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e-Travel Forum 2014 Speakers


Kozminski University









About company

Kozminski University, founded in 1993, is a private institution of higher education with full academic rights. The university’s offer includes various bachelor, master’s, MBA’s as well as Ph.D. programs. Kozminski University holds three international accreditations: EQUIS, AMBA and AACSB. Since 2009 Kozminski University is classified in the prestigious educational rankings provided by the 'Financial Times' – Business School rankings, which includes the best universities from around the world. Moreover, for the past 13 consecutive years it holds first place throughout private universities in educational rankings published by 'Perspektywy', 'Rzeczpospolita' and 'WPROST'.

 

Castle Inn Arthotel is an elegant arthotel founded in 2008.  Located in the heart of Warsaw’s picturesque Old Town, in the breathtaking townhouse, the Castle Inn is in itself a true work of art. Its rooms dreamt up from concepts of exquisite visionaries like Rene Magritte, Maurits Escher and Lewis Carroll. All its rooms were designed by outstanding Warsaw artists, each interior is an individual and one of a kind artistic project. Inspiring and courageous, cosy and unique... - all of them fascinating, giving the opportunity to make 22 journeys in time and space, which distinguish Castle Inn from the whole Warsaw accommodation offer.

 

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Dagmara Plata-Alf, General Manager - Castle Inn Arthotel/ Ph.D. Candidate  - Kozminsky University

Dagmara Plata – Alf is a passionate in marketing and management associated with tourism and hospitality industry from over 8 years. Actually she works as a general manager at the  arthotel Caste Inn in Warsaw and as a business coach/consultant in the marketing and sales field. She was a speaker at eTravelForum 2013 Warsaw and author of many articles about e-marketing and information management in the tourism industry. Currently she is conducting research in management in the field of e-marketing, information economics, customer relationship management as a Ph.D. candidate at Kozminski University. She is a graduate from the University of Bedfordshire (MBA – Master of Business Administration), Jagiellonian University  (MA in American Studies), Polish Academy of Hospitality (wellness and SPA hotel management) and Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University (foreign trade and management). She has participated in many training courses and seminars in marketing (including CIM), HR and tourism.


E.M.K. Hospitality Consulting

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“E.M.K.Hospitality Consulting” provides sales & marketing expertise to exisiting hotels, market study & research to planned hotels, advising on hotels’ pre-openings, sales & marketing action plans to increase revenues from corporate, MICE & leisure segments, revenue management and pricing strategy, website analysis - “we need bookers instead of lookers”, advising on collaboration with TPI, BTAs and T.O/T.A, advising on distribution channels (rooms, meetings, restaurants), advising on social media channels, operational quality practices and departmental audits in sales & marketing, advising on business plans to hotels, providing sales & marketing expertise to car rental & tourism related companies, advising on tourism and destination marketing strategies, advising on PR and advertising in travel and hospitality industry.

 

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Ewa Kossakowska, President

Ewa Kossakowska has extensive more than 25 years experience in hospitality, travel & tourism industry including: Holiday Inn Bydgoszcz, InterContinental Warsaw, Holiday Inn Gdańsk, Holiday Inn Wrocław, Holiday Inn Kraków, EuroDollar Car Rental/National Car Rental, Orbis Car Rental.
Since graduating in 1984 Ewa Kossakowska has worked with many businesses from all over the world and established an excellent reputation of as a helpful colleague and motivational leader with sales & marketing, operational and management skills. Ewa Kossakowska is a graduate of Central School of Planning & Statistics (nowadays Warsaw School of Economics) at the faculty – Economics in Tourism. Ewa Kossakowska is a member to SKKP (The Conferences and Congresses Association in Poland). Since 2007 Ewa Kossakowska, founder of “E.M.K.Hospitality Consulting” provides consultancy to hotels, tourism & travel related companies.


FlyToday

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FLYTODAY is the first and only on-demand platform to sell unsold seats on the last day via a mobile App, acting as an MTA. The company works with airlines to improve their revenue on the day of departure and increase their passenger load factor, giving access to an emerging customer segment: Spontaneous Travellers. Social, economic and technological changes have deeply affected new generations. Lifestyles are becoming more dynamic, flexible and adventurous. FlyToday is a revolution; a free App that unlocks the door to affordable and spontaneous travel opportunities. Besides, airlines need improve their revenue models but are not addressing late-bookers. FlyToday has a robust solution that benefits both airlines and spontaneous flyers on the long term. FlyToday is currently connecting Europe before we expand to other continents. Expect the initial launch in Q1 of 2014, and apply today on Flytoday's website to become a beta tester of the App.

