Confirmed Speakers

Derrick is the Co-founder and CFO of TIDY app; a marketplace that connects you to cleaners on-demand. 26+ years of professional experience of accounting, costing, taxation, financial management and financial system development. His intensive expertise and knowledge regarding finance will position...

Cecilia Parker Aranha has been a Director, Consumer Protection Enforcement, at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority since 2014.  She has led a number of high profile consumer protection enforcement projects, including the CMA’s ongoing investigations into the online hotel booking sector and...

Benas is the Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Reneza, a residential technology platform automating letting transactions for letting agents in the UK. Reneza team is seeking to digitize letting transactions by uniquely connecting all rental stakeholders & services in a single...

Heather Bayer has been fully immersed in the short-term rental industry for over 25 years, firstly as an owner of multiple properties in the UK and Canada, and for the last 15 years as CEO of one of Ontario’s leading property management companies.  Heather is co-founder of the Vacation Rental...

BETTANIN Stefano (CEO Rentopolis and President of the National Association Property Managers Italia), born in sandrigo (VI) on 24 May 1980 after graduating in law in 2005 in Trento, holds a Master’s degree in “Making and saving deals in the Global Business Environment” at the University La Sapienza ...

Antonio Bustamante, CEO at Chekin.io. Entrepreneur. MBA at San Francisco. Former professional basketball player, former CFO at Glampinghub.com I love to travel and how new technologies can impact the way people move and experience discovering new places. Wich Chekin we aim to offer a standard for...

Ross Calladine is Head of Business Support for VisitEngland.  As part of his role, Ross is VisitEngland’s in-house accessibility specialist developing initiatives that help tourism businesses and destinations tap into the high value, growing accessible tourism market.  Ross has led the development...

Fiona was appointed as the ASSC’s first Chief Executive in February 2015. She was charged with growing the Association, recruiting new Members, and ensuring that member benefits are as comprehensive and valuable as possible. In an ever-changing tourism landscape and as more and more...

Working in the Holiday Rental Industry for 14 years, and Accommodation for 16 years, James has run several online Holiday Rental businesses in APAC and EMEA, including for HomeAway and Vrbo for the last 11 years. James’ current role is the leader of the Partner Success function for Vrbo in...

Daan is the co-founder and CEO of Bookboost, a guest messaging technology platform developed specifically for the hospitality market. He is a graduate of Hotelschool The Hague where he studied hotel management. It was here working for different hotels that he understood the changing nature of guest ...

Luca has always been 5 to 10 years ahead in the vacation rentals industry and is also one of the most experienced thought leaders, having been in the industry since 2001.He created an "Airbnb before Airbnb" lifestyle business 7 years before Airbnb and this funded his world travels for 10...

Jeremy Gall is a serial entrepreneur with a history of delivering great products to vacation rental managers over the past thirteen years. In 2006, Jeremy founded FlipKey.com, and grew the guest-review platform into one of the world’s largest vacation rental businesses before TripAdvisor's...

Alistair Handyside owns Higher Wiscombe Holiday Cottages with his wife Lorna. The business is rated at Five Star Gold and has won numerous Green awards. Higher Wiscombe is also one of a small handful of tourism businesses to have won two National Gold Awards from Visit England, the National Tourist ...

Sascha is a partner of the London and Luxembourg based venture capital fund HOWZAT Partners.Originally trained in tax and accounting, he started his travel career shortly before the millennium. From 1999 to 2005 he worked at WorldRes, one of the first online hotel reservation systems in the...

With 14 years of experience in SaaS, Alix joined the Wishbox team as the Sales Director. Glasgow native, Alix comes with more than a decades of experience managing startups and has previously done projects with Booking.com and HomeAway. She is seriously passionate about Guest Experience and is an...

Res:harmonics offers a unified, end-to-end, Software as a Service platform that is 100% focused on short to medium stay residential, so the detail of booking and operations are captured into the system when compared with generalist alternatives. The vision is to provide one system to operate the...

Deborah has been a vacation rental Property Manager and Owner for over 13 years. During this time she became aware of problems in the industry and her newly launched company, Have You Got, comes just at the right time. Wanting to think differently, she designed Have You Got as the first Book Direct ...

A highly efficient & organised Security, Safety & Risk Professional, with over 15 years of military, world-wide executive protection and hospitality asset protection fields experience in the development and implementation of effective Security and Safety strategies, policies &...

Karl has 20+ years of startup and international growth experience. In the past has successfully built an international business, raised capital and exited at a multiple. Today with his latest start-up, Sanctifly, he is passionate about changing travel habits and wellness access from something that...

Kate has been running what is now called Piper House just outside Stamford in Lincolnshire since 2006. Piper was created out of derelict farm buildings and was originally an open plan space intended to be used by her growing family. It didn't stay a games room for very long and has since...

Over 20 years as a successful entrepreneur Robert has solidified his place in the hospitality and real state sectors. Robert has led several successful ventures, launching his career in 1991 by acquiring real estate in distressed areas of New Jersey with the foresight of the area’s growth. In 1996...

Started as a mechanical engineer continued with decision making and multicriteria analysis and got fascinated by tourism industry.Entrepreneur in boutique hotels  started Cocoon brand in 2016 and just founded Voyager Hospitality that specialized in hotel revenue and sales management.

Anniina Sandberg is the founder of Visit Natives. Travel differently and stay among the indigenous peoples in Tanzania and Norway. Visit Natives' mission is to do good and preserve indigenous cultures and traditional livelihoods through sustainable small-scale tourism. Book a stay with a Sami...

Ryan Saylor is a Revenue Manager at Beyond Pricing, the world’s first dynamic pricing platform for the vacation rental industry. Ryan works directly with property owners as well as the Beyond Pricing team to help develop advanced revenue management tools and strategies. Prior to joining Beyond...

Sem Schuurkes is an entrepreneur from the south of the Netherlands whose dream has always been to create something that would make a difference in the world. He has strong analytical skills and and intuitively feels into the needs and desires of people. With out of the box thinking, he leads...

Wendy is the visionary energy behind Tots to Travel, a fast growing business whose unique approach provides stress-free holidays for families with babies and toddlers.  Wendy and her team believe that a Tots' holiday  is fundamental to making families stronger and that business can be a strong...

Since 2005, Dale Smith has been strategically investing in properties. Around three years ago, he bought his first beachfront property on the North Yorkshire Coast , in a little seaside town called Saltburn-by-the-sea.When purchasing this property, Dale and his family had no intention of making it...

Amanda Stecker is the Founder and CEO of Unique Cotswold Cottages which develops and runs high quality holiday cottages in the Cotswolds. The business launched in 2018 and since launched has won awards and consistently beaten the industry standards in income and earnings.  Amanda has had a...

Kulveer Taggar is the co-founder and CEO of Zeus Living. Zeus makes it easy to live where opportunity takes you by providing furnished homes for the modern workforce. Backed by Airbnb, Comcast, Bowery and Initialized Capital, Zeus is based in San Francisco and operates in the Bay Area, Los...

Tracey Woods is a successful property investor and specialises in the HMO strategy. Over the past 19 years she has built up a portfolio of Buy To Lets (BTLs) and Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs).In 2013, Tracey’s portfolio enabled her to quit the day job and focus 100% of her time on her...

I grew up in Athens, Greece.In 1998 I graduated from Greek / French College “St Paul” high school.  I got my BSc in Business Economics from University of Wales Swansea, UK and then my post graduate (MBA) certificate from Alba Graduate Business School in 2007 in Athens. Immediately after my...