YOU ARE INVITED TO SHARE YOUR EXPERTISE with the vast audience accessible via ACTE's Webcasts!

ACTE Webcasts are designed to bring up-to-the-minute, substantive information to a growing audience of busy, senior-level corporate travel managers and representatives of the corporate travel supplier community. Webcast presenters are recognized for their expertise and have tested their ideas and insights to address the challenges of business travel management. When you share your ideas in an ACTE Webcast, you are contributing to the advancement of the entire corporate travel industry.

SUBMIT A PROPOSAL TODAY and take your place among the corporate travel industry profession's experts.

Selection is an honor - and a responsibility to deliver an outstanding, educational experience. Proposals that meet the criteria will be considered for presentation at upcoming Webcasts throughout the year.

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PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS
To be eligible for review, Webcast presentation proposals should meet the following criteria:

In addition to the characteristics above, priority will be given to proposals focusing on these content areas:

1. Industry Trends
• The Marketplace: forecast/trends analyses in all segments (air, hotel, car, agency, card, technology and rail), consolidations and financial restructuring throughout the industry
• New product development and impact on travel management processes
• E-commerce and evolving distribution system
• Restoring Business Traveler Confidence
• Facilitating Business Traveler Passage
• Airfare Structure Simplification
• Airport And Airline Security

2. Travel Management: Best Practice
• Re-engineering travel processes
• Value-add and cost savings initiatives
• Communications strategies and tools (internally, externally)
• Management reporting
• Benchmarking
• Performance measurement
• Defining service excellence
• Developing global supplier partnerships
• Supplier management
• Contract negotiation
• Buyer/Supplier Partnerships
• Strategic sourcing
• Finance
• RFP process/global RFPs/eRFPs/Online Auctions
• Establishing global travel policies
• Use of consultants/outsourcing
• Meetings consolidation
• Demand Management

3. Automated Technology Systems
• Evaluation and selection
• Pricing and financing
• Implementation and gaining user acceptance
• Measurement
• Alternatives to travel (Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing)
• e-Procurement
• Online fulfillment

4. Data Management
• Data consolidation
• Global data warehousing
• Data security, safety and protection
• MIS reporting
• Customer Relationship Management

5. Global Affairs
• The global economy
• Government policy, industry regulation, competition, anti-trust issues
• Emerging markets
• European Union
• International terrorism

6. Professional Skills
• Leadership
• Negotiation
• Communication
• Strategic planning
• Strategic maintenance
• Relationship maintenance
• Innovation/change
• Professional Growth & Self Assessment
• Corporate Travel Manager Role Expansion/Enhancement

7. Miscellaneous
• Environment, health, safety, security
• Ethical issues and corporate responsibility

Audience:
The Webcast audience includes senior corporate travel managers, finance directors, purchasing professionals, vice-presidents, industry consultants and industry suppliers from the airline, hotel, car, card, agency, and travel technology communities world-wide. Participants are interested only in the latest, most up-to-date, experience-based knowledge. Because webcasts are promoted and accessible via ACTE's web site, anyone visiting the site who is interested in the topic to be presented may also register.

Selection Criteria: Your proposal will be judged on:

Content
• Are the ideas presented relevant and significant to the priority content areas listed above?
• Are the concepts introduced useful and practical? Cutting-edge? Visionary?

Format
• Is the scope appropriate to the time limitation of 50 minutes and the Webcast format of slides and voice over?
• Is the material presented logically and adaptable to a slide & audio presentation?

Presenter(s)
• Is there a demonstrated knowledge of the subject matter?
• Is the speaker a credible source of the information, as demonstrated in his/her bio?
• Is there evidence of effective presentation skills?

Guidelines
• Standard Webcast sessions are 50 minutes with 10 minutes of Q&A;
• Three (3) is the maximum allowable number of presenters for a panel
• Sales pitches for products or services disguised as proposals will not be accepted.
• Notification will be sent to the proposal author or primary speaker for accepted proposals only. Generally, this will be within one month of submission. It is then the responsibility of the proposal author/primary speaker to notify any co-presenters of the proposal acceptance.
• Please do not plan to offer a panel presentation unless you have a definite commitment that the other panelists will assist you with the presentation.

Thank you for your interest in contributing to the success of ACTE's Webcast education program.
CLICK HERE to access the online proposal submission form.