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The executive level conferences
Our executive conferences are all carefully researched events for specific job roles within the distribution function. All conference delegates are free to attend whichever conferences they want and to mix and match so that they benefit from all the knowledge and opinions on offer. A Gold or Platinum Pass will also give you a concise beak down of what's been going on across all the events (this takes a while to put together and is only available post event).
The conferences for 2008 are:
- Travel Distribution Keynote Sessions
- attended by all conference attendees but a must for all CEOs, Commercial
Heads and analysts trying to plan future distribution strategies
- Online Travel
Strategies - Looking at how to distribute your travel products
in a web 2.0 environment and how to get people to your site with web
analytics, CPC, CPA and search
- Revenue and Pricing
Strategies - A thorough analysis of the latest pricing and RM
strategies that enable hotels, airlines and intermediaries to maximise
revenue across all their distribution channels
- CRM and Loyalty Strategies - as
the European travel market continues to mature, the use of data has
become increasingly sophisticated to ensure travel customers identify
and retain their best customers. This conference examines how
- Innovation Initiative: The travel
industry's dragon's den - The place where travel industry entrepreneurs
will meet the money men. New ideas and businesses in the online travel
and travel technology space get a chance to showcase their ideas and
products to a team of VCs , experts and analysts. A winner
will be picked and hopefully funding sourced.
- Hotel Technology Forum - Free to attend for hotel owners and employees, this one day event on the 21st May will focus on how hotels, particularly small chains and independent properties, can harness the power of the web as a distribution and marketing tool.
» EVENT AT A GLANCE
For more information about
the conferences click here and we
will send you the agendas when they are finalised early in the new year.
Don't miss out! Click here to register now!
What's more this is a risk free booking.
We know that you are busy and planning to be in London on May 20-21
2008 so far in advance can be tricky. So we make it easy. If you cancel
before April 20 2008 we give you a complete refund. It's as simple as
that. We just need an email confirmation of the cancellation sent to
customerservices@firstconf.com
So click here to book now!
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Speakers:
Travel Suppliers
- Brian Berry, Regional Director of Revenue Management Starwood Hotels
and Resorts
- Geraldine Calpin, Vice President Brand Websites Hilton Hotels
- Marcus Casey, Director of Online Sales, Development & Operations Lufthansa
- Jerry Dunn, Distribution Development Manager easyjet.com
- Sinead Finn, Head of Sales, Europe Ryanair
- Chris Fradin, Director of Marketing EMEA Preferred Hotel Group
- Gareth Gaston, MD, Octopus Travel
- Richard Lewis, President Jebel Ali International Hotels
- Rob Mcdonald, Director of Customer Loyalty - UK/Europe/Middle East/Africa
Hilton Hotels Corporation
- Tony Milsom, E-commerce Director EMEA Group RCI
- David Oliver, Head of Marketing Programmes Hertz Europe
- Barbara Pezzi, Director Leisure & Ecommerce SWISSOTEL
- Brian Pratt, VP e-Commerce EMEA Starwood Hotels and Resorts
- Thorsten Purkus, Director of Marketing Analytics - Europe, Africa & Middle
East Hyatt International Hotels & Resorts
- Werner Rechsteiner, Director Distribution Technology Swissotel Hotels
& Resorts
- Nicolas Robbe, Head of Revenue Management Thalys
- Terje Roli, Head of Revenue Management SAS Norway
- Andrew Rubinacci, VP, Distribution Marketing EMEA InterContinental
Hotels Group
- Sam Samrai, CRM Manager National Express
- Chinmai Sharma, VP Revenue Management, Wyndham Hotels
- Cory Garner, Director of International Distribution, American Airlines
- Xavier Vallee, Head of Marketing and Partnerships Avis Rent a Car
- Tobi Kuhlang, Vice President of Revenue Development, Accor Hospitality
Travel Intermediaries
- Will Owen Hughes, Enterprise Solutions Director, Travelport GDS
- Goeffrey Breeze, VP Marketing Strategies EMEA, Sabre Travel Network
- Sotiris Damianos, Sales & Marketing Director Hotelopia
- Ian McCaig, CEO, lastminute.com
- Francesca Ecsery, General Manager UK Cheapflights
- Glenn Fogel, Managing Director, Corporate Development and International
Priceline
- Tom Griffiths, Founder gapyear.com
- Cameron Jones, Regional Director Expedia
- John Kent, CEO Youtravel.com
- Christophe Leon, Sales and Marketing Director Voyages-SNCF.com
- Tom Marchant, Co-founder & Director Black Tomato
- Angus McNab, Business Development Director EMEA, Expedia
- Constandina Milios, Online Marketing Manager visitBritain
- Dick Porter, Co-Founder and Chairman STA Travel
- Gwen Raez, Group Product Manager VisitScotland
- Michael Rhodes, eCommerce Manager Leger Holidays
- Nishma Robb, Group Distribution Director Travelzest
- Walid Saqqaf, Co-Founder and COO TrustedPlaces
- Michael Stacy, CEO Groople
- Martin Verdon-Roe, Head of Sales, UK TripAdvisor
- Barry Smith, Co-founder and Director of Business Development, Skyscanner
Others
- Deirdre Bounds, Founder i-to-i
- Hugo Burge, Founder Howzat Media
- Blake Chandlee, UK Director Facebook
- Brian Clifton, Head of Web Analytics Europe Google
- Rod Cuthbert, CEO Viator
- Vicky Elliott, Director of Marketing Services Global Hotel Alliance
- Jonathan Gillespie, Agency Leader YouTube
- Jason Katz, Founder KP Capital
- John Lambe, CTO OpenJaw Technologies
- Tanya Lidstone, Head of User Experience Ioko
- Dan Martin, Head of Analysis and Research AIRMILES
- Darin Mcauliffe, VP, Distribution Solutions Pegasus Solutions
- Steve O'Keefe, Sales Manager RightNow Technologies
- Steve Pinchuk, VP Profit Optimisation Systems, SAS Institute
- Adam Winterflood, Founder, Mobiletrails
- Daniel Robb, Head of Travel Google UK
- Gerry Samuels, Founder and Executive Director Mobile Travel Technologies
- Ranjan Singh, CEO Isango!
- Daniel Dunleavy, Manager, Deloitte
- Jerome Touze, Co Founder & Co-CEO WAYN
- Cormac Whelan, CEO Datalex
- Peter Wray, Chairman loyaltymatters.com and CM4P
- Tim Sparrow, Consultant Client and Technical Services, Cybersource
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