All Sessions
33 sessions
5:14Passivebolt - Global Startup Pitch Scaleup Winner: Kabir Maiga, CEO at The #Phocuswright Conference
Kabir Maiga, CEO of PassiveBolt, delivered the winning pitch for the Global Startup Pitch Scaleup competition at The Pho...
6:07Levee - Global Startup Pitch Seedup Winner: Al Lagunas, Founder & CEO @ The #Phocuswright Conference
Al Lagunas, Founder and CEO of Levee, delivers the Global Startup Pitch Seedup Winner presentation at the Phocuswright C...
5:52Bonafide - a #PhocusWire Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2026
Layton Han, CEO of Bonafide.ai, presents the company's solution to what he terms the "AI alignment problem" in the trave...
12:25Welcome to The #Phocuswright Conference
This session is the official welcome and opening of the Phocuswright Conference, held in San Diego. The co-hosts open th...
24:25Everyone's trying to sell travel - The New Travel Seller Arena at The #Phocuswright Conference
This Phocuswright Conference panel, moderated by Lorraine Sileo, examines the emergence of non-traditional travel retail...
26:40Street Talk: Finance, investment, M&A, IPOs in travel at The #Phocuswright Conference
This Phocuswright Conference panel brings together three senior Wall Street analysts — Mark Mahaney (Evercore), Lloyd Wa...
18:50Travel, Trust and America's Welcome with U.S. Travel Association CEO Geoff Freeman #Phocuswright
Geoff Freeman, President and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, speaks with Phocuswright's Mitra Sorrells in a frank fi...
18:15Competing in Travel’s Next Era with Sabre's CEO Kurt Ekert - The #Phocuswright Conference
In this fireside chat at The Phocuswright Conference, Sabre CEO Kurt Ekert speaks with PhocusWire executive editor Linda...
18:48AI, Innovation and the Next Era of Distribution - with Amadeus at The #Phocuswright Conference
In this fireside chat at The Phocuswright Conference, Robert Buckman, SVP of Solution Consulting Americas at Amadeus, sp...
26:38AI Agents, Real Transactions - The New Travel Economy at The #Phocuswright Conference 2025
This panel from The Phocuswright Conference 2025 brings together payments leaders from Visa, Stripe, and ARC (Airlines R...
26:28Hotels, Homes and Beyond — The Expanding Hospitality Arena at The #Phocuswright Conference
This Phocuswright Conference panel brings together Jennifer Hsieh (Marriott International), Dave Stephenson (Airbnb), an...
21:53Here's how Booking.com is playing to win in the next era of travel - The #Phocuswright Conference
Rob Ransom, Chief Strategy Officer of Booking Holdings, sits down with Phocuswright SVP of Content Mitra Sorrells at The...
23:30Reinventing hotel booking with AI - Holden, Kaufer and Vakil with Chris Hemmeter - #Phocuswright
This Phocuswright panel brings together three heavy-hitting travel industry veterans — Richard Holden (former VP/GM of G...
30:21How to compete for the modern hotel guest - The #Phocuswright Conference
This Phocuswright Conference panel brings together four hospitality industry leaders — Jean-Jacques Morin (Group Deputy...
24:38Business Travel’s Next Move at The #Phocuswright Conference 2025
This panel from The Phocuswright Conference 2025 explores the evolving dynamics of corporate travel, featuring Evan Konw...
19:19How Agoda's CEO Omri Morgenshtern is pushing boundaries far beyond its home turf #Phocuswright
In this fireside chat at Phocuswright, Agoda CEO Omri Morgenshtern speaks with Siew Hoon Yeoh of WIT and Northstar Trave...
30:04Leveling Up - Tech and Product for the Next 20 - at The #Phocuswright Conference 2025
This Phocuswright 2025 Bridge Series panel, moderated by Pete Comeau and Siew Hoon Yeoh, brings together Bryan Batista (...
11:44Yanolja - a 2025 Changemaker at The #Phocuswright Conference 2025
Jeff Kim, CEO of Yanolja Cloud and CSO of Yanolja Group, presents the company's vision and strategy at the Phocuswright...
12:24Changemakers: Mize at The #Phocuswright Conference 2025
Dor Krubiner, CEO and co-founder of Mize, presents the company's concept of the 'invisible loss' in travel — the revenue...
11:13Rome2Rio - 2025 Changemaker at The #Phocuswright Conference
Wendy Olson Killion, CEO of Rome2rio, presents the company's vision and strategy at the Phocuswright Conference 2025 Cha...
7:49The industry says BoomPop is the Travel Innovator of the Year - #Phocuswright Innovation Launch 2025
Healey Cypher, co-founder and CEO of BoomPop, presents the company's AI-powered corporate event management platform at t...
9:24Acai Travel - WINNER People's Choice Award - #Phocuswright Innovation: Launch 2025
Riccardo Vittoria, CEO of Acai Travel, delivered this Phocuswright Innovation: Launch 2025 pitch — which won the People'...
9:00Wenrix RUNNER-UP Travel Innovator of the Year - #Phocuswright Innovation: Launch 2025
Amir Balaish, CEO of Wenrix, presents DeepFlow — an AI execution layer for post-booking travel servicing — as a runner-u...
10:27What Can Travel Learn from AI Native Startups? #Phocuswright research
Mike Coletta, Senior Manager of Research and Innovation at Phocuswright, presents findings from a global survey of trave...
9:49Loyalty - Back to the Roots | Phocuswright Research with Madeline List
Madeline List, Manager of Research and Special Projects at Phocuswright, presents original research on travel loyalty wi...
15:21Payments to Priorities - The U.S. Traveler Mindset in 2025 | #Phocuswright research
Alicia Schmid, Director of Research at Phocuswright, presents findings from the firm's latest consumer travel research c...
3:13Winners of the 2025 Philip C. Wolf Memorial Scholarship
This short segment covers two distinct moments from a travel industry conference. The first is the announcement of the 2...
31:29New Leadership for a New Age at The #Phocuswright Conference
This interactive workshop session at the Phocuswright Conference, titled 'New Leadership for a New Age,' was facilitated...
28:22From Discovery to Departure – Designing Effortless Experiences Sponsored by Sutherland #Phocuswright
This interactive roundtable from Phocuswright, sponsored by Sutherland, examines the persistent challenge of personaliza...
7:15The 2025 Phocuswright Hall of Fame inductees - Richard Barton and Erik Blachford
This session captures the 2025 Phocuswright Hall of Fame induction ceremony honoring Richard (Rich) Barton and Erik Blac...
22:19Travel search in the AI era according to Google - The #Phocuswright Conference 2025
James Byers, Group Product Manager for Travel at Google Search, delivers a presentation and fireside chat at The Phocusw...
28:37"Life? Travel? Count on it!" Barry Diller returns after 20 years: The #Phocuswright Conference
Barry Diller, Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC and Expedia Group, returns to the Phocuswright Conference after a 20-...
26:18Social Search, Viral Inspiration with Reddit, TikTok, YouTube - The Phocuswright Conference 2025
This panel from The Phocuswright Conference 2025, moderated by Madeline List of Phocuswright, brings together Eric DeLan...