General Sessions
Keynote Presentations & Sponsor Industry Perspectives
Gain expertise and insight on the global issues that directly affect corporate travel, and how they impact your day-to-day operations. Relevant Keynote Presentations and Sponsor Industry Perspectives given by well-known experts will challenge your thinking and provide you with innovative intelligence.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
- Juan Enriquez, Managing Director, Excel Medical Ventures; Founding Director, Harvard Business School's Life Science Project
- Polly LaBarre, Innovation Correspondent, CNN; Co-Author, Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
- Drazen Prelec, PhD, Behavioral Economist; Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- James C. May, President, Chief Executive Officer, Air Transport Association of America, Inc.
FEATURED SPEAKER
- Bill Marriott, Chairman and CEO, Marriott International
Sunday, 5 April 2009, 17:00 - 18:15
Keynote Presentation
Juan Enriquez
Managing Director, Excel Medical Ventures
Founding Director, Harvard Business School's Life Science Project
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Juan Enriquez is one of the world’s foremost authorities on how the extraordinary advances in the life sciences are changing the way we live and do business. Juan is the author of the global best seller, As the Future Catches You – an analys of the impact of genomics on business and society; and The United States of America, which explores why, as technology advances, some countries are successful while others disappear. Fast Company named Juan one of their Fast 50 for 2005. Read Full Bio.
Industry Perspective
Compliments of:
Will Ris, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, American Airlines
Whitepaper
Using recent survey data and interviews, the ACTE/AirPlus International whitepaper, Empowered Employees: How Travel Managers Are Adapting and Thriving in the Global Recession, examines changes brought on by the economic crisis for travel management, including a review of the main levers that travel managers are pulling to achieve savings for their companies. The whitepaper also seeks to determine if anecdotal evidence, that corporate travel managers are receiving greater attention and support from senior management to implement savings practices, is supported by the data. Finally, the research will look at the application of resources to the travel program--both human and technological--and their perceived relationship with achieving savings.
Monday, 6 April 2009, 09:00 - 10:00
Keynote Presentation
Polly LaBarre
Innovation Correspondent, CNN
Co-Author, Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
Innovation, Strategy, Customers, Culture -- these are the four key drivers of business, and few thinkers have explored them as thoroughly as Polly LaBarre, first as one of the key writers and editors at Fast Company magazine, later as the co-author of the bestselling book Mavericks at Work, and now as the Innovation Correspondent for CNN. LaBarre has interviewed hundreds of the smartest people in business for over a decade. Her stories dig deeply into what separates great companies from good and good companies from yesterday's heroes. She profiles CEOs and mid-level managers with equal enthusiasm, recognizing that everyone has a story to tell and everyone has an important role to play in the growth and development of great companies.
Compliments of:
Industry Perspective
Lesley Harris, President, Travelocity Business
Compliments of:
Monday, 6 April 2009, 16:15 - 17:30
Keynote Presentation
Drazen Prelec, PhD
Behavioral Economist
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Compliments of:
Drazen Prelec's research deals with the psychology and neuroscience of decision making (behavioral economics and neuroeconomics; risky choice, time discounting, self-control, consumer behavior). He works both on the development of normative decision theory and the exploration of the empirical failures of that theory, using behavioral and fMRI methods. Prelec has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1991, and presently holds appointments in the Sloan School, the Economics Department, and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He received his Ph. D in experimental psychology and AB in applied mathematics from Harvard University. He was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, and has received a number of distinguished research awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Featured Speaker
Bill Marriott
Chairman and CEO
Marriott International
Bill Marriott, Chairman and CEO of Marriott International, will be speaking on Marriott’s green initiatives, the economy, and its effect on the business travel industry. Marriot will also be the recipient of the association’s CSR Award at the conference. The award is given to those business travel industry executives who incorporate eco-sensitive business practices into their companies or organizations.
Industry Perspective
Dwayne Ingram
Executive Vice President
Amadeus Americas
Compliments of:
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 09:30 - 10:45
Keynote Presentation
James C. May
President, Chief Executive Officer
Air Transport Association of America, Inc.
James C. May is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Air Transport Association of America, Inc. (ATA), the nation’s oldest and largest airline trade association. May joined ATA on February 3, 2003.
ATA is the trade association for the leading U.S. airlines. ATA assists its members by promoting aviation safety, advocating industry positions, conducting industry-wide programs and ensuring public understanding and awareness of the airline industry. Read Full Bio.
Compliments of:
Industry Perspective
Trip Davis, Co-Founder and Chairman, TRX, Inc.
Compliments of:
Tuesday, 7 April 2009, 15:15 - 17:30
BTN Top 25 Recognition and Town Hall Forum
Business Travel News (BTN), as a partner for the Association of Corporate Travel Executives’ (ACTE) Global Education Conference in Washington, D.C., will recognize The 25 Most Influential Executives of 2008 during the closing general session. Following recognition of the Top 25 on the conference’s main stage, BTN will lead a “town hall” type discussion with those individuals in attendance to address industry wide issues such as distribution, capacity and demand.
Moderator:
David Myer, Editor-in-Chief, Business Travel News
Presenters:
Sam Gilliland, Chairman & CEO, Chairman and CEO, Sabre Holdings
Kathy Hall-Zientek, Manager of Travel Services, Moog, Inc.
Danny Hood, President, Americas, BCD Travel
Susan Lichtenstein, Director of Travel and Global Meeting Solutions, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Industry Perspective
If your company is interested in delivering an Industry Perspective during this general session please contact Noel Lee at [email protected]
Conference Moderator
Michael Jackson
Managing Director
theothermichaeljackson.com
Michael Jackson has carved out his reputation as one of the best business-to-business speakers on the global professional circuit by creating and delivering powerful images and memorable messages at over 300 conferences and seminars to date across Europe, Africa, Asia, the USA and the Middle East; to audiences ranging from factory workers to Heads of State.
Once acclaimed by former South African President Nelson Mandela as “a national treasure”, Michael has an uncanny ability to connect with his audiences and is often referred to as a passionate champion of the cause.
Michael returns to ACTE as moderator for the Washington, D.C. Global Education Conference general sessions following rave reviews for his performances at previous Rome, Washington, D.C., London and Barcelona events.
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