{"id":44034,"date":"2020-06-30T13:20:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T17:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/?p=44034"},"modified":"2025-08-21T00:29:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:29:39","slug":"webinar-travel-technology-as-a-force-for-good-open-source-a-major-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/webinar-travel-technology-as-a-force-for-good-open-source-a-major-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"WEBINAR: Travel Technology as a Force For Good &#038; Open-Source A Major Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Register now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">In the midst of an existential crisis, the travel industry is looking for a pathway to a sustainable recovery. Businesses are seeking to do more with less; be more efficient without making enormous financial commitments. People need to innovate, and remove the traditional barriers to technology adoption. This presents a real opportunity for joined-up thinking when it comes to the technology that powers the industry. This session will address these opportunities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Can travel innovate its way to recovery?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why does a robust recovery require travel to get techie with it?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How can \u2018open source\u2019 solutions lead to \u2018open\u2019 for business?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BUZZ LIVE Expo Keynote Speakers Panel Discussion &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>MODERATOR &#8211; Patrick Richards, Non Executive Director @ETOA\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Greg Land, Global Industry Leader &#8211; Aviation, Hospitality &amp; Travel Related Services @IBM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jeff Ernst Friedman, Executive Director @OpenTravel Alliance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rachel Read, Head of Communications and Technology @ETOA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Register now! In the midst of an existential crisis, the travel industry is looking for a pathway to a sustainable recovery. Businesses are seeking to do more with less; be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaboration"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/digita-truck-577x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/digita-truck.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Jeff ErnstFriedman","author_link":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/author\/jeffe\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentravel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}