 

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Brian Rousseau, CEO and Co-Founder

Managing director and co-founder at FlyToday, a unique mobile travel agency (MTA). Brian graduated from the University of Bath, School of Management with a Bachelor in Business Administration. He has worked in various industries and sectors before opting for his lifelong passion: entrepreneurship. Having travelled a lot and lived in many different countries, the travel industry is a source of inspiration for him. He believes in challenging the status-quo by serving people more, managing men and women and understanding the needs of the current and future society. This is what he has been working on with his friend and co-founder at FlyToday. Just like the customer segment he represents at FlyToday, Brian strives to live an adventurous and spontaneous life.


GetResponse

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A recent winner of Stevie Award and Small Business Influencers Community Choice, GetResponse is the world's easiest email marketing platform, designed to increase email marketing ROI faster than any other medium for small businesses and Enterprise customers. As the flagship product of Implix and a leading email marketing platform for the past 12 years, GetResponse collaborates with major ISPs and industry associations to ensure the best in email delivery technology. An average 99.3% deliverability rate is achieved through adherence to the principles and best practices of permission-based marketing. GetResponse has grown to over 220,000 active users from 183 countries, delivering 10 billion permission-based emails per year. Clients include: GlaxoSmithKline, Intercontinental, University of Arkansas, Vemma, Carrefour and thousands of small businesses and professional firms.

 

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Maciej Ossowski, Director of Education

Director of Education at GetResponse, Poland's leading email marketing platform. Maciej graduated from the University of Gdańsk and Warsaw School of Economics (Internet Marketing studies). He currently holds the position of editor in chief of the industry blog, EmailMarketing.pl and cooperates on a regular basis with services such as: MarketingProfs.com, EmailExpert.org and Deliverabilty.com. Maciej is also an active member of email marketing leading industry organizations, such as Email Experience Council, ESPC and MAAWG. His role is to help Customers in planning and executing effective email marketing campaigns, lead nurturing and data capture. Maciej's cooperation involves working with brands such as Carrefour, GlaxoSmithKline, Men's Health and many others.


Google

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Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the ways people connect with information. Google’s travel-related offerings -- Flight Search, Hotel Finder, Hotel Price ads and other advertising products -- quickly connect people planning air travel and hotel stays with the information needed to make an informed booking decision. Google’s innovations in web search and advertising have made its website a top internet property and its brand one of the most recognized in the world.

 

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Michał Kramarz, Head of Retail, Finance & Travel

Started his work with the online industry in 2004. Joined Google Poland as one of the first employees when the Polish office was created in 2006. Responsible for the team developing online presence of top businesses in Retail, Finance & Travel industries. Graduate of the International Faculty of Engineering on the Technical University of Lodz and Executive MBA from Towson University/University of Maryland.

Terje Tjostolvsen, Sales & Business Development Manager EMEA, Travel

Terje Tjostolvsen, Manager EMEA, Partner Development at Google. MBA graduate from EDHEC in France. Have worked in international roles for a number of the industry's leading travel technology providers over the past 15 years. His core focus at Google is the commercial development of Google Flight Search, Google Hotel Finder, travel content acquisition and enterprise travel software sales. Terje is a Norwegian national, lives in Amsterdam, and travels extensively throughout the EMEA and North America regions.


meeting.pl

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meeting.pl is an online system for the purchase of conference and event services - a new tool dedicated to MICE industry, facilitating communication between the Organizers of all kinds of congresses, conferences, meetings and events and Objects offering such services. By using meeting.pl Organizer is able to quickly send a professionally designed inquiry (Request for Proposal) to all Objects that meet its requirements, and then analyze the received offers containing detailed valuation of all requested services as well as their description and menu. Any negotiations can be conducted online. Service meeting.pl allows an easy, fast and fully professional purchase of conferences, meetings and events, even those very complex and large.

 

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Jacek Stasikowski, Managing Director

MBA graduate from University of Strathclyde and GFKM, graduate of Economics from Szczecin University. From 22 years associated with the hospitality business. He worked for hotel chains such as Rezidor, InterContinental Hotels Group, Vienna International Hotels Group and PPT Pomerania. He had the opportunity to be responsible for several hotel departments, he held management and executive positions. He worked at the opening of several hotels in Poland, where he worked with local and international construction companies, hotel chains and architecture offices. He was responsible for management of 8 Hotels for international Hotel operators as well as for private investors.


