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Shimon Avish

Vice President Consulting, DigiTravel Consulting

Shimon Avish is Vice President Consulting for DigiTravel Consulting, a consulting firm focused on digitizing and simplifying the managed travel ecosystem, established in June 2019. Avish's focus is on helping organizations curate and integrate newly emerging technologies into their travel and meetings management programs. 
 

Avish is a 20+ year veteran of travel and meetings management. As a consultant, he has worked for American Express Consulting, American Express Meetings & Events, Management Alternatives, and managed his own consulting firm for several years. He has led initiatives to design and build global meetings management programs for major corporations and has helped numerous organizations establish and maintain their travel management programs. Avish has spent many years as a member and vice-chair of the Gobal Business Travel Association’s Meetings Committee and led the committee's Thought Leadership Initiative.  He is a frequent contributor to industry publications, a presenter at numerous conferences, and an industry thought leader.

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Shimon’s Recent activity

Why You Should Care About Duty-of-Care Risks
Why You Should Care About Duty-of-Care Risks
Jun 15, 2015
Life science and financial service companies must manage their meetings because of the regulatory requirements imposed on them by governments around the world. As a result, much of the meetings management attention h...
Savings, Compliance, Who Cares!
Savings, Compliance, Who Cares!
Mar 24, 2015
How much (electronic) ink have I spilled holding forth about savings and compliance being the rationales for the establishment of a meetings management program? Too much to quantify! But was I right? Well, at the time...
Darn that SMM Data!
Feb 18, 2015
I am often struck by how corporate meeting professionals understand the need for strategic meetings management while simultaneously disparaging SMM for not putting the needs of meeting stakeholders front and center...
Meetings policies must address regulatory dutyofcare and fiduciary risk mana
The 18 Areas a Meeting Policy Must Cover
Jan 13, 2015
I frequently write about the limited adoption of strategic meetings management programs by organizations that are leaving themselves highly exposed from regulatory, duty-of-care, and fiduciary perspectives. Companies...
Why Companies Shun the ‘M’ Word
Dec 19, 2014
I have been involved in strategic meetings management for 12 years now, and I have seen only a small handful of instances where organizations were willing to use the word “mandate” when describing their SMM programs...
The Stalling of Strategic Meetings Management
The Stalling of Strategic Meetings Management
Nov 18, 2014
In previous pieces I have written about how important I think strategic meetings management is, and what I think should be included in an SMM program. And yet, it seems to me that the spread of SMM has stalled. For...
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