Sponsors
Welcome Sponsor
SKY
Sky Business is the business-to-business division of Sky.
No matter the size or sector, Sky Business keeps businesses connected and customers entertained with their next generation network and unrivalled live sport and entertainment.
Everything we do at Sky Business is guided by three promises. We’re always innovating, it’s in our DNA. Making our customers everyday easier, with next-level support and continually invest in business, with business grade commitments.
Headline & Workshop Sponsor
Percipient
THE HOSPITALITY FINANCE SPECIALISTS
We specialise in giving hotel and hospitality businesses a clear view of their performance, using world-class finance solutions, to help them work better, faster and smarter.
Our hospitality customers are always pushing forward, seeking continuous improvement with the latest technologies, to achieve that competitive edge. The cloud-based technology we use allows us to deliver this and more, providing an innovative foundation for our customers to quickly adapt as their strategies evolve.
From luxury 5-star retreats and spa hotels, to restaurants, tour operators and other hospitality specialists, we work collaboratively to provide creative solutions that enable you to work smarter and grow your business.
Based on the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI), our solutions help to break down the barriers of international trade and provide a commonality to internal processes. With a single operational view of your business, you’ll gain a deeper, end-to-end understanding of your business performance in real-time, allowing you to report, plan, and forecast both insightfully and accurately.
Learn more about Percipient at www.percipient.co.uk or contact the team at info@percipient.co.uk to arrange a bespoke demonstration and get all your questions answered.
Headline Sponsor
Ruckus
RUCKUS delivers purpose-driven networks that offer the best possible performance for the unique needs of the hospitality industry. Together with our network of trusted go-to-market partners, we empower hospitality brands to deliver a differentiated level of connectivity to their guests and employees, no matter what. Because when “good enough” networking just isn’t good enough, hospitality leaders turn to RUCKUS.
Guest experience is the only metric that matters in the hospitality industry. There’s a high bar to meet, but the right network can lay a solid foundation for exceptional experiences and improved brand loyalty. That’s the reason so many hospitality properties turn to RUCKUS® for technologies that deliver exceptional guest connectivity experiences. A RUCKUS network delivers immediate and long-term ROI through a combination of revenue generation and operational cost reductions.
A RUCKUS network delivers VIP experiences for every guest with:
Wi-Fi and switching connectivity
IT and OT convergence
IoT integration
Analytics
Safety, security and loss prevention
Premium Sponsor
Net Affinity
Say hello to the future of hotel booking technology.
Personalised, powerful, precise
Net Affinity’s booking engine is the newest technology on the market. Feature-rich, lightning fast and made for mobile, it’s everything your guest needs from their booking experience.
This new piece of technology has been built from the ground up, with years’ worth of our knowledge and learnings applied. Hosted using the most modern cloud infrastructure and built around APIs, it enables us to artfully link all your tech together, propelling your systems toward extraordinary heights.
Our team are some of the brightest and most innovative in the business. Their knowledge and commitment to always providing the best service possible has led us to where we are now – the future of booking direct.
Premium Sponsor
Cvent
Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with 4,800+ employees and 21,000+ customers worldwide. Founded in 1999, the company delivers a comprehensive suite of hospitality solutions and offers a global marketplace where event professionals collaborate with venues to create engaging, impactful experiences. Cvent is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, just outside of Washington D.C., and has additional offices around the world to support its growing global customer base. Cvent Supplier & Venue Solutions offer hoteliers and suppliers direct access to more than $14 billion in events business that is sourced each year through Cvent. The platform optimises marketing, sales, and operations for properties and chains and connects suppliers to more than 110,000 event planners that rely on Cvent to find great venues and manage their events and corporate travel programmes. For more information, please visit Cvent.co.uk.
Wellness Sponsor
Peloton
The most sought-after fitness experience out there, enhanced for your exercisers and hotel.
Elevate your wellness offering by bringing guests the game-changing, mind-and-body fitness experience they want.
90% of Peloton Members surveyed* are more likely to stay at a hotel with a Peloton Bike than one without. As a Peloton destination, you’ll attract our millions of Members worldwide and help your guests maintain healthy habits while on the go.
Redefining room service
Bringing motivating guided workouts, meditation, yoga, and more to arm’s reach, the Peloton Bike offers a complete wellness experience flexible to both business and leisure stays. From the comfort of guest rooms, the Bike helps drive premium room rates with an elevated stay.
