The NBTA Convention Mobile site and apps, made possible by the support of BCD Travel, will provide Convention attendees with anytime, anywhere access to convention information and social networking capabilities, as well as the ability to network with one another right from their smart phones.
NBTA Convention Mobile will offer access to the agenda, speaker details, and news; a searchable attendee list; and videos on NBTATV. Users will be able to share one another's experiences through Twitter (hashtag #NBTA10), Facebook, and a photo gallery that will integrate NBTA's flickr stream with users' mobile photo uploads from the Convention. Attendees will be able to find one another through a searchable database and reach out to other attendees with a messaging feature.
Convention attendees can download the iPhone and Blackberry apps at no charge at www.nbtaconvention.org/mobile or visit the mobile site at http://m.nbta.org. The apps and mobile site are slated to launch the week of August 2.
Mike McCormick, NBTA Executive Director & COO, said, "NBTA strives to continually enhance its Convention with innovations that aim to make it an even more dynamic and customized event. This year attendees will have key information and sharing capabilities before, during and after the Convention -- right in the palm of their hands. From the event schedule to social networking to Houston highlights, NBTA Convention Mobile
will help delegates successfully navigate and enhance the Business Travel Event of the Year."
David Snell, QuickMobile's EVP Sales and Marketing, stated, "We are very excited to be working on mobilization with NBTA for its annual Conference and are confident that we can extend the experiences of the event and provide much added productivity for attendees and staff. NBTA has always been forward-looking when it comes to the application of technology for its members, and this is no exception."
Added April Bridgeman, BCD Travel's senior vice president of Strategic Marketing & Technology Planning, "Given BCD Travel's commitment to bring mobile services for business travelers, we didn't treat this as a typical sponsorship. We were directly involved with the NBTA Convention Mobile's design and are proud of the results. BCD Travel is excited to bring functionality to NBTA participants that will greatly enhance their convention experience."
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About NBTA
The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) is the world's premier business travel and corporate meetings organization. NBTA and its regional affiliates -- NBTA Australia / New Zealand, the Brazilian Business Travel Association (ABGEV), NBTA Canada, NBTA Europe, NBTA Mexico, and NBTA USA -- serve a network of more than 17,000 business travel professionals around the globe with industry-leading events, networking, education & professional development, research, news & information, and advocacy. NBTA members, numbering more than 5,000 in 30 nations, are corporate and government travel and meetings managers, as well as travel service providers. They collectively manage and direct more than US$340 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually on behalf of more than 13 million business travelers within their organizations. For more information, visit www.nbta.org.
About BCD Travel |
As a leading provider of global corporate travel management, BCD Travel simplifies and streamlines the business of travel. This benefits the organization on every level: from the bottom line to the business traveler. BCD Travel operates in more than 90 countries, with US$14.6 billion in total sales and a combined worldwide work force of 10,800 people. BCD Travel is a BCD Holdings N.V. company. For more information, visit www.bcdtravel.com.
QuickMobile empowers event planners to meet the mobile needs of its attendees and meeting and facility managers with its portfolio of MobileEventTM solutions. More than a simple technology solution, QuickMobile offers an innovative mobile event suite of solutions which extend and enhance events and festivals in order to extend their brand, reduce the carbon footprint and provide productivity and planning tools.
The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) is the world’s premier business travel and corporate meetings organization. NBTA and its regional affiliates – NBTA Australia/New Zealand, the Brazilian Business Travel Association (ABGEV), NBTA Canada, NBTA Europe, NBTA Mexico, and NBTA USA – serve a network of more than 17,000 business travel professionals around the globe with industry-leading events, networking, education & professional development, research, news & information, and advocacy. NBTA members, numbering more than 5,000 in 30 nations, are corporate and government travel and meetings managers, as well as travel service providers. They collectively manage and direct more than US$340 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually on behalf of more than 13 million business travelers within their organizations. For more information, visit www.nbta.org.
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