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AHICE Summit | Los Angeles
Wednesday 10 December 2025
Regent Santa Monica, California
The Americas Hotel Industry Conference & Exhibition (AHICE), hosted by HM and Wayfarer magazines, is set to make its return to California on December 10, 2025, with the second annual 4.5-hour Los Angeles Hotel Summit being held at the luxurious new Regent Santa Monica.
The event will be attended by Los Angeles and California’s leading hotel owners, operators, consultants and suppliers.
Our program for the 2025 event will include evocative, educational and insightful keynote speakers, Q&As and panel sessions featuring more than 20 key speakers from across Los Angeles, California and globally.
The return of AHICE to Los Angeles follows the success of our global events in Australia (Adelaide, Perth and Sydney), the United States (Hawaii and Los Angeles), Japan, Singapore, the Maldives, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Fiji, with more than 4,500 people attending what’s become the leading hotel industry event series across the Asia- Pacific region.event series across Asia-Pacific.
2025 AHICE SUMMIT LONDON HIGHLIGHTS
2024 AHICE SOCIAL GALLERY
2025 PROGRAM OVERVIEW
1:50pm-2:40pm - REGISTRATION, afternoon tea, coffee and treats.
2:40pm - WELCOME TO THE 2025 LOS ANGELES HOTEL SUMMIT BY AHICE.
2:40pm-2:50pm - PRESENTATION: LOS ANGELES, BY THE NUMBERS.
The essential statistical outlook for Los Angeles in 2026 and beyond by MICHAEL STATHOKOSTOPOULOS, Senior Director of Hospitality Analytics, CoStar Group.
2:50pm-3:00pm - LEADERSHIP Q&A
IHG Hotels and Resorts’ SVP Managing Director Luxury, Lifestyle and Managed Hotels – Americas, LEANNE HARWOOD.
3:00pm-3:20pm - PANEL SESSION: LOS ANGELES TOURISM OUTLOOK.
Expectations for 2026 with leading hotel and tourism executives.
Hosted by:
• COOPER JITTS, Founder, Talk Agency
Panelists:
• To be revealed
3:20pm-3:30pm - LEADERSHIP Q&A
Irongate Group Corporate Asset Manager, SEZIN KUTLU.
3:30pm-3:45pm - KEYNOTE: LIVE MUSIC ROCKS.
A legendary Los Angeles musician, to be revealed, in conversation with the lead singer of Ashenmoon, RadioXX and Juke Kartel, TOBY RAND.
Lead singer of Ashenmoon, RadioXX and Juke Kartel, LA-based Toby Rand started his career in Melbourne and has gone on to be an acclaimed artist in the United States and Australia.
He shot to fame on the TV show Rockstar: Supernova and now has residencies in Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
Having regularly performed in hotels like Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, he’s a strong advocate of the power of supporting local artists.
In this enlightening discussion he will look at the opportunity hotels have to support local artists and in turn provide guests with fantastic entertainment, night-in, night-out.
3:45pm-4:05pm - PANEL SESSION: LOS ANGELES HOTELIERS’ OUTLOOK.
Expectations for Los Angeles in 2026 and beyond by leading Hoteliers.
Hosted by:
• BENJAMIN KRIEG, Senior Vice President Operations and Global Strategic Accounts, FutureLog
Panelists:
4:05pm-4:15pm - KEYNOTE: A WORLD WELL TRAVELLED.
by FOX News Travel Expert and the youngest American to travel to every country in the world, LEE ABBAMONTE.
4:15pm-4:25pm - PRESENTATION: THE LOS ANGELES REAL ESTATE MARKET OUTLOOK.
Expectations for 2026 and beyond from a leading executive.
4:25pm-4:40pm - KEYNOTE: To be announced
4:40pm-5:00pm - PANEL SESSION: LOS ANGELES HOTEL INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OUTLOOK.
Expectations for 2026 and beyond with investors and development executives.
Hosted by:
• To be revealed
Panelists:
• EDDY NEVAREZ, First Vice President Investments & Director, National Hospitality Division, Marcus & Millichap
• TARAN PATEL, Managing Principal, A-1 Hospitality Group
• Speakers to be revealed
5:00pm-5:15pm - KEYNOTE: To be revealed
5:15pm-7:15pm - NETWORKING: Gala networking event at the Regent Santa Monica Beach.
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*Program is subject to change
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