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IT to IQ. Building a Smart Connection.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018 |
ALOFT AEROCITY, NEW DELHI

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About the Event

The BW Hotelier Smart Hotels Conclave & Expo in its 3rd year will help hotels and operations become more streamlined. Topics for discussion are varied as revenue management and dealing with HLP. Our attendees include everyone from General Managers, Chief Engineers, Architects and Designers, Executive Housekeepers, Procurement managers as well as IT heads and Sales and Marketing honchos.

Our aim is to discuss, dissect and deliver to the attendees of our conclave, definitive answers and solutions which will make your hotel smarter, your profits higher and your hotel operations smoother.

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Agenda

10:30 am - 11:00 am

Registrations

11:00 am - 11:05 am

Lighting of the Lamp

11:05 am - 11:15 am

Welcome Address

Dr Annurag Batra, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, BW Businessworld

11:15 am - 11:25 am

Welcome Address

Sanjay Sharma, Market Vice President, North India, Nepal and Bhutan Marriott International

11:25 am - 11:35 am

Presentation by HRS

Sagun Sawhney, Area Director, South Asia, HRS

11:35 am - 12:10 pm

IT & Technology session.

How to choose the right technology?

Panelists: Harish Chandra, Director - Information Technology, Sarovar Hotels; Vipin Khandelwal, Hotel Openings and Implementation Manager, Global Technology, IHG; Jeevan Kakkar, Regional IT Head, GM at TCS and Taj (NOT YET CONFIRMED); Kush Kapoor, Area General Manager, Roseate Hotels; Rajat Sethi, General Manager, The Grand New Delhi; Pankaj Giroti, Vice President, Business Development & PR 1589 Hotels; Vikram Aditya Singh, General Manager, The Lodhi, New Delhi.
Moderated by: Sagun Sawhney, Area Director, South Asia, HRS.

12:10 pm - 12:20 pm

Sponsor Presentation by Diversey

D Vaidyanathan Sector Marketing Lead, Diversey

12:20 pm - 12:40 pm

Keynote Address

How will Technology Make your Hotel Smarter

by Jaideep Ghosh, Partner and Chief Operating Officer, Management Consulting; National Head – Transport, Leisure & Sports Sector. KPMG.

12:40 pm - 1:00 pm

Haier presentation

Debajit Sen, Product Group Head – Commercial AC, Haier Appliances India Pvt Ltd

1:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Keeping it cool.

How Important is Technology when it comes to Air Conditioning?

Panelists: Praveen Agrawal, DGM, Engineering Services, Lemontree Hotels; Manu Sharma, General Manager, Taj City Centre Gurgaon; Ramendra Pratap Singh, General Manager, Radisson Noida; Rothin Banerjee,Director of Engineering, Taj Palace, New Delhi; Anil Kumar, Director of Engineering, The Imperial, New Delhi; Rahul Prabhakar, Chief Engineer, ITC Maurya, New Delhi; Nitin Nagrale, Founder & Gen Secy, HPMF.
Moderated by Bikramjit Ray, Managing Editor, BW Hotelier.

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

LUNCH

2:30 pm - 2:40 pm

Presentation by FCS

by Varun Balwani, Commercial Director, FCS

2:40 pm - 3:30 pm

THE NEW AGE GM

How 'Smart' do you need to be to thrive?

Panelists: Vilas Pawar, CEO, Choice Hotels, India; Pankaj Mathur, Vice President, Pride Plaza Hotel; Nitesh Gandhi, General Manager, JW Marriott Aerocity; Samrat Datta, Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi; Suraj Kumar Jha, General Manager, Crowne Plaza Gurugram.
Moderator: Bikramjit Ray, Managing Editor, BW Hotelier.

3:30 pm - 4:20 pm

Housekeepers Session.

Staying smart to please the guest.

Panelists: Anmol Ahluwalia, General Manager, Taj Wellington Mews; Sareena Kochar, VP Housekeeping, Lemontree Hotels; Harinder Kishore, Director of Housekeeping, Andaz Delhi; Gaurav Sinha, Director of Rooms, JW Marriott New Delhi Aerocity; Vaishali Sinha, Founder & General Secretary, IPHA; Vaneeta Arora, Director (Housekeeping), The Park New Delhi; Amitabh Srivastava, Artist, Art consultant & Founder of The Art Kommune New Delhi and Arts4all Foundation in New York and also Joint Secretary HPMF.
Moderator: Bikramjit Ray, Managing Editor, BW Hotelier.

4:10 pm - 4:20 pm

Turnaround

4:20 pm - 5:00 pm

New Age Revenue & Sales.

Does technology help?

Panelists: Kanika Hasrat, General Manager, Taj Dwarka; Sanjay Gupta, General Manager, Le Meridien, Gurugram; Prashant Mehrotra, Chief Revenue Officer, Lemon Tree Hotels, India; Anirban Sarkar, General Manager, Country Inns & Suites; Dhananjay Kumar, GM, The Suryaa, New Delhi.
Moderated by: Rahul Pandit, Former MD & CEO, Ginger Hotels.

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm

High Tea

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BW Hotelier Smart Hotel Conclave & Expo

September 25, 2018
Aloft Aerocity,
New Delhi

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