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The Travel Tech Podcast, hosted by Alex Brooker, features long form conversations with leaders across travel and technology. The show explores how software, data, operations, and distribution come together in real businesses, with an emphasis on tradeoffs, incentives, and lessons that transfer beyond any single company or role. Alex Brooker is an industry veteran with experience in aviation, start up to exit, and AI transformation.
Unknown Host hosts Travel Tech Podcast, a business show with 23 episodes published.
Every billion pieces of travel content on TikTok and Instagram ends in a dead end. Boop is building the call to action that has been missing the whole time. Nancy Li Smith is the CEO and founder of Boop, a social travel
Airlines have been trying to modernize their retailing for over a decade, and most still can't change or refund what they sell. Ann Cederhall is co-founder of LeapShift and one of the architects of the original NDC Direc
Some travel operators ask you to shout your passport number across a crowded desk and think nothing of it. While intentions are good (checking who you are), this episode is about why that is a serious security failure an
The travel industry is ten years behind on tech, and AI itinerary builders are making it worse, not better. Alex Ragin is the founder of Zoftify, a travel focused software agency, and Tourseta, a booking and operations p
The only sustainable innovations that actually scale are the ones customers never have to think about. Josh Dorfman has spent two decades building them. Josh Dorfman is the co-founder of Planted (plantdmaterials.com), a
The travel tech stack has a dirty secret: the more suppliers connect to each other, the higher the chance your inventory ends up competing against itself. Olivier Boinet is the founder of room-matching.com and Omnitravel
What if the AI moment in travel is less about building a better OTA, and more about making the OTA unnecessary? Christopher Olivares is the solo founder of Elyo (elyo.io), a conversational AI travel assistant that helps
Airline distribution is sitting on decades of tech debt and AI might be the only thing that can fix it. Jim Hetzel is a travel and airline technology veteran who now leads retailing strategy at TWAI. In this conversation
Hotels are sitting on millions in uncollected revenue and corrupted content and most of them don't even know it. Fred Bean is the founder of HotelPORT, a hospitality content governance and distribution technology company
AI is rapidly changing the economics of software: code is cheaper to generate than ever, but significantly harder to reason about, validate, and secure. As systems become more automated, the real constraint is no longer
For decades, building a travel business meant stitching together fragmented supply: GDS systems, hotel APIs, pricing layers, and fulfillment infrastructure. It was complex, expensive, and slow to scale. Now, that’s chang
The US is about to publish rules that let drones fly beyond line of sight routinely — here's what that unlocks. Part 108, the FAA's upcoming rulemaking for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) operations, is set to change
Queues move, bags get scanned, and passengers eventually make it through. But beneath that surface is a fragile operational layer held together by fragmented systems, manual workarounds, and frontline teams stitching tog
AI adoption inside teams is not following the narrative most people expect. In some cases, the most experienced engineers—the ones expected to benefit the most—are actually getting slower. That friction reveals something
That quick moment at the gate when you pull up a boarding pass on your phone and scan a QR code feels routine now. It isn’t. That interaction represents one of the most successful global standards ever deployed in aviati
Airports look like infrastructure businesses. Runways, terminals, aircraft movements. It’s easy to assume they make their money from planes. But some of the most valuable assets at capacity-constrained airports—slots—gen
Hot on the heels of Heathrow Airport’s decision to use AIRHART as its digital backbone and with the Passenger Terminal Expo in London next week, in this episode, I speak with Martin Bowman, Chief Strategy Officer at Smar
Aviation’s next scaling challenge isn’t about aircraft performance or autonomy. It’s about whether the invisible systems behind the scenes can interoperate, certify, and operate reliably in a highly regulated world. Amit
AI “bubble” talk usually collapses into a lazy argument: either everything is hype, or everything is inevitable. Rather than picking a side, this discussion breaks the topic into clearer components: public market valuati
Indoor wayfinding fails in the exact moments it matters most: when someone is stressed, unfamiliar with the space, short on time, or navigating in a second language. Airports and hospitals amplify that pressure, and trad
Josh Dorfman
climate entrepreneur and media strategist · American Wire Group
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Creative Director · Dog Citying
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Adrian
student author · Sticks & Woods
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trained clinical counselor and child welfare social worker · JWA Management Consulting
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