Gearing Up For BTN's Travel Tech World
The most targeted and comprehensive educational event in the business travel management technology industry is only weeks away.
The fifth annual Business Travel News Travel Technology World conference and exhibition, to be held at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago Sept. 20 and 21, will take its sophisticated program to the next level.
Corporate finance and information systems professionals can join with travel managers to learn about tools for online booking, management reporting and expense reporting, as well as corporate intranets, wireless technology and profile synchronization.
The high-level faculty includes nearly two dozen experienced travel buyers, as well as insightful consultants and savvy vendor representatives.
Even the beginners session, How to Buy Travel Management Technology, is given at a sophisticated level by some of the brightest in the business.
Booking systems will be critiqued in the opening general session at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, and in sessions later that day on experiences in driving adoption and fulfilling online booking.
Thursday's sessions also will include a critique of online meetings technology and examples of cutting-edge Web sites.
The general session, before the 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. welcome reception, will present systems that support management decisions involving travel, including those developed by third-party data consolidators, mega agencies and card providers as well as internally.
Corporate users of global expense reporting systems will kick off the Friday agenda in a general session by sharing their experiences. Later, prepopulation of expense reports, and the hotel folio data that now is being broken out to make it possible, will be discussed by those leading the way, including the pioneer who blazed the trail, Tony Angelo of IBM.
Friday sessions will conclude with differing forecasts for business travel technology, from software developer and sage Richard Eastman and another industry visionary.
For more regarding Business Travel News' 2001 Travel Technology World, log on to www.travelshows.com/ttw.