The Start-up and Innovation Summit - previously born to service the start-up community - is changing. It is growing to reflect the needs of the market.
We are now seeing an increasing demand for less incubator-led content and a bigger push towards providing blue skies thinking, insights and solutions that address the biggest demands of the industry, without having to wait for our European Summit.
Our October event will now see us shift our focus to all things innovative and transformative, for businesses to see where new opportunities from new ideas lie.
To the backdrop of next-gen talent and innovation spend, we will launch our content-packed, insight-driven Innovation Report, and our Start-Up of the Year category will be judged live, before we explore new horizons.
As the industry continues to develop at pace, join us for a chance to stay in-the-know for what's coming next.
We look forward to welcoming you all to the White Space at The Ministry on Tuesday, October 29.
If you have any questions regarding the event please contact Dee Champaneri, darshana.champaneri@jacobsmediagroup.com
For sponsorship enquiries, please contact Kimberley Hulbert, Kim.Hulbert@jacobsmediagroup.com
The 2024 Innovation Report will offer detailed insight of who’s spending how much on what in the UK travel industry. Our excusive analysis of Office for National Statistics data will show how travel agents, tour operators, hotel companies, cruise and ferry operators, and aviation firms are spending in five areas of IT, as we continue to make amends for the effects of the pandemic. The report will also highlight the trajectory for the future and the top opportunities.
Moderator:
Kate Harden-England, editor, Travolution
Speakers:
Clare de Bono, country manager, Amadeus UK and associate director strategy & transformation, Amadeus
James Spalding, regional director (Northern Europe & North America) flight business unit,
Trip.com
Join us for this session as we learn from the OTA's CCO on how it mastered its niche to go on to develop it into a secondary source of revenue. In diversifying itself, there were lots of lessons, from surprises along the way, overcoming challenges, what is needed to go from a buyer to a supplier, and brilliant case studies.
Speaker:
Martin Kleinman, supply director & chief commercial officer, lastminute.com
We hear from one of the key players in global travel, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, on how they tackle injecting innovation into their offering to boost revenue, elevate their service to guests and make their day-to-day operations run more seamlessly.
Moderator:
Kate Harden-England, editor, Travolution
Speaker:
Dimitris Manikis, president, EMEA, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
A new segment for the Start-up and Innovation Summit. Each year, we’ll welcome back a previous winner of the Travolution Start-up of the Year award or a successful company that is now out of the start-up stage, to share important learnings from their journey to success and what their origin story looked like.
Speaker
Andy Owen Jones, MD and co-founder, Smartseer
Sponsored by:
Breaking down barriers and friction points to result in a less fragmented user experience for travellers is critical. Payment solution providers can hold the key to this success.
How can you offer value beyond payments? What does this entail and how does it boost ROI? From rewards and loyalty to partnerships, and more, how can we address pain points for high speed, low cost and secure payments.
Speaker:
Charles Tandonnet, VP growth program of travelsoft group, Travelsoft Group
Sonia Holman, e-commerce & marketing director, Fred Olsen Cruise Lines
Roberto Da Re, CEO, Travel Ledger
This session will see founders from our first round of travel start-ups each give short five-minute elevator pitches about their companies in front of a panel of industry experts who have two minutes to grill them on their plans.
Judges:
Evantia Giumba, business development director, Amadeus Launchpad and commercial director Benelux & France online, travel sellers, Amadeus
James Spalding, regional director (Northern Europe & North America) flight business unit, Trip.com
Steve Hawkins, commercial director, WEX
Gabriel Giscard d’Estaing, vice president, Cambon Partners
Leonardo Saroni, general partner, TravelTech VC
Ian Brooks, co-founder, Gail Kenny Executive Recruitment
Shortlist:
iWander
Hands In
Ruuts.travel
Speakspots
Chain4Travel
Sponsored by:
This one-on-one interview will delve into how the CEO of an industry leader has transformed the way it approaches its business in order to answer its changing demands from travellers and the lesson along the way they have picked up. As part of that journey, how technology, interconnectivity and data will act as an enabler of this transformation for not just this travel giant, but others too.
Moderator:
Charlotte Lamp Davies, CEO,
A Bright Approach
Speaker:
Alan French, CEO, Thomas Cook
We'll unpack the pertinence of it and how it's not a heavy lift to reap huge rewards and benefits for both company and customer, as well as identifying the innovation going on in this area to service business better. What are the must-knows, must-haves and must-avoids.
Moderator:
Kate Harden-England, editor, Travolution
Speaker:
Nicole Pallavicini, partner – cyber – financial lines, McGill and Partners
Evelyn Williams, cyber essentials assessor, in2secure
This session will see the founders of four travel start-ups each give short five-minute elevator pitches about their companies in front of a panel of industry experts who have two minutes to grill them on their plans.
Judges:
Evantia Giumba, business development director, Amadeus Launchpad and commercial director Benelux & France online, travel sellers, Amadeus
James Spalding, regional director (Northern Europe & North America) flight business unit, Trip.com
Steve Hawkins, commercial director, WEX
Gabriel Giscard d’Estaing, vice president, Cambon Partners
Leonardo Saroni, general partner, TravelTech VC
Ian Brooks, co-founder, Gail Kenny Executive Recruitment
Shortlist:
ExpectMe
RezKit
Trapi
The Trip Boutique AI
Our speakers are experts drawn from leading travel and disruptive digital brands
The Start-up and Innovation Summit's commercial partners are at the cutting edge of marketing distribution and innovative thinking