Travel Is Your Business

A fireside chat on innovation between representatives of two of the most forward thinking travel groups… Rashesh Jethi (SVP Engineering for Americas & Head of Innovation for Airlines for the world’s largest GDS, Amadeus) and Bess Chapman (Operating Principal for JetBlue Technology Ventures) discuss travel tech infrastructure, innovation, and possibilities at the Travel Disruption Summit presented by Voyager HQ, and sponsored by Amadeus and Fareportal. In this episode: What AI means for the travel industry How everything has changed with hyper-cheap hyper-computing Used to depend on massive investments for AI, and now it simply requires a lot of data and smart people How machine learning sit on top of that, what it means when airlines and other travel business starts really knowing customers Machine learning is one discipline of AI, and it means you feed computer data, makes sense of data, make more personalized recommendations, much potential in marketing How it is a challenge that many players are at d