Hospitality expert with background in Revenue Acceleration & PMS solutions for hotels, at Adyen looking after Central European markets, helping hotels streamline their payments set-up.
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Yan Zhang
Yan Zhang is a tech leader bringing revolutionary AI to the hospitality sector. As COO of PolyAI, he brings together business and AI leaders to deploy virtual assistants in large-scale enterprise applications. Recent deployments include restaurants, hotels, and casinos in the UK and US. Previous to PolyAI, Yan was a Sloan Fellow at London Business School and ran a series of successful startups.
Micael Simonsson
Melissa Morandi
Michael Moren
Michael Moren is the Commercial Director at Impact Plastics. Michael has over 30 years of experience in client development and consultative account management with a focus on the development of customized thermoforming rollstock structures for the dairy products packaging applications. His functional & technical experience include sales & project management, packaging development, thermoforming rollstock structure development and form fill seal rollstock structure development for barrier and non-barrier rigid packaging applications.
Philippe Teissier
I’m philippe Teissier, R&I Director Ferments and fermentation at Danone research Paris Saclay (France). After a pHD in bioprocess, I join Danone 26 years ago to work on different brands such as Actimel, Activia , Hipro and disruptive innovation. Today I’m in charge of the design of cultures and specific fermentations for our different categories of products dairy, plant based and specialized nutrition overcoming scientific and technical hurdle to deliver superior nutritious and healthy fermented food for our consumers.
Tamara Kostova
As CEO of WealthTech company Velexa, Tamara Kostova works with financial and non-financial institutions on maximizing their growth opportunities through forward-thinking, customised and embedded investing services. She is a passionate advocate for the modernisation of the financial services industry, offering personalised, services with clients’ needs at the forefront. She has spent over 20 years driving client and partner strategies in top-tier financial technology companies and banks including DXC Technology, Deutsche Bank, UBS, and Thomson Reuters.
Jeff Karlson
Patricia Diana
Having graduated in Tourism law and Online Marketing, Patricia began her career over 20 years ago at the corporate department of revenue management at Marriott International in Frankfurt. Following her passion for revenue management, she later joined Optims, to consult hospitality organisations around implementation of automated revenue management solutions. In 2003, Patricia founded a successful consulting and training company helping hotels to implement processes, culture, and revenue management technology. She brings her vast hospitality experience to IDeaS where she heads up new business development function for Western, Southern and Eastern Europe.
David Durko
David Durko, CEO of Security Validation | SecValMSP , was an instrumental leader of the Security and Compliance team for Wyndham Hotels focused on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards. Following Wyndham’s third publicized breach he was tasked and successful in driving Wyndham to their first successful Attestation of Compliance as a Service Provider. Following his tenure at Wyndham David became the Senior Vice President of Incident and Crisis Management for MasterCard Worldwide. In his role, David leveraged his knowledge of the hospitality industry and data security to help mitigate financial damage for payment acquirers and the Mastercard brand. David is the QSA and Chief Compliance Officer of record for Security Validation | SecValMSP.