ACTE Executive Forum

Making Your Online Strategy Take Off with Success!!

Brussels, Belgium
Crowne Plaza
Brussels Airport
24 November 2005

Dear BATM/ACTE member,

For the third time this year ACTE and the Belgium Association of Travel Management (BATM) will join forces on November 24, to offer the best educational event available to the business travel community in Belgium.

Join your peers in an event where the global reach of ACTE and the local strength of BATM combine to offer provoking discussion and quality networking.

Participants will share best practices on the request for proposal (RFP) processes. This session will cover the team's effort and organisation needed to build an efficient document. We will go over the required step by step processes which will enable you to make efficient and informed decisions crucial to your business.

Following the RFP session, Mr. Corrado Simontacchi, Manager of Corporate Purchasing EMEA & ANPAC at Huntsman, will give delegates his company's perspective on their chosen self booking tool (SBT) and share with us the challenges and solutions important to make an online strategy really take off.

The day will end with round table discussion between buyers. We ask that self booking tool suppliers and travel management companies not to attend this break-out session. Corporates will have an objective understanding of the online booking environment and will be able to learn everything they always wanted to know and were afraid to ask.

This ACTE-BATM event will also be the occasion to meet directly with the self booking tool suppliers during the table-top exhibitions.

Delegates will meet with the leading self booking tool suppliers and get advice on which solution is the most suitable to help them manage their companies travel procurement online and controlling their costs.

Corporates- If you still have not taken advantage of both memberships,

Agenda

11.45 - 12.30	Registration, welcome drink & table top exhibition
12.30 - 13.00	Walking lunch and table-top exhibitions
14.00 - 14.10	A word of welcome by Nora Buysschaert, President BATM
14.10 - 14.30	The RFP Processes: Building the Best Possible Bid A request for proposal (RFP) is the first step of any major procurement project. Its importance is such that it often leads to the success or failure of the service it helped select. However, constructing a perfect RFP requires careful preparation. This session will cover the team's effort and organisation needed to build an efficient document and will go over the step by step required processes which will enable you to analyze and make efficient and informed decisions crucial to your business. Speaker: Cindy Van Der Elst, Procurement Manager, Honeywell Moderator: JM Kadaner, CEO Key Corporate Solutions
14.50 - 15.30	Coffee Break and table-top exhibits
15.30 - 16.00	Offline to Online : The Huntsman Experience Learn about the Huntsman company perspective on their chosen self booking tool (SBT) and share with us the challenges and solutions important to make an online strategy really take off. How to select the right products and reap the rewards? When is return on investment reached and how to achieve it? How to integrate the SBT with the company's management systems? How to deploy your SBT and how to support your management in orchestrating a change management campaign to maximize adoption rate? Are solutions over sold, what to expect and how to avoid the pit-falls? A Huntsman traveller will describe his first hand experience with the self booking tool. Is the solution intuitive and user friendly so that travellers find and book airfares, cars, and hotels easily and according to their travel policy? Speaker: Corrado Simontacchi, Manager of Corporate Purchasing, EMEA & ANPAC Huntsman
16.00 - 16.30	Everything you've always wanted to know and were afraid to ask… The round table discussions between buyers give answers to the questions usually left unasked. Self booking tool suppliers and travel management companies are asked not to attend this break-out session. This allows the Corporates to have an objective understanding of the online booking environment. Moderator: JM Kadaner, CEO Key Corporate Solutions
16.30 - 16.45	Closing remarks and wrap-up speech by Nora Buysschaert
All Day	Visit table-top exhibition of self booking tool suppliers Meet with the leading self booking tool suppliers and get free advice about which solution is the most suitable to help you manage your companies travel procurement online and best control your costs.

Forum Location, Accommodations and Driving Directions

Crowne Plaza
Brussels Airport
Da Vinci Laan 4
1831 Diegem
00 32 (0)2 416 33 33
www.crownplaza.com

A preferred room rate of 130 euros includes VAT is available to all attendees. Please call the Crowne Plaza 00 32 (0)2 416 33 33 by Saturday, November 19 and mention that you are attending the BATM and Association of Corporate Travel Executives Executive Forum to take advantage of this special rate.

Coming from Antwerpen, Gent

On the Ring O (ringroad around Brussels), take the exit Zaventem Airport

Keep to the left and follow the signs to Zaventem Airport

Just before the viaduct leading to the airport, take the exit Zaventem Centrum

At the roundabout, go left and take the parallel that takes you back to Ring O

Turn right immediately at the exit Da Vinci

At the roundabout go straight ahead

Our hotel is located on your left

Coming from Liège, Leuven, Luxembourg

On the Ring O (ringroad around Brussels), take the exit Zaventem Airport
Keep to the right and follow the signs to Zaventem Airport
Just before the viaduct leading to the airport, take the exit Zaventem Centrum
At the roundabout, go left and take the parallel that takes you back to Ring O
Turn right immediately at the exit Da Vinci
At the roundabout go straight ahead
Our hotel is located on your left

Local Executive Forum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors:

Table Top Exhibitors

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For information about this or other ACTE Educational Forums, please contact:
ACTE education department at 1-703-683-5322
Megan Lenfant at +33 1 47 68 16 54 or [email protected]