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Skift Announces Final List of Speakers and Sessions for Skift Global ForumSkift Inc., the largest industry intelligence and marketing platform in travel, today announced the final list of confirmed speakers and sessions for its flagship Skift Global Forum. The annual conference, one of the most anticipated in the travel industry, will take place at the Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City on Sept. 27-28, 2016. Skift Global Forum, now in its third year, is the largest creative business forum in the global travel industry. This year's speaker line-up includes more than 40 top executives at public giants including Zillow Group, Carnival Corporation, Google (News - Alert) Travel, TripAdvisor, Expedia, Inc., Facebook and Marriott International, Inc.; high-profile start-ups such as Airbnb, Routehappy, Peek and Booking.com; and travel icons VisitBritain, AFAR, U.S. Travel Association, Club Mediterranee, Promote Iceland, Delta Airlines, Etihad Airways, and more. "Since starting Skift four years ago, we have focused our energy on building the most-read travel industry news and insights brand in the world. It was also important for us to create a new type of conference - one that inspires and brings together the smartest and most progressive leaders in travel," said Rafat Ali, CEO and Founder of Skift. "This year we are excited to have our biggest speaker line-up ever, featuring visionaries and disruptors in the travel space who will share their predictions for what's next in the world's largest industry," said Rafat Ali, CEO and Fouder for Skift. The Skift Global Forum has become what media, speakers and attendees have called the "TED of travel," and is the first conference focused on the people creating and defining the future of travel: top marketers, strategists and technologists. Topics and speakers are carefully curated to inspire attendees about the business and creative potential of the industry, and to inform them on changing trends across sectors, geographies and functional silos. Speakers at this year's conference include Robert Albert, CEO, Routehappy; Sally Balcombe, CEO, VisitBritain; Rich Barton, Co-founder and Executive Chairman, Zillow Group; Ruzwana Bashir, Founder & CEO, Peek; Julia Cosgrove, VP and Editor in Chief, AFAR; Arnold Donald, President and CEO, Carnival Corporation; Roger Dow, President and CEO, U.S. Travel Association; Henri Giscard D'Estaing, Chairman and CEO, Club Mediterranee; Oliver Heckmann, VP of Engineering, Google Travel; Inga Hlin Palsdottir, Director, Tourism & Creative Industries, Promote Iceland; George Hobica, Founder, Airfarewatchdog.com; James Hogan, President and CEO, Etihad Airways; Stephen Kaufer, President and CEO, TripAdvisor; Brian Kelly, Founder, ThePointsGuy.com; Shakil Khan, Co-Founder, Student.com; Dara Khosrowshahi, President and CEO, Expedia (News - Alert), Inc.; Brian Morrissey, President and Editor in Chief, Digiday; Sarah Personette, VP of Global Business Marketing, Facebook; Arne M. Sorenson, President and CEO, Marriott International, Inc.; Gillian Tans, President and CEO, Booking.com; and more. The entire line-up can be found here: http://forum.skift.com/speakers/. Event sponsors include Adobe (News - Alert), Allianz Global Assistance, Boxever, Criteo, CityPASS, Distil Networks, Fareportal, Fathom, Momondo, Movable Ink, One Night, Olapic, Simulmedia, Smartling, Student.com, Twitter (News - Alert), Independent Lodging Congress and Pacific Asia Travel Association, to name a few. For more information, to register, or to become a sponsor, visit http://forum.skift.com/ or email [email protected]. About Skift Skift is the largest industry intelligence and marketing platform in travel, providing news, information, data and services to all sectors of the world's largest industry. Skift identifies and synthesizes existing and emerging trends in its daily coverage of the global travel industry and through its Skift Trends Reports. Skift produces Skift Global Forum annually to bring together over 800 of the most influential professionals in the travel industry to discuss the future of travel. For press inquiries, please contact [email protected]. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160816005835/en/ |
