taking the flight SU-100 by Aeroflot. All delegates will receive backpacks with all useful and necessary for the visit.

Location: Sheremetyevo airport, near the baggage drop-off points.

On the way to Manhattan will be enough time to check the sights, talk, share the experience and expectations or just chill after the flight.

Location: RIU PLAZA NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE
307 W 46th St Manhattan – New York, NY 10036 - USA

Start of the delegation's work, presentation of the program, acquaintance and informal communication of the delegation. It's time to meet friends, get to know new people, express expectations and simply switch to a New York rhythm.

Adress: RIU PLAZA NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE (Fashion Bar & Restaurant )
307 W 46th St Manhattan – New York, NY 10036 - USA

Jogging around the Central Park will wake up your brain and help to cheer up for the most efficient work. Everyone chooses their own pace depending on personal physical fitness. The goal is to set your brain to business and get pleasure. The participants of last year Redis Retail Run still recalling that freshening New York morning and a wonderful run through the Central Park.

Location: The Central Park, infront of Columbus Circle

For five years, members of the delegation visited Walmart stores with reference visits, but this year for the first time, a top manager of the company will speak to members of the Russian delegation and talk about the company, its plans and future.

Headliner: Alexey Shlykov, Senior Director of Information and Analytics, Walmart Canada. Member of Walmart global.

- Technologies as the main lever for retail to move into new business spaces. What does Walmart do in this direction?
- The challenges of moving to a genuine OMNI business model for a retail company. "Bad" Amazon and how to deal with it.
- Data and analytics are the cornerstones of digitalization of business in retail. Examples from Walmart.
- Monetization of data, the transition from theory to practice on the example of Walmart.
- The role of full-featured systems in accelerating movement toward a modern business model, including the implementation of the principle of focusing on a competitive advantage. Walmart Case Studies
- AI and Blockchain. Experience transition from a foggy concept to real application.
Address: RIU PLAZA NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE Conference Hall
307 W 46th St Manhattan, New York

ATTENTION! Be sure to bring your passport or driver's license with you.
Wear comfortable shoes. On the tour, high heels, ties, scarves,
backpacks and large bags. We recommend that you bring along your phone, wallet
with documents and business cards.

Gathering in the lobby of the RIU PLAZA NEW YORK TIMES SQUARE hotel. 307 W 46th St

For the first time in the program of the visit of the Russian delegation - a visit to the logistics center of the most famous US retailer.
In a programme:
- a visit to the product acceptance area from Amazon suppliers;
- visit to the storage area;
- Demonstration of the order picking process;
- quality control;
- visit to the packaging station;
- Visit to the shipping area.
Address: 50 New Canton Way Robbinsville, NJ

New York is not in vain considered a landmark for connoisseurs of contemporary art. Many galleries, famous artists and big names of collectors - all this is inherent in New York. For the third time as part of the business program of the visit, acquaintance with contemporary art will take place. And this year we decided to combine a conversation about business and contemporary art.
Address: Etcetera Etcetera Restaurant (THE PIANO ROOM)
352 W 44th St, New York

Each year, top managers of the most famous and successful US retail companies share their experience as part of a business breakfast with the Russian delegation. This year is no exception.

Headliners:
Yehuda Shmidman, CEO of Wave Hill Partners; Vice Chairman of Toys R Us (TRU) and Jet Support (Board Member)
Richard Barry, CEO of Toys R Us (TRU)
board member Toys R Us will explain how a major US company specializing in toys, clothes and other children's goods retailers survived bankruptcy and launched a new store format.

Headliners: Cory Baker, COO of Marquee Brands (сhains BCBG, Ben Sherman, Bruno Magli, Destination Maternity и пр)

Address: SAP Office, 10 Hudson Yards

What are the advantages of blockchain, machine learning and other revolutionary technologies, what impact they have on the business, and how to create their own custom applications, delegation members will learn in the laboratory of the SAP Innovation Center in New York.

