Business Travel Technology Day 2012
 
05/29/2012
08:00 - 08:45Continental Breakfast and Registration
08:45 - 09:00Welcome
09:00 - 10:00Online Booking-Expense Integration
Buyers with different online booking and expense tool configurations share their experiences in how they have integrated these systems, obstacles they have overcome and the benefits of that integration for their companies.

Pascal Jungfer, Moderator
Thera Leenhouwers, Facility Manager, Wageningen University and Research Center
Keith Mullineux , Regional Manager - EMEA , GE Travel
Corrado Simontacchi, Manager, Corporate Purchasing, Goods & Services , Huntsman
10:00 - 10:15Mid-Morning Break
10:15 - 11:30Benchmarking and Best Practices In Travel Management Technology
A discussion of issues facing buyers in implementing travel management technology, which draws on the latest data from The BTN Group's new European Travel Management Practices survey and the sixth annual Benchmarking Survey of Europe's Biggest Buyers.

Ian Flint, Managing Director, Inform Logistics Limited
David Meyer, Director of Research & Media Strategy, The BTN Group
11:30 - 11:45Break
11:45 - 12:30Meetings Management Tools
Travel and meetings buyers discuss the technologies that they use and what they still need to enhance their efforts to capture meetings expenditures.

Cathrine Lundberg, Moderator
Jeroen van Hek, Global Business Travel Category Manager, ING
Bernadette Basterfield, Global Head of Corporate Travel & Events, Credit-Suisse
12:30 - 13:30Networking Lunch
13:30 - 14:15Keynote Speaker Hans Bouwknegt, Breda University associate professor of digital media concepts: The Traveler Technology Future
14:15 - 14:30Break
14:30 - 15:30Data Management - Real-time data reporting
Buyers discuss their data management strategies and sources and their abilities to mine their data for actionable intelligence, as well as the value that they place on the timeliness of the data.

Jean-Michel Kadaner, Moderator
Peter Sijbers, Senior Sourcing Specialist Travel - Airlines - Corporate Card - Hotels - Meetings & Events Director, Philips General Purchasing
Hein van der Velde, Sourcing & Procurement, Capgemini
Vitold Horodecki, Global Card Manager Global Procurement , HP
15:30 - 15:45Mid-Afternoon Break
15:45 - 16:45Mobile Solutions
Users of mobile apps and other itinerary and traveler assistance solutions describe how they have used such technologies and the benefits such solutions have brought.

Amon Cohen, Moderator and BTN Contributing Editor
Chani Honig, Global Commodity Manager, Intel Corporation
Ulrika Rosen, Global Supply Manager - Travel Management, Tetra Laval
16:45 - 18:00Networking Reception