RETAIL COUNCIL OF CANADA
Retail Secure Conference
SAVE THE DATE
March 19, 2025
The International Centre, Mississauga, Ontario
De-escalation of Violence in Stores
Fostering a safer workplace and protecting your employees and customers.
Forging Partnerships for Safety & Security
Collaborative strategies to protect assets, build trust, and ensure a safe retail environment.
Real-Time Results with Proactive Technology
Strategies to identify, prevent, and respond to fraudulent activity.
Crime Prevention & Environmental Design
Smart store layout and design to deter crime and enhance safety.
Empowering Retail Safety with
Actionable Strategies
RCC’s Retail Secure Conference brings together top retail loss prevention experts, industry suppliers, and security and law enforcement professionals to explore actionable systems and forward-thinking retail solutions.
Who should attend?
Loss prevention and asset protection teams convene with IT, e-commerce, cybersecurity, and finance leaders to explore and expand on data protection and best practices.
Additionally, store managers actively involved in daily security protocols and security consultants offering specialized retail expertise contribute to a comprehensive dialogue and solution-sharing environment.
Retail Secure Legends Awards
This initiative is designed to honor and celebrate the exceptional contributions of individuals within the retail loss prevention industry who have demonstrated exceptional skill, innovation, and dedication in safeguarding businesses. Nomination deadline: January 17, 2025.
What Retail Secure Attendees Say
Retail Brands that Attend #RCCRetailSecure
- Aritzia
- American Eagle Outfitters
- Best Buy
- Browns Shoes
- Canada Goose
- Canadian Tire Corp
- Decathalon
- Gap Inc.
- Harry Rosen
- Healthy Planet
- Holt Renfrew
- Hudson’s Bay company
- IKEA Canada
- JD Sports Canada
- JYSK Canada
- LCBO
- London Drugs
- Long & McQuade Ltd.
- Longo’s
- Lululemon
- Rexall Pharmacy
- Rogers Communications
- Rona
- The Home Depot
- TJX Canada
- Walmart Canada
Created for retailers by retail loss prevention experts
The Loss Prevention Advisory Council actively discusses and refines practices covering theft, violence in stores, organized crime, community safety, digital fraud, and inventory shrinkage. Their insights and collaborative efforts shape the agenda at the Retail Secure Conference, ensuring a focus on cutting-edge loss prevention strategies and solutions for the industry.
Marco Addesa
Senior Loss Prevention Leader
Best Buy Canada
Marco Addesa
Senior Loss Prevention Leader
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James Borrelli
Vice President, Retail Risk
ARITZIA
James Borrelli
Vice President, Retail Risk
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Sean Sportun
National Director, Loss Prevention & Corporate Security
Empire Company Limited
Sean Sportun
National Director, Loss Prevention & Corporate Security
Sean is an accomplished security professional with over three decades of experience in the Corporate Security Industry, recognized globally for his achievements. In May 2024, he assumed the role of National Director of Loss Prevention & Corporate Security at Empire/Sobeys. Prior to this, he served as the Vice President of National Accounts & Community Engagement for GardaWorld Canada and led Circle K’s Loss Prevention Team for 15 years.
Sean graduated with Honours from the Seneca College Law Enforcement Program and holds Leadership and Management certificates from Queens University and a Leadership certificate from Harvard University. He is a certified Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Level 2 Practitioner, a Situation Awareness Specialist Advanced Practitioner, and an International Crime Prevention Specialist. Sean is also an associate member of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, serving on their Community Safety & Well-being Committee, and is a member of the Ontario Gang Investigations Association.
A committed Community Safety Advocate, Sean has been a volunteer with the Toronto Crime Stoppers Board of Directors since 2002 and currently serves as the program’s Chair.
Sean’s dedication to community safety has earned him numerous prestigious accolades. He received the Key to the City of Baton Rouge for his Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts in 2005, was named the 2013 Canadian Security Magazine’s Security Director of the Year, and received the 2016 Mission 500 Humanitarian Award, becoming the first Canadian to achieve this honor. He was a nominee for the Ontario Premier’s Award in 2021 and was ranked #1 globally by IFSEC Global’s “Top Influencers” in 2022. In 2024, Retail Council of Canada presented Sean with the inaugural Retail Secure Legends Award, and he was recently awarded the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers by the Governor General of Canada.
Harvard University’s School of Business has published two business reviews highlighting Sean’s innovative approach to retail crime prevention.
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Isabelle Godin
Regional Loss Prevention Manager
Giant Tiger
Isabelle Godin
Regional Loss Prevention Manager
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Daryl Blackmore
Director of Loss Prevention
Rexall Pharmacy Group Ltd.
Daryl Blackmore
Director of Loss Prevention
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Dina Yakhin
Director, Asset Protection Manager
Gap Canada
Dina Yakhin
Director, Asset Protection Manager
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The International Centre
March 19, 2025
6900 Airport Rd, Mississauga, ON L4V 1E8
As The Voice of Retail™ in Canada since 1963, Retail Council of Canada (RCC) represents over 54,000 independent, regional, national mass and specialty retail businesses and online merchants in general merchandise, drug and grocery.
2024 Retail Secure Conference Speakers
Rui Rodrigues
RCC Executive Advisor, Loss Prevention & Risk Management
Retail Council of Canada
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