NACS Show 2025
  • McCormick Place Convention Center
  • Conference: October 14-17, 2025
  • Expo: October 15-17, 2025
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Justin Gillette

Sr. Business Development Manager
Dot Foods, Inc

Justin Gillette has worked at Dot Foods since 2007 and has held a variety of roles and experiences during this time.   With a supply chain managment degree from Syracuse University, he started is career in Operations at Dot's Liverpool NY Distribution Center.  In 2009, he took on the District Sales Manager role calling on foodservice and c-store distributors in New York.  Since 2014, he has worked on the Business Development team which oversees the manufacturer to Dot relationship with focus on helping facilitate new points of distribution, grow volume at existing customers, and identify supply chain efficincies and opportunies.

Justin lives in Rochester NY where he and his wife, Ailish, are raising 2 boys (3 and 5) and enjoying all of the fun and chaos that comes along with the ride.  He is a passionate Buffalo Bills fan and enjoy's golfing when the weather allows for it living in Western NY!

Format: Awards Awards
Awards announcements and presentation.
Format: Case Study Case Study
General topic presenting lessons learned start to finish.
Format: Expert-Expert Interview Expert-Expert Interview
Replaces fireside chat or single presenter format. Must be known industry expert or presentation of robust data.
Format: Ignite Ignite
Slides run automatically keeping speaker pacing. Keeps session moving.
Format: Kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope
One topic through the eyes of different functional teams (e.g. supply chain, store ops, frontline, finance, etc.)
Format: Lightning Lightning
Moderated Q&A with small panel with efforts to drive diverse perspective; after 3 minutes on question, buzzer sounds and move to next question; forces people to be brief and clear on answers.
Format: Masterclass Masterclass
Single topic session which is a solo presenter and acts more like an university lecture. Must include multiple media, audience interaction, etc.
Format: Panel Panel
Multiple presenters, experts in a certain field discussing and sharing expertise and experience with one another.
Format: Great Debate: Point Counterpoint Great Debate: Point Counterpoint
Facilitator stimulates point/counterpoint debate on key industry topic.
Format: Roundtables Roundtables
Facilitated discussion. Limited use of slides or video to set-up topic.
Format: Think You Know Me? Think You Know Me?
One group is polled on a topic, and then the other has to guess the outcomes, as a stimulant for discussion.
Format: Workshop Workshop
Traditional small group classroom style format.

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Supplier Session: Convenience Connect

Convenience Connect is an opportunity for our newest NACS supplier members to meet and learn from our most influential convenience retailers. During this 90-minute session, retailers...

October 08, 2024
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
Supplier
Format: Roundtables Roundtables
 
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