Speed Dating and Breakout Sessions

The popular speed dating will take place on Saturday and Sunday and will give you the opportunity to have up to 24 one-to-one meetings with preferred business partners. 

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Saturday 27 September  15.15 - 17.15
Sunday 28 September  09.15. - 11.15hrs

Breakout Sessions

To register for ONE of the three breakouts, complete the details requested. Please note, all three breakouts will be running at the same time so you can only choose to attend one.

Saturday Breakout Session Booking

Corporate View 
Date 27 September 2008
Location The Melia Sitges Hotel
 
Tony Pilcher, Pilcher Associates
What does the corporate really want from a TMC? Following on from the Business Travel debate, Tony will put forward his view on how to get the best out of delegates' relationships with the corporate travel buyer.

Following his retirement from HSBC in June 2007 as Head of Business Travel and Expense Management, Tony established Pilcher Associates Limited which provides independent consultancy to the corporate market across all aspects of business travel management (you could keep these BTM as caps if you want to make it sound more important.
 
Cruise 
Date 27 September 2008
Location The Melia Sitges Hotel
 
Mafalda Barreto, Silversea Cruises Jo Rzymowska, Royal Caribbean International Giles Hawke, Complete Cruise Solution
A chance for delegates to recognise that whilst the cruise market overall is growing, what is it that agents members rather than agents?? can do to increase their cruise sales?

Dynamic Financial Management 
Date 27 September 2008
Location The Melia Sitges Hotel
 
Simon Patton, Transitions
Simon will look at how the smallest of changes can have a big impact on delegates' overall business profitability.
 

Sunday Breakout Session Booking

IATA 
Date 28 September 2008
Location The Melia Sitges Hotel
 
A senior team from the Madrid service centre will work with delegates on specific issues and generally help members understand the process which will ultimately prevent them from falling foul of IATA's stringent policies.

Member Web Survey 
Date 28 September 2008
Location The Melia Sitges Hotel
 
Click With Technology
All members attending this session will hear how the results of a survey commissioned for the conference by Advantage can help improve the capabilities of their own sites in the future. Any member attending will receive their own personal audit summary on their own website which has been done prior to the conference.

You're Special 
Date 28 September 2008
Location The Melia Sitges Hotel
 
An opportunity to identify the core components in developing a specialisation and how to go about it.