Network Exchange
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Book your table now!
cplummer@phocuswright.com or +1 860 350-4084 x260
VIEW THE MEETING HOSTS
SCHEDULE MEETINGS WITH NETWORK EXCHANGE MEETING HOSTS VIA ECONNECT
Networking is a top priority for most attendees at any conference. With 1,000 people to meet at The PhoCusWright Conference, the Network Exchange helps you get to the right people in an efficient manner. All attendees of The Travel Innovation Summit and Center Stage have access to the Network Exchange in their ticket packages.
There are two ways to take advantage of the Network Exchange:
- Become a meeting host: reserve a table and schedule meetings with other attendees you desire to connect with
- Request meetings with hosts: All registered attendees will have the ability to request a meeting with a host that is on their "must meet" list via the eConnect system.
Meetings can be scheduled prior to the conference and on-site in Hollywood via the eConnect tool.
MAXIMIZE YOUR TIME AT THE NETWORK EXCHANGE
- Book your table: A table will be reserved for you—lunch will be served in the same area as your meetings to maximize your time.
- Strategize your day: You receive access to the exceptional attendee list in plenty of time to strategize for the Network Exchange.
- Schedule your appointments: PhoCusWright will provide you with a tool to directly contact those you want to meet and keep track of all those important appointments.
- Get down to business!
Registered attendees: Access to the Network Exchange is included in all ticket packages. To host your own meetings, book a table (available on a stand-alone basis for $850—cost of registration is not included).
Network Exchange is included at no additional cost with certain sponsorship/exhibition packages. Contact Cathy Plummer for more details.
To reserve your table, or for more information, contact Cathy Plummer: cplummer@phocuswright.com or +1 860 350-4084 x260.
MEETING HOSTS
Schedule meetings via eConnect. View the instructions of how to access eConnect HERE.
AIG Travel Inc.
Akamai Technologies
Amadeus
Blue Star Infotech America Inc.
Hitwise
The Level
LiveRez.com
Lowfares.com
Mondial Assistance
NIIT Technologies
PhoCusWright Inc.
Platform-A
Tata Consultancy Services
Travelbeen
TravelMuse Inc.
Travelscream Technologies
Travolution
TripTelevision
TRUSTe
Webloyalty
WNS Global Services
XYKA
AIG Travel Inc.
AIG Travel Inc. is a global company and, through its affiliated companies and subsidiaries, a single-source provider of travel insurance, emergency medical assistance, travel assistance and concierge services for corporate clients, travel suppliers, travel agents and individual travelers throughout the world. AIG Travel Inc. is a member company of American International Group Inc.
Schedule meetings via eConnect. View the instructions of how to access eConnect HERE.
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Akamai Technologies
Akamai is the leading global service provider for accelerating e-business in the hotel and travel industry. Leading hotel and travel companies such as Cathay Pacific Airways, InterContinental Hotels Group, and Travelocity.com depend on Akamai today. Akamai Dynamic Site Solutions provide a predictable, high-quality user experience that measurably improves conversion rates, online bookings, and builds loyalty with your best customers. By delivering significantly faster page and application download times, Akamai ensures that more customers buy on your site and stay loyal to your brand.
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Amadeus
Amadeus is the chosen technology partner for providers, sellers, and buyers of travel. The company provides distribution, IT and point-of-sale solutions to help its customers adapt, grow and succeed in the fast changing travel industry. Customers include travel providers (airlines, hotels, car rental companies, railway companies, ferry lines, cruise lines, insurance companies and tour operators), travel sellers (travel agencies) and travel buyers (corporations and travelers). The company is majority owned by WAM Acquisition, whose shareholders are BC Partners, Cinven, Air France, Iberia and Lufthansa. Amadeus employs 8,500 employees worldwide, representing 95 nationalities.
Schedule meetings via eConnect. View the instructions of how to access eConnect HERE.
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Blue Star Infotech America Inc.
Blue Star InfoTech, is a business and technology solutions company with primary focus and deep expertise in travel and hospitality leveraging our global delivery model. Our clients in North America, Europe and Asia include Costco, AAA, Disney, Cosmos, Virgin Holidays, Hotels.com, Expedia, Groople, Trisept, EzRez, HyperTech, Blue Sky, MacDonald’s, SOTC, Hitachi, 3M, HP, Warner Bros and A C Nielsen. For 25 years, our team of 1200+ highly experienced professionals has nurtured long term relationships with OTAs, hotels, tour operators, airlines and ground transportation companies.
