Welcome to Travolution's European Summit
Our flagship event once again brought together travel technology professionals to London on May 13, 2025.
Keeping up with the change in demand to stay reflective of our industry, we moved the summit back to ensure greater opportunities for more meaningful conversations and the ability to foster new partnerships.
We harnessed content on an array of pressing topics that are pertinent to success in the ever-evolving landscape of our sector, while being mindful of consumers’ demands from technology servicing travel.
This year’s summit explored the latest trends and innovations shaping the future of travel, including the potential of the Metaverse, the rise in experiential travel and the digitisation of transport services.
Being the pinnacle platform for top industry suppliers to meet with existing and new clients, the summit once again included a one-to-one meetings schedule. Suppliers and buyers had the opportunity to network with pre-confirmed 15-minute meetings before the insightful content kicked off.
For event enquiries, please contact Jamie.Dunning@Jacobsmediagroup.com, and for sponsorship enquiries contact Kim.Hulbert@jacobsmediagroup.com
Why should you attend the Travolution European Summit?
EXCLUSIVE NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES
Engage in meaningful discussions and build valuable connections with key industry players through pre-confirmed one-to-one meetings.
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
Hear senior travel and non-travel industry leaders present, discuss and debate the ever-evolving landscape of the travel technology sector.
KNOWLEDGE SHARING
Learn practical advice from others’ experiences through case studies, live demos and fireside chats to inform your future strategies.
STAY AHEAD OF THE CURVE
Gain insight into the topics that are pertinent to your future success.
What do things look like now and what will the future hold? How is AI and search going to develop over the coming years, what remains a priority and how you can rise to the landscape changing for volume of channel choice consumers now have with AI.
Speakers:
Joe Welton, head of travel, AWS UK
Christopher Evans, CEO, Collinson International
From employee to entrepreneur - meet the man behind it all. With a background in experiences, digital underpinning everything it all and consumer behaviour, we look at what the future holds for the OTA with a new person steering the ship.
Moderator:
Kate Harden-England, editor, Travolution
Speaker:
Alessandro Petazzi, CEO, lastminute.com
In an era where consumers expect seamless, personalised, and flexible shopping experiences, how can travel agencies evolve to meet these demands? This panel, hosted by DataArt, will bring together expert voices from travel technology and retailing industries to discuss the challenges and opportunities in modernising travel retailing. From overcoming legacy system limitations to integrating data-driven insights and eCommerce-inspired shopping experiences, our panellists will share their perspectives on how the industry can innovate and remain competitive in a rapidly changing landscape.
Moderator:
Nick Boni, senior solutions consultant, DataArt
Speakers:
Jack Bark, senior solutions architect, Amazon Web Services
James Lemon, global industry lead - hospitality, travel & leisure, Stripe
Denis Baranov, global head of retail, DataArt
Rewind to early 2019 and loveholidays was sitting at the top of the Sunday Times Profit Track 100 list, but its technology was struggling to keep pace with the scale of the business. Now, as the UK's largest online travel agent, it processes more package holiday combinations each day than there are grains of sand on Earth, consistently returning search results in under 150 milliseconds, 50 times faster than the original page speed.
This transformation wasn’t achieved by rolling out a single technical project, but by fundamentally rethinking the kind of company it is. Mike Jones, CTO of loveholidays, will share how a shift in the OTA's identity from being a travel company that uses tech, to a tech company that happens to be in travel, has driven the company's exponential growth post-pandemic.
Speaker:
Mike Jones, CTO, loveholidays
As numbers set to reach 700 million monthly users this year, why is it that this year we might see the technology take off?
Speaker:
Roman Townsend, managing director, Belvera Partners
Discover the unexpected ways Web3 and cryptocurrency are reshaping the travel landscape, growing in popularity as a form of connectivity and payment. What’s unique about these businesses? What are the practical use cases for travellers and for travel businesses in the B2B ecosystem?
Join industry trailblazers as they reveal how blockchain technology is revolutionising connectivity, distribution, and products in travel, potentially becoming the industry's game-changer by 2025.
Moderator:
James Lemon, global industry lead - hospitality, travel & leisure, Stripe
Speakers:
Michele "Mik" Ruberl, vp of product, Chain4Travel
Beatriz Oficialdegui, marketing and communications director, Destinia
Mickael Woelcke, it business analyst & project lead, Swiss International Air Lines Ltd
An important part of a traveller’s journey are airports, rail providers, bus and coach travel, and car hire. This panel delves into the work going into these components of a trip are improving.
Moderator:
Martijn van der Voort, travel technology consultant, AstraNomad
Speakers:
Louise Brown, director of digital experiences, Heathrow Airport
Paul Brindley, commercial director, Eurostar
Philip Yan, sr. director - industry relations & flights, Travix & head of airport partnerships, Trip.com
David Norris, chief growth officer, Holiday Extras
We sit down with experts across the sector in a variety of roles that are all necessary to come together to unlock success for business growth by ensuring we don’t trip over certain obvious factors at play when wanting to increase operations. We consider data, marketing, payments and risk.
Moderator:
Andy Owen Jones, co-founder and co-MD, Smartseer
Speakers:
John Musk, product director, Haven Holidays
Nicholas Smith, holidays digital director, eSky Group
Philip Grace, chief development officer, Bob W
This session promises to delve inside of the inner workings of this executive and their business. It will cut open key learnings from success stories, while speaking candidly about overcoming challenges and failures. Everything from the small gains to the mighty wins and across all aspects of business to what their key priorities and focuses are for the upcoming year.
Moderator:
Kate-Harden England, editor, Travolution
Speaker:
Bertrand Sava, general manager retail travel agencies, HBX Group
Events at No. 6 is a modern venue located in the City of London, just a short walk from Aldgate and Aldgate East, Fenchurch and Liverpool Street station. As the home of The Royal College of Pathologists, our state-of-the-art space is perfectly designed and is the first and only architectural practice in the world to have approved science-based targets and be carbon neutral via the United Nations Climate Neutral Now framework.
By attending the summit you will be able to take part in pre-arranged one-to-one meetings with our sponsors and meeting partners that are at the cutting edge of marketing distribution and innovative thinking.