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In the world of startups, it’s all about making the most of opportunities
Stephanie Strunk
Senior Analyst, Corporate Strategy, Amadeus Asia Pacific
There are worse ways to start a week than boarding an airplane to Bali. What initially seemed like a typical Amadeus customer event, suddenly turned into a unique opportunity for startups to build relationships with our customers, which they can fall back on when they scale.
Amadeus Next Startups at APAC Online Connect 2016
Amadeus Next is facilitating this connection to ensure that startups can validate their solutions in the market quicker. In essence, Amadeus Next aims to build and foster the leading travel tech community in Asia Pacific to help startups grow by providing technology, expertise, reach and funding. And this week in Bali, it was all about reach.
During our Online Connect 2016 event, start-ups were able to gain first hand feedback from industry experts, enter into business discussions with potential partners, and update their address books all in one go. Apart from this, we literally gave startups the stage to pitch their solutions. BorderPass, who was voted the Amadeus Next start-up of the year, is now confident that they are addressing a problem worth solving.
“Attending this event has completely exceeded our expectations. Thanks to Next, we have been able to make a variety of meaningful connections and winning the competition has been a solid validation of our value proposition from the OTA community.” – Faisal Ariff, CEO of BorderPass
Our Responsibility
Beyond the many benefits to startups, involving the Next community has also been valuable to the delegates of Online Connect. Winning customers in today’s world has never been more competitive. As a leader in travel technology, we feel it is our responsibility to not only highlight industry trends, but more importantly, demonstrate the innovations that are happening in travel tech to ensure that our customers remain ahead of their competitors and avoid running the risk of being disrupted.
“The start-up session was brilliant, and the start-up ideas presented were amazing. They are actually trying to solve the critical and very relevant problems.” – Sanjeev Bhasin, VP - Airlines & Agency Alliances, MakeMyTrip
Online Connect 2016 has enabled startups of the Next community to take advantage of Amadeus’ unrivalled customer network and it has opened up the dialogue to a number of pilots that could potentially take these startups to the next level. Have a look at the #onlineconnect16 hashtag for a recap of tweets from the event.
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Asia Pacific, Travel Platform, Startups