The New Life of City Accommodation
Panel discussion at HIGH5 Innovation Conference


Bringing together hoteliers, innovators, and thought leaders to reshape the hospitality industry, HIGH5 covered hot topics like alternative accommodation concepts, tech-enabled operators, customer data privacy, or the latest real estate developments.
The past two years of pandemic have reshuffled the cards of what makes city businesses successful. What are new success factors, and how does technology help it create and sustain its competitive advantage?
Panel discussion: The New Life of City Accommodation
Speakers:
- Connor Llewellyn Ryterski, CEO @ prizeotel
- Dr. Josef Vollmayr, Managing Director & Co-founder @ Limehome
- Daniel Zawe, Managing Director @ SMARTments business
- Darren Sweetland, Managing Director @ Mollie's by Soho House & Co
- Uli Pillau, Co-CEO & Co-founder @ Apaleo
About Apaleo
Apaleo is the world's most open API-first property management platform for hospitality businesses. Powering over 2,000 properties in more than 30 countries, Apaleo streamlines operations and elevates guest experiences across hotels, vacation rentals, serviced apartments, and residential living. The modular core infrastructure allows operators to fully customize their tech stack and automate workflows without vendor lock-in. It replaces single-vendor suites with best-of-breed technology. Apaleo's Agent Hub–the first-ever AI agent marketplace for hospitality–helps operators adopt autonomous agents to improve business performance. Customers include citizenM, easyHotel, limehome, Korner Hotels, Miiro Hotels, and Numa. Apaleo is Phocuswright's 2025 EMEA Travel Innovation Award winner. For more, visit apaleo.com.
Thibault Gence
VP of Growth
Apaleo GmbH
