Inside the agenda: A look into the Business Travel Show America 2025 conference program 

If you manage, influence, or purchase corporate travel, you’ll appreciate that Business Travel Show America’s 2025 conference program is intentionally designed to deliver strategic, actionable insights - tailored for the real challenges corporate travel leaders face. 

Here’s a closer look at how this year’s agenda delivers on that promise. 

🎤 Explore key trends in corporate travel management 

Whether your focus is cost savings, technology, or traveler experience, our panel sessions dive into the most pressing issues shaping today’s managed travel programs. Topics include: 

• Generative AI: Discover how travel managers are using artificial intelligence to streamline operations, personalize travel policies and optimize program performance. 

• Travel pricing transparency: Identify hidden fees and revenue streams, understand the complexities of travel pricing and gain tools to negotiate smarter supplier contracts. 

• Business case development for travel programs: Learn how to build compelling business cases that demonstrate ROI, influence stakeholders, and secure executive buy-in. 

• Supplier relationship management: Get strategies for fostering productive supplier partnerships—and know when and how to make a strategic exit 

• Global payments and expense management: Navigate the challenges of international payment systems and explore solutions that improve transparency and traveler satisfaction. 

Each session is led by members of the award-winning BTN editorial team and industry trailblazers including seasoned corporate travel buyers and leading travel suppliers and consultants. 

🛠 Buyer-only community conversations 

We designed BTN Communities to give corporate travel managers something they rarely get: a confidential, moderated space for peer-led problem solving. These sessions aren’t about theory— they’re focused, real-world conversations on the challenges that keep you up at night and you’ll be surrounded by people who get it. Expect honest dialogue, shared insights, and practical strategies you can take straight back to your business. Topics include: 

• Sustainability 

• Travel program technology & digitization 

• Small/mid-size travel programs 

• New Distribution Capability 

🚀 Innovation Faceoff – Business travel tech in action 

See what’s next in travel tech with this fast-paced two-part session, where companies pitch live in front of judges and a buyer audience. With two winners, one picked by the judges, and one picked by the audience, it’s your chance to be involved in the next big thing in corporate travel. You’ll walk away with a pulse on the tools that could reshape the industry and your program - and meet the innovators behind them. 

The 2025 companies that will take the stage are: 

• Altour – AI-powered communications platform that unites contact center tools, inboxes, and collaboration in one workspace 

• EmPath - Guest traveler technology platform 

• Engine – AI assisted group planning platform adding live pricing to hotel inventory 

• FareAudit – Real-time fare auditing to prevent overpayment

• Groupize - Using AI to drive Groupize platform and corporate meetings and event marketplace 

• HRS – AI-first hotel management platform 

• Juno – Guest traveler technology platform

• Nowadays - AI-powered corporate event sourcing and planning 

• Roamr – Reimagines hotel stays with a global hosted travel network, turning business trips into meaningful cultural exchanges 

• SeatCash – Airfare price prediction and purchasing platform

• Traxo - Enhanced data insights platform 

• Versa - Captures IRS-ready, VAT valid receipts from participating merchants and routes to preferred expense app 

Find out more about the Business Travel Innovation Faceoff here.

🎓 BTN Academy sessions: practical learning, no fluff 

The BTN Academy is the business travel industry’s only free, on-demand training platform - built for professionals who manage, influence, or support corporate travel programs. Attendees at Business Travel Show America gain exclusive access to in-person versions of some of the topics that offer hands-on, actionable insights. 

Whether you're new to business travel management or a seasoned travel professional, these expert-led sessions provide practical guidance on core travel program components, including:  

• Working with airlines: Learn how to source, contract, and measure performance in your corporate airline agreements. 

• Setting up a corporate lodging program: Understand hotel sourcing strategies, rate structures (fixed, dynamic, and negotiated), and how to align lodging programs with your company’s travel spend and business goals. 

👥 Leadership & career panels 

From C-suite insights with Delta to “Destination: Corporate travel,” a career-focused panel for emerging leaders, this year’s program includes content for rising stars and senior strategists alike. 

💡 Why it’s built this way 

Every element of the program - from plenaries to breakout rooms - is designed to: 

• Provide directly applicable takeaways 

• Encourage real dialogue among peers 

• Showcase innovation with impact 

• Support cross-functional roles in finance, procurement, HR, and travel 

Whether you’re optimizing a mature program or building structure from the ground up, you’ll find content that speaks to your journey. 

 

Are you ready to enhance your travel program and connect with the people shaping its future? Join us at Business Travel Show America on October 15-16 at the Javits Center, New York and walk away with the strategies, connections, and tools to drive real change. REGISTER TODAY

 

 

 

Business Travel Show America is free for buyers and bookers of corporate travel and meetings, subject to approval. Suppliers must purchase a visitor pass if they wish to attend. The BTN Group has the final right to accept or deny any registration. Find out more here.