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Highlights of the Bavel Travel Summit 2018

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baVel = constant delivery of groundbreaking solutions to the travel industry

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

Guest speakers, panel sessions, and debates tackling the challenges and opportunities in our industry – feed your mind!

FUN, SPORTS & GASTRONOMY

Our fun-tastic top tapas hunt and the coveted gala dinner are just two of the highlights awaiting. Feed your body, mediterranean style!

INSPIRATIONAL ACTIVITIES

How about some early morning inspiration and a special motivating session on conscious leadership to feed your soul?

Who's Speaking?

We’ve invited top industry leaders to join our Summit and share their insights. Discover the Summit speakers.

Xavier Ginesta

Chairman at Voxel Group

Mike Carlo

Board of Directors at HEDNA

Pascal Burg

Director at Edgar & Dunn Company

Adrian Parkes

CEO GTMC

Morten Larsen

Head of product marketing, payments business at Booking.com

Alex Mifsud

Founder and CEO at Ixaris Technologies Ltd

Mark Bowmer

Head of Global Product Strategy at eNett

Fernando Cebada

Corporate Treasury Director at NH Hotel Group

Sofoklis Limniotis

Global Finance Services EMEA at Hotelbeds

Ivar van Herpen

Global Sales Manager Travel Trade at Airplus International

Tom Price

Director at Taxecure

Paul van Alfen

Global Head of Airlines & Travel at Ingenico ePayments

Alejandro Banegas

Business Development Director at Mastercard España

Greg Sassone

VP, Head of Global Product, Corporate Payments at WEX

Carlos Gonzalez

Vice Presicent of Global Administration at Melia Hotels International

Summit Agenda

Wednesday Thursday Friday

Wednesday

	Wednesday
10:00 am	10:00 am 12:00 pm Registration Opens
11:00 am	10:00 am 12:00 pm Registration Opens
12:00 pm	12:00 pm 1:00 pm Networking Brunch
1:00 pm	1:00 pm 1:30 pm Xavier Ginesta, Chairman Welcome Voxel Group 1:30 pm 1:30 pm Open Payment Alliance 1:30 pm 2:15 pm Xavier Ginesta, Chairman Unleashing the Power of the Open Payment Alliance Voxel Group 2:15 pm 3:00 pm Moderator: Mike Carlo, Board of Directors at HEDNA Panel: B2B Payment pain points uncensored NH Hotel Group, Hotelbeds, Meliá Hotels International
2:00 pm
3:00 pm	3:00 pm 3:30 pm Networking Break 3:30 pm 3:30 pm Cutting Edge Business Travel Technology 3:30 pm 4:15 pm Taxecure, Mastercard Introducing the First VAT Refundable Credit Card for International Business Travellers 4:15 pm 5:00 pm Adrian Parkes. CEO at GTMC Electronic Bill-back. GTMC’s ongoing efforts to mitigate the top pain point of British TMCs Followed by a panel with Amadeus, WEX, GTMC and Roomex
4:00 pm
5:00 pm	5:00 pm 6:00 pm Networking session
6:00 pm	6:30 pm 9:00 pm Funworking Top Tapas Hunt Challenge
7:00 pm
8:00 pm

Wednesday

Registration Opens
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Networking Brunch
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Welcome Xavier Ginesta, ChairmanVoxel Group
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Open Payment Alliance
1:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Unleashing the Power of the Open Payment Alliance Xavier Ginesta, ChairmanVoxel Group
1:30 pm - 2:15 pm
Panel: B2B Payment pain points uncensored Moderator: Mike Carlo, Board of Directors at HEDNANH Hotel Group, Hotelbeds, Meliá Hotels International
2:15 pm - 3:00 pm
Networking Break
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Cutting Edge Business Travel Technology
3:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Introducing the First VAT Refundable Credit Card for International Business Travellers Taxecure, Mastercard
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
Electronic Bill-back. GTMC’s ongoing efforts to mitigate the top pain point of British TMCs Adrian Parkes. CEO at GTMCFollowed by a panel with Amadeus, WEX, GTMC and Roomex
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Networking session
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Funworking Top Tapas Hunt Challenge
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

No events available!

