TTW: Future Of Direct Connections, GDS

<B> TTW: Future Of Direct Connections, GDS</B>

Industry Visionaries will discuss direct connections between corporate buyers and suppliers at next month's Travel Technology World, at the Chicago Hilton & Towers Oct. 12-13. The panel, led by Management Alternatives' Carol Salcito, will include Steve Cossette of American Express, Steve Schepers of Delta Air Lines, Nick Lanyon of Lanyon, Rick Lifsitz of Oracle ETravel, John Davis of Pegasus and Flo Lugli of Wizcom.

The two-day Business Travel News event also will feature face-offs by more than 20 automation vendors and sessions on senior CRS execs' vision of the future, the state of the art of enterprise computing, corporate intranet travel page content, and how to buy travel technology, how to implement it in Europe and how to outsource it.

To register, call Maureen O'Connell at (800) 950-1314 or visit our Web site at BTNonline.