Damien Murphy is a career hotel technologist with over 20 years connecting installing, migrating and integrating hotel systems. From humble beginnings in the industry carrying bags for guests through working the dreaded night shift and running hotel teams, Damien has taken this operational background and leveraged it to better implement and utilise many hospitality and enterprise systems.

Formerly the Hospitality Enterprise Architect for a multi billion dollar Casino Group in Australia, Damien has since co-founded hconnect, a hospitality focused integration platform. With pre-built connectors to many hospitality systems and a focus self-service, hconnect allows hoteliers to take back control of their integrations.

Damien is panel expert of the Information Technology panel.