ACTE Executive Forum

Business Travel Spring Pulse

Brussels, March 20th 2006
Sofitel Airport
Bessenveldstraat 15
1831 DIEGEM (Brussels)

Thank you for joining us and making this a successful event for Spring 2006. A lot of new and valuable information was provided for the 80 delegates that attended the event. During the course of the day we focused on the prospective business travel market, we learned about the success of adopting tools and technology, how to begin the processes and implement a successful managed hotel program, what is new in the air and contagions and other pandemics. It was a day full of a lot of valuable information.

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Agenda

8:45 - 9:00	Open Registration
9:00 - 9:30	Word of Welcome by Nadine Dewart, ACTE Pres-Elect and by Helen Lalitte, Director of Marketing and Sales Accor. Update on BATM by Nora Buysschaert, President BATM.
9:30 - 10:30	Presentation: Business Travel Market Perspective Debate JM Kadaner, President of Key Corporate Solutions will share with us his company’s perspective on the Business Travel Market in 2006. We will have a debate panel comprised of Amex, CWT, TQ3 and BTI. Speaker: JM Kadaner, President of Key Corporate Solutions and Educational Committee Chair ACTE. Delegates from: Amex, CWT, TQ3, BTI
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:45	Presentation: White Paper on Tools and Technologies Pascal Jungfer, Vice President of Carlson Solution Group will present an unbiased white paper based on an CWT survey complied over the last six months to establish a cartography self-booking tools adaptability along with the trial and tribulations of implementation and the financial impact these tools can have on you as an end user. Followed by a Q and A session Speaker: Pascal Jungfer, VP Carlson Solutions Group
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:15	Managing Your Hotel Spend, is it possible? Come learn from Yves Galamidi, a seasoned Global Travel Purchaser of IKEA Indirect Material & Services, about his trials and tribulations during the course of a nine month process of the internal preparation, negotiations and the implementation it took to embrace and control his company’s global hotel program. Q and A session to follow Speakers: Yves Gallimidi, Global Travel Purchaser IKEA Indirect Material & Services International
14:15 - 14:40	Presentation: What's New in the Air Bruno Georgelin, Vice President of Global Sales AirFrance will speak about consolidation and alliances being the wave of the future for all airline companies due to fragmentation, massive losses, contrasting situations in the different regions, and the need for fuel consolidation. We will look at the compared performances of the stakeholders in air transportation industry (aircraft manufacturers, GDS) on a global scale and how competition will be fiercer between the three major Alliances. At the last half of this session we will look at new ways of contracting, services and intergration. Q and A to follow Speaker: Bruno Georgelin, AirFrance Vice- President Global Sales
14:40 - 15:00	Presentation: Strategic Alliances from the Customer Perspective Airlines have worked hard to group together to form three very large strategic airline alliances. Are these alliances as altruistic as their participants would have you believe? Do they offer good value for corporate customers? The reality is often confusing information, inadequacy of shared information, inconsistent product offerings and non-comparable delivery standards. Keith Mason will explain what research shows on fares and will examine case for strategic alliances from the corporate customer’s perspective. Speaker: Keith Mason, Director Business Travel Research Centre – Cranfield University - UK
15:00 - 15:20	Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:40	Presentation: The Threat of Contagions and other Pandemics The H5N1 outbreak in 2004: a pandemic in waiting? Lessons from past pandemic Understanding the outbreaks in poultry Action in the face of an uncertain threat Q and A to follow Speaker: Dr. Bernardus Ganter, Regional Advisor Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response of the World Health Organisation
15:40 - 15:45	Closing remarks by Nora Buysschaert, President BATM
15:45 - 16:30	Farewell Cocktail sponsored by the Sofitel Airport Brussels

Planning Committee

Charles Mabey - General Travel Manager, DHL Aviation, DHL
Michael Canty - Procurement Manager, Basell Polyolefins
Corrado Simontacchi - Purchasing Manager, Goods and Services, EMEA and ASPAC, Huntsman
Erik Celen - Travel Management Operations, Monsanto
Jeroen Vandervelde - Commercial Director, CWT
Pascal Struyve - Travel Manager, EMEA and ASPAC, American Standard
JM Kadaner - President, Key Corporate Solutions

Forum Location, Accommodations and Driving Directions

Sofitel Airport
Bessenveldstraat 15
1831 DIEGEM (Brussels)

By car: On Brussels Ring follow direction of Zaventem airport take exit Zaventem airport and follow sign Brussels/Evere, at 1st trafic lights(Nato) take right, turn and follow this road for about 1 Km.

Special Room Rate and Instructions: The hotel is offering a special rate for a standard room 155 € or the deluxe room rate of 170€ for Sunday March 19th. Breakfast buffet is served at 21 euro per person per day. To make a reservation please contact the reservations department: [email protected] or 0032/2 713 66 15 and please reference the ACTE event.

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