The Business Travel Conference 2012 will feature a range of
highly regarded business travel consultants, industry representatives and senior business travel buyers who will give objective advice on their particular areas of expertise. A full speaker list will be published in 2012, below are the speakers from 2011.
Keynote Speaker - Miles Hilton Barber Miles Hilton-Barber has completed the toughest foot-race in the world – the Marathon Des Sables – he has climbed Kilimanjaro, ascended to 17,500ft in the Himalayas, and has completed the Siberian Ice Marathon and an 11-day ultra-marathon across the Gobi Desert. For any person this would be an impressive record, but it is all the more astounding given the fact that Miles has been blind for 20 year. His astonishing achievements saw him voted BBC Radio 5 Live’s Alternative Sports Personality of the year.
He uses his experiences as an international adventurer to motivate and inspire others to achieve their potential, offering practical ideas that can work for everyone. Miles’ managerial background will enable him to tailor his talk precisely to the business travel sector. He says: “I want them [the audience] to feel they are looking inside the hearts and minds of the people who worked together as a team, took risks, extended the envelope, and made an impossible dream a reality.”
We look forward to welcoming him to TBTC 2011.
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Event Moderator - Mark Harris
Mark Harris has been a communications specialist in the business travel industry since 1990 and is a partner in Travel Intelligence Network. A former Marketing Director of Expotel and First Option, from 2003 to 2008 he combined the role of Head of Marketing at the Institute of Travel Management by launching TIN with Maggy Sainsbury. Mark was voted the Business Travel Industry’s Personality of the Year in 2006. He is also chairman of Witton Albion FC and the Evo-Stik Football League.
About TIN - Travel Intelligence Network is a specialist marketing communications company for suppliers, intermediaries and media owners in the business travel and meeting industries. TIN specialises in creating thought leadership solutions through events, white papers, and conferences. In the meetings & events sector TIN writes and publishes the annual Meetings Industry Report and has run the annual Meetings Industry Forum since 2008.
In 2009, TIN helped create and launch Business Travel Market and has worked with the Hotel Bookings Agents Association and MPI UK. TIN has also created the industry’s first interactive jargon-buster, www.traveljargon.org, with users in over 130 countries. www.the-tin.com
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Morag Alabaster Director of MWB Meeting Venues
MWB Business Exchange
Morag has been Director of MWB Meeting Venues for just over a year and is responsible for driving the development and growth of this rapidly expanding arm of MWB Business Exchange.
MWB Meeting Venues provides business to business focused meeting and training venues in unrivalled locations across the UK and is dedicated to high standards of business hospitality in a dynamic and flexible environment.
Chris Banks Category Manager (Travel and Accommodation)
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
As a civil servant and procurement professional for 15 years, I have a wealth of experience in commercials but I'm still a relative newcomer to business travel, having transferred from professional services in May 2010. Moving into such a dynamic area dovetailed with the change in government and added impetus to my areas efforts to support the government’s austerity and subsequent centralisation agendas. The last few months have been hectic, but full of opportunity, which I and my team have taken full advantage of. We have overhauled the commercial and policy elements of business travel, culminating in achievement of over 40% savings in 2010-11. This achievement was recognised by my peers, with the award of Best policy and Compliance initiative at the last TBTC.
Simone Buckley Director of Travel Programme Optimisation and Co Founder
Bouda
Simone has a wealth of global and national experience in the business travel industry having held various senior positions over the last 20 years at Capita, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Rosenbluth International and HRG.
Previously as Managing Director at Capita Business Travel she was responsible for the strategy, sales and overall management of the company targeting both the public and private sector. She sat on the Executive Board of the GTMC and chaired the Surface Transport Working Party, working diligently with her peers on leading industry initiatives.
Simone is the co founder of Bouda, an independent Business Travel Consultancy which was successfully launched in 2009.
Iona Courtenay-Warren Head of Conference, Events and Groups
Hotelscene
Iona is Head of Conference, Events and Groups at Hotelscene, one of the UK’s leading Hotel Booking Agencies.
During her 20 year travel career, she has worked on both supply and intermediary sides and is well placed to give objective views how best to achieve strategic meetings management.
Iona oversees the development and continuous improvement of client facing technology and booking processes. These developments have resulted in an average saving of 20% for Hotelscene’s customers on their annual MICE spend.
She passionately believes that technology is the key to unlocking the synergies between hotel programmes and meetings and events.