Put yourself on the map
Meet Hotel Finder, our dedicated travel tool for our millions of Members worldwide—and a no-cost marketing moment for you as a Peloton destination. Members can find you by location, brand name, or loyalty program. Get on their radar, so they can book directly and keep their streak alive.
Based on a survey of approx. 800 currently subscribed Peloton Members who travel 3+ times per year, conducted by Peloton in August 2022
Premium Sponsor
Exponential-e
Exponential-e has provided world-class technology services for the Hospitality & Leisure sector for over 15 years and today, we are one of the fastest-growing private companies in the UK, delivering fully integrated solutions, tailored to the sector’s unique challenges.
By combining our secure and super-fast 100GigE Network with Cloud and Voice infrastructure, we provide the means to optimise the guest experience, including Managed LAN & WiFi, Connectivity, IPTV, In-room Entertainment, Cyber Security, and Managed IT Services. This evolving portfolio and our deeply consultative approach enable us to maximise the performance of sites and applications, maintain world-class data protection, and deliver tangible cost savings.
The result: unforgettable experiences for every guest that inspire repeat visits and build brand reputation.
We are trusted by over 3,000 customers, with 96% reference-ability and nine ISO accreditations. We were also the first company to display our industry-leading Net Promoter Score live on our website.
Premium Sponsor
Shiji
Shiji Group is a global technology network for the hotel, retail, food service, and entertainment sectors, aiming to connect businesses globally. They offer a wide range of software solutions and services, including hotel management tools, payment gateways, data management, and more. Established in 1998 as a hotel network solutions provider, Shiji Group now has 5,000 employees in 80+ subsidiaries and brands, serving 91,000+ hotels, 200,000+ restaurants, and 600,000+ retail outlets, with ongoing global expansion.
Shiji’s portfolio includes POS systems, property management systems, distribution solutions, and more. Partnered with Alibaba, Shiji Group built cloud technology platforms to facilitate data exchange across industries. Their mission emphasizes cross-industry integration to connect supply chain levels, from guests to suppliers. Shiji Group aims to help clients enhance customer service through a secure, user-friendly, and interconnected technology network
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Premium Sponsor
Barclaycard Payments
Barclaycard Payments, part of Barclays Bank PLC, is a leading global payment business that helps consumers, retailers and businesses to make and take payments flexibly, and to access short-term credit. In the UK we process nearly £1 in every £3 spent using credit and debit cards, and in 2021 we processed over £270bn in transactions globally. We also partner with a wide range of organisations across the globe to offer their customers or members payment options and credit.
Event Sponsor
BT
BT is the leading provider of guest wi-fi in the UK, delivering a high quality and trusted service to over 1.6 million daily users. From high street retailers to premium hotels, we offer a range of tailored solutions to provide our partners with hassle-free and cost effective wi-fi to drive additional value to their business.
Event Sponsor
Discover Global Network
Discover® Global Network, Three payments leaders, one powerful network. Discover Global Network is built on the reach, capabilities and expertise of our brands: Discover®, Diners Club International® and PULSE®. Discover Network process billions of transactions annually and partner across the industry to power payments globally.
Event Sponsor
FreedomPay
FreedomPay is The World’s Open Payment Platform, revolutionising existing payment systems and processes from legacy to leading edge while being the premier choice for many of the largest hospitality companies across the globe. FreedomPay’s secure technology has been purposely built to deliver rock solid performance in highly complex hospitality commerce environments.
Event Sponsor
Infor
Infor Hospitality is dedicated to helping industry leaders create a scalable technology platform to unite locations and empower their teams, developing powerful multi-tenant cloud software for hotels, casinos, and restaurant organizations. We work with customers and integration partners in over 135 countries to help them achieve strategic clarity, operational efficiency, consistently superior guest experiences, and maximized revenues. In a constantly evolving industry, our customers are empowered to meet today’s challenges and be ready for future ones.
Event Sponsor
Prommt
Prommt is revolutionizing the collection of guest payments. Trusted by many of the world’s most luxurious hotels, our innovative platform enables bank and card payments via SMS and email, and our API can be integrated to provide web payments. Prommt makes payment collection safer, easier, faster and more cost effective.
