What is ACTE Buyer Empowerment? ACTE is working hard to develop a conference curricula designed with the corporate travel buyer in mind—to give you the knowledge, resources, and contacts that will have an immediate impact on your job performance and career.
Look for the symbol throughout the conference website to experience more travel buyer-led panels, more travel buyer presenters, buyer-only education sessions and buyer-only networking.
The following is a list of Buyer Empowerment sessions that will be offered during the Spring 2008 Global Education Conference in Washington, D.C.:
M102 The Upside of an Economic Downturn
Instead of focusing on suppliers and prices, leading corporations are launching enterprise-wide initiatives in demand management, which examine drivers for spend, alignment of consumption to business needs and the elimination of unnecessary spend. Recently improved low-cost technology solutions have emerged which offer companies the opportunity to generate significant savings through virtual meetings/telepresence technologies. This session will explore:
T202 Risk Management & Corporate Liability
Corporations are focusing attention on managing risk associated with their employees while traveling on company business. Globalization, corporate travel policies lacking mandates and complications with traveler tracking hamper the ability of travel management to completely control this area. This session will evaluate: