Austin, Texas (September 28, 2023) — Hospitality Monetary and Expertise Professionals (HFTP®) is happy to announce the return of the premier hospitality expertise pitch competitors Entrepreneur 20X (E20X) at three occasions in 2024. Startups could have the chance to current their cutting-edge platforms at HFTP’s inaugural Digital Horizons 360 (DH360) Symposium in Europe in February and at HITEC Dubai and HITEC North America in June. Functions to compete at the moment are open.
Established in 2015, the upcoming E20X occasions will mark the fourth and eighth E20X competitions at HITEC Dubai and HITEC North America, respectively. DH360 in February would be the occasion’s return to the continent the place it was final held at HITEC Europe in 2019.
“We’re proud to deliver much more of what makes our affiliation nice again to Europe in 2024,” mentioned HFTP CEO Frank Wolfe, CAE. “Entrepreneur 20X’s triumphant return at DH360 is a testomony to the unbeatable spirit of innovation and enterprise that defines our international group.”
DH360, February 20–21 in Mallorca, Spain, is an invitation-only symposium for hospitality expertise leaders to take part in roundtable discussions on the applied sciences set to have the largest business affect in Europe. The 2-day occasion has centered this 12 months’s programming on topics together with synthetic intelligence, self-sovereign identification and cybersecurity, all of that are widespread focuses of business startups in recent times.
“At an occasion focused on celebrating thought management and what’s subsequent in hospitality expertise, it solely is smart to ask the following technology of business visionaries to current their options,” mentioned HFTP EMEA COO Carson Sales space, CHTP. “E20X is not only a contest; it is a transformative journey that propels concepts into motion and desires into actuality.”
HITEC Dubai, co-located with The Lodge Present is June 4-5 on the Dubai World Commerce Heart. HITEC North America is June 24–27 on the Charlotte Conference Heart in Charlotte, N.C. USA.
Dozens of startups have participated within the competitors, gaining invaluable insights and publicity to high business mentors, buyers, leaders and executives. Members compete for two awards: the Judges’ Alternative Award which features a money prize and the Folks’s Alternative Award, a preferred vote chosen by occasion attendees.
Functions to compete in any respect three competitions can be found on the E20X website. The deadline for E20X Europe is December 15, 2023 and the deadline for the Dubai and Charlotte competitions is March 15, 2024. For extra data relating to the competitors, e mail [email protected].
About HFTP
Hospitality Monetary and Expertise Professionals (HFTP®), established in 1952, is a hospitality nonprofit affiliation headquartered in Austin, Texas USA with places of work within the EU and Center East. HFTP is acknowledged because the spokes group for the finance and expertise segments of the hospitality business with a world community of members and stakeholders. HFTP uniquely understands the business’s urgent points, and assists its stakeholders to find options to their challenges extra effectively than any group. HFTP affords knowledgeable networks, academic assets, profession improvement packages, analysis, management alternatives and conferences and occasions. HFTP produces worldwide occasions all year long, together with the world’s largest hospitality expertise tradeshow and convention model: HITEC. As well as, it oversees the hospitality-specific Pineapplesearch.com® and the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Business (USALI). For extra details about HFTP, go to www.hftp.org. For the newest information, go to the HFTP Information web page at information.hftp.org and the HFTP Join weblog at weblog.hftp.org.
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