INTERNATIONAL

FORUM OF INNOVATIONS

IN BUSINESS TRAVEL

Moscow, April 7, 2015

“RUSSIA TODAY”

INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA PRESS-CENTRE MOSCOW

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KEY TOPIC – BUSINESS TRAVEL TECHNOLOGIES

Participants - industry professionals – service providers and customers

“Travel into the Future” awards ceremony for the best innovations in the

Russian Business Travel will be held as a part of the Forum

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TODAY” (FORMER RIA NOVOSTI) AND THE

MOST INNOVATIVE MULTIMEDIA COMPLEX

IN RUSSIA

6 halls

Online translation

Wide media coverage of the event

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Press Centre MOSCOW

Key speakers

Magnus Lindkvist

Magnus Lindkvist is a Swedish trendspotter and

futurologist based in Zürich, Switzerland. As one

of the most thought-provoking speakers in the

world today, he combines a dynamic

presentation style with compelling content based

on his three books, “Everything We Know Is

Wrong”, “The Attack of the Unexpected,” and

“When the Future Begins.”

Magnus challenges our entire way of thinking

about and looking towards the future.

Ben Hammersley

is an author, futurist and technologist, specializing in the effects of the

internet and the ubiquitous digital network on the world's political,

cultural and social spheres. He enjoys an international career as a

trends and digital guru, explaining complex technological and

sociological topics to lay audiences, and as a high-level advisor on

these matters to governments and business.

Ben is currently the UK Prime Minister's Ambassador to Tech City in

East London which aims to be Europe's centre of innovation and the

location of choice for tech and digital companies and investors. He

also sits on the Tech City Advisory Board.

Agenda

Time Hall Event

9:30 2nd floor lobby Welcome coffee

10:00 Great Hall Opening Ceremony

10:10 Great Hall Sergey Shpilko

The Chairman of the Tourism and Hotel Business Committee in Moscow

10:30 Great Hall

Keynote speaker #1. Ben Hammersley

“Where technology is taking travel industry”

11:30 Great Hall Innovations in Business travel. Plenary session.

Innovations in air industry

Innovations in Hotel Business

Innovations in Business travel Technologies

Russian Business travel Trends

Q&A Session

13:00 Second floor lobby Coffee break

Part 1

Agenda

Time Hall Event

13:45 Great Hall Keynote speaker #3. Magnus Lindkvist.

“Trendspotting – how to do it”

If you’re tired of paying so-called experts to tell you about how to capitalize on trends, than why not figure out

how to do it on your own? When you learn the basics of trendspotting, you’ve taken a key step towards.

14:45 Great Hall Interactive crowdsourcing session

15:15 Great Hall "Travel into the Future" Awards

15:45 Breakdown sessions:

1) Business travel technology platforms; Andrew Gonchaov, ATH American Express

2) MICE technologies; Aleksey Kushkin, ATH American Express; Alexander Sadovoy,

Interactive Solutions Group

3) Financial control and cost effectiveness tools. Andrei Voronin, ATH American

Express

4) HR immigration accounting - master-class. Anton Golybin ATH American Express

5) Bank crediting of clients in new economic conditions and financial instruments.

Representative of the bank transfer system. TBD

17:00 2nd floor lobby Cocktail

Part 2

Travel into the Future

Moscow

• 2013:

More than 400 participants

from 8 countries

• 2014 :

More than 600 participants

from 10 countries

• More that 100 media-releases annually

More than 2 bln people visited Moscow last year on business

purpose, is reported on a website of capital committee on tourism

and hotel economy. The chairman of Committy Sergey Shpilko

reported about it during the International forum of innovations in

business travel “Travel into the Future” on Tuesday.

The first International Forum of

Innovations in business travel

“Travel into the Future” took place

in Moscow on April, 10.

Our Partners Organizer

Participants — 2014

Heads of purchasing and mice departments: Air Liquid, Danfoss, Hilti, IBM, Inditex group,

L`Oreal,Morgan Stanley,Nestle, Nordea Bank, Otcritiye financial corporation, Pfizer, PPF

Real Estate, Publicis Group, Raiffeisen, Richemont, Rosbank, Rosgosstrah, Sberbank, Sibyr,

Servier, St.Gobain, Wrigley, and hundreds of other leading client-companies.

Top-management of service providers: Transaero, Astoria & Angleterre, Delta, Hyatt, Marriott,

Ritz-Carlton, Aeroflot, AirBerlin, British Airways, Honeywell Incentives, Swissotel,

Akademservice, Sabre

TRAVEL INTO THE FUTURE — 2014: PARTICIPANTS FEEDBACK

«Business travel in Russia has a confident present, this is

valid for Moscow especially, where more than 38% of all

business trips and about 60% of the turnover of business

tourism in Russia are concentrated. And as for the future,

according to the World Travel & Tourism Council organization,

Russia should be in the top ten countries most visited by

business tourists’ by 2020. It seems to me that this Forum is

very timely, relevant and promising. I like everything - the

participants and speakers, and the organization itself.

Unfortunately, I have not enough time to listen to all the

speakers, but I will certainly watch the video stream. The

Committee is participating in this event for the second year,

so we are considering the need of expanding our support in

future.»

Sergey Shpilko

The Chairman of the Tourism and Hotel Business

Committee in Moscow

«It’s a very interesting kind of events for me, as I’m engaged

in the organization of business trips for our company. I am

visiting the Forum for the second year in a row.

Everything is organized perfectly here: an exchange of

opinions, news & information flow about innovative products. I

think that such product as, for example, the BTA credit cards

for became a novelty for many guests. On the other hand,

experience of our company showed that this product needs to

be used correctly – and it was also discussed openly here at

the Forum».

Evgenia Gulyaeva,

support manager EMS Informational Systems ICS

«It’s a fabulous event! It’s all about sharing the best practice.

It’s about hearing about the problems in one company, what

the solutions are, and then translating it to others. I see the

future of Russian business travel as extremely positive, and

the growing economic prosperity of the country is only going

to put it in the engineering of a Global Business travel

Industry.»

Mark Harris,

Keynote speaker

For more information please ask Svetlana Kalinovskaya:

+7 926 001 00 00 , skalinovskaya@ath.ru

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