Over 400 Attend First Annual Travel and Expense Expo

The First Annual Travel and Expense Expo took place on Tuesday, February 21, and it was a great success.  The Travel and Expense Team in Procurement and Supplier Diversity Services is happy to have brought UVA travelers and travel planners together with our contract vendors in the area, and to have given them a first look at the new, online expense management system rolling out this spring.

Here's a look at the event, by the numbers: 

• Over 400 attendees, from academic units, administrative units, and the medical center
• 29 travel-related vendors
• 30 door prizes given away 
• 2 Demo sessions of Chrome River, the expense management software
• 100 + people attending each demo session
• 4 hours of travel related fun at Newcomb Hall
• 90% of attendees surveyed would recommend the event to a colleague

Door prizes ranged from free hotel stays and gift certificates to a Kindle Fire free airline tickets.  

Our winners were Linda Leake, Nina Pierce, Jenna Wines, Heidi Kzuch, Sarah Morgan, Julie Burns, Kerra Thurston, Wanda Weaver, Zvezdana Kish, Travis Key, Tina Rose W. Powell, Jacqueline Jarrell, Judith Talbot, Jane Clark, Carolyn Politis, Prof Macko, Steve Flower, Lindsay Grubbs, Joyce Holleran, Mark Jeter, Patrice Hayden, Minette Stroud, Mildred Dean, Winston Barham, Kelly Hogg, Louise O Rourke, Andrew Bell, Sherry Fitzgerald, Susan Chisholm, and Amanda Fortune.

Congratulations to our winners, and thank you again to our vendors, especially our Gold Sponsors: Bank of America, Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport, Christopherson Business Travel, Chrome River, and Enterprise Rent-A-Car. 

Whether you made it to the Expo or not, the Travel and Expense Team is happy to help you with your travel and expense questions.  Visit us here. 

See you at next year's Expo!    See more pictures from the event here.