STAGE BREAK-OUTS: 1:15-1:45 P.M. EST

STAGE 1
Panel: Reinventing Bedding: A Guide To Managing Disruption
Moderator: David Perry, Executive Editor, Furniture Today
Panelists: Melanie Huet, Serta Simmons Bedding
Mike Magnuson, Goodbed.com
Bob McCarthy, Resident
A diverse panel of bedding industry leaders unpack the disruption that has reinvented the traditional bedding sales model, overturned the traditional path to purchase and created both new challenges and new opportunities. Find out the strategies that will help drive business in the coming year and beyond.
Sponsored by Serta

STAGE 2
Panel: Reinventing The Final Mile
Moderator: Josh DeLay, VP Business Development, JB Hunt
Panelists:
Steve Anderson, Williams-Sonoma
Levi Dinerman, Renegade Furniture Group
Will Harris, Darvin Furniture
Peter Sorrentino, Bob?s Discount Furniture
The consumer?s last impression can be made or broken by their delivery experience. A panel of leading furniture retailers share best practices and strategies for satisfying consumers? changing and increasingly demanding needs.
Sponsored by JB Hunt

STAGE 3
Panel: Reinventing E-Commerce in the Age of COVID-19
Panelists: Keith Johns, MicroD
Jeffrey Nunn, vFurnish
Craig Schmeizer, Idle
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased the importance of e-commerce for furniture retail business models. Changes that were anticipated to take 5 years are now being executed in mere months. This panel of industry leading technology specialists will reveal the critical changes that retailers will need to make to survive this emerging challenge.