Hospitality Monetary and Know-how Professionals (HFTP®), producers of Hospitality Business Know-how Exposition and Convention (HITEC®), has introduced the eight excellent startups taking part in Entrepreneur 20X (E20X) Charlotte held on June 26, 2024 at HITEC Charlotte. Applied sciences being showcased within the HITEC 2024 cohort run the gamut of streamlining each back- and front-of-house operations, constructing visitor profiles for enhanced keep experiences and strengthening property-vendor relationships.
Taking part in Entrepreneur 20X is not only about pitching an awesome thought—it is about showcasing your potential to disrupt and redefine the hospitality business. The choice course of is rigorous and designed to determine really modern options and entrepreneurs who’ve the potential to make a long-lasting impression. E20X presents a uncommon platform for rising skills to be heard, seen and supported on their journey to success. Frank Wolfe, CAE, CEO of HFTP
Because the premier hospitality know-how pitch competitors for practically a decade, Entrepreneur 20X is a singular alternative for startups to realize visibility and credibility within the business and community with fellow resolution suppliers and influential business professionals. Members may have 4 minutes every to current their modern services or products to a panel of judges with backgrounds in entrepreneurship and a reside viewers of HITEC attendees. Every pitch will likely be adopted by one other 4 minutes for Q&A between the judges and presenters.
The successful startup will obtain a grand prize of $5,000 because the Judges’ Alternative Award choice whereas the Individuals’s Alternative Award winner may also be acknowledged as voted on by their friends in actual time in the course of the presentation and deliberation durations. All startups will obtain publicity to potential buyers, clients and companions within the hospitality know-how business by means of their participation within the competitors.
Past the stage, E20X contributors obtain a complimentary house to exhibit alongside greater than 320 of their friends within the HITEC Charlotte exhibit corridor on the E20X Pavilion. Pitchers may also have entry to a workforce of business mentors earlier than the competitors to encourage and educate the startups by lending them the insights, experience and steerage they should succeed for each the competitors and their fledgling firms.
The taking part 2024 E20X Charlotte startups are:
HITEC is the world’s largest and longest-running hospitality know-how convention. It attracts 1000’s of attendees and a whole bunch of business resolution suppliers and brings collectively the brightest minds and hottest applied sciences from throughout the globe in a single place. Attendees acquire entry to important training, prime hospitality business specialists and the sources to search out cost-effective methods to enhance firm backside traces. New this yr is the co-located HITEC Know-how Funding Convention which is able to join exhibiting firm executives, buyers and M&A consultants for the chance to debate potential partnerships. The co-located occasion is invitation-only and can happen June 27-28. Those that are all for attending can fill out a web-based kind. HITEC Charlotte will likely be held June 24-27, 2024 on the Charlotte Conference Middle in Charlotte, North Carolina USA. Study extra at www.hitec.org.
For extra data relating to E20X, electronic mail [email protected].
About HFTP
Hospitality Monetary and Know-how 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 know-how segments of the hospitality business with a global community of members and stakeholders. HFTP uniquely understands the business’s urgent points, and assists its stakeholders find options to their challenges extra effectively than any group. HFTP presents skilled networks, instructional sources, profession growth applications, analysis, management alternatives and conferences and occasions. HFTP produces worldwide occasions all year long, together with the world’s largest hospitality know-how 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.
Caroline Palmer
Particular Tasks Liaison
HFTP