If You Don’t Have a Solution Are You Part of the Problem?

Registration & Coffee

ACTE Welcome & Update

Flight Plans

A key executive from a Dallas-based airline will provide their view of the flying world and the opportunities and challenges the airline sees ahead that will inform its strategic focus for the next five to ten years.

Presenters:  
Frank Morogiello, Vice President – Global Sales, American Airlines, Inc.

Coffee Break

Hotel Reservations

Is it premature to declare the swing of the pendulum in the direction of a buyer’s market?  This session will provide an overview of the ongoing negotiations in the hotel sector, the expectations for 2009 rates and hotel flexibility for negotiating other services.

Presenters:
Mary Ellen George, General Manager, Advito

What Today’s Data Tell Us About the Future

Reading tea leaves is one way to predict the future, but in most of business data analysis is what can yield clues to the future.  Clearly no other entity has more access to rich predictive data than do the GDSs.  This session will put together the bits and pieces of GDS data to create a picture of the future of business travel.

Presenters: 
Chris Kroeger, Senior Vice President, GetThere and Sabre Travel Network North America

Closing Remarks