The document summarizes an international forum on innovations in business travel to be held in Moscow, Russia on April 8, 2014. The forum will bring together industry professionals to discuss innovations in business travel, with a focus on the Russian market. There will be panel discussions, presentations on trends, and awards given for the best innovations. Speakers will address topics like the future of business travel, new technologies, and better traveler communication. The event aims to explore innovations and network participants from service providers and customer companies.

1. INTERNATIONAL
FORUM ON INNOVATIONS
IN BUSINESS TRAVEL
Moscow, April 8, 2014
RIA NOVOSTI
Official technology
partner
Official bank Panel discussion
partner
Communications
partner
Forum
partner

2. KEY TOPIC – BUSINESS TRAVEL INNOVATIONS
Participants - industry professionals – service providers and customers
“Travel into the Future” awards ceremony for the best innovations in the
Russian Business Travel will be held as a part of the Forum

3. THE LARGEST NEWS AGENCY AND
THE MOST INNOVATIVE MULTIMEDIA
COMPLEX IN RUSSIA
6 halls
Online translation
Wide media coverage of the event
International Multimedia
Press Centre

4. Joyce Gioia
A Strategic Business Futurist
concentrating on relationship
aspects of the future. This arena
includes workforce and
workplace trends, as well as
consumer, education, and
business-to-business trends.
Through consulting, speaking
and training, Joyce helps clients
position themselves for success
in the future. Joyce has served
clients on six continents and in
43 states.
Key speakers
Mark Harris
Business Travel 2060 was written
by Mark Harris of Travel
Intelligence Network on behalf of
AirPlus.
Mark Harris joined the business
travel industry in 1990 and has
been a Director of the specialist
marketing consultancy Travel
Intelligence Network since 2005. A
former Marketing Director of
Expotel and First Option, and Head
of Marketing at ITM, he was voted
the Business Travel Industry’s
Personality of the Year in 2006.
Rosy Burne
Rosy Burnie manages the
Executive Headquarters and
reports to the CEO of Luvata
Group – a global company of 31
sites in 18 countries. As well as
the Group Travel policy, Rosy
needed to cater for the executive
team, whose needs varied
greatly in frequency, destination
and last-minute flexibility.
Procedures alone were not
sufficient, Rosy had to balance
structured processes with strong,
human relationships with airline
carriers and hotels chains.

5. Agenda
Time Hall Event
09:30 Second floor lobby Welcome coffee
10:00 Great Hall Opening Ceremony
Welcome speech by Andrei Voronine, ATH
10:10 Great Hall Keynote speaker. Mark Harris — Future of business travel
What will the global business travel market be like in 15 years’ time? How will
political, economic, social and environmental factors influence the way in
which travel is managed and consumed? Will virtual technology impact on the
volume of travel undertaken, and will travel managers become a relic of the
past? This presentation will take a look into the future, focussing on short,
medium and long term trends including the scarcity of natural resources and
the potential consequences for global security and financial stability.
10:30 Great Hall Innovations in Business travel. Plenary session.
Innovations in Business travel. Worldwide trends presented by leading experts
of the industry.

6. Agenda
Time Hall Event
12:30 Current trends in Russian business travel
Innovations and tendencies of Russian Business travel. What to expect in the
coming 2-3 years?
13:00 Second floor lobby Coffee break
13:30 Great Hall Keynote speaker Joyce Gioia — The Future of Incentive Travel: the
good, the bad, and the beautiful
As the pace of change accelerates, so does the landscape for business travel
professionals. With the global focus on talent, travel suppliers and consumers,
alike will have adjustments to make to optimize their productivity and profits.
Armed with the knowledge, you will be able to transform your incentive travel
program or know how to counsel your clients.
14:00 Great Hall Keynote speaker Rosy Burnie —
Workshop 'Better Traveller Communication'
Rosy will talk about better traveler communication, especially within a multinational
company. How to develop and express key messages when implementing new
travel programme by working with communications department and using their
initiatives to your advantage.
14:30 Great Hall Crowdsourcing session
Online voting and survey on the most topical issues of the industry.
15:00 Great Hall "Travel into the Future" Awards