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Hitwise
Hitwise is the leading online competitive intelligence service. Only Hitwise provides its 1,500 global clients with daily insights on how their customers interact with a broad range of competitive Web sites, and how their competitors use different tactics to attract online customers. Hitwise, a subsidiary of Experian (FTS: EXPN) www.experiangroup.com operates in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Schedule meetings via eConnect. View the instructions of how to access eConnect HERE.
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The Level
The Level helps customers in the travel industry take control of their Web sites and attract more customers. Organizations including Google, Vancouver 2010 Olympics, and Coast Hotels rely on The Level to make their Web properties more effective and respond more quickly to opportunities. By delivering the easiest-to-use Web content management software, The Level puts your marketing and sales people in charge of your Web site—not your IT staff. Our customers use our software to deliver highly personalized, targeted and effective content on their Web sites. As times get tougher, you need the flexibility and competitive advantage that The Level delivers.
Schedule meetings via eConnect. View the instructions of how to access eConnect HERE.
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LiveRez.com
LiveRez was launched in January of 2008 to empower vacation rental mangers to take their business online and effectively compete with hotels. The LiveRez mission is to drive more online bookings for vacation rental managers. Built upon a 15 year history of Web site design and online marketing of vacation rentals, LiveRez is the most complete online vacation rental property management solution available, offering end to end solutions for the property manager as well as the vacationer. LiveRez takes a unique partnership approach through its pay-for-performance business model and comprehensive services to property managers. LiveRez introduces RezSecure as a further step in standardizing the vacation home rental shopping and booking experience for travelers. Through a network of certified property managers, RezSecure provides a vacation home directory site with a new level of confidence to travelers, allowing them to have complete trust in booking a vacation home.
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Lowfares.com
LowFares.com, an Oversee.net company, is a leader in travel comparison for cheap flights, hotels, car rentals and vacation packages. LowFares.com allows consumers to compare multiple travel providers simultaneously. With more than 5 million leads generated each month, LowFares.com is a proven source of quality leads for travel providers.
Schedule meetings via eConnect. View the instructions of how to access eConnect HERE.
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Mondial Assistance
Mondial Assistance is one of the world's largest providers of travel insurance and assistance services. In the U.S., we’re best known for our Access America(R) travel insurance and Event Ticket Protector insurance. But we also provide medical assistance to millions of health plan members traveling abroad, and concierge services to millions more credit card users. In fact, over 100 million Americans rely on us each year, whether we're answering routine questions or helping with complex medical and travel emergencies.
Schedule meetings via eConnect. View the instructions of how to access eConnect HERE.
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NIIT Technologies
NIIT Technologies is a publicly held outsourcing company of US$500M+ NIIT enterprise,
operating in 44 countries across 4 continents and employing over 10,000 employees. NIIT
Technologies has strong expertise in the travel, transportation and logistics space and has recently been ranked number one in IT services and BPO in travel and transportation in
the 2008 Black Book of Outsourcing report. NIIT Technologies has 1200+ dedicated
resources in the travel and transportation vertical. Its marquee customers include British
Airways, United Airlines, Virgin America, Singapore Airlines, Sabre Holdings, Virgin
Atlantic and Travelocity, among others. NIIT Technologies has won numerous industry
awards including Sabre Holdings' Supplier Excellence award.
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PhoCusWright Inc.
PhoCusWright, the travel industry research authority, fosters smart strategic planning and tactical decision-making by delivering primary research on the evolving dynamics that influence travel, tourism and hospitality distribution. To complement its research in North America, Europe and Asia, PhoCusWright partners with and produces several high-profile conferences around the world.
Schedule meetings via eConnect. View the instructions of how to access eConnect HERE.
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Platform-A
Platform-A makes it easier than ever for advertisers to harness the full power of digital media to meet their marketing objectives. Platform-A is the industry's largest platform offering the most comprehensive suite of marketing solutions, powered by the Web's best advertising technologies. Platform-A offers best-in-class solutions that leverage AOL's premier consumer brands (AIM, Moviefone, MapQuest, TMZ, AOL.com and more), TACODA's leading behavioral targeting product across the entire network, and Advertising.com's industry-leading reach across multiple networks, including display, video, mobile, search and affiliate.