Bryan Daniels-Hepnar
Director, National Accounts - UK
Carlson Wagonlit
Bryan Daniels-Hepnar is Director, National Accounts – UK, for Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT). Bryan works with CWT’s large portfolio of SME customers to help them manage their travel expenditure. He has 27 years experience in business travel and has been with CWT since 2006. Previously, Bryan was Multinational Account Manager at TQ3 and General Manager at Rosenbluth International.
Robert Daykin Director and Managing Consultant
Corporate Travel Partners Limited
Following a 20 year career in sales and marketing, Robert moved into travel purchasing and management where he developed and implemented the strategic direction for the T&E category at The Littlewoods Organisation, Dresser Industries Inc. in the UK, and The Halliburton Company for the Europe/Africa region.
In 2000 he established his own consultancy practice, travelConsult, focused exclusively on the T&E category, before joining with two other well known T&E specialists in 2002 to form The Corporate Travel Partnership (now known as Corporate Travel Partners Limited (The CTP) The CTP helps organisation to optimise their managed travel programme by focusing on three key deliverables namely, fixing problems, keeping things simple, and delivering savings.
Kathryn Gilbertson Director
Greenwoods
Kathryn is a director and head of the Greenwoods' Litigation Department.
She advises companies on corporate risk management as well as defending businesses and their directors for alleged safety compliance breaches. Kathryn has defended numerous companies for corporate manslaughter, safety prosecutions for major accidents as well as seeking determinations before the Secretary of State and Judicial Reviews to challenge enforcement authorities' actions.
Some notable cases:
Gillian Beckingham – acquittal of manslaughter (legionnaire's disease)
Naturediet Pet Foods Ltd – acquitted of corporate manslaughter (manufacturing)
Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd – double fatality (maintenance/ construction)
She is renowned for her innovative and practical approach.
Will Hasler Business Travel Manager
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Will worked in the travel industry for GDS, e-commerce and an airline before joining PwC UK seven years ago. His outsourced team manages relationships with booking channels, suppliers as well as PwC travellers and bookers. To combat the issue of communication across the partnership, Will set up a travel champions network in 2007 which conveys operational and strategic messages swiftly to all PwC offices around the country; this has been a tremendous success especially during high profile business interruptions such as snow and ash clouds. His team has won several industry awards and he is attending his first TBTC.
Jamie Hindhaugh Head of Production, BBC L2012 and Head Of Sourcing, BBC logistics
BBC
I am the Head Of production L2012 at the BBC responsible for managing the pan BBC multiplatform production plans and output of the major events in 2012, including the 2012 Olympic Games. I am also Senior Advisor Logistics for BBC procurement and am the current Chairman of the ITM (Institute of Travel and Meetings).
Paul Keery Travel Manager
De Beers
Before I started up my own Travel Management Consultancy six years ago,
Paul Keery Associates Limited, I spent over 35 years in corporate travel working in senior management roles for major UK Travel Management Companies both home and abroad.
One of my top clients is the De Beers Family of Companies. De Beers, established in 1888, is the world's leading diamond company with unrivalled expertise in the exploration, mining and marketing of diamonds.
My role reports directly to the Head of Administration and is quite varied. Amongst other tasks, I support supplier negotiations in order to maximise savings and maintain the business relationship with the various TMC’s. I also quality control all travel books to ensure compliance with Company Policy.
Michelle Kipling Directorate and Projects Manager Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
Michelle Kipling has worked at Manchester Business School for the last 15 years. Currently she is Directorate and Projects Manager, working closely with the Director and the Senior Management and Administrative Teams. She acts as a senior advisor, providing advice and support in relation to the operational and strategic direction of the School. She became responsible for travel procurement for the School in 2009, originally as a pilot for the rest of the University, and has since been involved in helping to roll out Egencia across the rest of the organisation.
Yael Klein Managing Director AirPlus International
Yael Klein is the Managing Director of AirPlus International (UK), the leading provider of global business travel payment solutions. Ms Klein has an extensive travel background and profound knowledge of the travel payment industry, having worked at AirPlus International for over nine years. Prior to her current post in the United Kingdom, Ms Klein worked as a consultant and an International Key Account Manager, specialising in global sales. During the past two years, Ms Klein has led a successful sales and customer service team, focusing on quality, customer service and innovation. Ms Klein’s has a degree in International Tourism.
