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

Senior Manager, Retail Security Operations, Rogers Communications

Attending the RCC Secure Conference was a fantastic experience filled with insightful discussions and valuable networking opportunities. The conference provided a platform to deepen existing relationships, forge new connections, and collectively contribute to enhancing security practices.

Group Head of Loss Prevention - JD Sports Canada

This event underscores the importance of collaborative solutions in the security industry. Together, we can achieve great things.

Regional Loss Prevention Manager, SEPHORA

Many great industry related topics and networking!

VP Global Channel Partnerships, Riskified

The community of professionals in attendance make THE difference in retail, both in store and online!

SVP / Head of Asset Protection, Gap Inc.

Learned a ton and left energized!

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.

Senior Loss Prevention Leader

Best Buy Canada

Vice President, Retail Risk

ARITZIA

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.

Speaking at:

Regional Loss Prevention Manager

Giant Tiger

Director of Loss Prevention

Rexall Pharmacy Group Ltd.

Director, Asset Protection Manager

Gap Canada

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

President & CEO

Retail Council of Canada

RCC Executive Advisor, Loss Prevention & Risk Management