Travel Tech Podcast

The most reliable AI on your next flight might be the one that assumes it has no internet connection at all. Ajith Balakumar is the CEO and founder of Forthcode, an aviation technology company that grew out of a...

Why can't you just book your own work trip? You can. You just won't get reimbursed. Corporate travel exists to manage risk, cost and duty of care, and the tools built to enforce that have spent years treating the...

Airline checkout loses close to 9 out of 10 shoppers before they ever pay, and Kameron Bertine's fix isn't a redesign — it's an identity layer airlines were never built to have. Kameron Bertine is co-founder and CEO of...

Alex Brooker hands his own microphone to the two people who know him best and lets them ask the questions he never answers on his own show. Adrian McKenzie and Oli Deakin, Alex Brooker's former colleagues at Snowflake...

PLAY Airlines went from zero to $350 million in revenue in three years, did nearly everything right by its former CEO's account, and still went bankrupt — because in aviation, fuel price doesn't care about your...

Four founders who have never met each other all built the same tool for the same reason: a phone call that no human team could ever be funded to make. This is the first episode in a new series pulling together ideas...

Two women who've collectively worked nearly every job aviation has to offer sit down to explain why Europe keeps writing the rulebook before anyone's allowed to fly. Julie Garland, CEO of Avtrain and president of the...

Everyone's worried about AI hallucinating travel content. Íñigo Valenzuela says the real problem is that you can't get sued for a hallucination, but you can get fined for a photo. Íñigo Valenzuela is the founder of...

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...

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...

<p>The travel industry is ten years behind on tech, and AI itinerary builders are making it worse, not better.</p><p>Alex Ragin is the founder of Zoftify, a travel focused software agency, and Tourseta, a booking and...

<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.</p><p>Josh Dorfman is the co-founder of Planted...

<p>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.</p><p>Olivier Boinet is the founder of room-matching.com and...

<p>What if the AI moment in travel is less about building a better OTA, and more about making the OTA unnecessary?</p><p>Christopher Olivares is the solo founder of Elyo (elyo.io), a conversational AI travel assistant...