Retail Day 2026: commerce and e-commerce

About the event

Retail Day 2026 is scheduled for 22 October in Moscow at Metropol Hotel, Chatsky Hall, 2 Teatralny Proezd. The official programme runs from 10:00 to 15:00 and includes registration, two subject sessions, an interview with a senior executive, breaks and networking. The venue and timetable make this a compact working day focused on retail and e-commerce.

Registration and welcome coffee are scheduled from 10:00 to 10:30. The first session is titled “Demand and the Consumer: How, Who and What to Sell?” Its listed questions include the 2026 shopper profile, formats for contemporary shopping centres and stores, whether marketplaces are competitors or additional storefronts, promotion and loyalty, and technology to attract and retain customers. It also includes practical cost-reduction cases covering rent negotiations, logistics optimisation and energy efficiency. One question explicitly links retail, sport and entertainment in the context of contemporary shopping centres.

The first-session cards list Anna Papaskiri, managing partner at Retex Bureau, as moderator; Sergey Kondakov, CEO of Tom Tailor; Dmitry Nikonov, a member of Haier’s board in the CIS and Central Asia; Marya Day, executive director at Simple Group; Yan Dmitrenko, co-owner and co-founder of the «Честная Рыба» (Chestnaya Ryba) restaurant chain; and Artem Bardin, CEO of Drinkit’s Russian corporate businesses. The same grid lists experts Alexandra Kaloshina of Solstudio Industry and Radical Chic, Alexander Konovalov of 4forms and Irina Zueva, marketing director at STOIC. The cards bring experience from different business segments to the session’s questions on demand and retail formats. The session card shows nine named entries with moderator, speaker and expert roles distinguished.

After the 12:00–12:30 coffee break, the programme sets aside 20 minutes for an interview with a senior executive. The listed moderators are Ekaterina Antsiferova, deputy CEO of delivery service Dalli, and Petr Kosenko, a presenter at Kommersant FM; the interview guest is M.Video CEO Vladislav Bakalchuk. In the published timetable, this short format sits between the first and second subject sessions.

The second session is titled “Infrastructure for Retail and E-commerce: New Solutions, Products and Directions.” Its agenda covers 2026 cross-border logistics routes and tariffs, last-mile development, cargo insurance in transit and in warehouses, and financial solutions for retail. The moderator is listed as Ekaterina Antsiferova of Dalli. Published speakers include Natura Siberica CEO Natalia Dello, Beethoven pet-store chain CEO Alexey Prolygin, CDEK sales director Valeria Lipova, RFL commercial director Olga Mullayarova and Avito Podrabotka key-account lead Vlad Tverdkhleb. The session card contains six named entries: one moderator and five speakers.

The day plan places the first session from 10:30 to 12:00, the second from 12:50 to 14:30 and networking from 14:30 to 15:00. The published grid schedules a coffee break and interview between the sessions; its topics are arranged in sequence rather than across parallel halls. Team contacts and participation information are published on the event page.

The event appears on the official Kommersant Conferences platform, where the programme and team contacts are available. The page is hosted on the Kommersant domain, and its footer identifies publisher AO Kommersant. The checked material does not provide a separate legal organiser statement beyond the conferences-project context. Ticket-payment processing and event organisation are distinct functions.

The partner block names CDEK, Fresh Logic and Avito Podrabotka; Revyline is listed under support. These entries record the published partner and support roles. The reviewed source set does not include a separate current delegate or company-attendee list apart from speakers and partners. The programme therefore identifies topics and the professional roles represented in its cards, but it is not a roster of companies present in the room.