E Horner & Associates Pty Ltd Australia

Over 40 years experience in the Hospitality Industry, of which the last twenty years have been spent in the computer industry.

Qualifications

Diploma of Hotel and Catering Management, Footscray Institute of Technology, (Now Victoria University)

Highlights

2004 HFTP Hospitality Technology Hall of Fame Inductee at Dallas, Texas, USA. First non-American to be inducted at HITEC.

A founding member of Hotel Technology-Next Generation (HTNG) in June 2002 an industry organisation to facilitate the development of next-generation, customer-centric technologies to better meet the needs of the global hotel community. At that time, hotels sometimes had 50 different systems that were not inter-operable. https://www.ahla.com/htng

A founding member of The Hospitality Information Technology Association (HITA) formed on January 26, 1992 by a group of hospitality educators, industry practitioners and Information Technology vendors attending a technology conference presented by Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration, Ithaca, New York.

Launched the first dedicated Australian Hospitality Technology Conference and Exhibition held in Sydney in August 1996. In 2002 this event was been incorporated into another show called "Hospitality LIVE". It returned to the Australasian Hospitality Technology Conference & Exhibition again in 2005. This show has now evolved into Ted's Technology Summit https://tedsconference.com.au/

Written regularly for all of the major hospitality magazines in Australia including Hospitality and Convention News, Hotel Management, Hotel and Tourism & Hospitality Update and USA Hospitality Upgrade.

Visited, spoke and facilitated sessions at the major hospitality shows in the world namely:

• HITEC (the Hospitality Industry Technology Exhibition and Conference held in the U.S. each year), every year since 1989. Also a member of the advisory board to develop conference programs.
• Over last 11 years moderated International Hotel & Technology Forums, held in various locations throughout Europe. https://www.arena-international.com/event/ihtf/
• Moderated HTNG Next conferences held throughout Asia over last 10 years
• Hilton Worldwide Regional Conference Cairo May 23
• Guest Speaker Assa Abloy Pathway to Success Conference 2024
• EurHotec the Pan-European hospitality technology show held in Europe by the International Hotel and Restaurant Association in the 90's.
• HOSPA Technology Show held in London.

Been a keynote speaker at major conferences over the last 20+ years both in Australia and Overseas including the HITEC, IHTF and UK Technology show.

Regularly gives guest lectures at major hospitality colleges throughout Australia and overseas.

Own Consulting Practice specialising in Technology Consulting to the Hospitality Industry from 1989 to the present.

National Marketing Manager of JCN Systems, at one time one of Australia's largest Front Office System suppliers

Consultant with Horwath & Horwath.

Six years experience with at the time, one of Australia’s largest hospitality Point of Sale suppliers, HRC, including the establishment of the Victorian office in 1981. During this period he pioneered the introduction of PC-based stock control systems to suburban hotels in Melbourne and over a five year period was involved in more than eighty sites, ranging from sites such as the Regent Hotel and Victorian Arts Centre Complex to small country hotels.

Eighteen months with NCR where he received his basic training in Point of Sale Systems.