Wednesday, August 12, 2009

WebInTravel 2009: sessions announced including two for the BOOT

The final speaker list and programme is now out for WebInTravel in Singapore October 20-23. Great list of speakers including CEOs or regional leasd for Sabre, AirAsia, Travelport, wego, Expedia, Wotif, Accor, Abacus, PhoCusWright, Jetstar, Webjet, Agoda, Rakuten, Jalan/Recruit, Zuji/Travelocity, AsiaRooms and Pegasus.

Your BOOT correspondent will be part of three sessions.

Day 1 - The Web Dissected

A summary of all of the new areas we have been covering this year at BOOT central. The official spiel is "Timothy Hughes will dissect the online travel landscape and shares his ideas on what works, what doesn't and what could work in future." Will see me on stage again with Ram Badrinathan of PhoCusWright. If you would like to see last year's session with Ram (as well as PCW CEO Philip Wolf) then go here.

Day 1 - Taming The Social Media Beast: Is It All About Twitter, and What About Search?

Moderating a fantastic panel with the following industry CEOs
Day 2 - The Great Debate: Finding The Right Mix For The Future

Moderating along with conference organiser Yeoh Siew Hoon. Other fantastic panel
  • Mark Inster, General Manager, Southeast Asia, Windows Live, Microsoft
  • Martin Symes, CEO, Wego
  • Morris Sim, CEO, Circos.com
  • Ram Badrinathan, General Manager-Asia, PhoCusWright Inc
  • Brett Henry, Vice President Marketing, Abacus International
  • Timothy O'Neil Dunne, Managing Partner, T2 Impact
Full programme here.

2 comments:

Sheheryar Khan said...

Thanks for sharing BOOT correspondance of three sessions.
China

Discover Queensland said...

Thanks for the info on BOOT. We may be sending an attendee ourselves.