2 July 2025
Connexion Conference & Event Centre
Connexion Conference & Event Centre
Meet the Lead Sponsors and Partners
KEYNOTE SPONSORS
EXHIBITOR SPONSOR
LUNCHEON SPONSOR
TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE SPONSOR
POP-UP BOOTH EXHIBITOR
COFFEE SPONSOR
ATTENDING SPECIALIST
MEDIA & PR PARTNERS
More will be announced soon!
KEYNOTE SPONSOR
Bay Street Hospitality
Bay Street Hospitality is a global investment platform focused on hotel-related opportunities across private and public markets. Using a quantamental framework, the firm targets differentiated alpha from real assets and operating platforms in hospitality. Its investment approach emphasizes partnerships with top-tier operators, developers, and asset owners across the Americas, Europe, ASEAN, APAC (excluding ASEAN), and the Middle East.
Bay Street’s institutional edge stems from its proprietary Bay Street Terminal—a Bloomberg-style dashboard housing the firm's complete quantamental toolkit. Every investment is systematically scored using advanced formula-based metrics: Adjusted Hospitality Alpha (AHA), Bay Score, Bay-Adjusted Sharpe (BAS), and Liquidity Stress Delta (LSD). These tools support rigorous pricing, risk analysis, and consistent quality benchmarking across all investment types and geographies.
Bay Street’s institutional edge stems from its proprietary Bay Street Terminal—a Bloomberg-style dashboard housing the firm's complete quantamental toolkit. Every investment is systematically scored using advanced formula-based metrics: Adjusted Hospitality Alpha (AHA), Bay Score, Bay-Adjusted Sharpe (BAS), and Liquidity Stress Delta (LSD). These tools support rigorous pricing, risk analysis, and consistent quality benchmarking across all investment types and geographies.
KEYNOTE SPONSOR
UPGroup
Unearthed Productions is a full-service event agency led by a team of creators, strategists, and experts who are passionate about content, audience engagement and event technology. The complete suite of event solutions empowers event organisers and planners to seamlessly execute an award-winning event experience. Producing hundreds of event experiences for thousands of audiences annually, Unearthed Productions is the trusted partner of both organisations and venue owners in the region.
KEYNOTE SPONSOR
Xiaodu
Xiaodu,which is an important business department of Baidu's "AI Life", have created a very diverse range of products and entered over 46 million family in China. The company have smart speakers, fitness mirrors, robots, etc. All of those devices are capable of voice interaction, music, and audio playback, answering questions, and delivering real-time information.
Additionally, the speaker can serve as an automation hub, connecting to and controlling various other
‘smart’ devices nearby.
This virtual assistant is activated by a wake-up command, with the default command being ‘Xiaoduxiaodu’, which tells the device to listen to the following question, request, or instruction.
Xiaodu Smart Hotel
After nearly 4 years of development, the number of hotel rooms equipped with the Xiaodu Smart System has exceeded 1.6million, covering over 40 thousand hotels nationwide, and an average of 40 thousand rooms are landed every month. It is worth mentioning that Xiaodu wakes up more than 8 million times a day.
Xiaodu allows guests to use their voice to control various aspects of their room, such as the air
conditioning, heating, and entertainment devices, facilitating a more personalized and convenient
experience.
For hotel management, Xiaodu is an exciting prospect because it can be tailored based on the services
and technology found in each hotel. This means it can potentially enhance the guest experience, not only in terms of improving hotel room functionality but also by connecting to core services.
Additionally, the speaker can serve as an automation hub, connecting to and controlling various other
‘smart’ devices nearby.
This virtual assistant is activated by a wake-up command, with the default command being ‘Xiaoduxiaodu’, which tells the device to listen to the following question, request, or instruction.
Xiaodu Smart Hotel
After nearly 4 years of development, the number of hotel rooms equipped with the Xiaodu Smart System has exceeded 1.6million, covering over 40 thousand hotels nationwide, and an average of 40 thousand rooms are landed every month. It is worth mentioning that Xiaodu wakes up more than 8 million times a day.
Xiaodu allows guests to use their voice to control various aspects of their room, such as the air
conditioning, heating, and entertainment devices, facilitating a more personalized and convenient
experience.
For hotel management, Xiaodu is an exciting prospect because it can be tailored based on the services
and technology found in each hotel. This means it can potentially enhance the guest experience, not only in terms of improving hotel room functionality but also by connecting to core services.
EXHIBITOR SPONSOR
Grab for Business
Grab For Business brings the best of Grab’s services and technology to companies and businesses of all sizes across Southeast Asia. Thousands of companies across the region already customise, budget, manage and track spends across corporate rides, employee food programs and more using Grab’s platform. These solutions improve employee engagement and enable their workforce to save countless hours on tedious manual processes so that they can focus on what’s most important - driving businesses forward. Grab For Business also offers digital gifting solutions for loyalty and reward programmes.
