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BUSINESS TRAVEL INNOVATION FACEOFF

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Showcase your innovation at the Business Travel Faceoff

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The Business Travel Innovation Faceoff will feature presentations of cutting-edge products, technologies and services that address industry challenges and support managed business travel, meetings or business travellers. The presentations will take place at the Business Travel Show Asia Pacific and made available on demand post-show.

Each presenter will have seven minutes of speaking time followed by four minutes of Q&A from a panel of expert judges (corporate travel buyers and consultants), as well as a two minutes of audience Q&A.
 

Presentations will take place live on the show floor and are open to all Business Travel Show Asia Pacific attendees. The judges will announce the winner on 15 April during the final afternoon session, including remarks by the judges about each presentation.

 

Congratulations to our 2025 winner

trip.biz

“Winning this award acknowledges and justifies our effort to continue partnering with industry providers to offer better mobility business travel,”

Terence Eng, Trip.Biz product director 

Is your solution the next big thing in business travel?

Business Travel Innovation Faceoff presenters will be featured in visitor promotions sent to travel professionals throughout the Asia Pacific region. The Faceoff agenda, along with a description of the company, and photo and title of the presenter, will be listed on the show registration site and in the show mobile app. Recordings of the presentations will be available on demand to Business Travel Show Asia Pacific attendees and the BTN Group’s database of 8,000 corporate travel managers and procurement professionals throughout Asia Pacific after the live event.

The BTN Group will post recordings of all presentations, company descriptions and judges’ comments on a dedicated microsite portal.

Application eligibility, process and deadlines

  • ELIGIBILITY: Innovators who have introduced/launched managed business travel, meetings or business traveler products, technologies or services in 2023 or later.
  • DEADLINE: Complete the online application form no later than 19 January 2026.
  • PROCESS: The BTN Group staff will notify accepted applicants by 16 February 2026. Accepted applicants have five days from notification to confirm their participation or they forfeit the opportunity to present. Accepted applicants must pay the non-refundable presentation fee by 2 March 2026.

Meet our 2025 judges

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View our 2025 finalists

Business travel innovation faceoff presentation fee

Presenter fee | $17,000 USD

  • 7-minute live presentation with 4-minutes of judges’ Q&A and 2-minutes of audience Q&A
  • Two complimentary registration passes – one presenter and one colleague. Additional registrations for colleagues can be purchased at $100 USD.
  • 250-character company description and logo to be included on the show registration website
  • Presenting companies will be featured in one attendee promotion sent to the BTN Group database of 8,000 Asia Pacific corporate travel managers and procurement professionals
  • Presentations will be made available on-demand on a dedicated website and promoted to the BTN Group database of Asia Pacific corporate travel managers and procurement professionals in May
  • MP4 video file recording of your presentation (two weeks after the event)

Scholarship presenter fee | $5,000 USD

Two scholarships are available for startup/emerging companies that were incorporated in 2023 or after.

  • 7-minute live presentation with 4-minutes of judges’ Q&A and 2-minutes of audience Q&A
  • Two complimentary registration passes – one presenter and one colleague. Additional registrations for colleagues can be purchased at $100 USD.
  • 250-character company description and logo to be included on the show registration website.
  • Presenting companies will be featured in one attendee promotion sent to the BTN Group database of 8,000 Asia Pacific corporate travel managers and procurement professionals
  • Presentations will be made available on-demand on a dedicated website and promoted to the BTN Group database of Asia Pacific corporate travel managers and procurement professionals in May
  • MP4 video file recording of your presentation (two weeks after the event)

Please note, licensing fees apply for use of the 2026 Business Travel Innovation Faceoff winner logos.
See below for fees.

Business travel innovation faceoff licensing packages

Option 1 |  $25,000 USD

Unlimited Print (Point of Sale Material, Sales Collateral, Print Ads, Tradeshow Material), Digital (URLs, Banners, Email Blast, Social media sites, Web-Based media) and other Media (television and Radio) usage of the 2025 Business Travel Innovation Faceoff winner logo.

Option 2 | $17,500.00 USD

Unlimited Print (Point of Sale Material, Sales Collateral, Print Ads, Tradeshow Material) and Digital Media (URLs, Banners, Email Blast, Social media sites, Web-Based media) usage of the 2025 Business Travel Innovation Faceoff winner logo.

 

Option 3 | $12,500 USD

Unlimited Digital Media (Multiple URLs, Banners, Email Blast, Social media sites, Web-Based media) usage of the 2025 Business Travel Innovation Faceoff winner logo.

 

 

Option 4 | 12,500 USD

Unlimited Print Media (Point of Sale Material, Sales Collateral, Print Ads, Tradeshow Material) usage of the 2025 Business Travel Innovation Faceoff winner logo.

 

 

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