2018 Innovators You Should Know

BTN revisited the companies that since 2014 have won its Innovator of the Year and its People's Choice awards, bestowed at the BTN Group's annual Innovate conference. The goal of revisiting these tech players was to see how they've evolved and in some cases maybe even changed direction, to learn how they've grown and to peek at where they're going.

Tripbam
Tripbam

When Tripbam took home the trophy at BTN’s inaugural Innovate conference in 2014, it did so as a two-year-old tech startup bent on reducing the prices corporates pay for their hotel programs. KEEP READING

Roadmap
Roadmap

Roadmap demo’d the prototype of its “corporate travel companion” at the Innovate conference in September 2015. The idea was to simplify the travel experience for business travelers by building traveler-friendly apps customized and branded for each corporate client. KEEP READING

Freebird
Freebird

Since being named the People’s Choice winner in 2016, mobile flight rebooking app Freebird has significantly built up its clientele and partnerships in the corporate space. KEEP READING

Conichi
Conichi

Conichi wowed Innovate attendees with the end-to-end solution it promised to bring to hotels, including mobile check-in and check-out, beacon messaging and virtual card payment via integration with hotel property management systems and a mobile app for travelers. KEEP READING

DVI
DVI

DVI has made promising strides since fall 2017’s Innovate conference, including increasing its customer base by more than 300 percent and adding more bells and whistles to its Vantage Point data analytics platform, according to DVI president and CEO Brian Beard. KEEP READING

SpotHero
SpotHero

It’s been less than a year since SpotHero for Business, which helps business travelers reserve discounted garage parking spaces in more than 75 major U.S. cities and provides travel managers with visibility into their parking spend, won BTN Innovator of the Year. KEEP READING

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