Programme

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Sep.3
Sep.4

ConfirmedTo be confirmed

09:00 - 09:15

Chairman’s Address

China Edge

Speaker：

Charlie Li, CEO, TravelDaily

09:15 - 09:35

Keynote

How Is Mobile Internet Changing the Travel Industry?

The Mobile Internet (MI) will change the way people travelling in the next few years. Mr. Liang will discuss which niche markets will be impacted by MI, what new models and opportunities will be created, and share Ctrip’s new effort in this field with us.

Speaker：

James Liang, Chairman & CEO, Ctrip.com

09:35 - 09:55

Keynote

China: the Next Billion Travelers

China will become the biggest domestic travel market by 2017, driven largely by increasing GDP, rising employment levels and higher consumer spending. This presentation will cover how travel players can stay one step ahead of the game and prepare to manage the next billion travelers in Asia Pacific.

Speaker：

Bart Tompkins, Managing Director, Greater China, Amadeus

09:55 - 10:15

Keynote

Will the World Prepare for China to Share?

“Not being able to own a villa won’t stop you from enjoying many villas.” , said Justin Luo, Co-founder and CEO of Tujia. The world is looking at the promising potential of China’s style of property sharing taking off.

Speaker：

Justin Luo, Co-founder & CEO, Tujia.com

10:15 - 10:45

Munch, Meet and Mingle

10:45 - 11:05

Keynote

The Future of Travel

The speaker will share Google's insights about how they see the Future of Travel.

Speaker：

Kevin Wang, General Manager of China, Google Travel

11:05 - 11:55

Executive Roundtable

Global Players' China Strategy

How the international travel brands leverage their brand strength and distribution network with the combination of local strategy to succeed on China market.

Panelists：

Debby Soo, Vice President, Asia Pacific, KAYAK
Ming Foong, Director OTA APAC, Travelport
Oliver Hua, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, Booking.com
Sandeep Bahl, Regional General Manager, Asia, Air New Zealand
Hichame Assi, COO, HotelsCombined.com
Andy Sleigh, General Manager, Asia Pacific, Skyscanner

Moderated by：

Kevin May, Co-founder & Editor, Tnooz

11:55 - 14:00

Lunch and Midday Break

14:00 - 14:20

Keynote

Redefining the LCC Model: The AirAsia X Story

Why our long-haul model changes the entire LCC model and implications for third-party distribution. Azran will share his insights from four aspects, including how long-haul economics work, revamping the product and service delivery, connecting transfers and multi-hub network.

Speaker：

Azran Osman-Rani, CEO, AirAsia X Berhad

14:20 - 15:10

Executive Roundtable

How the Travel Brands Execute an Efficient Multi-channel and Multi-screen Distribution Strategy?

Today’s travelers have been overwhelmed with too much options and booking channels, from PC to mobile app, from prepaid and agency model to opaque, last-minute, flash deals, etc. In China we have also witnessed the phenomenal growth of WeChat as a travel booking platform in recent years. The fact is, it is becoming even harder for consumers to make decision on their travel planning. So for travel brands, how they can execute an efficient multi-channel and multi-screen distribution strategy to better serve the needs of more selective customers and making their travel planning easier?

Panelists：

Ted Zhang, Co-founder & CEO, DerbySoft
Morton Huang, CEO, Yiqifei.com
Dyson Yu, Director, eCommerce Channels, Asia Pacific, Marriott International
Fajin Hu, Senior Manager, E-commerce, Air China
David Wu, Senior Vice President, City Comfort Inn Group

Moderated by：

Joe Xu, Senior Vice President, Super 8 (China)

15:10 - 15:30

Keynote

The New Generation of Digital Travellers

The new generation of Chinese travelers are demanding and technologically savvy, making their own decisions by doing online searching when travelling. Only when we have a total understanding of the new digital generation of travelers, can we be prepared to constantly adapt to their evolving travel expectations.

Speaker：

Lily Cheng, President, APAC, TripAdvisor

15:30 - 16:00

Munch, Meet and Mingle

16:00 - 16:20

Keynote

How Leverage Big Data to Help the Travel Brands for Their Overseas Promotion?

