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Summit showcases the best startup and emerging companies selected by industry experts and Phocuswright technology analysts.

Mileslife is an innovative mileage-earning app to connect airlines, merchants, consumers and banks.

Redeam solves a multi-billion dollar problem by eliminating paper vouchers from the Tours & Attractions industry.

Defining tomorrow’s hospitality: The future of hotels and how digitization can change the travel industry.

Visually see ConnexPay re-invent how travel companies accept cards and pay for travel to save hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Bidroom brings fairness to the hospitality industry with a 0% commission booking platform and discounted room prices.

Splitty's unique hotel deals help travelers find lower prices by improving how hotels utilize their inventory.

This first hotel price prediction app is like Hopper for hotels.

The first metasearch tailored to the needs of beach holiday tourists.

Travel insurance isn't innovative. Pablow is flipping this perception via AI and automation in the vacation rental market.

There are many issues in housekeeping surrounding costs, injuries, and guest satisfaction. Maidbot intends to solve these issues through automation, using our product, Rosie.

Reduce data complexity and augment experience intensity with the first independent data agility platform for the air industry.

Mezi, an AI-powered personal travel assistant, arms TMCs, corporates and travel agents with the most advanced AI for travel.

The dynamic travel industry now focuses on personalization and creating content-rich experiences. Travel organizations are using artificial intelligence and emerging technologies such as chatbots to enhance the traveler experience. Explore how new technologies can help differentiate and enhance the customer experience. Learn how to focus on the right solutions and put the “I” back in AI.

Gain insight on how to seamlessly leverage chatbots and AI-driven self-service, address digital priorities, and identify what to focus on with limited budgets. The session will also present several success stories and challenges in adopting these emerging technologies. Most importantly, you’ll explore how a domain-led approach can strategically differentiate your sales and service operation.

Gain exclusive access into the 2017 Global Payments Report. Explore new trends in travel and how consumers are paying online globally. You’ll also uncover the latest in payment data and what that tells us about the future of e-commerce.

As travelers become increasingly connected, discover where mobile commerce has taken center stage, and hear what alternative payment methods are set to dominate over the next decade.

The Global Payments Report outlines payment trends and preferences across 36 countries compiled using a combination of Worldpay’s data and insights, external findings and secondary data from more than 100 independent sources.

Mobile’s explosive growth has created a shift in how metasearch giants evaluate consumer bookings. More than half of travel-related browsing now occurs on mobile, making this platform a strategic imperative for brands. But metasearch is not optimized for mobile, allowing OTAs to capture a majority of bookings, owing to their ease of use. Adding to the complexity, shoppers prefer spending in-app, with smoother checkout experiences and saved payment credentials. Metasearch engines are struggling to link intelligently on mobile – especially in-app – losing consumers in the lengthy process. It’s a lost opportunity that should be attributed to the metasearch site. Join this discussion of the challenges metasearch engines face on mobile, and discover how to grow conversions through optimized booking flows and improve the overall user experience.

You know all the actions your travelers take when they engage with your brand. But what about the wealth of other actions they take and purchases they make, on- and offline? With the right person-level data, you’ll know exactly what to talk to each customer about, across all their devices. And you can do it in a totally anonymized, privacy-protected way.

Explore how to execute the smartest, most efficient digital campaigns for travel marketers by extending the reach of direct mail and email marketing programs into the world of digital to drive bookings and customer loyalty.

Metasearch and online marketplaces evolved to bring choice and transparency in products and pricing. While a Russian traveler might be able to discover the best airfare from a seller in Mexico, linguistic challenges, financial and business regulations still hamper ticket issuance, payment fulfillment and customer service.

Companies typically connect to multiple sources to access airline inventory and fares. iGola eliminates that need by curating feeds from over 150 airlines and 50 OTAs to process hundreds of millions of air combinations. Find out how to eliminate pricing and foreign exchange hurdles, and support payment methods such as PayPal, WeChat, Alipay and China UnionPay.

Optimize your China market entry and power your business to discover the best airfares from any channel and from any market.

The rise of mobile bookings and chatbots fosters the need for greater relevance and trustworthiness in travel offers. Gain an in-depth understanding of the industry’s missing link: travel product DNA data. Explore how the shift from structured to unstructured queries is reshuffling the deck in online travel, and how the key role of the product knowledge base is driving conversions. Learn how travel and lifestyle products are defined by consumers themselves to further build trust and loyalty.

The growing popularity of smartphones and tablets among travelers has proven a challenge in managing the consumer journey. Delivering personally and contextually relevant content is key to providing an integrated customer experience. The travel industry has been constrained by a ‘one-size-fits-all’ content approach, with little regard for individual consumer preferences because it has been technologically impossible. Attend this discussion to explore how ‘robots’ – automated content machines – can now handle most traditional content creation, translation and Internet publishing processes, to accomplish in minutes what has often taken months. In a world where textual content is back in vogue with chatbots and voice assistants, every travel business needs to understand how it’s done.

Futurists have long predicted that technology will end of face-to-face meetings. They were wrong! Gaest.com empowers buyers with tools to easily search, find and book inspiring meeting venues online.

Beachy maps beaches and powers beachfront commerce with the first SaaS solution built specifically for beachfront vendors.

No one likes flight disruptions. Explore a better way for travelers to get compensation and airlines to retain loyalty.

Wanup is a new loyalty club solution. The alliance boosts business within partner hotels, while offering relevant rewards to business travelers.

Travel Appeal finds all relevant data about a venue, analyzes it through AI and provides plain-English insights.

See how to find the perfect hotel for customers via tools built with travel innovation insights.

TopPlace uncovers the most-loved areas in any city on Earth. Travelers can book the best location for their stay, no research time needed.

Freebird is a flight rebooking tool that improves traveler experience after disruptions, saving businesses time and money.

TWIP connects travelers based on travel behavior. Consider it the LinkedIn and Netflix for travelers.

UpLift announces new flexible payment solutions for travel providers including integrated layaway and loans for web and agents.

"Concierge as a Service" - A superior guest experience chatbot for hotels, spas and resorts.

Bizly is an enterprise solution for managing small meeting spend and compliance risk.

Some raise a ton. Others go by bootstrap. Some take to flights. Others focus on the stay. But one constant remains: Travel is attracting more entrepreneurs and more investment than ever. Our industry's appetite for innovation and reinvention has never been greater. Hear from three new, growing voices from different corners of the globe. Each is tackling a distinct segment of our industry and having an outsized impact on how we fly, stay and experience.

Leaders in venture and corporate investing from Silicon Valley to London to China convene to share their insights on the global state of startups, innovation and investment trends in travel. From the overlooked to the overhyped, this roundtable discusses the future of travel investing, shares key insights every aspiring founder should hear, and goes deep into what's next in travel.