Abigail Lorden (Past Speaker)

Abigail Lorden, VP of Hospitality Technology & Co-Founder of Restaurant Technology Network, is a brand leader with deep domain expertise in technology and business trends for hotels and restaurants. She heads up the highly influential B2B media brand HT including its flagship events MURTEC and HT-NEXT, and its spin-off membership community RTN. Abigail leads a talented team of editors, revenue drivers, researchers, marketers and community influencers for the hospitality practice at parent company EnsembleIQ, a B2B media firm headquartered in Chicago, Il.

Abigail's background as HT's editor-in-chief for more than 10 years gives her extensive insight into consumer and B2B technology trends for the hospitality industry. Throughout her tenure, she's launched the Restaurant Technology Network in 2019, HT-NEXT in 2017 (produced in partnership with HTNG), and spearheaded HT's highly-successful market research and analysis arm, including three annual industry benchmarking studies: Restaurant Technology Study, Lodging Technology Study, and Customer Engagement Study.