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Acai and Nowadays crowned Business Travel Show Europe Innovation Faceoff Europe 2026 winners
- Acai wins Business Travel Innovator 2026
- Nowadays wins People’s Choice 2026
Business travel innovators battle head-to-head at Business Travel Show Europe Show opens for final day tomorrow - 0930-1700, 24 June 2026 - Excel London
24 June 2026
On the opening day of Business Travel Show Europe, Acai and Nowadays have been crowned winners of this year’s Business Travel Show Europe Innovation Faceoff 2026.
- Acai won the Business Travel Innovator 2026 award
- Nowadays won the People’s Choice 2026 award
The showcase featured engaging presentations from nine entrants detailing how their innovative products, technology solutions and services can solve challenges and/or maximise opportunities currently facing business travel and meetings buyers in Europe.
Acai is an AI platform that automates travel operations for TMCs and travel agencies and was the winner of the co-located TravelTech Show Trailblazer Award in 2025.
Ron Glickman, head of sales, said: “Winning the Trailblazer Award last year changed our business trajectory in ways we didn't fully anticipate. Winning the Business Travel Show Europe Innovation Faceoff this year means what we've built since then, and what we're about to show the industry, has genuinely moved the needle.”
Nowadays is an AI-powered meetings and events platform that automates venue sourcing, negotiations and event management for corporate teams. With a proprietary database of more than 400,000 venues worldwide, Nowadays helps teams save more than 135 hours per meeting, bring unmanaged meetings spend under control and drive 20-30% savings at scale.
The team won the Business Travel Innovator Award and People’s Choice awards at Business Travel Show APAC in April and Business Travel Show America last October.
This year’s judges are:
- Andy Hoskins, Editor-in-Chief, The Beat
- Keesup Choe, CEO, PredictX, last year’s winner
- Benjamin Park, Executive Director Travel & Sustainability, Parexel International
- Carine Morin, Regional Travel Manager, EMEA, ServiceNow
Anna Sun, CEO & co-founder, said: “Our priority over the next year is continuing to deepen our AI capabilities and scale our enterprise customer base. Europe is central to our growth strategy. We were fortunate to win at Business Travel Show America 2025 and APAC 2026 and adding Europe to that feels like real validation from the global business travel community that the industry is genuinely ready for an AI-native approach to meetings and events.”
The other seven finalists are:
Avenir is a next-generation platform developed to provide the corporate travel industry’s broadest range of travel content.
GROUPIZE
The AI-powered platform transforming how global organisations manage in-person meetings, events and group travel.
Redefining corporate travel by making it simpler and faster to plan, book and manage work trips for companies of all sizes.
FareX.ai: a predictive intelligence platform for airline travel, helping business travellers, corporate buyers and meeting planners make smarter air purchasing decisions and secure significant savings on their airline spend.
ThrustCarbon’s goal is straightforward: make lower carbon travel the easiest choice.
AI-powered corporate travel management platform built for mid-market companies. Its AI assistant manages bookings, answers traveller questions, and proactively manages disruptions to save finance teams time and reduce travel spend by up to 30%.
Connecting TMC booking and expense data has never been easy. Versa uses AI to close that loop, automating travel receipt collection and reconciliation, removing the manual work typically required from employees, travel managers and finance teams.
