Keynote Presentations

As promised, Vancouver Conference attendees got a bold look at tomorrow thanks to ACTE's outstanding group of international keynote presenters. These innovative thinkers and strategists shared their vision of the future, wowing audiences with their keen insights and creative solutions to the industry's most challenging issues.





Judy Dempsey
Diplomatic Correspondent
International Herald Tribune

In Vancouver, journalist Judy Dempsey did it again! Back for an encore performance after her dynamic presentation at ACTE's Stockholm Global Conference last October 2004, Ms. Dempsey offered up her timely view of today's geopolitical situation and its impact on travel and trade.




Michael Furdyk
Entrepreneur and Consultant

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Proving that he is, indeed, one of the brightest young minds in the world of technology, Michael Furdyk shared his amazing experiences as "one of the 10 entrepreneurs who shaped the year 1999" (according to Profit Magazine), with ACTE conference attendees. A charter member of the "net generation," Furdyk discussed a variety of ways business travel industry executives and their companies can realize the true potential of technology.





Chuck Martin
CEO
NFI Research


At the nexus of a global idea exchange, best-selling author Chuck Martin provided indispensable guidance for reconnecting long-term strategic vision with the short-term actions needed to realize that vision. ACTE attendees heard Martin discuss pragmatic solutions to the problems leaders at all levels face as well as what he said "matters most" in today's difficult market: overall vision, customers, strategy, and execution.




Graeme Deans
Vice President
A.T. Kearney, Inc.

Co-author of the award-winning business book Winning The Merger Endgame (McGraw-Hill, 2002), Graeme Deans' presentation drew from his extensive experience as a business strategist. An expert on the effects of mergers on business, he addressed the industry's current challenges with vision and creativity.





Rush Kidder
President
Institute for Global Ethics

In his trademark anecdotal style, Rush Kidder discussed the complexities of ethical decision-making. According to Kidder, whose new book, Moral Courage was released in January, the toughest choices are not a matter of right versus wrong but of right versus right. Kidder offered his enthusiastic audience a common language and methodology for analyzing situations where two values are in conflict, and come from very different cultures; religions; and political systems.