CHICAGO | Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) today unveiled the speakers and preliminary agenda for its upcoming conference in Lausanne, Switzerland. This event, which is being held on October 11-13, 2006 at The Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel and Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, will be the first-ever stand-alone hotel technology conference in Europe. The agenda will address the distinct issues and challenges of buying and selling hotel technology in Europe and the Middle East.
“We are extremely pleased with the caliber of the speakers we have been successful at recruiting for this conference,” said Douglas C. Rice, Executive Director of HTNG. “Every hotel technology vendor and every global and regional hotel company we talk to has unique stories about the challenges of dealing with Europe’s fragmented hotel technology market. Our Thought Leadership program has put together a set of topics and speakers that we think will be useful to every company that does business in the Europe and Middle Eastern markets – whether as buyer or as seller of technology. Perhaps even more important, there will be lots of ideas on the table for how, as an industry, we can achieve more rapid progress in the adoption of next-generation technologies.” Speakers in the general session and Thought Leadership Program include the following industry leaders:
The sessions will also include updates on the activities of HTNG’s workgroups, presented by hoteliers and vendors who are active in those groups. HTNG workgroups provide focused environments where hoteliers and vendors work together collaboratively to address current issues and to design next-generation solutions. Speakers on behalf of the workgroups will include senior technical and product management executives from participating hotel and vendor companies.
Attendance at the event is estimated to exceed 150 industry leaders, many of them traveling from Asia, the Americas, the Middle East, and even Australia. “Even before we announced the speakers and agendas, we had well over 100 people registered for this event from around the world, and our hotel blocks are now nearly sold out,” said Rice. Attendees who register too late to book rooms in the HTNG hotel block should still be able to find accommodations at other hotels in the area.
Like all HTNG conferences, the European event will include extensive opportunities for networking among the leaders in the hotel technology community, both buyers and sellers.
Full information on the conference, as well as registration links, are available on the HTNG website at
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Contact
Katie Mazzuca
Senior Director of Marketing and Events
United States - Schaumburg, Phone: +1 312 690-5034
Fax: +1 703 814 8555
Email: katie.mazzuca@htng.org
Organization
Hospitality Technology Next Generation (HTNG) - AHLA
www.ahla.com/htng
1250 Eye Street N.W., Suite 1100
USA
- Washington, DC 20005
Phone: 1 202 289 3100
Email: ewilson@ahla.com
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