SAP Concur and Groupize: A Blueprint for Democratizing Meeting Planning

In an SAP Concur podcast, Groupize co-founder Alisa de Gaspe Beaubien discusses how Concur Event Management democratizes meeting planning. The platform targets occasional planners, offering venue bidding, automatic cost comparison reports, registration with vaccination card upload, real-time communication, budget tracking, and post-event reconciliation. The conversation notes that group meetings account for about 43% of T&E spend, and about 43% of workers are contingent, whom the platform can manage as non-profile travelers. Research shows the solution can save 23 hours per event.