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Tata Consultancy Services
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, business solutions and outsourcing organization that delivers real results to global businesses ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services, delivered through its unique global network delivery model, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group, India's largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 111,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants in 50 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US$5.7B for the FY ending 31 March 2008.
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Travelbeen
Travelbeen™ is a dedicated search engine for travel planning. Travelbeen™ is a highly ambitious service, collating the world's largest collection of travel Web sites, categorizing, indexing and mapping every page to a location or destination. It is the one place consumers can keyword search across hand-picked travel companies and see the destinations they cover, their accreditations and popularity. Over 15,000 travel companies are already included and we are working towards 200,000+. We have been to every travel Web site, have you been?
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TravelMuse Inc.
TravelMuse helps people save time and make better decisions at every step of the travel planning process. Combining inspiring travel content with powerful planning tools, TravelMuse presents the industry’s first Inspiration Finder: discover and compare destination ideas that match personal preferences, needs and constraints; simplify trip planning with the TravelMuse Planner; easily build trips, gather research from TravelMuse or other Web sites, and share plans securely with family and friends; gain inspiration and ideas through original editorial, destination guides and breathtaking photography; leverage social networking and the wisdom of crowds to identify top-rated hotels, attractions, and destinations.
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Travelscream Technologies
Travelscream is the leading provider of content distribution and social media marketing solutions for travel serving the hospitality industry with critical tools to compete effectively in a consumer-networked world. Travelscream’s Web 2.0 Toolkit consists of a blog and content sharing system, RSS, interactive map, guestbook, message board, digital audio/video, widgets and promotional content feeds on the websites of leading online publishers. Travelscream’s turnkey solutions build networks of people and content that travel the Web, enabling travel providers to influence conversational society by prompting interaction with content and sharing in online media so smart hoteliers and publishers can demonstrate compelling results.
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Travolution
Travolution is the leading multi-media brand for the online travel industry. Based in London and launched in 2005, Travolution produces a quartely magazine, news and analysis online, podcasts, conferences and an awards program for the online travel industry.
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TripTelevision
TripTelevision offers a flash player distinct from all others. The product is an online sales and marketing tool designed so travel retailers can use high-definition video to visually direct their customers through an intelligent, data-streaming, television-like experience within their own, or their distributors', Web sites. Built with the consumer in mind, this platform is capable of keyword searches and can learn about the individual viewer during each use. Moving beyond traditional “features and benefits marketing,” it connects consumers with brands in personally relevant and memorable ways. Our streaming video technology brings an interactive and experiential sale to the online travel consumer. Static and dynamic ad insertion, metatag and keyword search functionality attached to each and every video, prioritization of each video and/or ad played, and dynamic video ordering are key benefits to suppliers, wholesalers, and OTAs.
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TRUSTe
TRUSTe helps millions of consumers identify trustworthy companies through its Web privacy seal, email privacy seal and trusted download programs. TRUSTe ensures online privacy and protects confidential user information on more than 3,200 Web sites and many of the most highly trafficked, including Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, eBay and Facebook. Certified travel Web sites include Avis, InterContinental, Priceline and Orbitz. Independent research shows that when a TRUSTe Web seal is present, visitors and customers are more likely to share personal information, register at higher rates and spend more money.
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Webloyalty
Webloyalty.com is the leading provider of incremental revenue for online businesses. We furnish more than 150 e-commerce sites with solutions for generating incremental revenue by driving traffic, minimizing site and shopping cart abandonment, offering alternative payment methods, cross-selling additional merchandise and encouraging repeat business. Headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, Webloyalty has more than 470 employees in 8 different locations across the U.S. and in Europe.
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WNS Global Services
Building on its heritage as a shared services center for one of the world's largest airlines, WNS’ travel service portfolio includes processes that support air, car, hotel, marine and packaged travel services offered by our clients. Our deep domain expertise and operational excellence help companies focus on their core business issues. We believe that we currently have the largest and most diverse service offering among offshore BPO service providers in the travel domain.
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XYKA
XYKA (pronounced Zaaika) is a well-respected software development and technology consulting firm focusing on a suite of specialized software and ancillary consulting services - primarily for the travel industry. The company’s flagship product, "XYKA Travel Platform," is a feature-rich product encompassing travel reservation systems, an Internet booking engine, negotiated contract management, inventory management, multi-channel distribution, rules engine, GDS and supplier systems interfaces, dynamic pre-packaging capabilities, call center system, Travel 2.0 plug-in, back office and accounting.
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