Newmarket

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Newmarket assists hospitality organizations of all sizes to maximize revenues and resources by enabling each to find and win new business, welcome guests, and deliver exceptional service. With the skills, experience, and people to solve today's business challenges, Newmarket provides innovative hospitality solutions and services, breadth of experience, and an unrelenting commitment to customer relationships. Newmarket delivers proven hospitality solutions that empower sales and catering teams to streamline business and generate more revenue, Optimize operations leading to increased employee productivity and reduced costs and improve customer and guest satisfaction resulting in greater loyalty.

 

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Philippe Wahab, Representative Director

Philippe Wahab has 15 years of experience in the hospitality sector, providing services to open new hotels or to optimize their operations. The company he represents and leads in Poland is a preferred vendor for the Hilton Group. Last year he contributed to the large Newmarket Delphi CRM roll-out, taking place in Europe addressing over 100 Hilton properties. He has himself installed critical business CRM systems in over 100 properties in 25 EMEA countries : some were airport hotels (Sofitel Athens, Radisson SAS Manchester), some were key openings like Four Seasons Prague and Budapest, or the Park Hyatt in Paris. He knows how to build relationships in 4 languages (French, English, Spanish and Polish). He has lived in each of those countries and knows their culture. For the last 7 years, he has built strong relationships here in Poland.


PROFITROOM

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PROFITROOM is a Polish company that succeeds on the international market, a company that offers professional solutions, both in technology and marketing fields, for the hotel industry. For several years PROFITROOM has boosted hoteliers profits, especially by optimizing their direct sales. Currently PROFITROOM offers its services to over 1000 hotels all over the world, and employs a couple dozens of experts in offices located in Europe and Asia. PROFITROOM delivers comprehensive service in online sales by offering, among others, online booking systems, Internet websites for hotels, channel manager, promotion on the Internet, technical support and strategic consultancy. Products of PROFITROOM have been designed in cooperation with hundreds of expert from the field of hotel business, hence, its products fulfill specific needs and demands of the users. The experience that has been gained in the process has been awarded with several prestigious prizes that highlight innovation of PROFITROOM products.

 

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Marcin Dragan, Managing Director

Graduate of Marketing and Management from Poznan University of Economics, as well as of Computer Science at Poznan University of Technology. Passionate about marketing, Internet technology and hotel industry. Associated with the interactive industry from the early days of the Internet in Poland. The founder and Managing Director of PROFITROOM Ltd. - leader in online bookings on Polish market. He gained experience in promoting hotels on the Internet by designing websites for the most renowned hotels both in Poland, Europe and Asia. The originator and co-author of a revolutionary online booking system - UPPER Booking Engine™, that increases both the chances for a booking and also the value of bookings.


SIX Payment Services

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SIX Payment Services offers financial institutions and merchants secure, innovative solutions along the entire value chain of cashless payments. As one of Europe's leading transaction processors, SIX Payment Services supports financial institutions in end-to-end processing of their card and interbank payments. With the latest IT infrastructure, SIX Payment Services not only ensures an efficient and secure transaction process between the cardholder, card issuer and mer-chant, but also provides a wide range of acceptance solutions and modular offerings, as well as integrated card processing for card-on-site environments and in the E-/M-commerce area. The entire offering has been de-signed for worldwide application. The offering also includes electronic invoice and direct debit processing. All services are based on the latest international security standards and offer optimal protection against abuse and risks. With around 1000 employees and 13 locations worldwide SIX Payment Services supports clients in 33 countries. SIX Payment Services is a SIX company. SIX is a global provider of best-in-class services in securities trading and settlement, financial information and payments.

 

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Sebastian Ramatowski, Associate Director

Sebastian Ramatowski is a graduate of Warsaw School of Economics (faculties: Banking & Finance as well as Management & Marketing). Beginning 2000 he worked at eCard S.A. and eService S.A. in electronic transaction processing sector, where he gained experience in several areas including transaction security, transaction settlement, business development, marketing, sales and project management. At present, Sebastian works as Associate Director at SIX Payment Services S.A., one of the largest card acquirers in Europe. He is responsible for sales, partner channel development and local marketing support. In his private life, Sebastian is a husband and has two daughters. He’s interested in travel, football and new technologies.


SKKP

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The Conferences and Congresses in Poland Association has been operating since 1998. It represents material interests and ambitions of the business tourism sector in Poland, including without limitation legal persons and individuals related to organization of congresses, motivational events, business trips, as well as trade fairs and trade shows. The Conferences and Congresses in Poland Association has ca. 80 ordinary members (individuals) and supporting members (legal persons). The Association cooperates with the government and self-government authorities of the tourism sector, primarily with the Convention Bureau of Poland of the Polish Tourism Organization, and with other organizations that act for the benefit and on behalf of professional conference organizers in Poland and abroad.