Event Sponsor
RMS
RMS provides trusted, scalable, cloud technology for managing hospitality accommodation businesses worldwide. With 7,000+ properties, in 70 countries, and 184K global users, our innovative platform enables revenue growth, operational efficiency, and enhanced customer engagement. Experience more bookings, increased revenue, and satisfied guests with RMS.
Event Sponsor
Yooz
Yooz provides the smartest, most powerful and easiest-to-use cloudbased Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) automation solution. It delivers unmatched savings, speed and security with affordable zero-risk subscriptions to more than 4,000 customers and 200,000 users worldwide.
Yooz’s unique solution leverages Artificial Intelligence and RPA technologies to deliver an amazing level of automation with extreme simplicity, traceability and end-to-end customizable features. It integrates seamlessly with more than 250 financial systems, exceeding any other solution on the market.
Yooz is a fast-growing, award-winning company that perfectly fits the expectations of mid-size organizations across all sectors.It has been recognized as a SaaS innovator, recently named as a 10 Best Cloud Solution Provider by Industry Era, Best of SaaS Showplace (BoSS) by THINKstrategies, Top 10 Accounting Solution Provider by CFO Tech Outlook; and Top 50 Company to Watch by Spend Matters.
Yooz is based in the US and Europe, with UK Office located in Woking – Surrey.
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Event Sponsor
Fourth
Fourth is a leader in data-driven workforce and inventory technology for the hospitality, restaurant, and retail sectors. Our intelligent solutions enable our customers to optimise operations, drive profits and empower employees, underpinned by analytics and AI forecasting. Fourth is trusted by over 15,000 customers globally, with 2.5 million users across 100,000 sites.
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Event Sponsor
Eproductive
Eproductive provides EPS, the leading people management system designed exclusively for hospitality businesses by hospitality professionals. EPS is an HR and labour scheduling solution with T&A and an employee app, and is integrated to multiple payroll systems, increasing efficiency and control. The system is used in hundreds of hotels in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Netherlands.
Event Sponsor
Amadeus
Amadeus powers more personalized and authentic travel experiences. Our solutions are designed to enrich every stage of the traveller journey and help hospitality providers acquire, service, and retain guests by profitably driving demand and converting them into loyal fans. Backed by over 30 years of experience, we design open, cutting-edge software to provide the most efficient, trusted, and reliable systems for our customers.
Event Sponsor
HRC
HRC, Hotel, Restaurant & Catering is the home of hospitality tech. HRC is firmly established as the only event in the UK to bring together all the leading tech pioneers from within the hospitality industry. If you are on the hunt for transforming tech solutions to help elevate your hospitality business, then attend HRC to meet face-to-face with a range of tech brands and understand how their solutions can help your business succeed in 2024 and beyond. For more information, please visit.
Event Sponsor
IDeaS
Unrivaled revenue management solutions for your business. Forecast accurately, price confidently, and achieve greater profitability fast with the world's most trusted revenue management software.
More than a strategy, more than a platform, IDeaS is a committed, proactive partner, relentless about enhancing your productivity with faultless IDeaS revenue management software. We provide revenue performance advisors for advice and guidance where it matters most for your business.
Event & Name Badge Sponsor
Howden
Howden is a group of insurance experts, with the experience to deliver for our clients and the motivation to help them thrive. Whatever cover you’re looking for, we have market-leading experts who can help. And no matter how complex the challenge or unique the situation, we can get the right people in the room and create the right solution for you. Max Palmer-Jeffery, Client Relationship Manager, max.palmer-jeffery@howdeninsurance.co.uk
Daytime Food & Beverage, Event and HOSPA 300 sponsor
Fourteen IP
Fourteen IP is a Global Carrier and Systems Integrator to the hospitality industry, providing Cloud Telephony, Guest Internet Access and AI-Powered Virtual Agent solutions across Europe and North America.
Founded in 2011, Fourteen IP has established itself as the leading provider of cloud telephony services to the hospitality sector, with its Evolution Voice service being deployed in over 330,000 hotel rooms across 24 countries.
Our AI-powered Evolution Virtual Agent service (EVA) is transforming guest services by providing human-like hotel voice interactions 24/7/365, typically reducing calls to front desks by 75%. Approved and preferred by multiple hotel brands, EVA handles repetitive questions, enabling your teams to focus on the human side of hospitality and deliver exceptional guest experiences.
