In the case of Kayak’s Steve Hafner and Paul English, speaking Wednesday at The Phocuswright Conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, you get a dash of news, a thoughtful disagreement over the democratization of generative artificial intelligence — and a lighthearted threat of a “Kayak killer.”
First, the news. While discussing what Hafner – still Kayak’s CEO – called dissatisfaction with corporate travel tools, he used the occasion to tout the company’s business tool now geared for large corporate clients. The company partnered with Blockskye – one of the Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2024 announced this week at the conference — and PwC on a blockchain-based solution for corporate travel.