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Join
us for an exclusive BTN Group webinar featuring Ryan Simonetti, CEO and
co-founder of Convene, as he reveals his highly anticipated predictions
for the 2025 event industry. Each year, Ryan shares his expert insights
on the trends and strategies that will shape the future. This year, he
will discuss the growing interconnection between meeting, event, and
workplace strategies.
Key Predictions from Previous Years:
- The workplace of the future is a meeting space, a prediction that has already come to fruition.
- The “social club-ization” of offices, transforming buildings into amenity-rich workplace destinations.
- A shift towards fewer, bigger, and better in-person events, with a focus on creating memorable and immersive experiences.
Simonetti
leads Convene, a multi-branded network of hospitality-driven meeting,
event, and flexible workspaces across the U.S. and U.K. Don’t miss this
opportunity to gain valuable insights into the future of the events
industry. Register now for this 30-minute webinar, developed and
sponsored by Convene, and get ready to ask your questions live.
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There's a lot of chatter and buzzwords out there regarding sustainability and air travel. Join Jonas Diederich Senior Manager Corporate Responsibility Communications Strategy as he helps to De-mystify the basics around sustainability efforts within the Lufthansa Group and find out what this means for your corporate travel program and your travelers.
Key takeaways:
- Explore
what sustainability efforts are being prioritized in the airline
industry, including the role of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and
carbon offsetting.
- Learn about the most fuel-efficient, modern aircraft and the latest innovations designed to reduce fuel consumption.
- Understand
what the Lufthansa Group is doing to promote traveling more
sustainably, and the options available for corporate customers and their
travelers.
Go
behind the scenes with us as we explore the transformative journey
professional services firm PwC pioneered to revolutionize corporate
travel via its collaboration with KAYAK and Blockskye. Originally aimed
to simply enhance the traveler experience, the resulting solution
introduces a groundbreaking new approach that not only challenges the
status quo but also fundamentally disrupts established norms and
practices within the corporate travel industry.
Register
now for this BTN Group In the Know webinar, "Revolutionizing Corporate
Travel: An Insider’s Look into PwC's Journey with KAYAK and Blockskye,"
with content sponsored and developed by PwC.
This
webinar is for travel buyers, travel management companies, airline
professionals, and procurement/operations teams looking to understand
the current disruption in corporate travel and strategies to achieve
their goals. Don't miss the opportunity to ask your own questions during
the live Q&A.
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In
this BTN webinar, SME travel buyers discuss the varying stages of their
programs, as well as the growth of opportunities in the industry.
To
get things off the ground, Editorial Director Elizabeth West will
showcase BTN’s latest survey on how SMEs are managing programs.
Expert
panelists currently managing SME travel programs will share advice on
getting started, how to scale up and, finally, how to leverage a mature
SME travel program in today’s market.
Whether
you’re looking to establish or refine your SME travel program
strategies, this webinar will offer practical knowledge and insights.
In
the current era of high meeting and event demand, the pressure is on to
speed through sourcing and contracting to lock in preferred meeting
venues. For high-volume corporate meetings at the same properties or
chains, is a Master Service Agreement the fastest and best approach?
In
this BTN Group thought-leadership webinar, sponsored by Cvent, speakers
will explain when and why MSAs may speed the process. They also will
detail the realities of negotiating an MSA – it can be lengthy process.
What are the pros and cons of MSA and ideal use-cases for them? What should they include?
Register
now for this 60-minute webinar to hear speakers highlight the latest
trends. Once you have an MSA, learn how to source, and negotiate rates
and dates to lock in space. Ask your own questions during live Q&A.
With
the shifting dynamics brought about by New Distribution Capability
(NDC), the landscape of hospitality distribution is also evolving,
highlighting an increasing urgency for innovative approaches, especially
within corporate travel. In this webinar, speakers hone in on the
driving forces behind the imperatives to rethink multi-sourcing
strategies, solve for loyalty program challenges, and deliver
user-friendly content that meets B2B2C expectations, all within the
context of finding new solutions to support the needs of both suppliers
and buyers in this space.
Register now for this BTN Group In the Know webinar, "The
Case for Disruption: Elevating Hotel Connectivity, Content and Expense
Management for Next Generation Travel Experiences," with content
sponsored and developed by DerbySoft.
Key Takeaways:
- Learn how to enhance hotel options to
match traveler preferences, ensuring employees book within your travel
program using preferred suppliers and channels for accurate tracking of
program participation
- Discover how to access up-to-the-minute
hotel availability, pricing and inventory, and give today's savvy
business travelers greater confidence in their hotel bookings
- Understand how to streamline travel
management processes, particularly in expense management, to increase
efficiency for your traveler
Travel
buyers, hoteliers and travel management companies will better
understand current hotel distribution changes and strategies to achieve
their goals. Ask your own questions during the live Q&A.
BTN presents business travel experts talking about real-world sustainability strategies in their managed programs.
Editorial
Director Elizabeth West will review results of BTN's 2024 Business
Travel Sustainability Survey of 189 travel buyer respondents, primarily
in North America. Panelists will discuss Science-based Target
Initiatives, the impact of new emissions reporting requirements and will
offer mini-case studies of how travel management initiatives are
contributing to their companies' sustainability strategies.
