Announcing TripActions TRAVERSE 21 Travel and Tech Festival

Dates and details for the best conference in corporate travel and spend management

TRAVERSE, the annual conference on all-things-corporate-travel-and-spend from TripActions, is returning for its third year this September 29th, 2021.

The travel and tech festival, taking place both virtually and live at The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California, celebrates the continued return of corporate travel and spend after a disruptive year in which program managers and road warriors traded in their policy plans and rolling luggage for webinars and webcams.

A Corporate Travel and Spend Conference Fueling The Return to Travel

Now, with aircraft refueled and hotel pillows fluffed, it’s time to dust off that business travel and expense program and return to the humming economy. But the road once traveled isn’t necessarily the same. Months after TripActions built its coronavirus dashboard and business travel continuity became the centerpiece of almost every company’s travel plan, the process of giving an employee a corporate card and sending them on the road isn’t as simple as it used to be. Today’s program manager needs to consider a shifting duty of care landscape, destination restrictions, health passports and sustainability. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?

There’s also a massive opportunity on the horizon. As travel and spend managers look to restart corporate programs, many are taking a moment to reassess the value and cost of each component. And whether that result is in moving towards a unified travel and spend platform or simply working with a partner that can fulfill the dynamic duty of care requirements of travel in 2021, many are taking advantage of the restart to get the right puzzle pieces in place.

Topics Covered at TRAVERSE 21

All of these topics will take the stage at TRAVERSE 21 as leaders from across the entire corporate travel and spend industries come together to talk about what’s important for the community and what’s coming next. TRAVERSE 21 will bring in voices from inside of the TripActions community and outside; those with years of experience managing enterprise corporate travel and those just getting a start.

TRAVERSE 21 will explore critical topics for corporate travel, finance, and procurement leaders, including:

• Global trends affecting business travel, including recovery data, health and safety requirements and regional restrictions
• Applied learnings from finance and travel leaders putting travelers on the road and equipping employees with new spend tools
• Technology and policy requirements for successful travel and spend in 2021
• The future of work and how corporate travel and spend is transforming and how businesses are adapting
• How to drive efficiency and automation to deliver a best-in-class travel management program

• Achieving full visibility of travel bookings once and for all

  About Attending Physically or Virtually

  All are welcome both physically and virtually and early bird registration for TRAVERSE 2021 is already underway.

On-site registration details:

• Early Bird (Ends 6/30) :$350
• Standard (7/1 - 9/29): $450
• Day Of (9/26): $900

Virtual registration details:

• Early Bird (Ends 6/30) :$150
• Standard (7/1 - 9/29): $250

On-site visitors receive all of the benefits of in-person events including delicious food and coffee, swag, peer-to-peer networking and access to the TRAVERSE Fest, the seminal favorite post event celebration that includes happy hour, food trucks and music.

Virtual registration comes with a live stream of keynotes and breakout sessions as well as digital engagement with partners and sponsors.

Registration is currently open. More on the conference including keynote speakers and registration milestones is available at traverse.tripactions.com.