Address: SAP America Office, 10 Hudson Yards

Tours of the Russian delegation at Retail's Big Show 2019 are held in Russian, designed and prepared specifically for the Russian delegation. Only those stands that display the most advanced of existing trends and set the development vector for the near and even distant future fall into the route.
The formation of the route is based on the wishes and goals of the delegation. The program includes not only visiting the stands of global companies that set trends in the market from year to year, but also a tour of the basement of the exhibition, where promising startups are represented.


Location: Jacob K. Javits Center, 655 West 34th Street

Attention! The Retail's Big Show hosts a conference with quite big number of business events (the working language of the conference is English). Participation in the conference requires additional payment; the organizers will assist in purchasing tickets at a reduced price. Seminars and lectures with mark 'for free' may be attended by everyone.

During dinner, participants can not only exchange impressions from visiting the exhibition, but also discuss the applicability of technologies in real stores. The event in the Zavo restaurant will replace the famous Onegin, which completed its work on January 6, 2019.

Location: 1011 3rd Ave, New York, NY 10065

Headliner: Amir Zwickel, Co-Founder & Chief Real Estate Officer at SHOWFIELDS
The four-story Showfields "most interesting store in the world" offers "captures -
a great retail experience, combining shops with art exhibitions,
theater, digital space. Revolutionary retail concept,
which invites you to discover the brands of the future and chat with them. Many
experts consider it the most high-profile retail project of 2019.

11 bond street

The motto of the store, founded in 1927 on the so-called Book Row, is "90 years and 18 miles
books. " Almost a hundred years ago, the book series occupied six city blocks and
there were forty-eight bookstores, and today Strand is their only "
living "representative. We will try to unravel the secret of success of one of the most
popular bookstores in the world selling not only 2.5 million second-hand,
new and rare books, but also keeping up to date with literary gifts,
Moleskines products, coffee mugs, evening meetings with interesting
personalities, "dollar" carts on the street.

828 Broadway

What are the advantages of blockchain, machine learning and other revolutionary technologies, what impact they have on the business, and how to create their own custom applications, delegation members will learn in the laboratory of the SAP Innovation Center in New York.


Address: SAP America Office, 10 Hudson Yards

ATTENTION! Be sure to bring your passport or driver's license with you.
Wear comfortable shoes. On the tour, high heels, ties, scarves,
backpacks and large bags. We recommend that you bring along your phone, wallet
with documents and business cards.

SAP 10 Hudson Yards Office Entrance Fee

For the first time in the program of the visit of the Russian delegation - a visit to the logistics center of the most famous US retailer.
In a programme:
- a visit to the product acceptance area from Amazon suppliers;
- visit to the storage area;
- Demonstration of the order picking process;
- quality control;
- visit to the packaging station;
- Visit to the shipping area.
Address: 50 New Canton Way Robbinsville, NJ

This is not just a dinner, but also a joint search for new ideas, strategies and solutions.
At 4 round tables, 4 topics are discussed along with those retailers for whom this topic is also interesting:
1. The most interesting ideas and solutions from the exhibition.
2. The most interesting store concepts seen during the references.
3. The most interesting topics raised by headliners at business breakfasts.
4. The most innovative discoveries following the results of the program.
Bottom line: a brief squeeze from a busy program and an exchange of impressions with colleagues.
Address: Heartland Brewery and Chophouse (Harvest Rooms)
127 WEST 43rd Street, New York

In addition to the business part, the city has many attractions that are worth seeing. We invite the participants of our delegation on a journey through the history and unusual life of the most famous metropolis in the world. Our tour begins with the oldest skyscraper in the city - the legendary Iron. Then continue walking along the most famous street of New York - Broadway Street,
This sightseeing tour of New York will introduce you to one of the largest libraries in the world - the New York Public Library, which is located in a beautiful building made of white marble, once the largest in the world!
It was she who appeared in many Hollywood films, as well as in favorite TV shows - for example, it was here that the heroine of Sarah Jessica Parker from Sex in the Big City - planned to finally get married
We also learn what helped investors in those years not to abandon construction and even save a huge part of the construction budget of the century.
Our individual tour of New York will end with a sightseeing tour of one of the most famous attractions in New York to the Rockefeller Center complex
And this is only half of the sights that we have to get to know!