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Stu Waldron will be speaking at the conference on Monday August 25, 2025 13:30 – 14:10 CEST on Travel Disruption using Open Source.

Travel retail, shopping and booking stays, activities, or trips, is ripe for disruption using open source. Fifty years on from its inception, the process of shopping and purchasing travel products has been computerized and exposed online but works largely the same as it always did. Even as some legacy components have been replaced, their limitations are still present embodied in workflows and policy. Stateful, transactional, processing is still the order of the day. It all needs to be overhauled to move into a stateless, cloud based, digital world. Travel retail is unaffordable in its current form, open source is the obvious answer. As a community, make one investment to create the needed foundational capabilities such as offer/order management, security, identity management, event management, rules processing and much more. Noncompetitive functions everyone needs to create traveler solutions such as end to end trip solions and management via an AI powered app. The Open Travel Alliance is working with the Linux Foundation to form the Open Travel Foundation. This session will explain how this new foundation will transform travel retail.

#OTF-BreakfastStay for a Open Travel Foundation organizational meeting on Thursday

There will be a private, non conference, meeting on Thursday the 28th at 9 am to discuss the formation of the new Open Travel Foundation and potential focus areas both tactical and strategic. This meeting does not require conference registration but you must request to attend as seating is limited and we need to provide attendee details to the conference center. Please send a request to attend to PR@opentravel.org . Please provide some information such as company and contact details. Please provide some comments on what you would like to learn from this meeting.

Proposed Agenda

• Breakfast and Welcome
• Overview of the proposed foundation, our mission and value statements.
• Overview of the technical approach.
• Break
• Roundtables of potential workgroups to define deliverables.
• Closing