New York : September 30, 2024

innovate

Join hundreds of the brightest minds in business travel at the 11th Annual Innovate conference at Convene’s state-of-the-art meetings facility at 225 Liberty Street in downtown New York City in fall 2024. Brought to you by the BTN Group, publishers of Business Travel News, The Beat, and Business Travel News Europe, this one-day event features presentations of cutting-edge innovations during the Business Travel Innovation Faceoff, deep dive collaborative discussions during Think Tank breakout sessions, education from expert Master Class faculty, plus invaluable networking opportunities throughout the day.

New York City: May 8, 2024
London: May 14, 2024

business travel sustainability awards & Summit

The BTN Group’s 4th annual Business Travel Sustainability Summit is focused on advancements in sustainability and climate action policy adoption along with actions taken by companies to align their business travel program with corporate objectives and strategies to advance sustainability practices. Contributing to the conversation will be industry visionaries, corporate practitioners, analysts, and leading suppliers. At the conclusion of the summit, winners of the Business Travel Sustainability Awards will be announced.

Washington DC: June 2024
Miami: June 3, 2024
Denver: June 2024
Asia Pacific: July 8, 2024
Chicago: September 2024
Atlanta: September 17, 2024
Philadelphia: September 17, 2024
San Francisco: September 2024
Toronto: October 21, 2024
Minneapolis: November 2024
Boston: November 2024
Dallas: December 2024

business travel trends & forecasts

Business Travel Trends & Forecasts is a 12-city one-day conference series. Each conference has at least five unique sessions, all focused on the corporate travel and meetings segment with speakers/panels consisting of the industry’s most knowledgeable corporate travel/meeting managers, consultants and suppliers. All conference attendees are qualified buyers responsible for managing their companies’ corporate travel and meetings programs.

Business Travel Trends & Forecasts conferences give suppliers face-to-face exposure with the most sought after corporate travel and meeting buyers. There is a minimum buyer-to-supplier ratio of 3:1 and on average, 60% of the buyer attendees don’t attend the annual GBTA convention, providing access to a unique audience only delivered by the BTN Group.

Chicago: May 6, 2024
Frankfurt: September 16, 2024
Montreal: September 24, 2024
Boston: September 2024
Paris: September 2024
London: October 2024
San Francisco: October 2024
Amsterdam: November 2024

business travel tech talk

Business Travel Tech Talk is a one-day conference series focused on business travel/meetings technology and is specifically designed for corporate travel buyers and travel management professionals. All conference attendees are qualified buyers who will share their challenges and successes and discover key takeaways to enhance the management of their corporate travel and meetings programs.

Boston: April 25, 2024
San Francisco: May 21, 2024
New York: June 4, 2024
London: September 26, 2024
Chicago: November 12, 2024

Strategic meetings summit

Designed to unite corporate travel managers, procurement/sourcing and senior level meeting executives and provide a platform for information sharing, the Strategic Meetings Summit series will give attendees insights and understanding of the policies, technologies, and management of a successful strategic meetings management program. Through expert-led sessions and interactive discussions, attendees will receive actionable information to help them accelerate the development of an enterprise-wide meetings program and best practices to help increase visibility into meetings activity and risk across the entire organization of their company.

New York City: October 2024
London: November 2024

business travel lodging summit

The Business Travel Lodging Summit, as it is known in the United States, and The Business Travel Accommodations Summit, as it is known in Europe, is a one-day conference designed to provide corporate travel buyers with insights and intelligence needed to determine how they can strategically source and manage best-in-class lodging programs for their travelers.

Washington DC: October 7, 2024

government travel summit

The 5th annual Government Travel Summit one-day conference is focused on the issues of greatest concern to corporate travel buyers for government contractors, nonprofits and government agencies.

London: February 20, 2024
New York: June 10, 2024
Los Angeles: September 2024

entertainment sports & media travel summit

The BTN Group Entertainment, Sports & Media Travel Summit is a one-day conference series that unites leading practitioners of travel management for entertainment, sports and media organizations who are responsible for managing and sourcing corporate travel and meetings programs. Sessions will be led by experienced and knowledgeable subject matter experts including travel managers, consultants, and supplier executives. Attendees will examine solutions to common concerns such as making the most of tools and services to meet production and other corporate travel needs and overcoming the challenges of managing both employee and non-employee travelers.

New York: December 4, 2024

BUSINESS TRAVEL HALL OF FAME

The BTN Group established the Business Travel Hall of Fame in 2011 to recognize those executives who blazed trails and shaped what has become today’s business travel landscape.

Join hundreds of your travel industry colleagues at the 13th Annual Business Travel Hall of Fame induction ceremony and dinner as the BTN Group recognizes four of the travel industry's most influential executives who helped change the course of  business travel landscape and created legacies of achievement. Each Business Travel Hall of Fame inductee will share their views of the industry’s past, present and future.  

Atlanta: July 23, 2024

TRAVEL MANAGER OF THE YEAR AWARDS & RECEPTION

Business Travel News presents its coveted Travel Manager of the Year award to the North American travel buyer who has exerted the most positive influence on travel management practices. BTN also recognizes best practitioners for elevating individual travel management practices.The two-hour evening reception will be held during the GBTA Convention in Atlanta in 2024 and is likely to include more than 200 corporate travel/procurement buyers.

Pebble Beach, CA: June 26-29, 2024

business travel summit

BTN Group’s 13th Annual Business Travel Summit at Pebble Beach brings together 65+ travel industry senior executives (corporate travel and procurement professionals and supplier sponsors) for a dynamic three-day program of education and senior-level networking.

Houston: June 5, 2024

global travel risk summit

Brought to you by The BTN Group and HospitalityLawyer.com, the Global Travel Risk Summit educates corporate travel buyers, procurement professionals, human resources, legal, security and risk professionals on meeting duty of care obligations by executing safe and secure travel and meetings programs.

New York City: December 3, 2024

the beat live

The Beat Live is where 100+ senior level travel executives come together for a day to discuss and debate key issues in travel distribution and business travel technology. This must-attend event delivers The Beat's trademark provocative style and candid commentary from key business leaders together with the industry's best networking.

New York City: October 1, 2024

corporate travel 100 summit

A day of benchmarking and information sharing between Corporate Travel 100 buyer survey participants where sponsoring suppliers will be permitted to attend only breakfast, lunch and one concluding session.