 

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Sławomir Wróblewski, Vice President

For the last 20 years has been involved with the development of the conference and congress industry in Poland. Political scientist, journalist, university lecturer, and journalist. Co-founder and former chairman of the Polish Conference & Congress Association.  In 1988-1995, the cultural attache at the Polish Consulate in Chicago and director of the Polish National Tourist Office in Chicago, then Brand Manager for Business Tourism in the EU Phare Programme. He was a CEO/owner of Meetings Management and Meetings Poland, released 12 editions of the Conference Venues and Services Catalogue. He was Director of Marketing at Hotels 500, Hotel Boss, and Anders Group.


Sociomantic Labs

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Sociomantic labs is a leading demand-side platform (DSP) providing real-time bidding solutions for eCommerce advertisers worldwide. Their “RTB eCommerce” platform is specially tailored to help enterprise-level online shops drive incremental sales at scale using an efficient, brand-safe traffic channel that delivers measurable results within their established performance marketing goals. Using real-time analysis of user and shop data, sociomantic’s clients can not only bid for individual ad impressions, but also reach new and existing customers with individually personalized ads. Founded in 2009, the company is now one of Europe's fastest growing technology start-ups, with offices recently opened in Warsaw, Paris, and Amsterdam.

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Maciej Wyszynski, Managing Director Central & Eastern Europe

Maciej Wyszynski is Managing Director Central & Eastern Europe at sociomantic labs, the leading provider of real-time bidding solutions for eCommerce marketers. Wyszynski is responsible for the region strategy, heading all sales and development efforts from their Warsaw office, as well as overseeing and nurturing client relationships. He brings to e-Travelforum his deep knowledge of online performance marketing in Poland and the CEE region as a whole. Before sociomantic, he was working as an independent CEE market entry consultant. Prior to his consultancy, Wyszynski launched zanox’ Warsaw office in 2008 as Head of zanox Poland. Before zanox he worked for eBay in Berlin.

Mariusz Pawełczyk, Sales Director Central & Eastern Europe

Mariusz Pawelczyk’s career in the tourism industry started over 8 years ago. He has worked in online marketing and sales for more than five years, including three years at TradeDoubler, where he was also responsible for tourism clients. Before joining sociomantic labs in October 2011, he was Marketing Director for PKP Intercity S.A., where he was responsible for marketing strategy and company portfolio. As an International Account Director for sociomantic, he is responsible for cooperation and acquisition of customers in Central and Eastern Europe.


Syskonf

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Syskonf is an online management software designed to register participants for conferences, meetings and all sort of events. The system allows an organizer to create an online registration form that contains customized options – specific for the particular event. The organizer can use number of functions available in Syskonf, like payment management, issuing invoices, printing badges, mailing participants and providing reception onsite. Among the system users there are: universities, associations, foundations, event agencies and private companies.

 

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Tomasz Nowak, President

Managing Director at Netventure, the producer of Syskonf.pl – event registration and management system. He set up his first business at the age of 25 as a graduate from Warsaw University of Technology. Based his career on internet services and modern technologies. Has over 16 years of experience in IT sector and 8 years of experience in providing web solutions to MICE industry. For over 10 years has been managing interactive agency focused on developing dedicated web applications and systems. Member of the Conferences and Congresses Association in Poland (SKKP) since 2012.


Travelport

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Travelport is a broad-based business services company and a leading provider of critical transaction processing solutions to companies operating in the global travel industry. With a presence in 160 countries, approximately 3,500 employees and reported 2010 revenues of $2.3 billion, Travelport is comprised of the global distribution system (GDS) business, which includes the Galileo and Worldspan brands and its Airline IT Solutions business, which hosts mission critical applications and provides business and data analysis solutions for major airlines. Travelport also owns approximately 48% of Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE: OWW), a leading global online travel company. Travelport is a private company owned by The Blackstone Group, One Equity Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures, and Travelport management.

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Karla Brooklyn, Senior Business Development Manager, EMEA, Hospitality

Karla Brooklyn, Senior Business Development Manager EMEA, Hospitality at Travelport. 15 years’ experience within the travel and hospitality industry, holding roles within leading hotel, wholesale and OTA businesses with companies such as Expedia, GTA and Forte Hotels. Currently within Travelport, Karla is responsible for new business relationships with OTA’s across the EMEA region.

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