WINNERS OF THE BUSINESS TRAVEL SHOW AMERICA INNOVATION FACEOFF 2026
PredictX wins the Business Travel Innovator Award, and Swivul takes home the People's choice
PRESENTERS
3Sixty
3Sixty is a state-of-the-art marketplace that reduces the noise in extended-stay travel. The result is a consistent, quality experience that creates an expectation: if you book a 3Sixty stay for your employee, you know they’ll feel at home. The 3Sixty team has spent more than 30 years building the industry’s most robust network of over 1 million globally compliant accommodations in 60 countries.
ALTOUR
ALTOUR is a globally recognised leader in corporate travel management, committed to simplifying the complexity of connecting people so they can represent their brands in the most impactful way. With a presence in over 90 countries and backed by Internova Travel Group, ALTOUR combines global scale with local insight.
Cerebri AI Inc.
Cerebri AI helps organizations build extraordinary travel programs through a trusted agentic digital workforce for frictionless travel, expense, and indirect procurement operations.
Powered by AIQ Data Foundry, Cerebri AI brings fragmented enterprise data together into a single, trusted source of truth, enabling intelligent digital employees to automate workflows, improve visibility, reduce costs, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Cruising Altitude
Cruising Altitude Technology makes supplier direct bookings compliant for large global enterprises through Altimeter.
Altimeter turns every one of those trips booked outside companies’ programs into managed bookings, with the policy, visibility and control the program requires. A Buyer Advisory Board, made up of travel leaders from large global enterprise companies helps design Altimeter around the pain points they live with every day, and direct the features and functionality, as well as which suppliers to connect with, so it is truly built by buyers, for buyers. With Altimeter, travelers keep booking where they already do, with travel policy, corporate discounts, payment, duty of care and expense built into every reservation.
Altimeter works side by side with the indirect channel, including the TMC, the booking tool and the GDS. Transponder, an itinerary capture tool, pulls in every trip booked outside the program, and CrossCheck audits supplier direct bookings against the GDS in the background, giving travelers price assurance and recording all savings. Direct and indirect finally operate as one program, and travel managers can negotiate their next supplier agreements on their entire travel spend.
Direct Travel
Direct Travel is one of the world’s largest travel management companies, focused on delivering exceptional, groundbreaking solutions to every client and traveler. With a long history of proven market expertise, we blend advanced technology, superior service, and expert insights to drive tangible value and meaningful savings -offering solutions across Corporate Travel, Leisure Travel, Meetings & Events, and specialty travel businesses. Through Avenir, our next-generation platform developed with leading technology partners, we provide the industry’s broadest inventory and a modern, real-time shopping experience that empowers travelers and simplifies program management. What truly sets us apart is the human care behind the technology, delivered by an experienced, passionate team dedicated to anticipating needs and delivering exceptional service at every step.
Emburse
Over 12 million professionals in 200 countries trust our platform, from global enterprises to mid-sized businesses and public sector organizations to nonprofits. With Emburse, finance teams eliminate busy work to regain the freedom to lead, grow, and shape the future of their business. Whether you're a CFO seeking financial control, a travel manager optimizing spend, or a busy employee submitting expenses on the go, Emburse simplifies expense management, travel booking, invoicing, and payments so organizations can drive efficiency and focus on strategic growth.
Groupize
Groupize is an AI-powered platform transforming how global organizations manage in-person meetings, events, and group travel.
Powered by aime™, its coordinated ecosystem of AI agents handles sourcing, approvals, attendee management, travel logistics, compliance, and reconciliation end-to-end—through a simple, guided natural language experience. Through its integrated marketplace, Groupize connects buyers and suppliers of meeting services, helping enterprises unlock cost savings, operational efficiency, and full program visibility while driving measurable value across every in-person meeting and event. Founded in 2013, Groupize is defining the future of meetings through agentic AI—fundamentally changing how meetings are managed.
KAYAK for Business
KAYAK for Business is redefining corporate travel by making it simpler and faster to plan, book, and manage work trips for companies of all sizes—from fast-growing startups to global enterprises. By combining KAYAK’s intuitive consumer experience and leading search engine with smart tools designed for traveler autonomy and real-time program control, we make corporate travel seamless.
PredictX
At PredictX, we leverage cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technologies to revolutionize the way businesses manage their spending effectively. Through advanced machine learning algorithms and predictive analytics, we analyze vast amounts of data from various sources, including invoices, receipts, contracts, and historical spending patterns to automate routine decisions and enhance strategic decision making.
Swivul
Swivul puts business travel on autopilot with one execution layer that turns a natural-language request into a live, checkout-ready cart that plans, books, and pays for any trip, solo or group, and it's the only platform that predicts and proves that trip's ROI before and after it happens.
Travel Code
Travel Code is an AI-powered corporate travel management platform built for mid-market companies. We automate the entire business travel lifecycle — from booking flights and hotels to expense management, policy compliance, and real-time traveler support — in one intuitive interface. Unlike legacy TMCs and enterprise tools built for Fortune 500s, Travel Code delivers enterprise-grade travel management without the enterprise price tag or complexity. Our AI assistant handles bookings, answers traveler questions, and proactively manages disruptions, saving finance teams time and reducing travel spend by up to 30%. Founded in 2022, we serve clients across North America and Europe.
Traverse
Traverse enables corporate travel buyers to support supplier-direct booking without sacrificing the transparency and control of a managed travel program. By connecting supplier-owned booking channels with corporate travel infrastructure, Traverse brings program policies, payments, reporting and other management capabilities into the direct booking experience. This creates a new model for managed travel that gives buyers greater flexibility in how employees book while maintaining the governance they need. Rather than replacing existing technology, Traverse works alongside TMCs, booking tools and other systems to connect fragmented channels. Already deployed with leading airlines, Traverse is helping redefine what managed travel can look like.
JUDGES
Our judging panel for the Business Travel Show America 2026 Innovation Faceoff was built to put new solutions to the real-world test. It brought together two corporate travel buyers who know exactly what a winning product needs to deliver, the 2025 Innovation Faceoff champion, and a senior member of The BTN Group editorial team — combining the buyer's eye, the innovator's experience and the journalist's scrutiny.

