Preparation - Insurance for the Future

London
20 November 2008

A financially focused forum to re-evaluate how your corporation can manage your budget effectively whilst faced with challenging market forces. Relevant to anyone with financial, procurement or operational responsibility of Corporate Travel or Meetings Management within their remit.

A global economic slowdown; spiraling oil prices; a weak dollar, a strong pound and an even stronger Euro; unbundled air component costs; increasingly fragmented travel content and changing procurement strategies all serve to add complexity to effective corporate travel and meetings management programmes.

Corporate travel may not be your core business but is probably a significant expense line in your operating budget which facilitates your business growth. Share tactical steps from your industry peers and knowledgeable industry experts to contain and cut your travel related expenditure by examining issues from a different perspective.

This focused afternoon education starts at 2pm and includes:

• A comprehensive yet comprehendible market perspective on the economic outlook, delivered by a Chief Economist
• Views from a Chief Financial Officer, a Procurement Professional and a Travel Manager - three internal stakeholders with different and sometimes conflicting priorities and drivers but all with responsibility for managing the budget and delivering an effective travel programme for their corporations
• Hear from three corporations which have implemented very different strategies to operate their company travel and meetings management programmes within budget
• Moderator for the day, Peter Dunkin, Aviation Management Consultant, Dunkin Associates

The education sessions are followed by an opportunity to network and discuss initiatives with your industry peers or mix and mingle as you please

ACTE Executive Forums are half or one-day events held regularly throughout the world. Designed to be responsive to key issues affecting the travel industry, forums provide informed commentary from industry leaders and suggest marketplace solutions you can implement immediately. A typical forum will bring together 75-100 corporate travel managers and suppliers of corporate travel products and services.

Agenda

13:30 – 14:00	Registration and Networking Coffee Served
14:00 – 14:15	Opening, Welcome & ACTE Update
14:15 – 15:00	Economic Market Overview An economist will deliver a high level overview of the global economic climate and discuss how economic challenges are affecting the corporate travel industry. This thought provoking presentation will provide a prospective on current situation and suggest what the future may look like to Subsequent sessions set tone Questions and Answers
15:00 – 16:00	Finding the equilibrium between service and cost effectiveness in a corporate travel programme A Chief Financial Officer focuses on delivering a strong balance sheet to the Board and its’ shareholders with corporate travel purchasing, generally one of a corporation’s largest budgets, often falling within his or her remit. A Chief Procurement Officer may appoint the suppliers and service providers yet may have no day to day responsibility for managing the programme. A Travel Manager may appoint and maintain supplier relationships, set policy, manage internal traveller issues and hold responsibility for the safety and security of employees travelling on company business – all within set budget parameters. This session will debate how different stakeholder priorities and conflicts can be balanced and managed to optimize the efficacy of a corporate travel and meetings management programme.
16:00 – 16:25	Coffee Break
16:25 – 17:30	Finding solutions by looking at issues from a different perspective – Corporates present their own case studies: In this panel discussion, three corporations will present how they looked at their programmes from a different angle to reduce their costs and increase their purchasing leverage to optimise their budget.
17:30 – 17:45	Closing Remarks Speaker and Sponsor Thank you
17:45 – 19:00	Networking Reception

Forum Location and Hotel Accommodations

Dexter House, No.2 Royal Mint Court,
Tower Hill, London, EC3N 4QN
T: 020 7977 5300
F: 020 7977 5301
E: [email protected]
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