Description: Game, set, match on corporate travel and partnerships, where innovation meets human interaction and buyers and suppliers rally toward better solutions.<\/p>\n
Join GBTA Chicago for our final Education Meeting of the year. This event is dedicated to learning from our partnerships- how suppliers and buyers can work together to build success. Attendees will walk away with actionable takeaways from our keynote interview, and understand more deeply what their supplier partners are thinking about as we move into 2027. Direct\/Buyer attendees, make sure your phone is fully charged for this one- we’ll need your active participation!<\/p>\n
Opening Serve: a Conversation with Google’s Rob Bray:
\nHow Rob brought all the players to the table, and what he built for his travelers from there.<\/p>\n
Matchpoint: Buyer-Supplier Rally:
\nPowered by Slido, we welcome our four key industries in a back-and-forth Question and Response with the audience. Serving up ideas, Returning better answers.<\/p>\n
Speaker Info:<\/p>\n
Opening Serve: A Keynote Interview Interviewer: Matchpoint: Buyer & Supplier Rall – Slido Ping Pong!<\/p>\n Tamar Fuchs<\/strong> Carlo Chirchirillo<\/strong> Amy Leeds<\/strong> Melissa Rix, GLP, CLSSYB<\/strong> Alexander Frigo<\/strong> Mat Macko<\/strong> Gina Maylath<\/strong> Aaron Miller<\/strong> Halley Shaw<\/strong>
\nRob Bray<\/strong>
\nHead of Travel & Events
\nGoogle<\/p>\n
\nJeff Burba<\/strong>
\nCorporate Travel & Expense Manager
\nPerficient
\nPresident, GBTA Chicago<\/p>\n
\nDirector, Global Business Travel Sales
\nCorporate Strategic Accounts
\nHilton<\/p>\n
\nAccount Director, Global Sales
\nIHG \u00ae Hotels & Resorts<\/p>\n
\nArea Director Transient Sales
\nLoews Chicago Hotel
\nLoews Chicago O’Hare<\/p>\n
\nManager Field Sales |Heartland
\nSouthwest Airlines<\/p>\n
\nGeneral Manager, Central USA
\nLufthansa Group<\/p>\n
\nSr. Manager, Mid-Market | Global Sales
\nAmerican Airlines<\/p>\n
\nGlobal Client Solutions Manager
\nFox World Travel<\/p>\n
\nOwner\/Operator
\nBASE Transportation Solutions
\nAllied Council, GBTA Chicago<\/p>\n
\nSales Manager, SMB
\nUber for Business<\/p>\n