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Discover corporate travel excellence at the Business Travel Show America!

Explore a dynamic, two-day lineup of forward-thinking sessions, expert panels, and interactive roundtables - curated by the award-winning BTN Group - that spotlights  sustainable travel strategies, cost-saving technologies, traveler wellbeing, and TMC innovation. Hear directly from influential speakers, including corporate travel executives, industry disruptors, and C-suite leaders shaping the future of business travel.

The agenda highlights industry trends, delivering practical solutions and insider insights tailored to your objectives: boost ROI, mitigate risk, and unlock supplier partnerships. Dive into sessions designed for your role to discover peer success stories, expert forecasts, and actionable takeaways to optimize every aspect of your travel program.

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06:30 PM
  1. Swingers NoMad, 35 W 29th St, New York, NY 10001
    180 mins
    Step into the charm of a 1920s English golf clubhouse at Swingers NoMad, where hosted buyers are invited to an exclusive evening of curated connections and unexpected fun. Enjoy a relaxed dinner, prem ...

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07:45 AM
  1. Registration and coffee
    45 mins
08:30 AM
  1. Delta Business Theater
    20 mins
08:50 AM
  1. Delta Business Theater
    20 mins
    Vice President, Content at The BTN Group, Elizabeth West presents finding from BTN's Traveler Experience report.
11:00 AM
  1. Expo floor
    300 mins
  2. Knowledge Arena
    60 mins
    • Business Travelers
    • Expense Management
    • Travel procurement
    • Travel Technology
    Generative AI is poised to reshape corporate travel management, but how are real travel managers making use of it? In this session, travel managers will share firsthand experiences leveraging AI to de ...
  3. Room 1E03
    60 mins
    • Travel Management
    • Travel procurement
    This session will connect you to buyer colleagues that are also managing small or midsize travel programs and are experiencing the same challenges that you are. Share your frustrations and solutions a ...
12:20 PM
  1. Knowledge Arena
    60 mins
    • Travel Management
    • Travel procurement
    This session exposes the hidden fees and revenue streams that fuel travel pricing complexity. Learn how to identify unethical practices, such as stealth monopolies disguised by white-label solutions, ...
  2. Room 1E03
    60 mins
    • Sustainable Travel
    This session will connect you to buyer colleagues that are focused on reducing the carbon footprint of their travelers and are experiencing the same challenges that you are. Share your frustrations an ...
01:40 PM
  1. Knowledge Arena
    60 mins
    • Travel Management
    • Travel procurement
    • Travel Technology
    Maybe you’ve heard: Travel programs are fossilized in legacy technologies. Suppliers have fragmented content and de-prioritized corporate business. My TMC is acting against my program’s interests. Ind ...
02:40 PM
  1. Room 1E02
    60 mins
    This session will help attendees understand the different levels of corporate contracts with low-cost carriers, legacy carriers, joint ventures and alliance groups. Learn how to source your program st ...
03:00 PM
  1. Knowledge Arena
    40 mins
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04:15 PM
  1. Delta Business Theater
    30 mins
    • Air Travel
    • Travel Management
    Join Delta Air Lines Executive Vice President, Global Sales and Distribution Steve Sear and the BTN Group’s Senior Director, Content Solutions and Conferences Jen Bankard as they discuss the current l ...
04:45 PM
  1. Networking drinks reception
    60 mins
07:45 AM
  1. Registration and coffee
    45 mins
11:00 AM
  1. Expo floor
    240 mins
  2. Knowledge Arena
    60 mins
    • Travel Management
    • Travel procurement
    If your efforts to cultivate a specific supplier relationship don't bear fruit, your need for transparency goes unrequited and your attempts to rectify miscues and miscommunication miss their mark, it ...
  3. Room 1E03
    60 mins
    • Travel Management
    • Travel Technology
    This session will connect you to buyer colleagues that are focused on enhancing the technology capabilities within their travel programs and are experiencing the same challenges that you are. Share yo ...
  4. Room 1E02
    60 mins
    • Professional Development
    • Travel Management
    Designed specifically for students attending Business Travel Show America through our Business Travel Show America Student Scholarship Program, attend this session to learn about a dynamic, multibilli ...
12:20 PM
  1. Knowledge Arena
    60 mins
    • Travel Management
    • Travel procurement
    Corporate travel payments may seem simple on the surface, but under the hood they're a complex machine of approvals, data flows and compliance hurdles'especially across borders. What's working? What's ...
  2. Room 1E02
    60 mins
    This session will review the use cases for different lodging types, from traditional hotels to extended stay and corporate serviced apartments, and how to source them. Learn how to understand rate str ...
01:40 PM
  1. Knowledge Arena
    40 mins
    This forward-thinking panel brings together three prominent travel managers to reframe the conversation around business travel technology. The discussion will challenge the long-held notion that trave ...
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  2. Room 1E03
    60 mins
    • Air Travel
    • Travel Management
    • Travel procurement
    • Travel Technology
    This session will connect you to buyer colleagues that are navigating through the current airline content, distribution and retailing landscape and are experiencing the same challenges that you are. S ...
02:45 PM
  1. 15 mins
    • Travel Technology
    The 2025 Business Travel Innovator Award winner will be announced.
    IFO sponsored by Amex

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