The Hospitality Trade Know-how Exposition and Convention (HITEC®) celebrated its return to Toronto internet hosting over 4,500 attendees on the Metro Toronto Conference Middle from June 26-29. Produced by Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®) for greater than 50 years, the occasion showcases the business’s newest expertise improvements from over 325 exhibitors and gives a top-notch training program with dozens of specialty matter and basic classes.
“We’re proud to say that HITEC as soon as once more confirmed its important function within the hospitality expertise neighborhood assembly area,” stated HFTP CEO Frank Wolfe, CAE. “Attendees and exhibitors alike will discover a measurable affect on their backside strains with the insights offered in training classes and on the gross sales flooring.”
Inspirational and insightful Headliner classes set the tone for the week starting with the HFTP Worldwide Hospitality Know-how Corridor of Fame induction ceremony for Mark Heymann, founding father of UniFocus and managing associate of Mark Heymann & Associates and Sherry Marek, co-founder of Datavision Applied sciences and proprietor of Aiken Avenue Consulting. Creator and strategist Shawn Kanungo rounded off the opening evening dialogue with “Technique in a World of Disruption,” diving deeper into how disruptive traits will drive change in how hospitality professionals strategy work.
The subsequent morning, 2023 HFTP Licensed Hospitality Know-how Skilled (CHTP®) of the 12 months Samuel Yalley was acknowledged for his accomplishment earlier than the Tuesday Headliner, Worldwide Views – Tech Future-Proofing: Planning For The International Traveler, which introduced collectively eight esteemed executives from all over the world to share their first-hand observations and focus on the way to proactively sort out the challenges of the way to put together for the newest incarnation of the worldwide traveler.
Perennial HITEC favourite Entrepreneur 20X, completely sponsored for the second consecutive 12 months by PROVision Companions, rounded out the Headliner lineup Wednesday morning. This 12 months’s start-up pitch competitors featured seven start-ups pitching hospitality expertise options to a panel of six judges. The winners have been introduced in the identical session following the judges’ deliberation interval with PassiveBolt taking residence the Judges’ Selection Award and the Individuals’s Selection Award, chosen by attendee fashionable vote, awarded to PricingService.ai.
Past the Headliner stage, a complete program of concurrent training classes was introduced masking trending subjects together with environmental, social and governance (ESG), range, fairness and inclusion (DEI), ChatGPT/pure language era methods and plenty of extra. One other academic alternative obtainable on the exhibit corridor flooring included the favored non-sales-oriented Exhibitor Tutorials.
The sold-out exhibit corridor featured a whole bunch of firms displaying their wide-ranging expertise options for the hospitality business. Exhibitors have been passionate about this 12 months’s end result.
“We LOVED the present,” stated Roger Thomas, CEO of Peak Utilities. “Not solely do we’ve sturdy gross sales results in take again with us and work, however we realized how we might be significantly better at subsequent 12 months’s occasion. We additionally realized of some new services and products from different exhibitors that we are able to promote and repair and extra about what’s trending within the business.”
“The facility of occasions like HITEC Toronto is being on the coronary heart of the innovation market, amongst a whole bunch of business resolution suppliers, to create new contacts and strengthen current ones,” stated Piercarlo Gramaglia, CEO of VDA Telkonet. “We’re delighted to be a part of it to jot down the way forward for the hospitality paradigm.”
“HITEC is all the time the right venue for Safety Validation to attach with our shoppers in a extra relaxed and comfy format,” stated David Durko, CEO of Safety Validation LLC, an HFTP Company Allied Sponsor. “Regardless of any of the perceived challenges, HITEC Toronto has been extraordinarily profitable for us. It offered us the platform the place our message was clearly delivered to stakeholders and resolution makers permitting us to develop many new and thrilling consumer relationships.”
HFTP is already preparing for subsequent 12 months’s HITEC Charlotte scheduled for June 24-27, 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina USA. Exhibiting area might be chosen and bought by reaching out to the HFTP Gross sales & Displays Division at [email protected]. For extra details about HFTP’s occasions, go to www.hftp.org or contact the HFTP Conferences & Particular Occasions Division at [email protected].
About HFTP
Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®), established in 1952, is a hospitality nonprofit affiliation headquartered in Austin, Texas USA with workplaces within the EU and Center East. HFTP is acknowledged because the spokes group for the finance and expertise segments of the hospitality business with a world community of members and stakeholders. HFTP uniquely understands the business’s urgent points, and assists its stakeholders to find options to their challenges extra effectively than any group. HFTP provides professional networks, academic sources, profession growth packages, analysis, management alternatives and conferences and occasions. HFTP produces worldwide occasions all year long, together with the world’s largest hospitality expertise tradeshow and convention model: HITEC. As well as, it oversees the hospitality-specific Pineapplesearch.com® and the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Trade (USALI). For extra details about HFTP, go to www.hftp.org. For the newest information, go to the HFTP Information web page at information.hftp.org and the HFTP Join weblog at weblog.hftp.org.
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