Next year’s Golf Business Technology Conference is to take place in Belfast from May 4-6, with the conference moving to a new home at the Titanic Hotel Belfast in the city’s Titanic Quarter.
The hotel occupies the restored former headquarters and drawing offices of Harland & Wolff, the shipbuilders whose designers drew up plans for RMS Titanic and her sister ships more than a century ago. Many of the building’s original features have been preserved, including its celebrated Drawing Office, one of Belfast’s most striking interiors.
“We’ve always wanted GBTC to feel like more than a conference,” said Aboo Tayub, CEO of Golf Business Technology. “Belfast has a proud history of engineering and innovation, and bringing the golf industry’s technology conversation into the rooms where one of the most ambitious engineering projects of its age was designed feels exactly right. I believe it will make GBTC2027 our most memorable edition yet.”
After a year away, the GBTC Golf Day returns to Royal Belfast Golf Club. Founded in 1881, Royal Belfast is the oldest golf club in Ireland, with a course set on the shores of Belfast Lough at Craigavad, a short drive from the city.
The golf day has long been one of the most popular elements of the GBTC programme, giving delegates, speakers and partners the chance to continue the conversations of the conference out on the course.
GBTC brings together golf club owners, operators, managers and technology providers from across the UK, Ireland, Europe and beyond. Across three days, delegates will hear from industry leaders and innovators on the issues shaping the future of golf, including:
- Operations and efficiency: how technology is changing the way clubs are run
- Member and customer experience: from the first booking to the 19th hole
- Data, sustainability and commercial growth: what the numbers say, and what works in practice
Alongside its programme, the conference is known for high-quality networking, bringing suppliers and operators together on equal terms. Details of the 2027 speaker line-up, agenda and partners will be announced in the coming months.
Ticketing for GBTC2027 will go live on the GBT website shortly, with past attendees offered early access ahead of the public launch. Organisations interested in attending, partnering or exhibiting are invited to contact the GBT team directly.