CHICAGO – November 1, 2013 | Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG), the
membership association that unites the world's hospitality companies and technology
innovators to solve industry challenges, today announced that it had established a new
Senior Leadership Engagement Series. Through this program, senior IT leaders from
the global hotel industry drawn from HTNG's Board of Governors will engage with
leading-edge technology providers on major hotel industry technology issues and
challenges. Initial engagement will be on topics including cloud integration and
migration, big data analytics, data security and satisfying Internet-bandwidth demands. The goal of HTNG's Strategic Leadership Engagement Series is to create a greater level
of shared strategic thinking between hotels and the companies they depend on to
design and provide the technologies that drive hotel operations, guest experience and
guest satisfaction. "HTNG has had great success in bringing together hoteliers and technology providers to
accelerate the pace of innovation, to lower the risks of technology investment and to
support the mutual success of the hotel and technology provider," said Douglas Rice,
Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of HTNG. "The Strategic Leadership
Engagement Series is an important expansion of HTNG's role, leveraging key HTNG
assets to deepen the senior-level dialog around the business needs of the hotel
industry and the range of technology options to satisfy them. Close coordination with
HTNG's technology provider members has confirmed their strong interest in this deeper
dialog." HTNG Strategic Leadership Engagement Series meetings are face-to-face, last three
hours, and are organized around specific pressing hotel industry technology needs and
issues. Providing the strategic insights of hotel industry technology leadership will be
several CIO, CTO and similar senior-level executives, from among HTNG's 18-member
Board of Governors. Technology companies can participate by sponsoring meetings on
subjects of interest to them. For each meeting, each of up to three sponsoring
technology companies will have the opportunity to give a 30 minute presentation,
followed by a 75-minute moderated discussion with the panel of hotel industry
technology leaders. Each session will be videotaped and made available via streaming
media to other industry participants by HTNG. HTNG plans to run sessions on
approximately six topics each calendar year. More information on the program can be found at http://htng.org/strategic-leadership-series. Senior-level
technology executives at hotel companies who are interested in participating, as well as
technology providers interested in sponsoring, should contact membership@htng.org. Part of the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), HTNG the premier technology solutions association in the hospitality industry, HTNG serves members from hospitality companies, technology vendors to hospitality, consultants, media and academic experts. HTNG's members participate in focused workgroups to bring to market open solution sets addressing specific business problems. HTNG fosters the selection and adoption of existing open standards and also develops new open standards to meet the needs of the global hospitality industry.
Currently more than 400 corporate and individual members from across this spectrum, including world leading hospitality companies and technology vendors, are active HTNG participants. HTNG's Board of Governors, consisting of 22 top IT leaders from hospitality companies around the world, itself has technology responsible for over 3 million guest rooms and world-leading venues. HTNG publishes workgroup proceedings, drafts and specifications for all HTNG members as soon as they are created, encouraging rapid and broad adoption. HTNG releases specifications into the public domain as soon as they are ratified by the workgroups.
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Contact
Bill Fallon
Executive Vice President, Keating and Co.
Phone: 212 925 6900
Mobile: 973 768 6764
Email: bfallon@keatingco.com
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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