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PhoCusWright Innovation Summit Live Reviews, Round 3
Innovation. This is the final round of the PhoCusWright Innovation Summit, where the presentations were very good.
If you missed my last reviews, here they are:
Round 1 Live Reviews
Round 2 Live Reviews
The final round of reviews:
| Time Presenting | My Overview | Product Name Twitter Tag, Presenter and Company name | Out of 10 |
| 4:10 pm – 4:15 pm
(5 min) |
Crawls social media sites. Directory of tweets for all the differnt tweets from cities on Twavl.com. Not really sure what he does after his presentation. | 3.1 ConnectMe 360 (ALPHA)
Product Name: Twavl #pcconnectme Brian Hayashi, Founder and CEO, ConnectMe 360 |
4 |
| 4:15 pm – 4:27 pm
(12 min) |
ProfitPlus drives 2 streams of Revenue for agencies. Custom quoting capabilities allow for similar demographics and trip details to be grouped together. Cohorts based segmentation. I will need to talk to him as Ensemble Travel uses COHORTs segmentation. This could be a good fit. | 3.2 Travel Guard
#pctravelguard Product Name: ProfitPlus H. Scott Ackerman, Vice President of Retail Sales, Travel Guard |
7 |
| 4:27 pm – 4:39 pm
(12 min) |
Helps users figure out where they want to travel. 18% of travelers on Luftansa’s website do not know where they want to travel. Affinity Shopper is a map based flight search that allows you to take budget into consideration. Drills down with an intuitive interface. When you drill down, it will give you a bar chart of rates over a range of time. Search can be without a timeline, or can be time specific. You can segment the results by activity in the area. Unrestricted search with many drill down options. | 3.3 Amadeus IT Group
Product Name: Amadeus Affinity Shopper #pcaffinityshop Dénis Lacroix, Vice President, Product Development, Sales and e-Commerce Platforms, Amadeus IT Group |
7 |
| 4:39 pm – 4:51 pm
(12 min) |
Is a trip feedback iPhone app. My fear is that Data is not always used during travel, data rates are still killer. It tracks a users movements during travel, and links it to a map. They have social media feedback to help grow virility. Cool features that allow you to really experience a friends trip. Currently have over 200k reviews. | 3.4 GlobalMotion Media Inc.
#pcglobalmotion Product Name: EveryTrail Joost Schreve, Founder and CEO, GlobalMotion Media Inc. |
8 |
| 4:51 pm – 5:03 pm
(12 min) |
Leverages the power of the social web to interact and win business. Changes the way customers can interact with travel customers. Uses voting to determine which content is good vs bad. Also states what the person / business’ reputation is. There is a contextual Q&A that allows for powerful feedback. Combines consumers and travel companies in the same space. | 3.5 Tourabout
Product Name: Tourabout, The Social GDS™ #pctourabout Ben Jackson, Co-Founder and CEO, Tourabout |
7 |
| 5:03 pm – 5:15 pm
(12 min) |
Innovative advertising blocks that jump out, play video and interact with. They are attempting to add an emotional aspect to ads. They are attempting to dream and imagine again. They are trying to focus on a story and then connect it with Expedia’s products. Really seems like a new advertising opportunity on the Expedia site using Flash. | 3.6 Expedia Media Solutions
Product Name: StorePoint Expandables #pcexpediamedia Doug Miller, Global Vice President, Media Solutions, Expedia Media Solutions |
5 |
| 5:15 pm – 5:27 pm
(12 min) |
A unique multi-destination planning and booking platform. Allows you to really drill down on personal preferences to allow for a very segmented travel product. You can choose the class of hotel, type of travel products you want and can put in your budget. You can currently book hotels, and they will soon add attractions. You can save trips into your profile to compare at a later date, or share them with others. Business model is revshare and white label. | 3.7 deciZium Inc.
Product Name: YourTour #pcyourtour John Schliesser, CEO, deciZium Inc. |
8 |
| 5:27 pm – 5:39 pm
(12 min) |
Grabs recommendations from a 40k strong army of local experts to provide travel advice. Can be used by travel agents to advertise their location. Growing to 700k reviews in 2 years. Travelers can pose questions to locals and they will respond accordingly. The program can be used using the Global Sherpa iPhone app. the locals get a system of points and rewards to motivate the contributors. They throttle questions so people don’t get inundated. Open API so that anyone can integrate this technology into their sites. | 3.8 Localyte Inc.
#pclocalyte Doug Renert, Business Development, Localyte Inc. |
8 |
| 5:39 pm – 5:51 pm
(12 min) |
They make content available in Multiple languages. On demand translations, and turn mono-lingual sites into multi-lingual sites. Provides a trust ranking that gives confidence in translations.
Their product life cycle is: Awareness Consider Purchase Travel Recommend Return |
3.9 Language Weaver Inc.
#pclanguageweaver Mark Tapling, President and CEO, Language Weaver Inc. |
6 |
| 5:51 pm – 6:03 pm
(12 min) |
Voyij makes it easy to find a deal that is good for you. It is a deals meta search. The focus is on deals and puts up all of the special offers. It gives a great deal of organization, syndicates Twitter deals and alerts customers when a deal is found that met their criteria. Lists are generated based on your destination airport. Their twitter deals helps eliminate the noise around twitter and only give relevant results. I can see the value of this type of system. I had a similar idea for deals from Ensemble travel. | 3.10 Voyij.com
#pcvoyij Brent Stewart, Co-Founder and President, Voyij Inc. |
7 |
| 6:03 pm – 6:15 pm
(12 min) |
Travel agent channel allows to create an any to any package on an element by element basis. Separates the shopping with the booking process. Looks pretty powerful. I will need to look into this more. | 3.11 Travelport
Product Name: Journey Manager #pctravelport Brian Batts, Online Product Strategy Director, Travelport |
7 |
