HTNG TechOvation Award
HTNG's TechOvation Award recognizes and rewards the latest technology innovation throughout all sectors of the hospitality industry.
Congratulations to our 2025 HTNG TechOvation Award Winner, Agilysys
Agilysys Book with S.P.E.N.D. (Stay Package Entitlement New Dynamic), is a technology breakthrough that increases ancillary revenue and guest personalization by simplifying how hotels sell and fulfill packages. It enables guests to reserve all entitlements in a package – from spa and golf to dining and activities and tours — in a single, guided online experience without requiring calls, emails or manual coordination with a property’s staff.
Congratulations to our TechOvation Finalists
The Grid, by Glowing.io - Finalist
The Grid is an agentic, natural-language AI layer that sits above the hospitality tech stack so staff can “just say it” - by voice or text. The Grid understands intent and orchestrates sub agent actions via modern protocols (e.g. MCP) across PMS/CRM/service ops. No rip-and-replace: The Grid augments your stack, cuts frontline screen time, unlocks multilingual knowledge, and provides leadership insights that lift revenue and reduce costs. The Grid is hospitality's first agentic system of action.
MeetingPackage CRS for Meetings & Events and Group Sales, by MeetingPackage - Finalist
CRS for Meetings & Events – manage all your group sales with one software. MeetingPackage CRS connects all group sales channels, offline or online, to hotels operational software allowing hoteliers to increase group revenue, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
2025 TechOvation Details:
- [CLOSED] Submit an application and a 90-second video showcasing your company's new product and its potential impact on the hospitality industry. - Application fee $250 USD
- These videos will be hosted on HTNG's YouTube Channel, where the public will engage and weigh in on what innovative technologies they seek to be effective to the industry.
- All videos will be watched by an esteemed judging panel, consisting of senior-level hotel IT executives on the Global T100. The judges will choose the seven semifinalists and the remaining three spots will be awarded through crowdsourcing. (Voting open 9/8-9/19.)
- The ten semifinalists will advance to present their products live at The Hospitality Show. - Semifinalist fee (includes a show floor pass at The Hospitality Show): $2,500 USD Startup members, $3,500 USD AHLA Allied members, $5,000 USD nonmembers