Based on its global big data provided by Bing & Yahoo! Search Alliance, Microsoft will look into the consumer behavior of buying airline tickets, hotels, cruise and car rental services across the globe. We provide accurate and global solutions to our advertisers with Microsoft’s rich cross-platform resources including Bing & Yahoo! Search Alliance, MSN web portals, SKYPE, etc.

Speaker：

Tracy Qi, Strategy Planning Director, Microsoft Bing

16:20 - 17:10

Executive Roundtable

Innovations in Ground Transportation

How the innovations in ground transportation space will impact the travel ecosystem? How the travel companies would benefit from the innovations?

Panelists：

Weijun He, Founder & Chairman, TopOne Car Rental
Leo Cai, Senior Vice President of Marketing & Sales, eHi Car Services
Davis Wang, General Manager, Shanghai, Uber
Joe Li, CSO, Kuaidi Group
Regan Hu, Brand Director, Yongche

Moderated by：

Joseph Xia, Vice President, Shanghai Jin Jiang International E-Commerce Co., Ltd.

17:10 - 17:40

THack China Winner Demonstration

Each of the three winning teams from Thack co-hosted by Tnooz and TravelDaily will present their products to the audience.

Moderated by：

Gene Quinn, CEO, Tnooz

18:20 - 20:30

Dinner Reception

Workshop 1　【Grand Ballroom A+B】

09:00 - 09:30

Keynote

Analysis and Application of Business Travel Data

Mr. Luan will discuss the application of big data and analyze business travel management strategies with the big data analytics of business travel in the aviation industry (mainly based on UATP network).

Speaker：

Steven Luan, Regional Commercial Director, China & North Asia, UATP

09:30 - 10:00

Keynote

Monetise Users to Your Website More Effectively with Hotel Metasearch

Learn about the world’s leading hotel price comparison product and how you can increase revenue from visitors on your website – by implementing one of HotelsCombined solutions.

Speaker：

Eva Fouquet, International Partnerships Manager, HotelsCombined.com

10:00 - 10:30

Keynote

Manipulating Socialnomics in the Travel Industry

Today’s burgeoning online communities present a significant opportunity for the tourism industry. The key to unlocking this opportunity is identifying how to target the right communities and turn them into loyal customers. In today’s technology-driven society, our focus needs to be on the product offerings that foster deep and long term bonds with customers.

Speaker：

Vivian Hong, President, Travelzoo China

10:30 - 10:55

Munch, Meet and Mingle

It’s time for a break! Meet with a potential client, get some work done or go star gazing.

10:55 - 11:25

Keynote

International Payment Optimisation Best Practice

For all companies, taking payments is one of the most important aspects of their business. We’ll discuss the following topics: How can travel businesses increase online booking conversions? What can travel companies do to improve their payment experience? How can travel companies optimise transaction acceptance and reduce fraud?

Speaker：

Tang Kok San, General Manager & Vice President of Business Development, Worldpay

11:25 - 12:10

Executive Roundtable

How Tourism Board and Destinations Leverage Technology Innovations to Better Engage with Travelers and Build the Brand Loyalty?

Panelists：

Hui Du, Deputy General Manager, Emei Shan Tourism Co., Ltd.
Ben Ai, Executive Vice President, Guangdong Provincial Tourism Holdings Co., Ltd.
Henry Wang, CEO, Lvmama
Bill Karz, Vice President, Digital Marketing, Los Angeles Tourism & Convention Board
Xiangjun Yan, Director of Information Center, Shandong Tourism Administration
Vincent Gong, Co-founder & COO, Haiwan.com

Moderated by：

Vivian Hong, President, Travelzoo China

Workshop 2　【Grand Ballroom C+D+E】

09:00 - 09:30

Keynote

Value of Travel Communities

"User" is always the most important topic for all of the online travel communities. On the one hand, these travel communities need to think about how to constantly attract new users and keep the old users active and generate large amount of useful content. On the other hand, they also need to find proper business modes by connecting the commercial products to the community without disturbing user experience thus create a better content circulation of the whole community.

Speaker：

Jinghui Cai, COO, QYER

09:30 - 10:00

Keynote

Discover the World of Travel Internet Finance

Innovative business models and patterns may change the overall situation of the traditional travel industry when it comes across with the internet finance. Alibaba will make efforts to help build and run the online travel ecosystem.

