One of the highlights at this year’s Business Travel Show Europe will be the companies behind visionary tech solutions compete for the Business Travel Innovation Faceoff 2025 award. The ten shortlisted startups and scale-ups will pitch cutting-edge solutions to industry veterans and a live audience of corporate travel decision-makers on 25-26 June at Excel London…
Tech solutions competing for the prestigious Business Travel Innovation Faceoff Award
Designed to showcase technologies reshaping managed travel, the Innovation Faceoff gives each finalist just seven minutes to demonstrate how their innovation tackles todayโs top business travel challenges – spanning cost control, policy compliance and traveller experience.
Last yearโs winner was Lumo, an AI-powered flight disruption management tool that enables the entire travel ecosystem to proactively plan for and manage disruptions.
Business Travel Show Europe marketing director Jonathan Carter-Chapman said, โThe Innovation Faceoff continues to be a show highlight, attracting some of the boldest talentโฏin travel management technology and service, with previous entrants and winners continuing to push boundaries today.โ
The 2025 lineup features visionary companies that are transforming corporate travel with technology-led solutions.
Who’s made the shortlist for Business Travel Innovation Faceoff 2025:
- Altour โ AI-powered communications platform that unites contact centre tools, inboxes, and collaboration in one workspace
- Blockskye โ Brings blockchain transparency to travel booking, empowering buyers with control and cost savings
- FareAudit โ Real-time fare auditing to prevent overpayment
- Front โ AI-powered communications platform that unites contact centre tools, inboxes, and collaboration in one workspace
- Planned โ A platform that brings real-time event data together for smarter, simpler sourcing
- PredictX โ Blends machine learning with intuitive dashboards and automation to supercharge travel manager productivity
- Roamr โ Reimagines hotel stays with a global hosted travel network, turning business trips into meaningful cultural exchanges
- SkyLink โ Conversational AI for booking business travel via Slack and Teams
- The Cozm โ Automates cross-border tax and visa compliance using AI, helping global mobility teams stay one step ahead
- Zenmer โ Zenia, the companyโs multilingual agentic AI, handles everything from bookings to itinerary changes in natural conversation
Judging panel of travel industry leaders
The winner will be selected by a panel of influential travel technology and corporate travel leaders, including:
- Carin Morin, Regional Travel Manager, EMEA โ ServiceNow
- Bala Chandran, Co-Founder and CEO โ Lumo
- Lenny Hornsby, Travel & Travel Technology Manager โ Deloitte
- Karen Hutchings, Founder โ Cobb & Hutch Consulting
The Innovation Faceoff Award will be presented on Thursday 26 June at 12:40 PM in the Knowledge Arena.
Business Travel Show Europe returns to Excel London from 25-26 June 2025 alongside TravelTech Show and The Meetings Show. It will unite over 700 qualified buyers and 200 exhibitors for high-level, in-person networking and a premium conference programme.
Register for a free entry to the Business Travel Show
Registration is now open. It is free for qualified travel buyers, bookers and managers, procurement professionals and EAs and PAs who book travel for their organisation.โฏTo register please visit businesstravelshoweurope.com/register
About Business Travel Show Europe
Business Travel Show Europe, held annually in London since 1994 and presented by The BTN Group, is the place where serious travel buyers, procurement, and bookers from across Europe go to, improve, benchmark, or establish their travel programmes
Focusing solely on business travel, it brings all the innovation, knowledge and contacts together into one place to allow buyers and bookers to put the corporate traveller at the heart of every story. The unique hosted buyer programme brings many top-level decision-makers to the show with a minimum ยฃ1 million travel budget.
The show provides a forum for the industry to talk travel, learn new practices and exciting new techniques, and meet with colleagues and network. It is a show where the industry comes together to do business effectively.
PA Life is delighted to be supporting the Business Travel Show Europe again this year as a media partner and we are looking forward to seeing many or our readers, followers and Club members at the show.
