You are invited to join us in person for this beam Instant Booking for M & E event, which is open to buyers, suppliers and users, and is aimed at everyone who wants to learn more about this industrywide topic and its impact on the meetings’ marketplace.
Our facilitator for the day is Martin Fullard of Conference News, and the full agenda is shown below.
Douglas O’Neill from Inntel and Caroline Metcalf from Agiito will be part of a panel that will be feeding back on the booking patterns of their corporate clients now and how this will change in the future and the technology they have launched to accommodate the need for Instant Book. They will be joined by fellow agents to discuss the challenges ahead that they see and what solutions are required to meet those problems head-on.
Groups360 and Meeting Package have platforms that handle a significant number of Instant Book meetings and they will be sharing their hints and tips on success and looking at the technical development required to get the industry to where it needs to be where all small meetings are undertaken by the corporate online.
Chetan Shah of micebook will be also be interviewing a corporate guest for their perspective on the digitalisation of meetings.
We will also not be shying away from the pricklier topics and there will be a session on maximising revenue, rate parity and the challenges of offline and online payment.
We are very grateful to our headline sponsor, venuedirectory for helping us deliver this summit and we look forward to seeing you and your colleagues on the 7th.
Agenda
| 11.30 am | Registration |
| 12 noon | Welcome & introductions
Juliet Price- beam and Martin Fullard – Mash Media |
| 12.20 pm | What are small meetings?
Michael Begley – Venuedirectory |
| 1.00 pm | Lunch |
| 1.45 pm | Welcome back
Martin Fullard |
| 1.50 pm | Corporate buying behaviour
Chetan Shah – micebook interviews a corporate buyer |
| 2.05 pm | Agency Panel – Where are we now?
Douglas O’Neill – Inntel; Caroline Medcalf – Agiito; Paul Casement – Clarity; Facilitated by Martin Fullard |
| 2.35 pm | Industry panel: A Technical View
Abbie Michaelson – Meeting Package; Will Helsby– Venuedirectory; Dan Humby – Groups 360 Facilitated by Caleb Parker – Bold |
| 3.00 pm | The evolving Instant Book Ecosystem
Michael Begley |
| 3.10 pm | Instant Book the Technology Roadmap Ahead
TBC |
| 3.20 pm | Corporate Rate Plans for Instant Book
Callum McLean – Agiito |
| 3.35 pm | Break |
| 3.55 pm | Payment, Parity and Commission
Douglas O’Neill – Inntel |
| 4:15 pm | Industry panel: What does Supply, Distribution & Book success look like?
Douglas O’Neill – Inntel; Callum McLean – Agiito; Jane Griffiths – GLH; Shaun Cole – Village Hotels; Facilitated by Martin Fullard |
| 4.30pm | Conclusions from the day
Craig Bingham – Interstate Hotels & beam board |
| 4.45pm | Event wrap up
Juliet Price (BBQ commences at 5:15 pm) |
Please register each attendee individually using the form below.
For further information please email: membership@beam-org.uk