Austin, Texas — Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®), producers of the Hospitality Trade Know-how Exposition and Convention (HITEC®) has assembled an skilled group of {industry} professionals to serve on the advisory council for its upcoming North American occasion. HITEC is the biggest and longest-running nonprofit occasion of its form internet hosting 300+ exhibiting corporations and a thoughtfully designed schooling program with over 50 schooling periods. In its five-plus many years, HITEC has turn into a revered, must-attend occasion for the {industry}. HITEC 2024 will happen from June 24–27 on the Charlotte Conference Middle in Charlotte, North Carolina USA.
Members of the HITEC Advisory Council are chosen by HFTP management for his or her expertise and experience. The roster updates yearly and the 2024 HITEC North America Advisory Council will decide the schooling program for Charlotte. Main the group are co-chairs: Katie Lee, Chief Info Officer for AKA Lodges + Lodge Residences and McLean Xavier, CHTP+, Vice President of Know-how for Innvest Lodges.
“I consider that HITEC’s schooling program is the cornerstone of innovation and progress in right now’s hospitality tech panorama,” mentioned Xavier. “Embracing numerous viewpoints is not only a alternative, it is our cornerstone to fostering innovation and an crucial. Broadening our instructional outreach with a public name for displays shouldn’t be solely a celebration of that variety however an funding within the potential of collective development.”
The Advisory Council will kick off its program planning with a subject improvement assembly in January 2024. Primarily based on the matters they establish as precedence at this preliminary assembly, the council will proceed to work over the next months to fine-tune periods and choose skilled audio system to current the knowledge. New this 12 months is a public name for HITEC Charlotte session proposals – the council will take into account these submissions, deciding on distinctive industry-specific displays to assist flesh out the occasion’s noteworthy schooling choices to make sure a complete solution-based program. The deadline for proposal submissions is January 10, 2024.
The 2024 HITEC North America Advisory Council consists of:
Co-Chair Katie Lee │ CIO| AKA Lodges + Lodge Residences
Co-Chair McLean Xavier, CHTP+ | VP of Know-how | Innvest Lodges
Ajay Aluri, Ph.D. │ Founding Director, WVU HIT Lab and Affiliate Professor │ West Virginia College
Zach Black | Vice President | Spire Hospitality
Mike Blake | VP of IT| Kemper Sports activities
Artwork Burger, CHAE+ │ Principal │ Artwork Burger Consulting
Andrew Buwalda, CHAE │ Common Supervisor of IT, Finance and Operations │ Deerhurst Resort
Scot Campbell, CHTP │ CTO Live shows, North America │ LiveNation
Neil Foster, CHTP, MBA | Advisor | Development Advisors Worldwide Community (GAIN)
Roger Franke │ VP and CIO │ Aramark Vacation spot
Mark Gage, CHTP │ VP and Government Director, IT │ Enchantment Group
Nelson Garrido, CHTP+ │ SVP, IT │ Brookfield Properties
Ron Hardin, CHTP │ Director, IT │ Sandestin Investments LLC
Michael Lederman │ VP, IT │ The Main Lodges of the World
Sherry Marek │ Proprietor | Aiken Avenue
Shannon McCallum | VP of Lodge Operations | Resorts World Las Vegas
Keryn McNamara │SVP, Lodge Know-how │ Aimbridge Hospitality
Christine Moffett | CIO, Know-how and Innovation | Kessler Assortment
Harikrishna (HK) Patel | Board Director and OTA Committee Chair | AAHOA
Neal Patel, CHO, CHIA │ Managing Associate │ Blue Chip Lodges and Instant Previous Chair │ AAHOA
Henri Roelings │ Founder and CEO │ Hospitality Internet
Matt Schwartz │ CTO │ Sage Hospitality Group
Prakash Shukla │ Managing Associate │ Wayfare VC
Wealthy Siegel │ President and Writer │ Hospitality Improve
Jason Smith │ VP of Advertising and Communications │ HSMAI
Tariq Valani │ SVP of IT, Center East, Africa, India & Turkey │ ACCOR
Ira Vouk │ Writer/Trade Advisor │ Hospitality 2.0
Lyle Worthington, CHTP │ CEO │ Worthington Tech
HFTP Liaison Millicent Athanos │ Employees Vice President – Administration & USALI │ HFTP
HFTP Liaison Alison Lockett │ Training Coordinator │ HFTP
HFTP Liaison Frank Wolfe, CAE │ CEO │ HFTP
HFTP Liaison Bryan Wooden │ Chief Studying and Occasions Officer │ HFTP
HITEC 2024 exhibit house is 74 p.c reserved, with common gross sales open for the remaining house ([email protected]). Registration and resort reservations will open in January 2024. For extra details about HFTP’s occasions, go to www.hftp.org or contact the HFTP Assembly & Occasions Division at [email protected].
About HFTP
Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®), established in 1952, is a hospitality nonprofit affiliation headquartered in Austin, Texas USA with workplaces within the EU and Center East. HFTP is acknowledged because the spokes group for the finance and know-how segments of the hospitality {industry} with a world community of members and stakeholders. HFTP uniquely understands the {industry}’s urgent points, and assists its stakeholders to find options to their challenges extra effectively than any group. HFTP gives skilled networks, academic sources, profession improvement applications, analysis, management alternatives and conferences and occasions. HFTP produces worldwide occasions all year long, together with the world’s largest hospitality know-how tradeshow and convention model: HITEC. As well as, it oversees the hospitality-specific Pineapplesearch.com® and the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Trade (USALI). For extra details about HFTP, go to www.hftp.org. For the most recent information, go to the HFTP Information web page at information.hftp.org and the HFTP Join weblog at weblog.hftp.org.
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