Inaugural HFTP Digital Horizons 360 Occasion Brings European Hospitality to the Forefront

Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®) is happy to announce the success of its first Digital Horizons 360 Symposium, held 20-21 February on the Palau de Congressos de Palma in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

“Celebrating innovation means not simply embracing change however driving it ahead,” stated HFTP CEO Frank Wolfe, CAE. “Digital Horizons 360 is a testomony to the ability of collaboration, pushing boundaries and shaping a future the place know-how elevates each facet of the hospitality expertise.”

An unique non-sales gathering, DH360 convened hospitality executives for roundtable deliberations on the applied sciences poised to make important impacts on the European hospitality business. This 12 months’s agenda encompassed numerous themes together with managing dangers related to AI in visitor providers, navigating knowledge safety challenges each regionally and globally inside the hospitality sector, exploring purposes of digital id applied sciences and outlining how HFTP can provide assist to finance and know-how professionals throughout the continent as each an advocating physique and useful resource. The outcomes of those conversations are within the strategy of being documented for archival functions and future dissemination by occasion companions Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) and Hospitality Internet.

Entrepreneur 20X, a favourite at HFTP occasions and completely sponsored by BAE Ventures, concluded the primary day’s discussions on Tuesday night. The startup pitch competitors, showcasing six progressive startups presenting hospitality know-how options to a panel of judges, returned to the continent for the primary time since 2019. Winners had been unveiled after the judges’ deliberation, with Crqlar clinching the Judges’ Selection Award and returning Toronto 2023 competitor Aphy securing the Individuals’s Selection Award decided by fashionable vote amongst attendees.

On the closing session the next day, HFTP Europe COO Carson Sales space, CHTP thanked all in attendance, describing them as “the driving drive behind Digital Horizons 360.”

“None of this could have been attainable with out our attendees,” Sales space stated. “Your enthusiasm, engagement and eagerness to study have created an environment of collaboration and innovation that’s actually inspiring.”

The symposium was supported by a number of business sponsors at numerous tiers with world techniques integrator Fourteen IP main the group as DH360’s unique Degree I sponsor. View the total listing of occasion sponsors right here.

GAIN managing accomplice Michael C. Cohen described Digital Horizons on LinkedIn as “a real hospitality tech symposium, nice thought management and even higher business dialog and debate,” noting that he was proud that his firm was current on the occasion as each a participant and a sponsor.

Seeking to the longer term, HFTP is about to exhibit at ITB Berlin on 5-7 March with an further networking occasion with HSMAI Europe on 6 March on the Crowne Plaza Berlin Potsdamer. The affiliation will proceed constructing its EMEA community at HITEC Dubai, co-located with The Resort Present Dubai on the Dubai World Commerce Centre on 4-6 June.

Attendee registration for HITEC North America, scheduled for 24-27 June in Charlotte, North Carolina, is additionally open alongside lodge reservations by way of the present’s official housing service. Exhibiting area will be chosen and bought by reaching out to the HFTP Gross sales & Displays Division at gross sales@hftp.org. For extra details about HFTP’s occasions, go to www.hftp.org or contact the HFTP Conferences & Particular Occasions Division at schooling@hftp.org.