Speaker：

Shaohua Li, General Manager, Travel Business Unit, Alibaba Group

10:00 - 10:30

Keynote

Big Data Helps to Find the "Just Hotel" for You

Using public online reviews, Brandwisdom builds the world largest guest opinion database, which defines every aspects of the guests experience of a hotel. Dr Lin will demonstrate how to use this big data to find the "just right hotel" for a traveller.

Speaker：

Xiaojun Lin, CEO, BrandWisdom

10:30 - 10:55

Munch, Meet and Mingle

It’s time for a break! Meet with a potential client, get some work done or go star gazing.

10:55 - 11:25

Keynote

Data Driven Tourism E-marketing Automation

China is the largest domestic tourism market of the world, the tourists will purchase the tourism product after acquired product’s information through variety of channels. How to take use of the member database reasonability , and associate the marketing channels like email, sms, wechat and others effectively to get high ROI marketing effect? That will be all the tourism marketing staff’s daily required course.

Speaker：

Jay Xie, Managing Director, China, webpower

11:25 - 12:10

Executive Roundtable

How to Use Big Data to Turn Travelers into Loyalists?

Panelists：

Max Luo, Vice President, Plateno Hotels Group
David Chen, Client Partner, Travel, Greater China, Facebook
Dominic Powers, Executive Vice President & Managing Director, International, Epsilon International
Frederic Jouve, Group Vice President, Asia Pacific, Acxiom
Chris Dexter, Vice President of Operations-WGPR, GCH
Keven Tang, CEO, ZAMPLUS

Moderated by：

Joseph Xia, Vice President, Shanghai Jin Jiang International E-Commerce Co., Ltd.

12:10 - 13:30

Lunch and Midday Break

13:30 - 13:50

Keynote

Smart Travel, Seamless Connection

1. Mobile trend in the travel industry; 2. Unstoppable mobile internet; 3. Mobile travel, following the tide; 4. Layout in the mobile market for future dominance; 5. Master the situation & lead the mobile marketing;

Speaker：

Liang Zeng, Vice President, Baidu

13:50 - 14:40

Interactive Discussion

Where China's Online Vacation Market is Heading for？

The successful IPO of Tuniu.com has indicated the tremendous opportunities for China’s online vacation market. Not only the technology-savvy startups have posed significant challenges to traditional tour operators, the latest Tourism Law also urges the transformation of the traditional business models. The new online models including customized tour, flash sale and flight plus hotel package seem to have become a shortcut for OTAs to overcome their disadvantages on supplier relationship and offline distribution network.

Should the traditional tour operators leverage their advantage over the supplier relationship and become suppliers of OTAs and other online channels, or should they develop their own online platforms to compete with the online players? Are the acquisitions of traditional tour operators by the major OTAs are the best way for them to make the meaningful breakthrough in the online vacation market?

Discussants：

Shaohua Li, General Manager, Travel Business Unit, Alibaba Group
James Li, CEO, Mangocity.com
Donald Yu, CEO, Tuniu
Tony Duan, COO, Baicheng.com
Dennis Zhang, Chairman & CEO, Bang Travel
Zhiwen Huang, Founder & CEO, Woqu.com

Moderated by：

Dongjie Guo, Senior Vice President, Ctrip

14:40 - 15:25

Executive Roundtable

Investment Opportunities in China's Travel Industry

Joining the seasoned investors from China’s leading venture capitals and travel companies and understand how to improve your investment ROI and avoid making mistakes in investing China’s travel business.

Panelists：

Any Wu, CEO, Tongcheng Travel Network
Jenny Wu, Chief Strategy Officer, Ctrip.com
Jason Xie, COO, eLong Inc.
Kathy Xu, Founder & Managing Partner, Capital Today Group
Vincent Gao, Managing Director, Hillhouse Capital

Moderated by：

Ming Zhao, Founder & Chief Analyst, 86Research

15:25 - 15:55

Munch, Meet and Mingle

15:55 - 17:15

TravelDaily Lab

Selected entrepreneurs from the startup companies who are less than 12 months in existence or companies leaving stealth mode (or are a little beyond startup) will have the chance to demonstrate their innovative solutions or products that will significantly impact travel planning, purchasing and trending. The winner will be rewarded the TravelDaily Innovator Award.

Panel of Judges：