7. Agenda
Time Hall Event
15:30 Breakdown sessions
Great Hall New technologies in Business travel
Demonstration of New Technologies in Business travel and MICE
President hall Hotel program management: TMC vs clients
During the session with the help of TMC and client representatives we will try to answer one of the
most topical questions of the industry: Who should operate Hotel Program?
Glass Hall Innovations in MICE
"Future of Meetings by Marriott. "Being creative" by Leroy Merlin and Salvador D
Technological platform for MICE presented by ATH"
Small Hall Financial instruments for cost optimization (for financial controllers)
Master-class: Financial instruments provided by TMC for business travel process authomatization.
"Online" management of business travel budgents.
Business Hall Visas and work permits
"Master-class: Visas – general overview and technical solutions. Outbound visas for Russian and
non-Russian citizens travelling from Russia. Russian visa support services. Foreign labor force
support services. International passport for Russian citizens”
16:30 Second floor lobby Cocktail

8. Partners-2014 Organizer
Official technology partner Official bank Panel discussion partner Communications partner Forum partner
Media partners

9. First international business
travel forum was held
in three Russian cities in 2013.
Forum route –10 000 km
More than 400 participants
from Russia, USA, UK, Cyprus, Finland,
India, Japan, Switzerland.
More than 100 publications in Mass Media
St. Petersburg, April 9
Moscow, April 10
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk,
April 12, 2013

10. Travel into the Future — 2013.
Saint-Petersburg

11. Travel into the Future — 2013.
Moscow

12. Travel into the Future — 2013.
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

13. Co-organizers
Offical
Airline
of the Forum
Offical Transport
Company
of the Forum
Offical
Media Partner
of the Forum
Partners-2013

14. Participants — 2013
Heads of purchasing and mice departments: Danfoss, Hilti, IBM, Nestle, Pfizer, PPF Real
Estate, Publicis Group, Richemont, Sberbank, Servier, St.Gobain, Otcritiye financial
corporation, Rosbank, Wrigley, Inditex group, Morgan Stanley, Raiffeisen, Rosgosstrah,
Sibyr, Nordea Bank, L`Oreal, Air Liquid and hundreds of other leading client-companies.
Top-management of service providers: Transaero, Astoria & Angleterre, Delta, Hyatt, Marriott,
Ritz-Carlton, Aeroflot, AirBerlin, British Airways, Honeywell Incentives, Swissotel,
Akademservice, Sabre

15. TRAVEL INTO THE FUTURE — 2013: PARTICIPANTS FEEDBACK
«The forum in Moscow was a great success! It was one
of the most outstanding events of the industry. Forum
slogan «travel into the future» reflects the main principle
of the event — a chance to get a glimpse of the future, to
follow the innovation from an idea to reality. Special
gratitude to a highly professional organization and
cocktail reception. Patrick Dixon and Hamish Taylor are
brilliant speakers!
Elena Panova, RosBank
«Thank you for the Forum! Presentations of Patrick
Dixon and Hamish Taylor reflect the market trend and
give us a fresh look at ordinary things».
Alexey Gutsev. Sberbnk
«…It was exciting, thank you for the Speakers!!»
Valeria Mishina, Wrigley
«I think the forum is really important! It’s a great
opportunity for different people to meet each other
whether it’s with airlines, with hotels, with corporte
business travel organizers, software solution providers,
management consulters – all are trying to solve these
problems together. This is a great venue, it’s a really
exciting place, the atmosphere is great! It’s being
entertaining, interesting, provocative and I’m sure the
Forum has great future»
Patrick Dixon,
Keynote speaker

16. For more information please ask Tatiana Vampilova:
+7 925 896 86 48, tvampilova@ath.ru
www.forum.ath.ru
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