CHICAGO—The European Hotel Technology Conference will take place in Budapest at the Kempinski Hotel Corvinus next week.
Strategy-focused sessions on Wednesday, Oct. 22, and Thursday, Oct. 23 will include the following topics:
- Driving Business to brand.com Sites Via Technology
- Enterprise System Design for Reliable Performance in the Cloud
- The Evolving World of Mobile
- Security: Keeping the Bad Guys Out
- Translating IT Success to Business Success; or rather “How do I get noticed?”
- Public Space Robotics: The Future of Assisting and Serving People
- Innovations in Payments
- IT Leadership Panel
Additionally, industry participants wishing to learn more about specific technologies can attend the newly added “Tech Day” sessions on Tuesday, Oct. 21. These include new technologies in door locks; WiFi evolution and the impact on hotels; location-based services in hospitality; hotel networks in transition: the shift from copper to fiber; the digital hotel: how to profit from big data and analytics; managing systems migration to the cloud; next-generation guest television; case studies in Bring Your Own Device/Content in hotels; and virtual credit cards.
Forty-six technology and hospitality thought leaders from around the world are scheduled to present these sessions.
Registration is open to all full-time employees of hotel owning, management and franchising companies, with lower rates for members. HTNG membership is required for other industry participants; technology providers, consultants and others who are not HTNG members should check with HTNG’s membership department to ensure eligibility before making any travel plans.
Hotel CIOs, IT Directors and equivalent senior-level corporate technologists are also eligible to participate in the Hotel IT Leaders’ Roundtable, immediately following the main conference on Thursday afternoon.