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Grooviest Start-Up to be recognised at WIT Bootcamp
SINGAPORE - Up to 10 entrepreneurs will pitch their business ideas to a panel of investors and mentors during the WIT Bootcamp: Entrepreneurship & Innovation held on Oct 17, as part of the annual Web In Travel conference.
The WIT Start-Up Gallery, supported by BANSEA (Business Angel Network of Southeast Asia), will surface a string of new start-ups in the digital travel space with entries from Australia, US, China and Singapore.
The winner, “Grooviest Start-Up”, will be announced on Oct 19 during the main WIT Conference by the panel of judges which includes investors and business leaders from the US, Europe, China and South-east Asia.
Other innovators will also be recognised at the WIT Conference which is launching its inaugural WITovation Awards 2011. In line with its theme, “Find Your Groove”, winners will be announced in these categories – Social Groover, Mobile Mover, Groove Specialista, Customer Lover and Groovy Marketer of the Year.
Presented by Amadeus Asia, the awards are by nominations only and judging is done by a selected panel of experts.
THack@WIT
Apart from the Bootcamp, the WIT Conference, in its seventh edition, has expanded this year to include a new event – THack@WIT, Asia’s first open travel hackathon being organized in partnership with travel technology news website, Tnooz.
The 24-hour hacking event for developers, sponsored by Abacus as the exclusive GDS and Expedia Affiliate Network, will take place at Shangri-La's Rasa Sentosa & Spa, Siloso 4, on Oct 16-17, the Sunday before the WIT Bootcamp and Conference kick off.
THack is Tnooz’s unique event which brings together travel industry APIs and the development community to brainstorm and create new digital travel products and web or mobile-based tools.
Developers from across the travel, tourism and hospitality industry are welcome to attend, as well as engineers and technicians from local academic institutions in the region. The event is free for developers to attend and participate.
WIT Conference
Meanwhile, the main two-day conference on Oct 18 and 19 is on track to attract close to 500 travel and tourism leaders keen to debate and learn about the fastest growing segment of travel in the fastest growing travel market in the world.
Up to 80 speakers will convene under the WIT umbrella to discuss leading edge trends such as mobile, social media, group deals and learn about how changing customer behaviour is impacting in markets such as China, India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Japan.
“Disruption is taking place at all fronts – from the economy to natural disasters to technology and changing customer behaviour. WIT will be the place to focus thought leadership in how companies can navigate their way through this disruptive, confusing landscape,” said Yeoh Siew Hoon, Founder and Editor of Web In Travel.
The WIT Conference takes place alongside ITB Asia at Suntec City 18-19 October 2011.
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ABOUT WEB IN TRAVEL
WIT-Web In Travel is Asia’s leading travel distribution, marketing and technology conference. 2011 is the seventh year the conference will be run. It was started by journalist Yeoh Siew Hoon.
WIT is different to traditional conferences in terms of content, delivery and attitude. The content is deep, rich and meaningful. The delivery is varied, diverse and impactful. The conference has an attitude that challenges speakers to be at their best – no sales speeches and platitudes, but provoking and thinking – and delegates to question, discuss, debate and challenge. With each WIT, the conversation gets better and the discussion more interactive.
In 2007, WIT introduced questions by SMS and allowed audience voting by SMS as well for best debators, best speakers and best pitches. In 2010, WIT, in association with Circos Brand Karma, built a interactive Q&A platform using Twitter for the conference. We are using technology to reach out to an ever widening network of colleagues with similar passion, engaging them through Facebook, Twitter, blogs, podcasts, newsletters and micro events, WIT*e – Inspiration & Mentoring networking forums, leading up to the main conference to be held on the 18-19 October, 2011 at Suntec City in Singapore.
