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10:30 AM
30 Mins
Tomotaka Hirabayashi , Partner, Strategic Impact, EY Strategy and Consulting Co., Ltd.
17 Oct 2025
30 Mins
Partner, Strategic Impact, EY Strategy and Consulting Co., Ltd.
11:00 AM
30 Mins
Karma Young , CEO, TourMind
17 Oct 2025
30 Mins

AI is no longer a siloed tool — it is becoming the connective tissue of the global tourism ecosystem. This session offers a big-picture view of how AI will influence distribution networks, marketing strategies, sustainability initiatives, and cross-industry collaborations.

CEO, TourMind
11:30 AM
30 Mins
Joe Lu , CEO, HeyMax
17 Oct 2025
30 Mins

Here comes the turning point where consumers are more empowered than ever, they can be reached, persuaded, only by real emotional and economical value and utility. Come and hear how you yourself can make future trips to be free, and how you can leverage this revolution of power dynamics shift to empower your business’s ability to engage with customers.

CEO, HeyMax
12:00 PM
30 Mins
Alex Yardley , CEO, Flyfairly.com
Anand Bindumadhavan , Global Head of Banking, Triple-A
17 Oct 2025
30 Mins

This session explores how online travel agencies (OTAs) are leveraging stablecoin payments to reach new customer segments and drive growth. In conversation with one of our OTA clients, we’ll unpack how accepting stablecoins helps differentiate their offering, improve payment efficiency, and boost revenue.

CEO, Flyfairly.com
Global Head of Banking, Triple-A
12:30 PM
30 Mins
Jade Kang , Chief Product Officer, Orcar
17 Oct 2025
30 Mins

Car rental remains the most analog part of digital travel. Travelers still retype details, show physical documents, and leave unfair deposits because systems don’t know how to trust them. This session explores how technology can enable a truly frictionless and consistent travel experience—through digital identity, real-time assistance, and intelligent automation that builds trust instead of pressure. True customer-centricity combines personalisation with global consistency: travellers should feel equally recognised and understood anywhere within a brand. As travel evolves from efficiency to empathy, technology will redefine confidence—turning every journey into a seamless, trustworthy, and human experience.

Chief Product Officer, Orcar
01:00 PM
60 Mins
Anmol Rikhraj , Founding Partner, Ascentia Labs
Harsh Agarwal , Founder, ChatDMC
Daniel Chew , Sales Manager APAC, Kotozna
Daniel Shen , CEO, Soqqle
Srujan Yeleti , Founder, COO & CMO, Zetexa Global
17 Oct 2025
60 Mins

The travel industry is being rapidly transformed by a new wave of tech startups that are bringing fresh perspectives and disruptive solutions to traditional business models. These startups are leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as AI, blockchain, and machine learning to tackle long-standing challenges in the sector and create more personalised, efficient, and sustainable travel experiences.

Join us in this series of talks where we spotlight up-and-coming Travel Start-Ups and their innovative offerings.

Founding Partner, Ascentia Labs
Founder, ChatDMC
Sales Manager APAC, Kotozna
CEO, Soqqle
Founder, COO & CMO, Zetexa Global

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