Director of Digital, Lindt

“An excellent collection of thought leaders, sharing real life problems and solutions for the digital world we're all very much in.”

Customer Digital Director, Mars

“It was powerful to have time to connect with other companies in the same industry and realise the problems we struggle with are more or less the same.”

Head of Digital Marketing | IT, Carlsberg Group

How It Works

A Bespoke, Senior-Level Experience

If you qualify to attend, we’ll ask you about your strategic priorities and we’ll build your personalised agenda and meeting schedule. You’ll have your hotel stay, including drinks and dinner experiences, covered by us too!

Connect with Hand-picked Solutions Providers 1-1

Based on your profile we’ll match you with leading solution providers, assisting with the vendor selection process. You are in full control as you will only meet with the providers you are interested in evaluating.

Speak Freely in Interactive Formats

Sessions are not recorded or covered by press. The ‘closed-door’, interactive discussions encourage openness, so you get more detailed information and takeaways than at any other event.

Who Joins Digital Food & Beverage Connect?

Only Senior-level, Pre-Qualified leading food and beverage brands and retailers from across Europe and the rest of the globe attend:

Interactive Learning & Networking

Get ideas from all the great minds in the audience through a variety of small working group discussions. 

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Oxford Style Debate

Walk away with a fresh mindset and better prepared to deal with a controversial issue.

Sit back and witness industry leading figures pitting themselves against each other to deliver the knockout argument.

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Drill Down Roundtable

An exceptional way to genuinely get to grips with your key challenges.

Your chance to probe an industry expert along with your peers to source practical solutions collaboratively.

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Panel & Collaborative Discussion

Take part in interactive discussions with your industry peers and take away different approaches to the same challenge.

Starting with a keynote panel discussion, the speakers then invite you and your group to debrief with them and have your say on some of the most important issues in the industry right now.

Join the Digital Food & Beverage Connect Club

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Relax and Reflect at Sopwell House

03 - 04 October, 2023