IN PHOTOS: World Retail Congress Asia-Pacific 2013

Alex Silcox, MD of John Brown Media, kicked off WRC Asia with a breakfast briefing on the “new rules of engagement” in the content marketing space

Delegates register for the congress

Dato' Dr Jannie Chan Siew Lee, chairman of Federation of Asia-Pacific Retailers Associations, gives the welcome address

The plenary is chaired by Rico Hizon from BBC's Asia Business Report

Philip Clarke, Tesco CEO, talks about how Tesco is adapting to a new era of retailing that is local, individual and personal.

Dr Ira Kalish, global research director at Deloitte, addresses how global economic trends will influence the Asian market-place and its consumers

Andy Mantis, group head of business solutions at MasterCard Advisors Information Services, helps delegates better understand and connect with customers in emerging, developing and mature Asia markets

Shin Hasegawa, director and asssistant CMO at Rakuten, tells the story of how a small e-commerce company became Japan’s largest internet shopping mall

Ravi Thakran (left), group president of LVMH South & SEA & Middle East, Jim McCallum (left), CEO of Robinsons Group of Companies and head of Asia, Al Futtaim Group and Tesco's Clarke offer their visions for future

Delegates at the morning networking break

Delegates at the exhibition hub

Shaf Dewani (left), MD of Karen Millen Asia Pacific, and Robinsons' McCallum (middle) at a Business Stream session, chaired by Lorna Hall, head of retail and strategy, WGSN

Richard Perry (left), group business process director, Dairy Farm International, and Dhaval Buch (right), Unilever SVP for supply chain for Asia, Africa and Russia, at a Business Stream session, chaired by Paul Martin, MD of Planet Retail

Russell Berman (second right), CEO hypermarkets at Aditya Birla Retail, Somsak Hongsrichinda, executive VP of Charoen Pokphand Foods, Gavin Parker (second left), managing partner, and Rune Jacobsen (left), worldwide consumer retail sector leader from The Boston Consulting Group

Ian Mcgarrigle (left), chairman of WRC, Pierre Deplanck (middle), CEO of Guardian Health and Beauty, Singapore, and Tim Luce, country director of Court's Asia