ACTE Executive Forum

Going for the Gold: Optimizing Travel ROI

Vancouver, BC
22 September 2004
The Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina

Join us for this very special Executive Forum in Vancouver--ACTE's Global Conference city in 2005. The program will focus on strategies companies can use to extract the best value from every travel dollar they spend. The Forum will be launched by a keynote presentation from Dr. Barry E. Prentice, director of the Transport Institute at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Prentice will address airline industry issues and answer questions, such as:

What choices must airlines make to become profitable?
What happens if they don't make the correct choices?
Who will dominate Canadian skies in 10 years?
What kind of change can we expect to the travel experience 10 years from now.

Agenda


8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.	Registration Desk
9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.	Opening Remarks Garth Jopling, ACTE President
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.	View Presentation: Airline Industry - What does the future hold? This session will look at the serious questions facing the airline industry and seek answers from academia. Dr. Barry Prentice will share university research that offers a glimpse at the future of transportation and answers these and other questions: What choices must airlines make to become profitable? What happens if they don't make the correct choices? Who will dominate Canadian skies in 10 years? What kind of change can we expect to the travel experience 10 years from now. Presenter: Dr. Barry E. Prentice, Director, Transport Institute, Professor, Supply Chain Management, I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba
10:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.	View Presentation: Meetings - the Partnership Cycle Meetings consolidation is the last frontier for many corporate travel programs. This initiative is challenged by stakeholders in various business units and departments who have had historic oversight of their own unit's or department's meetings. Meetings' technology and evolving supplier relationships will allow autonomy of meeting planners, while enabling consolidation of data and management of business processes to mitigate risk and unnecessary costs. This panel discussion will present a case study of the TELUS implementation of a web-based meetings management tool, and showcase the three-way partnership cycle between the corporation, the technology provider, and the hotel that executes the function. Presenters: Kathy Pavelich, Director Travel Management, TELUS Communications Dale Beckles, President & CEO, Arcaneo Gord Johnson, Vice-President, Delta Hotels
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.	Canada - it's our time to shine! The work's begun and the team is being assembled to welcome the world to 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler. Vancouver 2010 has made the transition from Bid committee to Games Organizing Committee (VANOC) since being awarded the games July 2, 2003. Operational plans and schedules are being drawn up and venues will be built or renovated over the next six years. This session will be an overview on the activity leading up to this important event. Presenter: Sam Corea, Director of Media Relations, Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.	View Presentation: Navigating the Smart Border - The Future of Cross Border Business Travel This session will focus on the evolution of the smart border and how it will affect traveling employees of Canadian companies crossing into the U.S. Presenter: David Andersson, Attorney at Law, Andersson Cross Border Law Corporation
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.	Break
2:45 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.	View Presentation: Creating a Yardstick to Measure the Travel Program's Value Pegging the travel department's performance and budget to other corporate key performance indicators is an analytic tool that some corporate travel managers have employed to provide financial intelligence to the CFO. The session will examine the financial relationships between company performance and travel that can yield valuable internal benchmarking data - while boosting your corporate influence. Presenter: Barry C. Baker, Director, Business & HR Financial Services, Placer Dome Inc. Kari Knoll Kesler, Industry Consultant
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.	View Presentation: What's the Next New Thing? This session will feature a speaker who has seen the future and has come back to report on these key coming events in the industry: Direct and residual effect of GDS deregulation Direct and residual effect of online travel agencies emergence into the business travel arena What the next new technologies that will be adopted by business travel to squeeze cost out of travel management What the next new practice/process that will be adopted by business travel to squeeze cost out of travel management What's the next effort/initiative the industry that travel management will focus on once all excess process costs are squeezed out Presenter: Tom Wilkinson, Director, Global Agency Services, Travelocity Business
4:00 p.m.	Closing Remarks

Forum Location & Accommodations

The Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina
1601 Bayshore Drive
Vancouver, BC V6G 2V4
604-691-6977
http://www.westinbayshore.com

Special Air Fares to travel to the ACTE Executive Forum provided by WestJet: (All fares are in Canadian dollars)

Winnipeg to Vancouver $119 + (49.64 taxes) = $168.64
Saskatoon/Regina -Vancouver $89 + (42.19 taxes) = $131.19
Edmonton/Calgary - Vancouver $69 + (46.14 taxes) = $115.14

Fares are subject to availability. To make reservations, please call WestJet Corporate Sales team at 1-877-993-7853, in Calgary at 444-2296).

Committee

Connie Fabro, Travel Manager, University of British Columbia (co-chair)
Jillian Kellow, Director National Corporate Consulting, BTI Canada (co-chair)
Margaret Chow, Director of Corporate Sales, Pan Pacific Vancouver
Ann-Marie Copping, Director of Purchasing North American Accounts, Intrawest
Beverley Doran, Account Manager, Uniglobe Advance Travel Ltd.

Sponsors