Fourteen IP supports leading hotels and groups worldwide, together with individual boutique and independent hotels.
For help and advice call +44 1942 369196 or email sales@fourteenip.com
For more information, please visit www.fourteenip.com
Dinner, Drinks & Entertainment Sponsor
Keystep Solutions
Keystep Solutions specialise in electronic RFID & Digital Key locks for the hotel, leisure, and student accommodation sectors. We have shattered the stagnation and lack of customer service that has dominated the sector for decades with Keystep being the first company to fit Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth LE) as standard in all its locks.
Whether the requirement is for a new install or a retrofit to replace old worn-out locking systems, our Opendoor Solution provides a selection of door handles to suit. Built to last and meeting or exceeding all statutory safety standards and with our industry leading 3-year warranty you know your guests will be well looked after.
Regardless of whether your preference is to have contactless RFID card technology, or you choose to use Smartphone technology to enable guest entry or both you can relax knowing you have full support included with your solution.
It’s a “no brainer” Opendoor by Keystep Solutions.
Contact: andrew.evans@keystep.co.uk
Tel: 08443-510805
Lanyard Sponsor
CNN
CNN Worldwide is the most honored brand in cable news and globally people can watch CNN International in over 200 countries and territories. CNN Digital is the #1 online news destination, with more unique visitors than any other news source. The award-winning portfolio includes non-scripted programming from CNN Original Series and CNN Films for broadcast, streaming and distribution across multiple platforms.
Workshop Sponsor
Mews
Mews is a leading platform for the new era of hospitality. Over 3,000 properties in 70 countries are powered by Mews. The Mews Hospitality Cloud is designed to streamline operations for modern hoteliers, transform the guest experience and create more profitable businesses. Customers include Accor, Generator-Freehand, Nordic Choice Hotels, The Social Hub, Life House and Les Airelles. Mews has been named the World's Best Independent Hotel PMS Provider by World Travel Tech Awards (2022) and won Best Place to Work in Hotel Tech (2021, 2022) from Hotel Tech Report. The company has offices in Europe, the United States and Australia.
Workshop Sponsor
HiJiffy
More revenue, less repetitive tasks Guest Communications Hub for Hotels. Provides instant answers in 130+ languages to your guests on their favourite social media, messaging apps & more. Boost Direct Bookings, Increase Upselling, Automate processes.
Workshop Sponsor
SHR Global
SHR Group is the leading provider of innovative and intelligent technology solutions for the hospitality industry. Allora.ai, the world’s leading intelligent and integrated hospitality platform, is the flagship product of SHR Group. Allora.ai helps hotels stay always ahead as it leverages the power of AI, with a dynamic suite of hotel management software tools. Alongside allora.ai, we also have SHR Group Hotel Services which focuses on empowering the hospitality industry with award-winning website design and marketing services, and unmatched AI-powered hotel acquisition management and retention solutions.
Workshop Sponsor
Sabre
Sabre is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, our team of experts drive innovation and ingenuity across the travel ecosystem. Sabre partners with airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other travel partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel.
Thier technology is the intelligence behind mobile apps, airport check-in kiosks, online travel sites, airline and hotel reservation networks, travel agent terminals, and scores of other travel solutions. Positioned at the center of the travel ecosystem, our platform enables their customers to connect people with experiences that matter in their lives.
HOSPA300 Sponsor
Agilysys
Agilysys helps properties optimise Return on Experience for guests and staff so they can achieve High Return Hospitality. Agilysys is the only hospitality software provider that synthesises data and workflows to elevate guest experiences, increase wallet share, and provide greater job satisfaction and retention across a singular platform.
Workshop Sponsor
WMT Troncbox
Founded by ex HMRC expert Peter Davies in 2013, WMT Troncmaster Services is now the UK's leading and largest Troncmaster service provider.
Name Badge Sponsor
Shackle
Shackle digitalises the entire hotel guest journey, seamlessly integrating with existing systems for a fully contactless experience from check-in to check-out, with everything in between.
Shackle helps streamline operations, eliminates repetitive tasks and unifies hotel systems, providing complete visibility and peace of mind through one integrated solution.
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