Retail & Development Business Summit is the Ukrainian Retail Association annual project.

RDBSummit is the largest final year event in the retail and commercial real estate market. The summit key product is information on global trends and development trends in retail and development, market analytics and forecasts for the coming years.

This year the summit main theme is “Women in retail”. During the event, much attention will be paid to the role of women in retailing, the features of building a career for women, the prerequisites for the success for the fair sex in business.

RDBSummit is:

• TOP-25 market experts in the business-sessions program;
• 500+ participants — Owners and TOP-managers of retail and development companies sphere;
• Acquaintance with foreign partners and investors;
• Services and new developments presentation for the retail and development market.

The RDBS-2018 title partner is the VOVK clothing studios chain. The VOVK clothing studio chain is the № 1 among young Ukrainian clothing brands in growth terms and customer confidence, according to many experts. In 2016, the company won the nomination “National manufacturer of the year of clothes for women” at the contest “Choice of the Year 2016”.

VOVK managed to open studios in Kiev, Lvov, Odessa, Dnepr, Kharkov and other major cities of Ukraine for 5 years of existence. The company aim is to convey to all that made in Ukraine — it is quality, accessible and made with taste.

The event general partner is the Ukrainian IT-company SMART business. It specializes in the Microsoft systems implementation for the business problems complex solution. SMART business is a recognized leader in the Ukrainian market of consulting services in providing innovative solutions for effective business management.

The company implements and develops business-systems for enterprises and organizations on the Microsoft Dynamics (Dynamics 365, CRM, NAV, AX) platform, corporate SharePoint portals, as well as Microsoft cloud products for complex business tasks: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Azure, Power BI, Yammer, Teams, Project.