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ISM and GBTA Travel & Meetings Summit

April 19-20, 2011
New Orleans, LA

The Institute for Supply Management™ (ISM) and the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) have joined together with exclusive media partner Procurement.travel to present the ISM and GBTA Travel & Meetings Summit. This summit is specifically designed to meet the needs of senior procurement and supply management professionals with oversight responsibilities for their companies' meetings and business travel spend.

This two-day event, designed by leading supply management professionals, features up-to-date insights, tools and strategies to optimize Travel & Meetings Spend and align Procurement with overall business performance.

The summit hosts are widely viewed as premier providers of travel and meetings supply management resources. ISM is the largest supply management institute in the world and GBTA is the world's largest business travel and corporate meetings organization and the pioneer of the practice of Strategic Meetings Management.

New This Year:

Full day pre-Summit workshop on "Strategic Meetings Management: Building the Business Case" — complimentary to all Summit attendees!
A multitude of breakout sessions to select from, allowing you to customize your educational experience.

Sessions include:

Leveraging Transient & Group Hotel Spend
Selling Into Procurement
Buyers-Only Roundtable
Much More

Who Should Attend?

Senior Purchasing Managers who oversee travel and/or meetings functions
Senior Travel Managers
Senior Meetings Managers
Suppliers who provide travel- or SMM-related services and want to better understand the decision making process of procurement organizations

Register Now!