Austin, Texas — Hospitality Monetary and Expertise Professionals (HFTP®), producers of the Hospitality Trade Expertise 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 most important and longest-running nonprofit occasion of its type internet hosting 300+ exhibiting firms and a thoughtfully designed training program with over 50 training classes. 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 training program for Charlotte. Main the group are co-chairs: Katie Lee, Chief Info Officer for AKA Resorts + Lodge Residences and McLean Xavier, CHTP+, Vice President of Expertise for Innvest Resorts.
“I consider that HITEC’s training program is the cornerstone of innovation and progress in in the present day’s hospitality tech panorama,” mentioned Xavier. “Embracing various viewpoints is not only a selection, it is our cornerstone to fostering innovation and an crucial. Broadening our academic outreach with a public name for displays just isn’t 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 growth assembly in January 2024. Based mostly on the matters they establish as precedence at this preliminary assembly, the council will proceed to work over the next months to fine-tune classes and choose skilled audio system to current the data. New this 12 months is a public name for HITEC Charlotte session proposals – the council will contemplate these submissions, deciding on distinctive industry-specific displays to assist flesh out the occasion’s noteworthy training 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 contains:
Co-Chair Katie Lee │ CIO| AKA Resorts + Lodge Residences
Co-Chair McLean Xavier, CHTP+ | VP of Expertise | Innvest Resorts
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 │ Basic Supervisor of IT, Finance and Operations │ Deerhurst Resort
Scot Campbell, CHTP │ CTO Concert events, North America │ LiveNation
Neil Foster, CHTP, MBA | Advisor | Progress Advisors Worldwide Community (GAIN)
Roger Franke │ VP and CIO │ Aramark Vacation spot
Mark Gage, CHTP │ VP and Govt 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 Resorts of the World
Sherry Marek │ Proprietor | Aiken Road
Shannon McCallum | VP of Lodge Operations | Resorts World Las Vegas
Keryn McNamara │SVP, Lodge Expertise │ Aimbridge Hospitality
Christine Moffett | CIO, Expertise and Innovation | Kessler Assortment
Harikrishna (HK) Patel | Board Director and OTA Committee Chair | AAHOA
Neal Patel, CHO, CHIA │ Managing Accomplice │ Blue Chip Resorts and Speedy Previous Chair │ AAHOA
Henri Roelings │ Founder and CEO │ Hospitality Internet
Matt Schwartz │ CTO │ Sage Hospitality Group
Prakash Shukla │ Managing Accomplice │ 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 │ Workers 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 area is 74 % reserved, with basic gross sales open for the remaining area ([email protected]). Registration and lodge 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 Expertise Professionals (HFTP®), established in 1952, is a hospitality nonprofit affiliation headquartered in Austin, Texas USA with places of work within the EU and Center East. HFTP is acknowledged because the spokes group for the finance and expertise 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 find options to their challenges extra effectively than any group. HFTP affords skilled networks, academic assets, profession growth applications, analysis, management alternatives and conferences and occasions. HFTP produces worldwide occasions all year long, together with the world’s largest hospitality expertise 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 newest 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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