Business Travel Innovation Faceoff

In recent years, online collaboration and hybrid work environments have been crucial to the continued success of businesses. Despite these changes, travel and expense for corporate travel hasn’t moved with the times.  Today, travellers must use and switch between multiple platforms and apps to log-on, search, book, pay and expense. Cytric for Teams enables employees to find better options to collaborate and manage travel and expenses. Employees can benefit from a fully immersive experience in the modern workplace thanks to the usage of travel and expense data across Microsoft’s ecosystem. When there is a need to collaborate or travel, employees can focus on the trip experience and not the logistics of it. Imagine having all your travel-related tasks in your Teams application. No additional apps or login access to remember, allowing you to share trip details and minimize travel spend on the trip, but also track travel expenses within a personal dashboard in Teams. 

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We live in a world of instant gratification, where you can book a ride in seconds, watch TV on-demand or order same-day delivery with one tap. That ease of use and intuitive user experience is increasingly an expectation in the corporate world. Not just for big enterprises, but for small and medium-sized businesses too.  Our challenge was to create a corporate booking experience tailored especially to our SME customers. It needed to be quick, simple, easy to use, with all the content our customers need in one place and delivering tangible cost savings. After all, our SME clients tend to be resource poor in terms of people, time and budget.     We tapped into our intrinsic knowledge of the SME travel space and our three decades of industry expertise to come up with the ultimate solution: Melon.  Melon ticks all the boxes an SME wants from an online booking tool. While there may be other options available, none have been built specifically for an SME’s needs, or blend that personal touch and dedicated customer service that our customers want.    

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HRS is reinventing the way businesses and governments work, stay and pay in today’s dynamic global marketplace. HRS’ advanced platform technology is extending its reach beyond hospitality to meetings, office space management, payment efficiency and crisis recovery. Beyond cost savings in the global post-pandemic economy, HRS clients gain from an unrivaled focus on essential aspects including safety, security and satisfaction.

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Jyrney is a transformative mobility platform providing transport and travel companies access to thousands of taxi and chauffeur vehicles. Jyrney connects Travel Management Companies to ground transport solutions for their passengers through a simple integration with their industry leading API.

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Simard OU is a commercial services company for users of the Winding Tree Web3 decentralised travel marketplace. We apply our experience and expertise to enable travel entities to maximise the opportunities presented by the open source and free to use Winding Tree Marketplace.

The central beauty of the Marketplace is the ability to connect once, connect to everybody. Web3 technology with its’ powerful One2Any features now makes it possible for anyone who wants to buy travel to buy from anyone who wants to sell travel. No need for paper contracts, no need for point2point API integrations, just Smart Contracts that orchestrate each engagement...and once the Smart Contract is set up, courtesy of the blockchain, each record is immutable and becomes a shared source of data truth, so eliminating friction and reducing administration overhead.

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Table4One is the innovative platform that connects business travellers all around the world, in the real world.  We geo-locate solo business travellers and intelligently match them based on their profile and preferences & connect them in the real world. We then steer them towards curated experiences with our industry partners for which we earn commission.  Table4One powers life changing chance encounters. We connect those in motion to unleash the potential of real-world conversations.    

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TripShift is a B2B focussed technology platform that makes it easy for companies to track, reduce and report their Scope 3 emissions which includes commuting, business travel and logistics.

TripShift meets growing regulatory and stakeholder demands for these emissions to be measured. It aims to provide the vital insights required to support behaviourial change and invites organisations and their employees to, quite simply - Move Better.

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Instead of stepping in to becoming another replicator, TripStax has stepped back to look at what innovation can really mean within our industry. We aren’t looking to reinvent how travel is managed, but how the ecosystem that underpins it can be reimagined. TripStax is a fully connected modular stack of industry-leading proprietary business travel applications, powered by The Core, a profound central data processing architecture that consumes, enriches and manages all business traveller booking, profile and invoice data across the entire TripStax eco-system.

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