LUNCHEON SPONSOR
Adyen
Adyen is the financial technology platform of choice for leading companies. By providing end-to-end payments capabilities, data-driven insights, and financial products in a single global solution, Adyen helps businesses achieve their ambitions faster. With offices around the world, Adyen works with the likes of Meta, LVMH, SHEIN, Grab, Klook, ZALORA, and H&M.
TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE SPONSOR
Cvent
Cvent is a leading meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider with 5,000+ employees and 24,000+ customers worldwide as of December 31, 2024. Founded in 1999, the company delivers a comprehensive event marketing and management platform and offers a global marketplace where event professionals collaborate with venues to create engaging, impactful experiences. Cvent is headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, just outside of Washington D.C., and has additional offices around the world to support its growing global customer base. The comprehensive Cvent event marketing and management platform offers software solutions to event organizers and marketers for online event registration, venue selection, event marketing and management, virtual and onsite solutions, and attendee engagement. Cvent’s suite of products automate and simplify the event management lifecycle and maximize the impact of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events. Hotels and venues use Cvent’s supplier and venue solutions to win more group and corporate travel business through Cvent’s sourcing platforms. Cvent solutions optimize the event management value chain and have enabled clients around the world to manage millions of meetings and events. For more information, please visit Cvent.com.
POP-UP BOOTH SPONSOR
ZOLL Medical Corporation
ZOLL Medical Corporation, an Asahi Kasei Group Company, develops and markets medical devices and software solutions that help advance emergency care and save lives, while increasing clinical and operational efficiencies. With products for defibrillation and monitoring, circulation and CPR feedback, data management, therapeutic temperature management, and ventilation, ZOLL provides a comprehensive set of technologies that help clinicians, EMS and fire professionals, and lay rescuers treat victims needing resuscitation and acute critical care.
The Asahi Kasei Group is a diversified group of companies led by holding company Asahi Kasei Corp., with operations in the material, homes, and health care business sectors. Its health care operations include devices and systems for acute critical care, dialysis, therapeutic apheresis, transfusion, and manufacture of biotherapeutics, as well as pharmaceuticals and diagnostic reagents. With more than 30,000 employees around the world, the Asahi Kasei Group serves customers in more than 100 countries.
The Asahi Kasei Group is a diversified group of companies led by holding company Asahi Kasei Corp., with operations in the material, homes, and health care business sectors. Its health care operations include devices and systems for acute critical care, dialysis, therapeutic apheresis, transfusion, and manufacture of biotherapeutics, as well as pharmaceuticals and diagnostic reagents. With more than 30,000 employees around the world, the Asahi Kasei Group serves customers in more than 100 countries.
COFFEE SPONSOR
CoffeeBoot
CoffeeBot was established in the year of 2017 with a vision to enrich lives with quality and affordable coffee at your effortless convenience. Today, our services extend to a diverse range of sectors, including hotels, restaurants, cafés (HoReCa), and office coffee solutions, serving customers throughout Malaysia and Singapore.
As Malaysia’s leading provider of automated coffee vending services, we are dedicated to delivering excellence, reliability, and exceeding customer expectations. This commitment has earned us recognition and trust across industries.
With CoffeeBot, you can enjoy the perfect combination of convenience, quality, and innovation—offering a seamless coffee experience every time
As Malaysia’s leading provider of automated coffee vending services, we are dedicated to delivering excellence, reliability, and exceeding customer expectations. This commitment has earned us recognition and trust across industries.
With CoffeeBot, you can enjoy the perfect combination of convenience, quality, and innovation—offering a seamless coffee experience every time
ATTENDING SPECIALIST
TUI Hotels and Resorts
TUI BLUE offers experience-oriented lifestyle travellers a hotel product tailored to their individual
needs – for adults, families or holidaymakers interested in local culture and authentic experiences.
BLUE Guides provide great hospitality with a personal touch and the BLUE App offers guests lots of
activities at their choice. The experiences are tailored for all ages and range from entertainment in a
relaxed atmosphere to a holistic fitness and well-being programme as well as a variety of excursions.
TUI BLUE hotels stand for food experiences with a local touch, including authentic regional dishes
while also catering for all dietary needs or nutrition plans. The hotel brand has more than 90 hotels
worldwide and expanding its portfolio with a strong focus on Asia, the Middle East and Africa. TUI
BLUE is a global brand of TUI Hotels & Resorts‘ leading leisure hotel portfolio.
needs – for adults, families or holidaymakers interested in local culture and authentic experiences.
BLUE Guides provide great hospitality with a personal touch and the BLUE App offers guests lots of
activities at their choice. The experiences are tailored for all ages and range from entertainment in a
relaxed atmosphere to a holistic fitness and well-being programme as well as a variety of excursions.
TUI BLUE hotels stand for food experiences with a local touch, including authentic regional dishes
while also catering for all dietary needs or nutrition plans. The hotel brand has more than 90 hotels
worldwide and expanding its portfolio with a strong focus on Asia, the Middle East and Africa. TUI
BLUE is a global brand of TUI Hotels & Resorts‘ leading leisure hotel portfolio.