Each year at the HT-NEXT Awards Program, one company is presented with the prestigious TechOvation award for innovative products that have a big impact on the hospitality industry. We are thrilled to announce that the Beekeeper team app is this year’s TechOvation award recipient!
After being chosen as a semi-finalist from the initial pool of nominees, and then as a top-three finalist in the second phase of the competition, Beekeeper was a resounding audience favorite. After a live presentation at HT-NEXT by Corey McCarthy, VP of Global Marketing at Beekeeper, on how the Beekeeper team app is transforming hotel internal communications, a panel of 34 judges including CIOs from Marriott, Hyatt, Hard Rock, and Four Seasons Hotels, advanced Beekeeper into the final round. Hundreds of attending hospitality and technology professionals voted Beekeeper as the 2018 TechOvation Award winner.
HTNG Recognizes Beekeeper as Best New Hospitality Technology
The HT-NEXT Awards Program joins Hospitality Technology’s Hotel Technology Forum and the HTNG (Hospitality Technology Next Generation) North American Conference. HTNG is a global not-for-profit trade association that fosters the development of next-generation solutions through collaboration and partnership between hospitality professionals and technology providers.
Michael Blake, CEO of HTNG, congratulated Beekeeper on the award: “The Beekeeper app uses both factors of convenience and mobility that we see rapidly growing in the hospitality industry. We recognize Beekeeper for their innovation and are very happy to announce them as HTNG’s 2018 TechOvation Award Winner!”
Beekeeper App Transforms Hospitality Internal Communications
Beekeeper’s journey to earning the TechOvation Award began in December 2017, joining fellow award candidates in producing and submitting compelling 90-second videos to demonstrate Beekeeper’s innovative approach to employee engagement, real-time mobile collaboration, enhanced internal communication––and the impact of our intuitively-designed team app on the hospitality industry.
Check out our submission video!
Corey McCarthy, VP of Global Marketing at Beekeeper, accepted the TechOvation award. “Beekeeper is thrilled to be named the HTNG 2018 TechOvation Award Winner,” she said. “Our digital workplace platform reaches every single employee with relevant messaging. This is critical to the 1.9 million front- and back-of-house hotel employees who don’t sit at a desk or have a company email address. When you create a great employee experience, it translates to a great guest experience. Winning the 2018 TechOvation Award signifies that hoteliers see a dire need for digital transformation in workplace communications. Beekeeper not only empowers staff, but our open API supports integration with existing operational systems. That means hotels can use Beekeeper for payroll, scheduling, file sharing, task management, and other systems.”
We are honored to be recognized by HTNG as the 2018 TechOvation Award winner, and extend warm congratulations to all of the contestants!
