The annual DBS Lidl Retail Management Conference took place on Thursday 14th March in DBS Aungier Street. The theme of this year's conference was 'Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Retailing' and featured presentations from a number of well known and successful speakers. The hugely successful event was organised by a group of students from the Bachelor of Business in Retail Management Degree programme run at DBS in conjunction with Lidl. 



Speakers on the day included:

• Mr Stephen Lynham, Director of Retail Ireland, IBEC
• Mr Saquib Jan, Special Projects Manager, Brown Thomas
• Ms Noelle O'Connor, Director, Tan Organic
• Ms Aislinn Mahon, Enterprise Ireland UK
• Mr Adrian Bartels, General Manager, The Cliff House Hotel, Ardmore
• Mr Joe Gavin, Managing Director, Xcelerate Marketing
• Mr Pat Burke, Partner - Privately held & Dynamic Businesses, Grant Thornton
• Mr Ken Hughes, Shopper Behaviouralist, Glacier Consulting

DBS Student and RMDP Trainee Darren Bates covered the conference live on his blog and you can watch how the conference unfolded here.

Pictured above are some of the speakers and organisers of this year's conference. More photos can be viewed on the DBS facebook page