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Discover the ultimate guide to corporate travel excellence at the Business Travel Show Europe.

Explore the two-day conference agenda, thoughtfully curated by the BTN Group to provide expert insights into corporate travel management and procurement strategies.

Packed with industry-leading speakers, engaging panel discussions, and hands-on workshops, this event highlights the latest European travel trends, innovative solutions, and actionable strategies designed to transform your business travel programme. Stay ahead in the fast-paced corporate travel landscape—uncover the full agenda and start planning your unmissable experience today.

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12:30
  1. Platinum Suite
    60 mins
13:30
  1. Platinum Suite
    15 mins
13:45
  1. Platinum Suite
    50 mins
    'The shifting geopolitical environment will have a massive impact on business travel for certainly the next four years,' a security expert told BTN Europe recently. Tariffs, travel bans, new trade routes and 'weaponised' uncertainty will all affect the destinations, frequency and cost of business trips, and the risks travellers face. Discover what the new global risk map looks like and how to restrategise your travel programme accordingly.
14:35
  1. Platinum Suite
    15 mins
14:50
  1. Platinum Suite
    70 mins
    No one can help a travel manager like other travel managers. Join the ultimate peer-to-peer networking session to connect with friends old and new. Engage in a series of small group conversations and share your biggest success of the past 12 months and ask for advice on your biggest challenges.
16:00
  1. Platinum Suite
    15 mins
16:15
  1. Platinum Suite
    50 mins
    Travel management is full of assumptions about what is and isn't the right way to do things. But are those received wisdoms correct, or do we need a re-think? Our agents provocateurs present their heresies and you the audience challenge them over their radical arguments.
  2. Platinum Suite
    50 mins
    Policy buy-in, budgetary approval, career security and advancement ' there is so much more travel managers can achieve if they persuade company leaders to listen to them. Find out how you can engage better, from understanding what makes top executives sit up and notice to choosing the right moments and then the right language and visuals to win the backing you are seeking.
19:00
  1. 210 mins
11:00
  1. Knowledge Arena
    60 mins
    From trip personalisation to expense policing and enhanced reporting, artificial intelligence is starting to drive innovation in managed travel. Our panel of travel managers and tech visionaries highlight how AI is being used today and the even bigger transformations that lie ahead.
  2. Learning Lab
    40 mins
    Selecting the right travel management company and online booking tool are critical decisions that shape the efficiency and success of a managed travel programme. This session gives you best practices for sourcing and selecting a TMC to align with organisational culture and goals, while also exploring what opportunities and challenges to look out for when choosing an OBT.
  3. Insights Igloo
    60 mins
    As you move towards the opening stages of your 2026 hotel RFPs, discover the big supply and demand, pricing, rate mix and other market dynamics that will inevitably shape your negotiations in the months ahead.
12:00
  1. Learning Lab
    40 mins
    ATPI
13:40
  1. Learning Lab
    40 mins
    The basic building blocks for creating a travel programme are covered in this essential session. Understand how to align travel processes and policies with your organisation's strategic goals and culture and much else besides, including whether to operate globally, regionally or nationally, and which tasks to outsource and which to keep in-house.
  2. Insights Igloo
    60 mins
14:00
  1. Knowledge Arena
    20 mins
    It's the perfect storm: distribution changes fragmenting content, supplier direct strategies luring travellers away from managed programmes, and digital natives struggling with corporate booking tools. What will it take to push managed programmes to a better future? BTN editors present our State of the Industry 2025 research asking the questions every travel manager wants answered. Travel manager takeaways from the survey will be discussed in the session immediately following this presentation.
14:20
  1. Knowledge Arena
    60 mins
    Employees complaining they can find cheaper prices outside corporate channels is an eternal challenge for travel managers. But objections are at an all-time high as air fares and rates become unavailable through some TMCs and OBTs. What's the answer? Building on findings revealed in the preceding BTN Intelligence presentation, learn how you can win back travellers, starting by tackling the root cause of restricted content.
14:40
  1. Learning Lab
    40 mins
    Nomadic
15:20
  1. Insights Igloo
    60 mins
    This combination community session will connect you to buyer colleagues focused on the intersection of technology and airline programmes and are experiencing the same challenges you are. Share your frustrations and solutions and build your tech knowledge with other buyers. The session will be co-moderated by a BTN editor and a travel manager.'
