A significant portion of the work created by HTNG comes through the efforts of the many members serving in our workgroups and forums.  These efforts are coordinated through our forum leaders, who are established professionals from a number of the industry's leading companies around the world.

The forum chair role provides significant professional opportunities and benefits, including:

• Influence to shape significant technological changes in the hospitality industry
• Exposure to key players and decision makers from across the entire spectrum of hospitality technology
• Showing your company’s commitment to the advancement of technology in our industry
• The ability to structure new, relevant projects that will benefit your company, as well as the rest of the industry
• Free registration at HTNG conferences and meetings held in your world region (and in most cases outside your region as well)

The forum chair role is continually evolving, but current responsibilities include:

• Providing input to HTNG on the placement of workgroups into specific forums, through informal consultation with HTNG management and, in cases of dissent, formal written recommendations to the HTNG Board of Governors
• Appointing, in consultation with relevant forum members, ad hoc teams to address short-term issues related to specifications not under the control of an active workgroup, but within the scope of the forum
• Presiding at forum face-to-face meetings in your region (2-4 annually depending on forum and region)
• Preparing the agenda and approving speakers for common portions of forum meetings
• Organizing presentations regarding forum activities for HTNG member meetings
• Participating on calls between workgroup leaders and board advisors, subject to scheduling and agreement of the workgroup chair
• Reviewing charters proposed by forum members prior to submission to the board (may not apply to charters developed with heavy participation from board members)

Please see the list of current Forum Chairs here.