Event Spotlight: Phocuswright 2025
We’re wrapping up our 2025 events spotlights with our biggest event episode ever, a 5+ hour special recorded live at Phocuswright San Diego. This landmark episode features 25 exclusive interviews with industry leaders shaping the future of travel, technology, distribution, and the in-destination experience.
This year’s Phocuswright was a standout event for Travel Trends, and we’re grateful to the entire Phocuswright team — especially Pete Comeau and Eugene Ko — for their partnership and support in making this recording possible so we can share these valuable insights with our global audience.
If you’d like to jump straight to the voices that matter most to you, scroll down — we’ve included timestamps for every amazing guest that Dan had the chance to sit down with.
Highlights & Timestamps
6m - Lorraine Sileo, Travel Insights, Research & Analysis, Phocuswright
31m46s - Jessie Fisher, Founder & CEO, GuestOS
42m59s - Marius Nigond, CEO iWander.io
51m39s - Ben Sann, CEO, TourOptima
1hr6m - Stephen Joyce, Global Strategy Lead - Travel & Tours, Protect Group
1hr23m - Lourdes Losada Frances, Director & Site Lead Americas, Skyscanner
1hr47m - Jo Lai, SVP AI Solutions & Customer Experience, Hopper
2hr - Dylan Conroy - Host of The Ad Podcast
2hr11m - Lauren Atlass - VP, Partnerships - Americas, HBX Group
2hr26m - Tim Qin, CEO, Roame
2hr31m - Charlotte Lamp Davies, Founder & CEO, A Bright Approach & Markus Stumpe, Founder & CEO, Alyza
2hr42m - Grant Palmer - Head of Enterprise Travel, Azira
2hr59m - Heather C. Dahl, Co-founder & CEO, Indicio
3hr17m - Elad Schaffer, Co-founder & CEO, Faye
3hr32m - Benjamin Manzi, COO, Maya AI
3hr47m - Rohit Khanna, Chief AI & Innovation Officer, ITbyus
3hr57m - Jen Barnwell, President, Curator Hotel & Resort Collection
4hr8m - Paul Lipson, CEO & Founder, Triprecos
4hr25m - Francesco Deledda, CEO, Yanolja Go Global
4hr36m - Layton Han, Co-founder & CEO, Bonafide
4hr54m - Mike Petrakis, Founder & CEO, Batch
5hr - Evan Tzeng, Founder, Hospitalities.AI
5hr12min - Noam Toister, CEO & Founder, Travelier
5hr22m - Jelani Millard, Head of Growth - North America, Maya AI
We hope you benefit from these valuable insights as you start 2026!
