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The 2023 conference programme is packed with industry visionaries, disruptors, and innovators waiting to share their industry insight, expertise and knowledge on the most pressing industry issues.

Please note: Tuesday 27 June is the hosted buyer-only pre-show conference. Access is only available to approved hosted buyers attending for three days. Find out more.

 

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  • Session Type
    • Fundamentals
12:00
  1. 90 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    Pre-show Conference – Hosted Buyers Only - Registration and Networking Lunch
13:30
  1. Platinum Suite Room 1
    20 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    Pre-show Conference – Hosted Buyers Only - Opening and Welcome Session
13:50
  1. Platinum Suite Room 1
    50 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    • Air & ground transport
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • Technology & data management
    • Traveller management
    Pre-show Conference – Hosted Buyers Only: A growing number of business are aiming to reduce emissions by introducing carbon budgets or taxes for their travel programmes. But there are arguments over w ...
14:55
  1. Platinum Suite Room 1
    80 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    • Accommodation
    • Air & ground transport
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • Meetings
    • My career, organisation and team
    • Risk management
    • Technology & data management
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    • Traveller management
    Pre-show Conference – Hosted Buyers Only: No one can help a travel manager like other travel managers. Join the ultimate peer-to-peer networking session as each buyer shares their biggest success of t ...
16:30
  1. 50 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    • Accommodation
    Pre-show Conference – Hosted Buyers Only: Maximising room revenue has become an increasingly sophisticated science for hotel providers, exerting a direct influence on how much guests pay, when contrac ...
  2. Platinum Suite Room 1
    50 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    • Accommodation
    • Air & ground transport
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • Meetings
    • My career, organisation and team
    • Risk management
    • Technology & data management
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    • Traveller management
    Pre-show Conference – Hosted Buyers Only: Travel management is full of assumptions about what is and isn’t the right way to do things. But are those received wisdoms correct, or do we need a re-think? ...
19:00
  1. 180 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    Pre-show Conference – Hosted Buyers Only: Networking Dinner
09:00
  1. Platinum Suite Room 1
    75 mins
    Business Travel Show Europe’s inaugural General Session will feature a keynote address by British journalist, television presenter and a former correspondent for BBC News Jon Sopel, who will provide i ...
10:40
  1. Show Floor Theatre 1
    60 mins
    • Business travel innovation faceoff
    This heat for this year's Business Travel Innovation Faceoff sees 3Sixty, Travlr ID, and TripKicks go head to head as they present their cutting-edge products, technologies or service to the judging p ...
    Session sponsored by

