Previews looking ahead to SXSWi in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

After spending hours combing through endless sessions and parties, here are some of the can’t-miss happenings at SXSW 2013, in order of appearance. If you have an addition, please note it in the comments!

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Make the most of your travel innovation pitch… or just go home

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As a judge at the Phocuswright Travel Innovation Summit last week, I had the honor of having 30 companies present their businesses to me and my fellow judges in eight-minute slots during one day.

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Orbitz CEO talks mobile, big data and opt-in personalization at Phocuswright

Orbitz web rebrand

Orbitz CEO Barney Harford sits down for an informal chat about industry trends and travel thoughts for this year and next.

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What’s on the travel brain today: Personalization, trust, interoperability, and coopetition

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What’s on the travel brain today? To find out, I recently represented Tnooz as a panelist at the Zino Society/Garvey Schubert Barer Travel & Technology conference in sunny Seattle, Washington.

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WhosWhereWhen promises to bring awesome productivity to travel conferences

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TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring UK-base WhosWhereWhen, an amazing new smartphone app to make travel conferences more productive than ever.

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Only the CEO of Ryanair would have a biography like this

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Love him or hate him (or his airline), Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary certainly knows how to poke fun not only at his own image but much of the business world around him.

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Why travel startups always seem to suffer from the same problems

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I love reviewing the Tnooz TLabs Showcase submissions and, perhaps rather morbidly, the subsequent 12-month follow-up TLabs Reprise, where we discover what went wrong (or right).

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WebinTravel scoops top event prize

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Tough love turned into sweet love for WebinTravel when it won the Trade Conference of the Year in the Singapore Experience Awards 2010.

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