The Biz@BTN talks to the winners of Business Travel News' Best Practitioner and Travel Manager of the Year Awards. Join us weekly, starting Sept. 16 to hear innovation stories behind each of this year's winners, in their own words. BTN Executive Editor Michael B. Baker hosts this not-to-miss series with Salesforce's Dorian Stonie, Akamai Technologies' Priscilla Campbell, Elevance Health's Travis Steed, Oracle's Brian Hendrickson and Travel Manager of the Year Steve Sitto.

The <a href="mailto:Biz@BTN">Biz@BTN</a> talks to the winners of Business Travel News' Best Practitioner and Travel Manager of the Year Awards. Join us weekly, starting Sept. 16 to hear innovation stories behind each of this year's winners, in their own words. BTN Executive Editor Michael B. Baker hosts this not-to-miss series with Salesforce's Dorian Stonie, Akamai Technologies' Priscilla Campbell, Elevance Health's Travis Steed, Oracle's Brian Hendrickson and Travel Manager of the Year Steve Sitto.

A podcast from the editors of Business Travel News. Join Business Travel News editors to talk with some of the smartest suppliers, buyers, intermediaries and technology companies in the managed travel space. We’ll talk trends, return to travel, technology innovation, new commercial models, market dynamics. If it affects business travel, you’ll hear it first on TheBiz@BTN.

BTN’s first series of podcasts gets up close with the innovators and envelope pushers who most influenced the business travel sector in 2020. What are they doing now and what is their outlook as the industry recovers? BTN Editorial Director Elizabeth West interviews industry leaders who made big moves during the pandemic.

A podcast from the editors of Business Travel News. Join Business Travel News editors to talk with some of the smartest suppliers, buyers, intermediaries and technology companies in the managed travel space. We&rsquo;ll talk trends, return to travel, technology innovation, new commercial models, market dynamics. If it affects business travel, you&rsquo;ll hear it first on <a href="mailto:TheBiz@BTN">TheBiz@BTN</a>.
BTN&rsquo;s first series of podcasts gets up close with the innovators and envelope pushers who most influenced the business travel sector in 2020. What are they doing now and what is their outlook as the industry recovers? BTN Editorial Director Elizabeth West interviews industry leaders who made big moves during the pandemic.

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The Winners Circle: BTN's Best Practitioners & Travel Manager of the Year

Closing out this podcast series, BTN’s 2024 Travel Manager of the Year, Gilead’s Steve Sitto, chats with BTN executive editor Michael B. Baker about strategies for responsible collaboration, both with start-ups and legacy players, as well as how to drive compliance through AI and cost savings through personalization.

Closing out this podcast series, BTN’s 2024 Travel Manager of the Year, Gilead’s Steve Sitto, chats with BTN executive editor Michael B. Baker about strategies for responsible collaboration, both with start-ups and legacy players, as well as how to drive compliance through AI and cost savings through personalization.

The Winners' Circle - Travel Manager of the Year Gilead Sciences' Steve Sitto

When faced with the rapidly approaching deadline for American Airlines’ removal of content from EDIFACT channels last year, Oracle travel operations director Brian Hendrickson was able to work with his travel management company, online booking tool and global distribution system to enable touchless ticketing for NDC a few days before that deadline hit. Hear his story, along with how he has grown NDC bookings since those early days and how he plans to keep adapting for the future.

When faced with the rapidly approaching deadline for American Airlines’ removal of content from EDIFACT channels last year, Oracle travel operations director Brian Hendrickson was able to work with his travel management company, online booking tool and global distribution system to enable touchless ticketing for NDC a few days before that deadline hit. Hear his story, along with how he has grown NDC bookings since those early days and how he plans to keep adapting for the future.

The Winners' Circle - Best Practitioner Oracle's Brian Hendrickson

Faced with growing demand for internal meetings and limited support staff to manage them, Elevance Health travel services manager worked with his company’s meetings and events teams to create an attendee management dashboard to streamline the meeting management process. Hear how he went about creating this tool, bumps along the way and the newfound efficiencies meeting and event planners at Elevance are enjoying as a result of having this tool at their disposal.

Faced with growing demand for internal meetings and limited support staff to manage them, Elevance Health travel services manager worked with his company’s meetings and events teams to create an attendee management dashboard to streamline the meeting management process. Hear how he went about creating this tool, bumps along the way and the newfound efficiencies meeting and event planners at Elevance are enjoying as a result of having this tool at their disposal.

The Winners' Circle - Best Practitioner Elevance Health's Travis Steed

BTN executive editor Michael B. Baker chats with Akamai Technologies' director of global travel and expense, Priscilla Campbell. Campbell took the reigns on supporting remote workers with satellite meeting spaces. She leveraged her hotel partners to ensure clusters of employees had access to physical meeting spaces for collaborative work events. Baker and Campbell talk about the impact of hybrid work environments on travel and how the needs of employers translate into opportunities for travel managers.

BTN executive editor Michael B. Baker chats with Akamai Technologies' director of global travel and expense, Priscilla Campbell. Campbell took the reigns on supporting remote workers with satellite meeting spaces. She leveraged her hotel partners to ensure clusters of employees had access to physical meeting spaces for collaborative work events. Baker and Campbell talk about the impact of hybrid work environments on travel and how the needs of employers translate into opportunities for travel managers.

The Winners' Circle - Best Practitioner Akamai Technologies' Priscilla Campbell

BTN executive editor Michael B. Baker hosts 2024 BTN Best Practitioner Dorian Stonie, Salesforce senior director of global travel. In this episode, aired Sept. 16, Stonie talks about working with legacy ecosystem players American Express GBT and Concur to implement New Distribution Capability content at scale and what the future holds for the Salesforce program with NDC now fully in play.

BTN executive editor Michael B. Baker hosts 2024 BTN Best Practitioner Dorian Stonie, Salesforce senior director of global travel. In this episode, aired Sept. 16, Stonie talks about working with legacy ecosystem players American Express GBT and Concur to implement New Distribution Capability content at scale and what the future holds for the Salesforce program with NDC now fully in play.

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