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GBTA Conference 2019 - Munich in Partnership with VDR will showcase exhibiting companies from around the world at Europe’s largest business travel conference.
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A detailed overview of the times and dates for events and sessions at GBTA Conference 2019 - Munich in Partnership with VDR 19 - 21 November.
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Exhibit at GBTA Conference 2019 - Munich in Partnership with VDR and reach 1000+ European travel buyers and professionals.
08h00-17h00
Fundamentals of Business Travel Management™
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08h00-13h30
Expo Selection 2020
08h00-19h30
Registration is open
09h00-12h00
Committee Meetings (invitation only)
09h00-17h30
GBTA Broadcast Studio
11h30-12h30
First Timers
12h00-13h30
Lunch and Networking in the Expo
(View the 2019 Expo Map)
14h00-14h15
Official Opening - Centre Stage
14h15-15h00
Our opening keynote is a very special guest speaker - a former senior member of British Security Service. Drawing on their own experience of reshaping their organisation to meet the demands of a new world order they will speak on effective leadership in times of change.
15h00-15h30
Move time
15h30-16h00
Education Sessions
16h00-16h15
16h15-16h45
16h45-17h00
17h00-17h30
17h30-19h30
Welcome Reception in the Expo (View the 2019 Expo Map)
08h00-18h00
08h30-17h00
08h00-09h00
Breakfast in Expo (View the 2019 Expo Map)
0900-1000
The Aviation Hour: Part 1 - Interview with Randy J. Tinseth, VP Commercial Marketing, The Boeing Company; Part 2 - Industry Panel
Part 2 - Brexit, NDC, environmental issues and commercial headwinds are certainly causing a degree of turbulence for aviation. Hear from senior executives from Lufthansa and easyJet on how aviation is evolving in Europe and the impact for the business travel.
Moderator: Richard Tams, Director at Tailwind Advisory Ltd Panelists: Thomas Haagensen, Group Markets Director of easyJet Europe Jürgen Siebenrock, Vice President Sales and Services Home Markets & Global Key Account Management Lufthansa Group
1000-1030
The sharing economy; bleisure; technology and demographics are all changing where; when and how business travellers stay when away with work. This C-level panel will look at how the accommodations sector is evolving; what is driving this change and what it means for the corporate travel manager.
10h30-11h15
Networking break in Expo (View the 2019 Expo Map)
11h15-11h30
11h30-12h00
12h00-12h15
12h15-12h45
12h45-13h00
13h00-14h15
Arena Luncheon
Seven Ways to Own the World Award winning Swedish journalist, author and digital futurist Andreas Ekström will share how the Digital Revolution has reshaped our world. Delegates will learn how to navigate this new landscape to not only survive but to thrive by providing an insight of the tech world from a truly human perspective. In his day job Andreas Ekström focuses on the online world, media, and digital equality as a senior staff writer for the Swedish daily newspaper Sydsvenskan. He won the Swedish "Speaker of the year" award in 2019.
Presenter: Andreas Ekstrom, Award Winning Journalist, Author and Digital Futurist at Sydsvenskan
Dessert in Expo
15h00-16h00
The Big Idea
18h00-19h30
Media Cocktail Party (invitation only)
19h30
Big Night Out
08h00-14h00
08h30-12h00
08h30-09h30
Breakfast in Expo
09h00-14h00
09h30-10h00
10h15-11h15
Supplier Masterclass: Fighting Jetlag with Rocket Science
11h15-12h00
Networking in Expo
12h00 – 12h30
Interesting Times The world is changing at an unprecedented rate - technology has transformed the way we live and now geo-political, economic and demographic forces are reshaping our world. In this session we will look at these macro forces and examine how they are impacting the business travel industry.
12h30 – 13h00
Corporate Centricity: The Evolving Role of Travel in Organisations
Travel has traditionally occupied a functional role within organisations - getting people from A to B and managing spend. But to deliver added value and play a greater strategic role, travel managers must work closely with other departments such as human resources, sustainability, procurement, and finance. Listen to what matters to these key stakeholders and how travel can engage with them using a 'corporate centric' approach.
Research Made Possible by
Moderator: Anja Turner, Vice President, Global Marketing & Events at BCD Travel
Speaker:
Ralf Schmitt, Corporate Head of Sustainability / CSR, GETINGE AB Ralf Kania, Director, Head of Corporate Benefits at Merck KGaA
13h00-14h00
Lunch in Expo
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