    Booking.com

  2. Show Floor Theatre 2
    40 mins
    • Traveller management
    Getting a travel programme off the ground or reinventing the current one? Join this session for a quick-start guide to the key facets of managed travel: from safety, policy, performance, risk, and mor ...
11:30
  1. Show Floor Theatre 2
    20 mins
    *This is a sponsored session, and by attending, you consent to your data being shared with the sponsor.
    Session sponsored by
    FCM logo
12:00
  1. 50 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    • Air & ground transport
    Hosted Buyers Only: Tough supply and demand dynamics coupled with rising sustainability and duty of care obligations all make ground transportation an increasingly challenging category for travel buye ...
  2. 50 mins
    • My career, organisation and team
    • Risk management
    • Technology & data management
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    Today’s travel management scene is teeming with youthful businesses offering digital innovations to upgrade your travel programme. But while the rewards for the customer can be great, so too are the r ...
  3. Platinum Suite Room 1
    60 mins
    • Air & ground transport
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • Technology & data management
    Many buyers are trying to make their travel and meetings programmes more sustainable. But their path is blocked by multiple obstacles: non-standardised emissions reporting, poor online rail offerings, ...
  4. Show Floor Theatre 2
    40 mins
    • Technology & data management
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    Management information is central to every aspect of travel management, from identifying supplier negotiation opportunities to monitoring traveller compliance and tracking employees in the event of an ...
13:20
  1. 50 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    • Technology & data management
    Hosted Buyers Only: It may sound scarily cutting-edge but increasing numbers of travel managers are turning to robotic processes to automate routine tasks and buy themselves time to focus on strategic ...
  2. 50 mins
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • Traveller management
    During the pandemic many companies limited trips to “business-critical only”. But in an era of climate emergency and soaring costs, shouldn’t essential travel always be the default setting? If so, how ...
  3. Platinum Suite Room 1
    60 mins
    • Accommodation
    • Air & ground transport
    • Risk management
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    Whether it’s your travel management company, hotel front desks or even your own travel team, personnel shortages are rife. How can you avoid service disruption right now and, looking further ahead, wh ...
  4. Show Floor Theatre 2
    40 mins
    • Risk management
    If your employees travel for business of any kind, you need to ensure their safety and communicate what to do in an emergency. However, duty of care is not just about crises and major world events – i ...
14:20
  1. Show Floor Theatre 1
    60 mins
    • Business travel innovation faceoff
    This heat for this year's Business Travel Innovation Faceoff sees Data Angel, QuadLabs, and EY go head to head as they present their cutting-edge products, technologies or service to the judging panel ...
    Session sponsored by
    Bokking.com logo
14:30
  1. 50 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    • Air & ground transport
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • Technology & data management
    Hosted Buyers Only: We all know there’s no better way to cut travel emissions than not travelling in the first place. But when business trips do go ahead what is the most sustainable way to compensate ...
  2. 50 mins
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    Hosted Buyers Only: Want some advice from other travel managers about how to get the best out of your TMC? Whether it’s contracting, pricing, service levels, reporting, technology or anything else, th ...
  3. 60 mins
    • My career, organisation and team
    • Risk management
    • Technology & data management
    A quantum leap in artificial intelligence is rewriting everything – literally in many cases – and corporate travel is no exception to this overnight business and social transformation. Our visionary p ...
  4. Show Floor Theatre 2
    40 mins
    • Accommodation
    • Air & ground transport
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • Meetings
    • My career, organisation and team
    • Risk management
    • Technology & data management
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    • Traveller management
    Increasing numbers of busineses are coordinating management of their travel needs across borders. That creates fantastic opportunities for savings, process efficiencies and compliance optimisation – b ...
15:30
  1. Show Floor Theatre 1
    20 mins
    Get the lowdown on a new joint report soon to be released by FCM Travel and Business Travel News. You'll hear travel buyer perspectives on shared pain points in the corporate travel industry and key d ...
    Session sponsored by
    FCM logo
15:40
  1. 50 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    Hosted Buyers Only: Digitalisation is transforming the options you have when it comes to figuring out the best way to pay for travel. Discover the digital technologies you should consider both for pre ...
  2. 50 mins
    • Meetings
    Meetings is a seller’s market right now, with hotels and other suppliers calling many of the shots on price, timing, terms and conditions. What are the smart moves meetings buyers can deploy to rebala ...
  3. Platinum Suite Room 1
    60 mins
    • Air & ground transport
    • Technology & data management
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    With carriers increasingly stripping prime fares out of GDSs, the gap between what travellers can buy on airlines’ own websites and through the corporate environment risks becoming dangerously wide. L ...
  4. Show Floor Theatre 2
    40 mins
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    TMCs and hotel booking agencies streamline the booking process and help you gain control and visibility of your entire travel spend. But with hundreds of service providers to choose from, how do your ...
09:45
  1. Platinum Suite Room 1
    60 mins
    • My career, organisation and team
    • Technology & data management
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    Nearly all travel buyers continue to rely on a TMC – yet tensions persist. With current stresses including labour shortages and gaps in content offering, are TMCs evolving to meet clients’ needs? Or w ...
