Evantia Giumba is the head of the Amadeus Launchpad in EMEA, in charge of identifying and supporting new players entering the travel space.

Long-time supporter of smart and sustainable collaboration between large corporations and startups, she has been involved with several incubators and startup accelerators across Europe. Evantia Giumba has held several senior roles in innovation, consulting, business development and sales. She is an experienced leader with success in designing and executing creative strategies to changing business needs.

She spent more than fifteen years in the travel industry.

Alex is a board member and advisor at tech companies Sherpa.ai (Spain, www.sherpa.ai) and Fetcherr (Israel, www.fetcherr.io). He advises private equity investing in travel and travel tech companies and teaches at IESE Business School’s Advanced Management Programme. He was previously Chairman and CEO at British Airways and Vueling, and Accenture’s aviation practice lead. He started his career at American Airlines in Dallas.

Aradhana Khowala is CEO & Founder and of Aptamind Partners a strategic hospitality and tourism consulting company advising tourism leaders. She is a passionate advocate for women in leadership and has over 17 years of experience across over 60 countries. In 2014, she was chosen and featured as one of the 50 most influential next generation leaders who will likely define the future of the hospitality industry by Swiss Economic magazine Bilan. She is a regular speaker, moderator and presenter at Tourism Summits and has interviewed heads of state, tourism ministers and CEO’s globally. Aradhana has an MBA from Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne and also read at the Cornell University in New York. She guest-lectures on Tourism and Entrepreneurship at different Universities.

Liz Ortiguera is a senior executive with over 25 years of global experience and expertise in general management, marketing, business development, and partner network management. Liz is passionate about innovation, business transformation, and community building. Her career spans several industries – travel/lifestyle, technology, financial services, and pharmaceuticals. She has
experience in working at both multinational corporations including American Express and Merck and start-up environments in software as a service (SaaS), e-commerce, and ed-tech. For 10 years she was the General Manager for Amex’s Travel Partner Network in Asia-Pacific, managing partnerships with top travel management companies, MICE, and leisure agencies in the region.

Liz is an alumna of the Stanford University Graduate Business School, Columbia University Business School, New York University, and The Cooper Union in New York.

Elena is a managing partner for the WTFL Innovation Projects. She specializes in Tourism Strategy and is passionate about social entrepreneurship in emerging economies. Elena brings 5 years experience working for UNWTO on development projects related to the implementation of the UN Agenda 2030 and runs her own consulting and project management company- TIPS2030.

She is an alumna of Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland), DEUSTO (Spain) and Ljubljana University of Economics (Slovenia).