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Returning and expanding in 2025! The Australia Corporate Travel Summit will be returning in 2025 with more sessions with free-flow buyer/supplier meetings.​​​​ 

Agenda Highlights

GBTA Global and AU Business Travel Outlook

Exclusive insights from the 2025 GBTA Business Travel Index Outlook Forecast - the industry’s leading benchmark on the future of global business travel with GBTA’s CEO Suzanne Neufang

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Purposeful Travel & Events

A thoughtful session by Microsoft’s former global travel lead, Eric Bailey

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Pioneering Tomorrow: The forces reshaping TMCs and Travel Tech

Join a panel of leading experts, including Flight Centre Corporate's Global COO, and MD ANZ Melissa Elf​​​

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The delivered ROI of modern retailing and airline distribution channels

How to get the most from your TMC in the era of NDC with Airline Retailing Specialist Timmo Rol

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Travel Tech and the roadmap to 2030

The future of travel tech - blockchain, A2A, and the path to 2030 with futurist Johnny Thorsen

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Speakers

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Cam Wallace

Chief Executive Officer, Qantas International and Freight

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Johnny Thorsen

Global Travel Tech Legend

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Timmo Rol

Airline Retailing Specialist

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Jono Nicholas

Managing Director,

The Wellbeing Outfit

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James Hogben

Senior Program Manager, Customer Programs, SAP Concur

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Ben Wedlock

Senior Vice President, Global Sales, Asia Pacific, BCD Travel

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Jim Crowder

Strategic Sales Director - APAC

Global Strategic Sales

Enterprise Mobility

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Robert Miletic

Area Director of Sales and Marketing, Shangri-La Group/Sales, Shangri-La Group

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Suzanne Neufang

CEO, Global Business Travel Association

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Jo Sully

CEO Australia & New Zealand, Corporate Travel Management (CTM)

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Mike Orchard

Head of People & Performance, Festive Road

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Craig Southee

Regional General Manager - QLD & WA, CT Connections

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Dr Renee Petrilli

Medical Director,

International SOS

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Ricarda Schneider

Director, Sustainability, Asia Pacific excluding China,
Marriott       

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Roger Sharp

Chair, Technology Queenstown

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Sanjay Shenoy

Founder & CEO, Airline Metrics

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Eric Bailey 

Global Travel Management Guru

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Melissa Elf

Global COO, and MD ANZ, Flight Centre Corporate

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Shankar Kotha

Chief Commercial Officer, 

Cllix Group

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Cherie Drummond

Chief Product Officer ANZ, Corporate Travel Management 

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Richard Savva

Risk Manager, International SOS

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Joanne Cohen 

Sales and Account Manager - Pacific, STR

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Denise Farrell 

General Manager, Travel Operations, Locomote

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Phil Murphy

Co-Founder, Smart Outsourcing Solution

Explore more at FACTS

Key Corporate Travel topics:​

  • How to get the most from your TMC in the era of NDC

  • The delivered ROI of modern retailing and airline distribution channels 

  • Rates & Fares - your ultimate Air, Hotel and Ground Transportation wrap of 2025 and 2026 outlook

  • Indigenous sourcing for Business Travel

  • Global Talent Mobility trends, risks and challenges

  • Accommodation and the value of dynamic versus static rates in 2026

  • Latest corporate travel and events trends and predictions (Wakefield Research)

  • Wellness & Performance - Building stronger workforces and travellers

 

Corporate Travel Strategy:

  • Pioneering Tomorrow: The forces reshaping TMCs and OBTs

  • The Big Ideas – Debating the most divisive topics in business travel

 

Tech/AI:

  • Delivering Traveller Value: Inspiring, understanding and fulfilling expectations throughout the travel experience and beyond

  • Travel Tech: Creative Disruption Roadshow

  • How AI is democratising data analytics & reporting

 

Risk management:

  • Managing complex travel programs 

  • The Human Factor: Thriving in a World of Deep Uncertainty & Risk

  • Crisis Management: On the frontlines - Strategies to keep operations moving

 

Business Events:

  • Smarter event sourcing: Procurement’s role in better Business Events 

  • Meaningful, engaging and memorable. What’s next for Business Events and Incentives 

  • Net Positive: Embedding Sustainability into Business Events

  • From Booking to Breakout: Creating Seamless Delegate Journeys

 

Aviation CEOs:

  • Western Sydney Airport to the World
    The Qantas Fireside Chat

  • Sustainability should NEVER by a dirty word

  • Designing the airports, destinations and visitor attractions of the future

 

Travel Payments:

  • Destination connected: Building the corporate travel payments ecosystem of the future

  • What is happening with credit card Surcharging and Interchange fees?

  • From Payment to reconciliation - how to optimise the process?

  • Confronting Global Fraud - De-risking Travel Payments and Expense Management

 

Plus, a must-watch FACTS Summit Closing Debate:

  • Irresistible and irreversible change and renewal Where to from here for travel, destinations and events?

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