15:40
  1. Learning Lab
    60 mins
    Whether for regulatory compliance or to set benchmarks for carbon footprint reduction, reporting travel emissions is vital but extremely messy. With a confusing mixture of methodologies and standards in the marketplace, learn which options are best for you and how to block out the noise to focus on the numbers that really count.
  2. Knowledge Arena
    60 mins
    Rising costs are travel managers' number one pain point for 2025, a BTS Europe survey has found. Our expert panel walks you through a range of effective solutions you can introduce right now to bring that growing bill under control.
10:00
  1. Learning Lab
    40 mins
    The biggest companies invest hundreds of millions of pounds each year in sending their people around the globe. It's a travel manager's job to spend that money wisely while also keeping their travellers safe and reducing their carbon footprint. Come and learn more about one of the best jobs in the world of travel and what it takes to make a successful career out of it.
11:00
  1. Insights Igloo
    60 mins
    Relationships with airlines are increasingly becoming much more than simply agreeing a discount based on volume or market share. Learn how to optimise your return from your next round of carrier agreements.
  2. Learning Lab
    40 mins
    This session will provide you with an understanding of payment product options and how they operate in the travel programme to make trip management easier for employees, influence compliance levels and deliver quality data for strategic decision-making.
  3. Knowledge Arena
    60 mins
    Reducing your company's travel-related carbon footprint is a goal easier set than done. Yet sustainable travel pioneers are now out there with real success stories to share. Listen to them reveal how they made the difference, and the lessons you can apply to your own programme. Plus: travel sustainability is about more than carbon reduction. Find out how you can report on and mitigate other critical issues like water consumption, human rights and equal opportunities.
12:00
  1. Learning Lab
    40 mins
    Airplus
12:40
  1. Insights Igloo
    60 mins
    This session will connect you to buyer colleagues that are also managing small or midsize travel programs and are experiencing the same challenges that you are. Share your frustrations and solutions and build your travel programme knowledge with other buyers. The session will be co-moderated by a BTN editor and a travel manager.'
  2. Knowledge Arena
    40 mins
13:00
  1. Learning Lab
    40 mins
    This session will present use cases for different lodging types, from traditional hotels to extended stay and corporate serviced apartments, and how to source them. Learn also about different rate types and how to apply them strategically to support budget and business goals.
13:40
  1. Knowledge Arena
    60 mins
    Hear from the finalists of BTN's European Travel Buyer of the Year award as they showcase groundbreaking practices in corporate travel. They'll share actionable strategies for driving efficiencies, building sustainability and navigating today's dynamic travel landscape. Walk away with fresh insights and practical tips to elevate your travel programme.
14:00
  1. Insights Igloo
    60 mins
    With so many superb digital tools now available from multiple vendors, travel managers are increasingly opting to create their own coherent technology strategies. But which solutions do you need, how do you integrate them and who can help you stitch it all together to create a great trip experience for your travellers and business intelligence for your travel programme? Discover how you can take technology engagement to the next level.
  2. Learning Lab
    40 mins
15:00
  1. Learning Lab
    40 mins
    Your organisation's travel policy is central to keeping costs under control and your travellers safe and compliant with a wide range of regulations. Learn how to structure pre-trip, on-trip and post-trip rules for air, hotel and ground transport, as well as elements like loyalty programme usage and personal travel extensions, and how best to communicate, monitor and enforce.'
  2. Knowledge Arena
    60 mins
    Consolidation, new distribution channels, disruptive competition ' a blizzard of change is sweeping across travel management companies as BTN Europe launches its Europe's Leading TMCs 2025 report. Through all this transformation are they keeping up with the evolving needs of their corporate clients? And how should travel managers stress-test the fitness of their existing TMC relationship or improve the way they look for a new one?
15:20
  1. Insights Igloo
    60 mins
    This session will connect you to buyer colleagues that are focused on reducing the carbon footprint of their travellers and are experiencing the same challenges that you are. Share your frustrations and solutions and build your sustainability knowledge with other buyers. The session will be co-moderated by a BTN editor and a travel manager.'
16:00
  1. Learning Lab
    40 mins
    Business travel is a multi-billion pound industry that's fast-paced and vital to the world's economy. But how do you start if you want to join this vibrant sector with opportunities for every kind of talent?

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