BAHA Conference 2007

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8th/9th November 2007
Radisson Edwardian Hotel
Heathrow, UK
 
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Conference Sponsors:

'Managing Technology for Profit'

2nd BAHA HOSPITALITY FINANCE and IT PROFESSIONALS CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION

This years highly successful event focused on a range of issues relevant to the finance and IT professional in the hospitality sector. Through a range of speakers and panel forum debates the following issues were discussed:

• purchasing for strategic advantage
  
• a Review of industry trends
  
• capital asset management strategies
  
• customer profitability analysis
  
• benchmarking
  
• strategic information management
  
• IT Systems for competitive advantage
• performance measurement
  
• the cost of the environment
  

Our thanks to all our sponsors, exhibitors, speakers and delegates who made this a truly memorable event. Some of the conference presentations are freely available here for you to download.

 

	Day 1 – Thursday 8th November
8.15 – 9.15	Registration – Coffee/tea refreshments
9.30 – 9.45	Conference Opening Carl Weldon, CEO BAHA
9.45 – 10.15	Key Note Speaker: “Using a famous brand to build a new hotel business model” Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Founder, easyHotel plc
10.15 –10.45	What lies beneath – so you think you know about purchasing Andy Brown, founder and CEO of supplier management solutions business TiVA
10.45 –11.15	Refreshment Break
11.15 – 12.00	Panel Forum: Issues facing hospitality purchasing over the next five years Andy Brown, CEO TiVA Marc Frankl, Makella David Read, Chief Executive, Prestige Purchasing Sukh Tiwana, Group Commercial Director, SSP Group Chair: Professor Peter Jones, MBE, Thames Valley University
12.00 – 12.30	The future for hospitality accounting Customer Profitability Analysis ~ introducing the Recommended Practice Guide with Professor Peter Harris, The Business School, Oxford Brookes University and Dr Vira Krakhmal, Open University followed by 10th edition of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry With Howard Field, Industry Advisor
12.30 – 13.00	Panel Forum: Can you measure the ROI for marketing spend Pamela Carvell & associates from the Hotel Marketing Association
13.00 – 14.00	Networking Buffet Lunch served in the Newbury Suites
9.00 – 17.30	Hospitality Technology Exhibition in the Newbury Suites featuring some of the ‘best in class’ products and services available to the sector,  plus a series of practical solutions based workshops and presentations in the conference room.
13.30	Guestline
13.45	iBAHN
14.00	SoftBrands
14.15	Acorn
14.30	Micros Fidelio
14.45 – 15.30	Refreshment Break
15.30	Ideas
15.45	Agilysys
16.00	Touchstone
16.15	Servebase
17.30 – 18.00	“GuestRoom 2010 - the bedroom of the future” with Frank Wolfe, Executive Vice President, Hospitality Finance & Technology Professionals
18.00 – 19.00	Delegate Reception – sponsored by IBM
19.00 – late	Conference Dinner with Guest Speaker Three-course dinner with the English pub experience and entertainment

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