Featured Speakers

michael_peschardt_small.jpg MICHAEL PESCHARDT, TV Presenter and Host, BBC World
Michael Peschardt is now the BBC's leading international interviewer. His programme, Peschardt's People' is broadcast to more than two hundred countries and has become a centrepiece of the BBC World News Television schedule. (More)
darrenwright_small.jpg DARREN WRIGHT, General Manager Australia, AirAsia X
Darrren Wright joined the airline back in 2007 when it started its first flight into the Gold Coast. Darren was previously the Marketing Manager of Virgin Blue for four years and before that, was six years in the marketing team at Flight Centre. (Podcast) (More)
romain_roulleau_small.jpg ROMAIN ROULLEAU, Senior VP E-commerce, Accor Worldwide
Romain Roulleau has  joined the Hotel Distribution Division as Senior VP e-Commerce in charge of the development of Accor hotels direct sales on the web. Romain is responsible for the development of the accorhotels.com portal and with his team will continue to bring the necessary support to the Marketing teams to develop the various brand sites. (More)
roshan_mendis_small.jpg ROSHAN MENDIS, 
President of Zuji and Regional Vice President of Travelocity Asia Pacific
Based in Singapore, Roshan Mendis leads Travelocity in Asia Pacific, and is responsible for leading the business focus, development and future growth strategies for all Travelocity brands in Asia Pacific including Travelocity, ZUJI and Nextour. Roshan has more than 10 years experience with Sabre and Travelocity. Prior to joining the Executive Team at ZUJI in 2006, in the role of Director, Supplier Relationships and Partnerships, Roshan worked for ZUJI's parent company Travelocity.(More)

"As someone who has to travel a lot for work, more than 150,000 miles per year, I am quite intrigued by the topic of travel in the future. I would be happy to speak on the topic of communication and travel in the future at your conference."

Dr Adrian Cheok , Mixed Reality Lab
HO HOONG MAU, Director, Airline Distribution Division, Abacus International

Hoong Mau is Director of Airline Distribution Division where he has overall responsibility for managing relationships with airlines. He leads airline strategy and business development, information marketing as well as airline account management to drive strategic sales initiatives to ensure maximum growth of airline accounts.

Hoong Mau brings to Abacus more than 13 years of travel industry experience with a focus on general management, regional marketing and market development.

Prior to joining Abacus in 2005, he held several leadership positions at Singapore Airlines in key business functions.

Hoong Mau holds a first class honours degree in electrical engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. 
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