Date: September 14, 2017 | Register here
Prices: If you’re a travel buyer/manager, you can attend the event for free.
Location: London, the United Kingdom

Business Travel Summit 2017

The UK’s most comprehensive future looking one day conference for travel buyers.

The Business Travel Summit London is the specialist travel conference for corporate business travel managers and buyers focused on exploring best practice, trends and innovation in managed travel.

Whether it’s to learn about the latest trends and thinking in travel management, peer-to-peer networking with 125 + like-minded travel buyers or meeting 30+ specialist suppliers; the summit is the event where you’ll find all the answers to your company’s burning needs. Join Business Travel Summit this September for an in-depth understanding of innovation, disruption and the biggest issues in corporate travel management.

Key summit stats

• 1 day packed with learning, sourcing and networking
• 125 travel buyers
• 30 leading suppliers showcasing travel solutions
• 30 conference sessions
• 40 expert speakers
• 7 hours of education
• 3 hours of networking
• 6 topic focused conference streamsv

Event highlights

• Speakers: Be motivated by our leading travel experts including CEOs, start-ups and experienced buyers.
• Sessions: Challenge your thinking and discover how to make your travel programme fit changing needs.
• Suppliers: Discover the latest solutions from airline, hotels, TMCs to technology when you meet our top suppliers.
• Exhibiting: Meet senior travel managers and buyers; raise brand awareness, make new connections and find new business.

Why attend?

The Business Travel Summit London is the most comprehensive one-day conference specifically designed for travel buyers and managers. With the success of the first summit in 2016, it returns packed full of future thinking content, an elite mix of expert speakers, handpicked leading suppliers and unrivalled networking opportunities.

This September, join the summit to revamp your travel programme and leave better equipped to deal with the challenges you may face, suppliers and internal stakeholders. Meet and do business with 6 pioneering start-up founders, stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and travel management thinking

• Cutting edge content: The conference brings together the latest ideas and innovations in 3 content streams to allow you to focus on the issues that matter the most. Select a stream and deep dive on the issues you need to explore in more detail and benefit from innovative and varied session formats.
• Solutions & Suppliers: If you need to find a new supplier, the Summit is the best forum to do this. All the key areas are covered, from airlines to hotels, chauffeurs to ecommerce. Discover products that would suit your organisation and explore new technologies to meet challenges.
• Networking & Social: The London summit lets you share and learn ideas, experiences and tips throughout the day with breakout networking sessions. Together more than 125 senior level travel industry buyers, managers and suppliers attend the conference to engage with industry figures.

Who should attend?

If you’re involved in sourcing suppliers and taking forward your corporate travel programme, then this Summit is for you.

Attendees are usually:

• Global/EMEA/National travel buyers and managers
• Procurement, purchasing or sourcing specialists
• Senior company executives in HR, finance or facilities
• Travel risk or security management

Networking

The Summit is the only forum specifically created to bring together more than 125 key travel industry buyers and suppliers. From intimate knowledge sharing round table discussions to meeting other professionals over breaks the summit allows plenty of time to meet peers and suppliers; find solutions to your challenges and expand industry contacts.

The Summit is designed to make it easy for you to make new connections and share experiences.  Networking time is built into the day in a variety of exciting formats:

• Peer-to-peer networking
• Roundtable discussions
• Informal networking

Be better placed to create and develop successful travel programmes; the summit is the ideal place to explore and make new contacts with your peers, our hand-picked suppliers and pioneering innovators, and our expert speakers. Be involved in knowledge sharing and best practice.

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