Carolina on My Mind

7:00 am – 5:30 pm – CFIC Registration

7:00 am – 5:30 pm – Sponsor Sample Sack Pick-Up

7:00 am – 6:00 pm – CFIC Café (Hot Breakfast Buffet 7:00–9:00 am; Asian Lunch Buffet 11:30 am–1:30 pm)

7:30 am – 9:00 am – Opening Session, Scholarship Award winner announcements

Keynote Speaker: Jim Abbott, former MLB pitcher

9:15 am – 3:00 pm – One-on-One Business Meetings

9:30 am – 10:30 am – Breakout Session: How to Compete with Hard Discounters and Win, with Ken Wyker, Circular Logic

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Bronze Sponsor Speed Meetings

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm – Platinum Sponsor Innovation Tent

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Networking Reception (Adults only), Dinner on your own

7:00 am – 4:00 pm – CFIC Café (Hot Breakfast Buffet 7:00–9:00 am; Mexican Lunch Buffet 11:30 am–1:30 pm)

8:00 am – 11:30 am – Executive Briefings

• 8:00 am – 8:30 am:       MDI
• 8:45 am – 9:15 am:       Lowes Foods
• 9:30 am – 10:00 am:     Food Lion
• 10:15 am – 10:45 am:   Harris Teeter
• 11:00 am – 11:30 am:   Food City

8:30 am – 12:00 pm – Sponsor Sample Sack Pick-Up

9:30 am – 12:00 noon – Breakout Sessions

• 9:30 am – 10:45 am: Be the Disruptor or the Disrupted, with Thom Blischok, The Dialogic Group
• 11:00 am – 12:00 noon: Making Innovation a Reality in Independent Grocery, Craig Rosenblum, Inmar

11:00 am – 4:00 pm – One-on-One Business Meetings

5:00 pm – 9:30 pm – Children’s Activity (ages 5+)

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Platinum Sponsors Reception (Adults only by invitation)

6:45 pm – 7:30 pm – President’s Reception

7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – President’s Dinner and Live Auction

8:00 pm – Silent Auction Closes

8:45 pm – 10:00 pm – Silent Auction Payment and Item Pick Up

7:00 am – 10:00 am – CFIC Café (Hot Breakfast Buffet 7:00–9:00 am)

8:00 am – 10:00 am – Silent Auction Payment and Pick Up

8:00 am – 12:00 pm – One-on-One Business Meetings

9:00 am – 11:00 am – CFIC Board of Directors Meeting