Backstage at Skift Tech Forum 2018, Skift interviewed the travel industry's top leaders about challenges and trends in personalization, distribution, and innovation.

Speakers

Andrew Watterson

EVP & Chief Revenue Officer
Southwest Airlines

Tony Donohoe

Chief Technology Officer & SVP
Expedia

Decius Valmorbida

President, Travel Channels
Amadeus

Bonny Simi

President
JetBlue Technology Ventures

Max Levchin

Founder & CEO
Affirm

Gordon Wilson

President & CEO
Travelport

Steven Taylor

Global Chief Brand Officer
AccorHotels

Rajiv Rajian

EVP of Business Travel Agencies, Travel Channels
Amadeus

Chris Silcock

EVP & Chief Commercial Officer
Hilton

Mark Nasr

Vice President, Loyalty and E-Commerce
Air Canada

Lee McCabe

Vice President of North America
Alibaba Group

Chris Hemmeter

Co-Founder & Managing Director
Thayer Ventures
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About This Collaboration

Skift Take Studio is brought to you by Amadeus and SkiftX, the in-house creative studio at Skift.

Travel powers progress. Amadeus powers travel. Amadeus’ solutions connect travelers to the journeys they want through travel agents, search engines, tour operators, airlines, airports, hotels, cars and railways.

Amadeus has developed technology in partnership with the travel industry for 30 years. They help connect over 1.5 billion people a year to local travel providers in over 190 countries.

Amadeus is evolving to become an open, dynamic and connected Live Travel Space where all industry players can collaborate to deliver solutions that are tailored to the way our customers do business and serve travelers.

Amadeus' purpose is to shape the future of travel, and are passionate in their pursuit of better technology that makes better journeys.

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