Emerging
technologies like generative artificial intelligence, blockchain and
self-sovereign identify are starting to play a role in corporate travel.
What should travel managers know about the technologies and how best to
prepare programs to take advantage of them? What are the realities
today and prospects for the next year?
Join
us for an insightful BTN Group thought-leadership webinar, sponsored by
CWT, where speakers explore the intersection of these cutting-edge
technologies and business travel management. How are or might these
technologies transform travel management, enhance traveler experiences
or deliver cost-savings and efficiencies? Ask your own questions of
speakers during our live Q&A and download a white paper on these and
other emerging technologies.
Key Takeaways:
- Primer on GenAI, blockchain and SSI
- What is the reality and promise of each in managed travel
- Are you ready for the changes?
As
travel demand and rates continue to increase, how are savvy sourcing
experts optimizing corporate hotel programs? What new and emerging
strategies are they using to manage transient programs? What's the right
mix of negotiated preferred and other rates; what factors must you
consider on dynamic rates? And, once you negotiate rates, how do you
ensure that your travelers are booking and securing them?
Join
us for an insightful BTN Group thought-leadership webinar, sponsored by
Cvent, about the latest trends and strategies for managing transient
hotel programs and rates. Prepare for 2025 as you ask your own questions
during the live Q&A.
Changing workplace
models are morphing corporate travel and meetings models as well. More travel
managers than ever are involved in managing meetings. What does the future look
like and how will strategies change to serve the business needs? Join BTN’s
panel of experts to explore these new models.
Work and the workplace are experiencing seismic shifts. Increasingly, travel leaders are rethinking travel and expense programs to meet the needs of:
- Multiple generations of employees and travelers—often with different, more demanding service expectations
- Remote or distributed workplaces
- Increasing travel volumes, often at significantly higher costs
- Corporate sustainability goals
- New corporate priorities
BTN Editorial Director Elizabeth West catches up with our 2023 travel manager award winners. Hear about the groundbreaking work being done by our 2023 Travel Manager of the Year award recipients Danielle Cavnor and Eric Gray of PwC.
We’ll catch up with their latest progress on direct connecting with
airlines and hotels, blockchain-based data strategies and their program
innovation roadmap for 2024.
Best Practitioners Rafael Rosario, Ian Spearing and Anne Hamilton
join as well to tell us about their own innovation pathways and how
they’ll be driving progress toward a better managed travel experience
next year—both for their individual programs and for the industry.
Central to their stories are diversity, equity and inclusion strategies,
involvement in new startup partnerships and key innovations around
non-employee travel.
Join us as we celebrate the value of travel management and how travel managers drive the entire industry forward!
Small
and midsize travel programs have never garnered more attention in the
managed travel market than they do today. The resiliency of the sector
has pushed travel suppliers to create better programs to attract
corporate loyalty and offer more benefits to SME travelers. But buyers
will still be challenged to deliver value in the current high-cost
environment and to achieve efficiencies in their program with the right
mix of service and innovation from providers.
Join
this webinar to hear how two expert buyers are approaching their SME
travel programs now. Bring questions about your own program for a
special “Ask Me Anything” Q&A to follow the event.
The
resurgence of global business travel means an increased need for visas
and passports. However, there are many countries in which visa
processing has ground to a halt which creates an issue for travelers and
travel managers alike.
Register now for the BTN Group In the Know webinar, with content sponsored and developed by CIBT, to learn:
• The various reasons behind visa and passport processing delays
• What
travel managers, mobility managers and TMCs can do to navigate these
delays and obstacles and help manage traveler expectations
• How
to proactively manage your global travel program in a time when travel
volumes continue to increase and entry requirements continue to
fluctuate
Corporate travel buyers and technology experts alike have said the
industry will look back at 2023 and 2024 as milestone years for managing
business travel. Between distribution changes brought forth via New
Distribution Capability and the move to embrace technologies like artificial
intelligence and blockchain, travel programs are looking at the possibility to
restructure programs and redefine compliance.
Join this BTN webinar to hear
from the experts about where technology innovations in business travel will
take us next.
Airlines
have just scratched the surface when it comes to unlocking the
potential of NDC. Register now for this BTN Group In the Know webinar,
with content sponsored and developed by Spotnana. Join our industry
experts as they discuss NDC adoption, future opportunities for NDC
innovation, and how NDC sets the stage for even bigger changes to come.
When
you have to arrange travel for non-profiled travelers like recruitment
candidates, contractors or consultants, things can get complex and
expensive. Your recruitment and HR teams often act as travel arrangers.
Expense reimbursement can be difficult. And your guests could form a
poor opinion of your organization.
Register
now for this BTN Group In The Know webinar, with content sponsored and
developed by Zeno By Serko, to discover a better way to manage non-employee
travel. Join a group of seasoned corporate travel professionals as they
share their guest travel stories that you're sure to relate to, and then
let you in on Zeno Concierge and how it simplifies the entire process.