David Chappell is the Head of Technology for Gray Dawes Group, one of the UK’s fastest growing, independent Travel Management Company’s (TMC’s).     Joining the business in early 2014, David has been the driving force behind a reimagining of the entire technical architecture of the Gray Dawes Group. Moving away from multiple points of definition to a seamless, connected, aggregated environment has allowed Gray Dawes Group to achieve great improvements in efficiency and product content access. As the designer behind the award-winning proprietary software, 3DS, David has pushed the Group to explore the technical boundaries of the corporate travel industry, achieving incremental improvement on all fronts. These in-house developed softwares leverage numerous blended API & SDK technologies, in addition to using SQL databasing and HTML5 enabled environments to present results to the front end that are relevant to the specific traveller.     His knowledge of the travel industry is founded in doing. Originally a travel sales consultant for over a decade, his experience at the front line of travel shaped his vision of future systems, both from a travel consultant and from a customer’s point of view. Hugely passionate about technology and a total self-confessed data dork, David can often be found happily wading knee-deep in data, hunting for the Lesser-Spotted Data-Discrepancy. A lateral thinker, David lives to design software where rekey is anathema and data breaks between environments are eliminated.    Outside of the industry and, in acknowledgement that not everything digital is better, David is a keen collector of vinyl records, restores antique typewriters and holds a Black Belt in Wado Ryu Karate-do.  

Keesup Choe is the CEO of PredictX, a SaaS company using AI and machine learning to drive predictive action to leverage growth within companies.

Keesup’s particular passion is empowering stakeholders to make better decisions. By discovering meaning in their data and automating routine tasks, Keesup believes stakeholders can have both the time and improved understanding to innovate and drive company-wide growth.

Prior to PredictX, Keesup has worked in the fields of finance and software. He has run his own hedge fund and acted as head of trading for major investment banks in the City and Wall Street. He has also successfully grown startup software companies in Silicon Valley and London.

Amon Cohen is a specialist business travel writer. He is contributing editor to Business Travel News and The Beat, and pens a regular column for Buying Business Travel in the UK plus numerous reports and white papers.     Amon is also a regular conference moderator and co-producer of the conference programme for the Business Travel Show.    Amon is based in Somerset in the UK, and moonlights as stand-up bass player for country music band The Johnsons.