Brian Kirkland

Recent appearances

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  AI 2025: The Year in Review of AI Applications & Milestones Across the Travel & Hospitality Industry

  April 06, 2026 · 📺 HTNG

  Date: January 14, 2026 Speakers: Greg Land, AWS; Brian Kirkland, Choice Hotels Join the AI Community of Interest for a presentation and discussion on real-world AI applications and the tangible business value emerging across the Travel & Hospitality industry. Greg Land, AWS Global Leader for Hospitality, along with Brian Kirkland, CIO/CTO of Choice Hotels, will share AI success stories from airlines, airports, accommodations, and other key industry segments. We will also review major AI milestones from the past year and explore how these advancements can be leveraged to drive meaningful busin…

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  Fireside Chat: Choice Hotels on modernizing its approach to data | Amazon Web Services

  April 16, 2024 · 📺 Amazon Web Services

  In this fireside chat, Choice Hotel's chief information officer Brian Kirkland talks with Tia White—GM, AWS AI/ML AdTech and MarTech at Amazon Web Services (AWS)—about how the multinational hospitality company is modernizing its approach to data. From migrating data and going all-in on AWS to improving the customer experience with personalization—Choice Hotels is using AWS services to build its entire data analytics platform in the cloud. Learn more about how AWS is helping its hospitality customers innovate: https://go.aws/3TTGg23 Subscribe: More AWS videos: https://go.aws/3m5yEMW More AW…

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  IT Leadership Panel

  January 14, 2021 · 📺 Hospitality Technology

  The IT leadership panel brings together top executives from leading hospitality brands to unpack the major issues impacting the lodging, travel and hospitality industry. We'll talk about how the pandemic is affecting technology roadmaps and implementations, how workforce management tech is evolving (at the corporate level also!), and ask our panelists about their 2021 plans when it comes to marketing, loyalty and enhancing the guest experience. Panelists include: John Laplante, CIO, G6 Hospitality Brian Kirkland, CTO, Choice Hotels, Michael Mrini, VP of IT, Edwardian Hotels London, and Robert…

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