Thursday

	Thursday
8:00 am	8:00 am 8:00 am Inspirational morning 8:00 am 8:30 am Stretching / Mindfulness
9:00 am	9:00 am 11:00 am Inspirational Plenary session
10:00 am	9:00 am 11:00 am Inspirational Plenary session
11:00 am	11:00 am 11:15 am Networking Coffee Break 11:15 am 11:15 am Payment Innovation 11:15 am 11:45 am Greg Sassone,VP, Head of Global Product, Corporate Payments New frontiers in VCC payments WEX Europe 11:45 am 12:30 pm Moderator: Xavier Ginesta, Chairman at Voxel Group Panel: Cutting edge B2B payment technology eNett, Ixaris, Airplus, Ingenico 12:30 pm 1:00 pm Mike Carlo. Board of Directors Right-sizing Hospitality Payments: How the Industry is finally leaving 1984 behind HEDNA
12:00 pm
1:00 pm	1:00 pm 2:30 pm Networking Lunch 2:30 pm 2:30 pm Industry Trends 2:30 pm 3:15 pm Morten Larsen Creating scalable and customer-centric payment solutions at Booking.com Head of product marketing, payments business at Booking.com 3:15 pm 4:00 pm Pascal Burg, Director Coping with the upcoming GDPR new data protection framework Edgar, Dunn & Company
2:00 pm
3:00 pm
4:00 pm	4:00 pm 4:45 pm Xavier Ginesta, Chairman Conclusions & Wrap up Voxel Group 4:45 pm 6:00 pm Networking and Workshop sessions
5:00 pm
7:00 pm	7:30 pm 12:00 am Sponsored by Gramona Funworking Gala Dinner

Thursday

Inspirational morning
8:00 am - 8:00 am
Stretching / Mindfulness
8:00 am - 8:30 am
Inspirational Plenary session
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Networking Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:15 am
Payment Innovation
11:15 am - 11:15 am
New frontiers in VCC payments Greg Sassone,VP, Head of Global Product, Corporate PaymentsWEX Europe
11:15 am - 11:45 am
Panel: Cutting edge B2B payment technology Moderator: Xavier Ginesta, Chairman at Voxel GroupeNett, Ixaris, Airplus, Ingenico
11:45 am - 12:30 pm
Right-sizing Hospitality Payments: How the Industry is finally leaving 1984 behind Mike Carlo. Board of DirectorsHEDNA
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Networking Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Industry Trends
2:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Creating scalable and customer-centric payment solutions at Booking.com Morten LarsenHead of product marketing, payments business at Booking.com
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Coping with the upcoming GDPR new data protection framework Pascal Burg, DirectorEdgar, Dunn & Company
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Conclusions & Wrap up Xavier Ginesta, ChairmanVoxel Group
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
Networking and Workshop sessions
4:45 pm - 6:00 pm
Funworking Gala Dinner Sponsored by Gramona
7:30 pm - 12:00 am

No events available!

Friday

	Friday
8:00 am	8:00 am 9:00 am Workshop day & HEDNA Regional Event
9:00 am	9:00 am 10:00 am Networking Breakfast
10:00 am	10:00 am 12:30 pm OPA Bi-monthly meeting \| Workshops 12:30 pm 1:00 pm Mike Carlo. Board of Directors HEDNA Regional Event Barcelona: Hospitality in Payments HEDNA
11:00 am
12:00 pm
1:00 pm	1:00 pm 2:00 pm Networking Lunch
2:00 pm	2:00 pm 4:00 pm Workshops
3:00 pm	2:00 pm 4:00 pm Workshops

Friday

Workshop day & HEDNA Regional Event
8:00 am - 9:00 am
Networking Breakfast
9:00 am - 10:00 am
OPA Bi-monthly meeting | Workshops
10:00 am - 12:30 pm
HEDNA Regional Event Barcelona: Hospitality in Payments Mike Carlo. Board of DirectorsHEDNA
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Networking Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workshops
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

No events available!

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Highlights of the Bavel Travel Summit 2018