Hospitality Upgrade Selects HFTP as New Partner for the 2019 Executive Vendor Summit

Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®) has been selected by Hospitality Upgrade to partner for the 15th Annual Executive Vendor Summit founded by Hospitality Upgrade. The annual summit is an invitation-only, two-day conference that offers a rare combination of networking, educational programming and immersive social events for C-level executives from the world's finest hospitality technology suppliers. HFTP is a founding sponsor of the event, and this year is joining its long-time allied partner Hospitality Upgrade to plan and host the event. The 2019 event will be held at the Sonesta Bee Cave Austin on Feb. 26 -March 1, 2019.

"The Executive Vendor Summit is the world's only hospitality technology supplier invitational event and Hospitality Upgrade has done a phenomenal job by both supplying stellar education and by facilitating a number of hospitality technology companies' mergers, acquisitions and, most importantly, partnerships," said HFTP CEO Frank Wolfe, CAE. "It is such a unique experience for the attendees because they have a chance to learn about the latest happenings in the industry sitting in the same room with their competitors. By combining our organizations' reputations and skill sets, our goal is to provide our supporters a stellar experience."

Past attendees include all the major property management companies, including Oracle, Agilysys, Infor, Maestro PMS, ResortSuite and Springer-Miller Systems, among others. Many partnerships have originated directly out of the event. Attendance at the Executive Vendor Summit helps attendees establish critical relationships with peers and focus on the industry's successes, challenges and opportunities. The event offers attendees interactive, high-quality educational sessions along with networking activities designed to encourage teamwork and discussion among participants. Attendees must hold the title of president or similar C-level executive position or hospitality division segment head at a technology company actively involved in the hospitality industry. Attendance is also limited in size to allow participants an optimal learning and networking experience.

In addition to its traditional hotel/resort C-level panel discussion, this year's event will offer participants a chance to hear renowned business executives discuss best practices and will expand with a more global audience. It will feature extremely unique social activities germane with a Texas flair.

"HFTP and the annual HITEC events have an enormous reach to the many technology providers in the hotel world," said Richard Siegel, president and publisher of Hospitality Upgrade. "This year we are pooling our strengths and resources to grow and produce the best Executive Vendor Summit so far and increase our international presence."

HFTP and Hospitality Upgrade are long-time allied partners working together to develop hospitality technology information and resources. Hospitality Upgrade is the exclusive technology magazine for HFTP and sponsor of HFTP events such as HITEC and the HFTP Annual Convention. HFTP is a sponsor of Hospitality Upgrade events such as its CIO Summit and the Executive Vendor Summit since its inception.

Executives who would like to request an invitation to attend may contact [email protected]. While this is not a "selling" conference, there are limited sponsorship opportunities available to companies who would like to network with this esteemed group of individuals.

About HFTP

Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP®), established in 1952, is a hospitality nonprofit association headquartered in Austin, Texas USA with offices in the EU and Middle East. HFTP is recognized as the spokes group for the finance and technology segments of the hospitality industry with an international network of members and stakeholders. HFTP uniquely understands the industry's pressing issues, and assists its stakeholders in finding solutions to their challenges more efficiently than any organization. HFTP offers expert networks, educational resources, career development programs, research, leadership opportunities and conferences and events. HFTP produces international events throughout the year, including the world's largest hospitality technology tradeshow and conference brand: HITEC. In addition, it oversees the hospitality-specific Pineapplesearch.com® and the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI). For more information about HFTP, visit www.hftp.org. For the latest news, visit the HFTP News page at news.hftp.org and the HFTP Connect blog at blog.hftp.org.

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