Hospitality Improve Writer and President Wealthy Siegel at this time introduced that the recipient of the 2023 John Cahill Honorary Seat is Dylan Emerson, an undergraduate scholar on the College of Houston’s Conrad N. Hilton Faculty of International Hospitality Management. The award might be offered on the upcoming CIO Summit, an invitation-only annual occasion produced by Hospitality Improve journal. This 12 months’s occasion might be held Sept. 6-8 at Lodge Van Zandt in Austin, Texas.
The John Cahill Honorary Seat is awarded every year to at least one distinguished scholar from a college or four-year school with a lodge program. This scholar is really useful by his or her professors as a person with huge potential within the lodge know-how business.
Dylan has proven curiosity in know-how since highschool. He leverages his management abilities to function president of the Membership Administration Affiliation of America (CMAA) Cougar Chapter and understands that know-how is the way forward for hospitality. He has spoken twice on the CMAA World Convention concerning know-how in golf equipment, from recharging golf carts wirelessly to utilizing occupancy sensors with AI to fulfill members’ wants extra successfully. Dylan is in our Information Analytics and Mission Administration monitor and loves utilizing information to reinforce operations efficiency and make choices. Professor and Conrad N. Hilton Distinguished Chair Agnes DeFranco
Professor DeFranco served on the HFTP Board underneath Cahill’s presidency and witnessed firsthand his devotion to the business. “Dylan’s spirit of studying, teamwork, and taking over new challenges jogs my memory of John’s ardour,” she mentioned. “I’m proud he has been chosen to proceed John’s legacy.”
The John Cahill Honorary Seat was created in reminiscence of business chief, technologist, mentor and pal John Cahill, a supporter of the CIO Summit from its inception in 2001. Over the course of his profession, he served as CIO for 3 lodge firms—ITT Sheraton, InterContinental Accommodations and The Denihan Hospitality Group. He was additionally a pacesetter in Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP), along with his contributions together with co-editing the inaugural Licensed Hospitality Know-how Skilled (CHTP) examination in 1995.
Above all, Cahill was a mentor. Hospitality Improve’s Wealthy Siegel wished to see John’s reminiscence stay on by presenting one scholar every year with a possibility to attend an in any other case closed-door, invitation-only CIO Summit, permitting the coed to sit down in John’s seat for the two-day occasion. “It’s one thing we all know John would have beloved,” he mentioned.
Earlier recipients of the award embody inaugural recipient Spencer Rung, a 2016 graduate of the Penn State Faculty of Hospitality Administration; 2017 recipient Andrew Trupia, a graduate of the College of Nevada Las Vegas; 2018 recipient Juan Jesus Trevino, a scholar on the Conrad N. Hilton Faculty of International Hospitality Management on the College of Houston; 2019 recipient Smit Patel, a graduate scholar at Boston College’s Faculty of Hospitality Administration; 2021 recipient Alana Agcaoili, an undergraduate scholar at Kennesaw State College’s Faculty of Hospitality Administration; 2022 recipient Shannon Regan, an undergraduate scholar on the Northern Arizona College’s Faculty of Lodge and Restaurant Administration.
Hospitality Improve’s CIO Summit, Powered by HFTP, is a novel, invitation-only occasion for chief data officers from lodge manufacturers, administration firms, cruise strains, casinos, and impartial motels. This 12 months’s CIO Summit might be hosted on the Lodge Van Zandt on Sept. 6-8. For extra data, go to www.hospitalityupgrade.com/CIOSummit.
About Hospitality Improve
Hospitality Improve has coated know-how traits and product data within the hospitality business for greater than 30 years. Common options embody in-depth analyses by business thought leaders, interviews with prime lodge and gaming executives, articles about merchandise and traits, and profiles of the business’s premier resolution suppliers. Reaching an viewers of greater than 30,000 readers in 48 nations, the journal additionally sponsors two annual occasions, the Government Vendor Summit and the CIO Summit. Hospitality Improve is owned by Siegel Communications, Inc., together with its sister firm Lodge On-line, the premier day by day information website for the hospitality business. For extra data, go to www.hospitalityupgrade.com.