  2. Show Floor Theatre 1
    40 mins
    • Accommodation
    • Risk management
    • Technology & data management
    • Traveller management
    War of talent, Sustainability, rising ADR, shift to automation and personalization pose a risk to travel programs as travelers seek solutions outside the legacy systems of managed channel. But where t ...
    Session sponsored by
    HRS Logo
  3. Show Floor Theatre 2
    40 mins
    • My career, organisation and team
    The biggest companies invest hundreds of millions of pounds each year in sending their people around the globe. It’s a travel manager’s job to spend that money wisely while also keeping their travelle ...
10:25
  1. Show Floor Theatre 2
    60 mins
    • My career, organisation and team
    Exclusively for students: A tour of the Business Travel Show Europe exhibition hall, including such attractions as the BTN Group Start Up Zone, the Business Travel Technology Zone, and the Sustainabil ...
11:00
  1. 50 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    • Air & ground transport
    Hosted Buyers Only: Airline schedules are finally stabilising after the coronavirus years, and you now have enough months of reliable data to forge possibly your first carrier deals of the 2020s. But ...
  2. 50 mins
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • Traveller management
    Making sure travellers are in good shape physically and emotionally is the right thing to do morally, reputationally and even financially – and yet too often this topic is totally overlooked. Come awa ...
  3. Platinum Suite Room 1
    60 mins
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • My career, organisation and team
    • Technology & data management
    • Traveller management
    Three years after Covid it’s clear that working practices have been reshaped permanently, including remote work, talent shortages, socially and environmentally conscious employees, and new risk factor ...
  4. Show Floor Theatre 1
    20 mins
    • Technology & data management
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    The needs of today’s business traveler are evolving. Learn more about the key trends shaping the global state of business travel payment – and strategies for shaping a T&E program strategy that optimi ...
    Session sponsored by
    Mastercard logo
  5. Show Floor Theatre 2
    40 mins
    • Technology & data management
    There are many online booking and expense management tools to choose from. Which one is right for you? And once you’ve chosen the best technology for your company, what then? We walk you through the s ...
12:00
  1. Show Floor Theatre 1
    20 mins
    • Technology & data management
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    • Traveller management
    Can you imagine a world where you will only require one channel to achieve everything?  Find out how you can empower the tech-savvy-travellers and bookers through consolidating proprietary technology ...
    Session sponsored by
    ATPI
12:20
  1. 50 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    • Accommodation
    Hosted Buyers Only: Getting the best price for a hotel l room no longer stops once the reservation is made. With dynamic rates continuing to keep how much you pay fluid, and hotels often reducing pric ...
  2. 50 mins
    • Air & ground transport
    • My career, organisation and team
    • Technology & data management
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    Progressive travel managers are beginning to break down the package of services and technologies traditionally provided by their travel management company and rebuild them as a series of microservices ...
  3. Platinum Suite Room 1
    60 mins
    • Corporate social responsibility
    • My career, organisation and team
    Whether Science Based Targets or other initiatives, companies committing to reduce their carbon footprint, including from business travel, is now the norm rather than the exception. This session provi ...
  4. Show Floor Theatre 2
    40 mins
    • Traveller management
    A well-crafted policy is at the heart of any successful corporate travel programme. But what goes into that policy can vary massively depending on your company’s goals, supplier network and culture. L ...
13:20
  1. Show Floor Theatre 1
    40 mins
    • Accommodation
    • Air & ground transport
    • Risk management
    • Technology & data management
    • Traveller management
    Can your duty of care program keep up with your changing workforce? You’re being asked to keep your travellers safe but also ensure they all feel protected, informed, and productive. Ticking a duty of ...
13:40
  1. 50 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    • Traveller management
    Hosted Buyers Only: Travelling for work between the EU and UK has become much more complicated, with increasing reports of travellers failing to obtain work permits or being turned back at borders. La ...
  2. 50 mins
    • Hosted buyer only
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    Hosted Buyers Only: Travel managers are finding their roles changing rapidly to straddle multiple disciplines including procurement, finance, HR, operations and risk to name but a few. But how can you ...
  3. Platinum Suite Room 1
    60 mins
    • Accommodation
    • Air & ground transport
    How are the big economic and sector-specific trends likely to influence air, hotel and car rental/round transportation buying over the year ahead? Don’t miss our ever-popular crystal ball session that ...
  4. Show Floor Theatre 1
    60 mins
    • Business travel innovation faceoff
    Judges provide commentary on the presentations by the six contestants in the 2023 Business Travel Innovation Faceoff and name the Business Travel Innovator Award winner.
    Session sponsored by
    Bokking.com logo
  5. Show Floor Theatre 2
    40 mins
    • Meetings
    Companies often spend as much, or even more on meetings as they do on regular business travel, yet they find it much harder to get their arms around this often well-hidden major cost. Learn what you c ...
15:00
  1. Show Floor Theatre 1
    50 mins
    • My career, organisation and team
    Business travel is a multibillion-pound industry that’s fast-paced and vital to the world’s economy. But how do you start if you want to join this vibrant sector with opportunities for every kind of t ...
  2. Show Floor Theatre 2
    40 mins
    • Technology & data management
    • TMCs, payment and service providers
    How can you provide an easy way for your travellers to pay for their trip while maintaining all-important control and generating the best possible data? With more options than ever to choose from toda ...

 

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