Home » TRAVEL EVENT NEWS » Business Travel Show America to Spotlight Future of Corporate Travel with Innovation Faceoff, October 15-16 at Javits Center, New York Saturday, July 12, 2025Opening October 15-16, 2025, at the Javits Center, New York, the first Business Travel Show America will shine a light on the corporate travel management of the future, including the Business Travel Innovation Faceoff.Heralded as a much-awaited event, the Business Travel Innovation Faceoff highlights state-of-the-art innovation from 12 pioneering companies representing all the major areas of the business travel industry, such as AI, expense, and hotel management.Advertisement The Business Travel Show America, organized by the BTN Group, is North America’s premier event for corporate travel professionals.Building on the success of its counterparts in Europe and Asia Pacific, the event is poised to bring together key players, leading suppliers, and groundbreaking technologies, all dedicated to transforming corporate travel for the future.Innovation Faceoff: Business Travel InnovationOne of the highlights of the year’s event will be the Business Travel Innovation Faceoff America contest, which will see 12 innovators compete for two coveted awards. Supported by American Express Global Business Travel, the event gives a platform for startups, scale-ups, and incumbent companies to showcase their groundbreaking solutions to a room full of business travel buying decision-makers.These trailblazer companies will show how their technologies are transforming the management of business travel, solving today’s challenges of corporate travel professionals.Seventy-four shortlisted companies have a total of seven minutes to demonstrate how their product or service solves major areas of need like AI, cost management, event and hotel planning, and others.Members of the live audience vote for the favorite, and the first winner becomes the recipient of the People’s Choice Award.A separate group of expert judges, consisting of business travel and technology influencers, chooses the second winner.Louis Magliaro, BTN Group Executive Vice President, expressed eagerness about the event, stating, “The Innovation Faceoff finalists at the Business Travel Show America are the bravest, the most disruptive tech minds in our industry, hell-bent on defying the norm to improve and disrupt business travel management for buyers and future travelers. It’ll be a rich and fiercely contested two-day battle.”This Year’s Innovation Faceoff FinalistsThere will be a number of companies participating with innovations aimed at boosting the various aspects of the business trip process:Altour – An AI-driven communications platform which combines contact center capabilities, inboxes, and collaboration into a single workspace.EmPath – A guest traveler technology platform designed to improve traveler experience and management.Engine – An AI-assisted platform for group planning …
