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Travel Tech Podcast

Alex Brooker
Artificial Intelligence
Drones
Aviation
AI In Travel
NDC
Elyo
IATA
Airhart
Air Taxis
Detect and Avoid (DAA)
Airport Economics
Airports
Airlines
Travel Industry
Boop
Global Distribution System
Airport Operations Database (AODB)
Part 107/part 108 Regulations
Tourseta
Travel

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... more

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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 Movmo, a startup building an i... more

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 Software, take over hosting dut... more

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 execution.

Birgir Jónsson is the forme... more

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 that surfaced independently acros... more

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Recent Guests

Birgir Jónsson
ex-CEO of PLAY Airlines
PLAY Airlines
Episode: An Airline Is Just a Software Stack Nobody Finished Building
Julie Garland
CEO of Avtrain; European drone training and certification leader; former aircraft engineer, captain, and aviation lawyer
Avtrain; Joint European Drone Associations; Jarus industry stakeholder group
Episode: Fly First, Regulate Later: Why Europe's Rules Are Pushing Drones Abroad
Sarah Owen
VP for Europe Travel and Transportation at Sutherland; former Google, Salesforce, and Assaia executive
Sutherland; Google; Assaia; Avtrade
Episode: Fly First, Regulate Later: Why Europe's Rules Are Pushing Drones Abroad
Íñigo Valenzuela
Founder of Smartvel
Smartvel
Episode: The Real AI Bottleneck in Travel Content Is Copyright, Not Hallucination
Nancy Li Smith
CEO and founder of Boop, a social distribution travel platform
Boop
Episode: Travel Inspiration Lives on TikTok. The Booking Still Lives in 47 Browser Tabs.
Ann Cederhall
Co-founder of LeapShift
LeapShift
Episode: Computer Says No: Why Airlines Won't Take Your Upgrade Money
Yagub Rahimov
CEO and founder of Polygraf AI
Polygraf AI
Episode: 96% Human Error: Why AI Security Starts with the Human, Not the Model
Alex Ragin
Founder of Zoftify and Tourseta
Zoftify, Tourseta
Episode: You Can't Vibe Code a Tour Operator
Josh Dorfman
Founder of Planted; former author/host of The Lazy Environmentalist
Planted
Episode: The New Olive: How GLP-1 Drugs Could Save Airlines $580M

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Alex Brooker
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#139
United Arab Emirates/Technology
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#166
Singapore/Technology

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The Real AI Bottleneck in Travel Content Is Copyright, Not Hallucination
Q: Why is image licensing such a sticking point for destination content?
Because images have IP rights and licenses that can be withdrawn; AI-generated images can be unreliable for lesser-known places, making licensing and verification essential to avoid fines and ensure accuracy.
The Real AI Bottleneck in Travel Content Is Copyright, Not Hallucination
Q: How do you see AI affecting the travel data business in the next few years?
AI will disrupt content, but the real value comes from curated, high-quality data and solutions that fit the customer journey; cost of tokens will be a factor, and trust remains essential, especially for critical data like visas and health requirements.
You Can't Vibe Code a Tour Operator
Q: But I was wondering if we could start perhaps right at the beginning, I know you originally started Zoftify quite a few years ago now. So I'd love it if you wouldn't mind start the story when you first created that business.
Zoftify started in 2015 as a two-man consultant shop, then evolved into an agency in 2019, and later niche-focused exclusively on travel tech, driven by a key travel agency client and a desire to specialize rather than be a generalist.
Beyond Line of Sight: The Infrastructure Drones Need to Fly
Q: What's the simplest way to describe the architecture that underpins your network, and why edge computing over centralized cloud?
The architecture prioritizes low latency and local data processing by using an edge network where sensors and applications connect directly, forming a resilient mesh that tolerates node failures and avoids global outages, rather than relying on a hub-and-spoke cloud model.
Beyond Line of Sight: The Infrastructure Drones Need to Fly
Q: How did you arrive at the epiphany to create Neuron and work on sensors in that way?
James explains that his early collision avoidance research showed the need for robust, scalable safety systems; real-world frustrations with 500-meter BVLOS limits and fragmented transponder standards pushed him to design a ground-based, edge-network approach that keeps data local, reduces latency, and provides a transparent, multi-sensor picture of airspace for pilots and regulators.

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What is Travel Tech Podcast about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Long-form conversations with leaders at the intersection of travel, technology, data, and operations. Episodes frequently center on practical challenges in building and distributing travel inventory, AI-enabled tooling, data governance, and platform strategies that unite suppliers, airlines, airports, and tech vendors. Notable threads include data standardization, AI readiness for distributions systems, governance and trust in automation, and the evolution of transit and hospitality tech through standards, APIs, and middleware. The format tends to blend technical depth with real-world case studies and roadmap-level insights, making it valuable for product, engineering, operations, and biz-dev audiences seeking actionable lessons beyond a si... more

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1. Birgir Jónsson
2. Julie Garland
3. Sarah Owen
4. Íñigo Valenzuela
5. Nancy Li Smith
6. Ann Cederhall
7. Yagub Rahimov
8. Alex Ragin

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