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The Business Travel Show America Innovation Faceoff features presentations of cutting-edge products, technologies, and services that addressed industry challenges and supported managed business travel, meetings, or business travellers.

 

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CONFIRMED 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.

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.

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.

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.

WATCH THE PRESENTATIONS LIVE

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09:00 AM
    Delta Business Theater
    The Business Travel Innovation Faceoff showcases emerging products and services transforming corporate travel and meetings. Finalists will pitch their innovations live on stage to an audience of trave …
    Sponsored by:
    mesh
02:45 PM
    Capital One Business Travel Knowledge Arena
    Join us as the winners of the Business Travel Innovation Faceoff—including the Business Travel Innovator Award and the People’s Choice Award, are announced, recognizing breakthrough solutions in corpo …
    Sponsored by:
    mesh

WHY ATTEND THE BUSINESS TRAVEL SHOW AMERICA INNOVATION FACEOFF?

See the future of managed travel in one place

The Business Travel Innovation Faceoff gives corporate travel buyers, procurement leaders and travel managers a fast, practical way to discover emerging tools, services and strategies shaping the future of business travel. Watch finalists pitch live, hear expert judge feedback, and compare solutions designed to address real programme challenges across travel, meetings and traveller experience.

Ask your questions live

As an attendee, you can ask questions during the session, helping you explore which innovations are most relevant for your travel programme, priorities and traveller needs.

THIS YEAR'S PRESENTERS

Meet the innovators redefining managed travel and meetings. Our presenters include established industry leaders and emerging disruptors showcasing the latest technologies, services and solutions designed to solve real corporate travel challenges.
 

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Holly Brosam

Vice-President Product Management, Travel, Emburse
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Keesup Choe

CEO, PredictX
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Annette Cumming

SVP of Business Development, Cerebri AI
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Charles de Gaspe Beaubien

Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, Groupize.ai
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Sarah Figueroa

Co-Founder and CEO, Swivul
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Patrick Grant

Director of Enterprise Data & BI Architecture , Altour
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Robyn Joliat

President/CTO, 3Sixty
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Egor Karpovich

CEO, Travel Code
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Sarah Kuberry Martino

Chief Product Officer, Direct Travel
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Florian Mueller

Head of Commercial, Kayak for Business

THIS YEAR'S JUDGES

Our judging panel for the Business Travel Show America 2026 Innovation Faceoff is built to put new solutions to the real-world test. It brings together two corporate travel buyers who know exactly what a winning product needs to deliver, last year's 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.

 

MISSED THE ACTION IN 2025?

Catch up on the boldest ideas in corporate travel with the Innovation Faceoff On-Demand Portal. See how trailblazing companies pitched their game-changing solutions to a panel of expert judges and to everyone in the audience—and find out why Nowadays took home both the judges Business Travel Innovator Award and the People’s Choice Award.

“Since this is the first time Business Travel Show has been in New York, we're really excited to bring Nowadays to you and to bring it to the enterprise space and we really appreciate all the feedback we've already gotten and everyone’s support.”

Anna Sun
Co-founder and CEO |  Nowadays