Speaking on AI, hospitality and the owner’s side of the table
Talks
Selected talks and panels. Requests for speaking are welcome from owner-side organisations, hotel societies and investment forums.
Amir Sani, PhD speaks to owners, investors, operators and hotel societies on how AI changes hospitality from the owner’s side: how answer engines and generative search now choose hotels, what a digital estate is worth, and why the guest’s experience is the leading indicator no report contains. Next: AI & the Future of Hospitality at the Cornell Hotel Society’s inaugural London Lodging Outlook 2026, 28 September 2026, Virgin Hotels London-Shoreditch.
London Lodging Outlook 2026
28 September 2026, 08:00–11:00, Virgin Hotels London-Shoreditch. The Cornell Hotel Society’s inaugural London Lodging Outlook brings senior leaders from across the industry together for a morning of market insight, emerging trends and AI innovation.
- London market outlook from STR
- Kate Nicholls OBE, Chair of UKHospitality
- Industry trends with Andreas Scriven, Senior Managing Director, Teneo
- AI & the Future of Hospitality with Dr Amir Sani, AI Research & Development Lead, i²ntelligence
- Panel: Guy Pasley-Tyler (Co-CEO, Archer Hotel Capital), Karen Gilbride (Global VP, Premium Brand Delivery EMEAA, IHG), Guillaume Marly (GM, Waldorf Astoria London Admiralty Arch), Liv Gussing Burgess (MD, Luxury Hospitality Consulting), Emily Kanders Goldfischer (Founder & Editor in Chief, Hertelier)
Organised by the Cornell Hotel Society, London Chapter. Event details and registration.
The Experience Layer, ActivumSG AGM, 4 June 2026
“Reality, Data, and AI in the Future of Real Estate”: a hotel as a bounded operating ecology, how AI becomes the orchestration layer and humans move to the experience layer, why continuity still resets at checkout, and how the experience layer separates from the ownership layer. The thesis behind the Owner’s Audit’s Continuum readiness chapter. Read the thesis.
What the talk covers
- How generative search and answer engines now decide which hotels a guest sees, and what that does to the value of a digital estate.
- Why the promise made online and the delivery on property are one asset, and where the gap between them costs owners.
- What owners, lenders and investors should ask their operators about AI, and what they should not accept as an answer.
- The owner’s side of the table: evidence rather than reporting.
Speaking requests
Talks and panels for owner-side organisations, hotel societies, investment forums and private-markets events, in London and across Europe. Subjects: AI and the future of hospitality; the digital estate as an asset; owner-side evidence and operator performance; AI, automation and decision-making in private markets. Write to [email protected].
The Owner’s Audit
An in-residence hotel audit of the digital estate and the guest experience, commissioned by the owner rather than the operator. Unannounced, not silent. For luxury family resorts, golf resorts and five-star resorts in Europe.
Read how the Owner’s Audit runsEngagements begin with a conversation: [email protected]