Hospitality Monetary and Expertise Professionals (HFTP®) has simply efficiently hosted its first CIO Summit EMEA final week in Barcelona. The high-level IT government occasion hosted 50+ hospitality trade professionals together with hoteliers, consultants and distributors for 2 days, April 24–25 on the Renaissance Barcelona Resort, to have interaction in roundtable discussions on the applied sciences set to have the most important trade influence in Europe, the Center East, and Africa. This new occasion was a department of The CIO Summit from Hospitality Improve, the expertise journal of HFTP, which has been essentially the most profitable CIO-level networking occasion in North America for over 20 years.
“The resounding success of the inaugural CIO Summit EMEA has clearly demonstrated a pronounced demand amongst hospitality expertise leaders for a definite and strategically centered Summit —a format that fosters significant peer engagement whereas addressing vital challenges shaping the way forward for the trade,” mentioned Carson Sales space, CHTP, HFTP Chief Working Officer, EMEA. “The Summit wouldn’t have been attainable with out the invaluable assist of our sponsors who unanimously affirmed that the Summit is a uniquely efficient and informative platform to foster connections with present and potential purchasers.”
Opening the Summit was “Greatest Practices for AI Adoption in Enterprises,” proudly sponsored by Fourteen IP, the occasion’s platinum sponsor and a number one supplier of AI and cloud telephony options for the hospitality trade. True North Advisory managing companion, Michael Tessler, mentioned how enterprises can finest undertake AI, together with methods and finest practices, supported by a number of precise use case situations. Michael drew from his advisory expertise the place he makes a speciality of serving to entrepreneurs scale their companies within the buyer expertise area, specializing in technique, firm positioning, and CEO mentoring.
“The no-sales method alongside some actually incredible audio system and classes led to a extremely collaborative setting the place hoteliers and distributors have been in a position to focus on numerous matters at size, may ask questions and supply solutions and debate matters in a method that you don’t see at different occasions,” mentioned Neil Tolley, CEO of the Fourteen IP Group. “Fourteen IP are extremely proud to be a sponsor and grateful to Michael Tessler for giving up his time to share his experiences with everybody not simply throughout his keynote speech but additionally throughout the networking classes, once more sharing in a genuinely collaborative setting. We’re very a lot wanting ahead to CIO summit 2026.”
Capping the primary day’s program was “Bridging the Divide Between Business and Expertise Groups,” offered by seasoned business chief, Stuart Mason, SVP, Business, Income and Distribution, Belmond. Stuart supplied attendees with an inside have a look at what actually issues to their business counterparts and the right way to talk in a method that fosters collaboration and strategic alignment.
Different matters offered in this system have been the hospitality office of the long run, re-imagining the way forward for hospitality, selecting better of breed or multi-solution companions, and the way AI brokers are changing SaaS options.
A photograph gallery from the occasion is now obtainable.
Particular thanks go to the 2025 occasion sponsors whose experience helped form this system. These are: Platinum Sponsor — Fourteen IP; Stage II Sponsors — Nomadix, Island, apaleo, and Agilysys; and Stage III Sponsors — EHL, at-visions, Venza, and Hapi.
This Fall, HFTP will produce the Hospitality Improve CIO Summit scheduled for September 3–5, 2025 on the Hyatt Regency Vancouver in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. And sustain with HFTP information for an announcement for the 2026 CIO Summit EMEA.
About HFTP
Hospitality Monetary and Expertise Professionals (HFTP®), established in 1952, is a hospitality nonprofit affiliation headquartered in Austin, Texas USA with an workplaces within the EU. HFTP is acknowledged as a gaggle supporting the finance and expertise segments of the hospitality trade with a world community of members and stakeholders. HFTP provides skilled networks, academic sources, profession growth applications, analysis, management alternatives and conferences and occasions. HFTP produces worldwide occasions all year long, together with the world’s largest hospitality expertise tradeshow and convention model: HITEC. As well as, it oversees the hospitality-specific Pineapplesearch.com® and the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Business (USALI), Resort-On-line and Hospitality Improve Journal. For extra details about HFTP, go to www.hftp.org.
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