The CEO Interview hosted by PhoCusWright's Philip Wolf kicks off the afternoon session.
Most delegates will not have heard of PlanetEye and TripIt, whose CEOs Butch Langlois and Gregg Brockway are on the stage.
But these businesses have significant minority investors which might be more familiar - Microsoft has an interest in PlanetEye, while Sabre Holdings is a minority investor in TripIt.
Microsoft isn't on PlanetEye's board: Sabre is on TripIt's.
Keeping an established travel business going in the current climate is hard enough, so it must be difficult to establish yet another online travel planning site (which is what both these sites do). But having big names associated with the business cannot but help when the shake-out really revs up.
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