45th Annual NYU International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference Agenda

Fifth Floor, Westside Ballroom
Enjoy a great breakfast with reunited colleagues as you prepare for an enlightening day that will focus on changes and trends in the industry.

Sixth Floor, Broadway Ballroom
Nicolas Graf, PhD, Jonathan M. Tisch Chaired Professor and Associate Dean, Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality, NYU School of Professional Studies will provide opening remarks to kick off the first day of the Conference, which is packed with high-energy panels and informative breakout sessions.

An introduction on what is happening in the industry, why the Conference is important, and how it is structured to provide the most relevant and timely information.

Sixth Floor, Broadway Ballroom
The nation’s top lodging industry association leaders and lobbyists discuss mission-critical national policy issues of today.  How will recent and pending policy decisions influence the future of the US lodging industry?  What’s on the policy agenda? How is lodging viewed from within the current administration? 

Sixth Floor, Broadway Ballroom
Learn from top hospitality executives about the evolving investment landscape and the changing consumer base, as well as the ways in which the competition is pressing these CEOs to lead their brands and to differentiate their companies. 

Sixth Floor, Broadway Ballroom
With economic conditions in flux, both hotel operating results (EBITDA) and the costs of capital (cap rates) are volatile.  How are the big hotel owners and investors mapping their strategies given the bi-directional turbulence? Who’s doing what with what asset, and what is the reasoning?  Join these leaders as they share their thinking about what they are doing, and why.

Fifth Floor Foyer, Westside Ballroom and Sixth Floor Foyers
Meet Conference sponsors, as well as other industry leaders. Network as you reenergize with refreshments in the Exhibitor Areas.

Sixth Floor, Broadway Ballroom
Numbers don’t lie.  But what exactly do they tell us?  Join the top industry research and consultation specialists as they share their data and expert interpretation, highlighting current trends and forecasts.  

Sixth Floor, Broadway Ballroom
The lodging industry has diverse interests: financiers, brands, franchisors, owners, and managers.  Add in tech: the revenue side, with OTA’s and other booking/marketing functions, and the cost side, with accounting, scheduling, robotics and all emerging operational innovations.  While a successful property is in everyone’s best interest, members of each of these communities approach the investment thesis differently.  Join these thought leaders as they compare notes and share their thinking about how it all fits together.  

The Conference’s concurrent workshops focus on specialized topics of interest, allowing attendees to customize their experience, while gaining critical industry information from interactive panel discussions.  

Fourth Floor Odets
Who’s doing what, and why? Where do the hotel operators fit with these new models, and what does the future hold for us as an industry and as consumers?

Fourth Floor Wilder
Choosing the right market, the right site, the right partner, and the right capital stack: growing a brand is complicated, whether it’s via franchise, management, sliver investment, or full-on ownership.  This panel is comprised of the leaders who are tasked with growth all day, every day.  Join them as they share their views of the current environment for development and re-branding.

Fifth Floor, Salon 2 in the Julliard Complex
With a proliferation of data collection technologies, hotel owners and managers can understand better than ever who are their customers, who should be their customers, and what their customers need.  So where is the smart money spending its data dollars? How is the investment return measured and exactly how does data collection and utilization translate into a competitive advantage? Join these customer data experts as they share their thinking.

Sixth Floor, Winter Garden in the Majestic Complex
High inflation rates, high interest rates, global market turmoil and recessionary fears: while the hotel investment market has always had its complexities, it is at this time particularly chaotic.   What is private capital doing to navigate through the various, and to some extent opposing, forces at play in the current market? This panel will explore how smart private investors are getting deals done, where they are finding opportunities, and how they are structuring investments that can close.

Fourth Floor Ziegfeld
Take one cup of changed travel patterns and uncertain hotel room night demand, and combine with equal amounts of inflation-driven operating costs, higher interest rates, and deferred capex: some hotel properties are going to go from stressed to officially in distress.  Yet the outcome for a distressed asset can differ depending on the tactics and strategies used by the owners, operators, investors, and the lenders.  These panelists are experts in the trenches, working with distressed assets from all sides.  Join them as they share their various perspectives on what tactics and strategies they see working in today’s environment.

Fifth Floor, Salon 4 in the Lyceum Complex
Like other industries, hotels are being challenged to tackle climate change as customers seek more sustainable travel options. However, the complexities of how hotels operate and the technicalities of the climate environment can make it difficult to know how to best respond to this demand. This session brings together individuals across the value chain from owners to investors to brands to try to find common ground from which they can together tackle the sustainability imperative.

Fifth Floor, Belasco
In an increasing rate environment, access to debt is limited as lenders are being more selective in how they deploy capital and look at deals. How are lenders looking at the hotel financing market given the turbulent global environment? What can we expect out of the financial markets going forward?

Fifth Floor, Booth and Edison in the Lyceum Complex
Everybody wants to increase RevPAR.  But doing so almost always comes with additional costs: distribution, marketing, labor (if services are added), costs of goods (if amenities are added), capital costs of renovations, and more.  Are all RevPAR increases created equal?  The experts discuss how smart owners and operators can optimize flow-through from increases in RevPAR in order to sustain  - or possibly improve?  - operating margins.

Sixth Floor, Broadway Ballroom

Sixth Floor, Broadway Ballroom

The hospitality industry continues to perform well through the first half of the year. NYU and EY have conducted a survey of hospitality CFOs to gauge their perspective on outlook for the industry, key drivers of growth and challenges & opportunities that lie ahead. This presentation will present the results of the survey.

WELCOME
HOTEL NEWS NOW STEPHEN W. BRENER SILVER PLATE AWARD

Sixth Floor, Broadway Ballroom
The pandemic has ushered us into a world that is less stable than it was.  Global political power is shifting.  The patterns of travel demand have morphed.  Technological change has accelerated.  In short, nothing’s the same as it was.  How do you balance when the balance beam doesn’t stay still?   Join these thought leaders as they share their views on how the dynamics are playing out and, more importantly, how to capitalize on them.

Sixth Floor, Broadway Ballroom
We’ve all heard the pundits expound on what the next generation of the lodging industry will look like in terms of workforce and leadership, what we need to do to appeal to talent, and how we need to modify training and career pathing to retain the best and brightest.  Now let’s let the next generation teach us. 

Join NYU’s Associate Dean Nicolas Graf and Wyndham’s CEO Geoff Ballotti for an unscripted conversation with student representatives from NYU’s Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality about what our industry is doing right, what we’re doing wrong, and what we need to focus on in order to attract and develop skilled and committed associates and leaders for an A.

Fifth Floor and Sixth Floor Foyers
Meet Conference sponsors, as well as other industry leaders. Network as you reenergize with refreshments in the Exhibitor Areas.