Sabre Asia Pacific Hackathon Opens Competition to Virtual Overseas Entries

Sabre has opened up its inaugural Asia Pacific hackathon, which will take place in Singapore from 14 to 16 October, to also include virtual entries from the global developer community.

“We’ve received an overwhelming response to the announcement of our first ever Asia Pacific hackathon, with over 200 participants registered already from Singapore and the Asia Pacific region. We’ve decided to add the virtual entry component to meet demand from additional overseas developers seeking to participate but unable to join in person,” said Roshan Mendis, senior vice president of Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific.

Additional challenges will also run alongside the overall ‘Best New Technology Application’ category, which has a Grand Prize of US$10,000.

These include ‘Best Use of Virtual Reality’, a ‘Chatbot Challenge’, and travel merchandising challenges that showcase the New Sabre Red Workspace widgets, Sabre’s advanced platform for selling and booking travel which will launch in 2017.

Anupam Bokil, Vice President of Technology for Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific, said, “These extra categories are designed to accelerate the adoption of some of today’s key breakthrough technologies by the travel industry. From enhancing the traveller experience to providing travel consultants with more tools to sell and manage travel bookings, create efficiencies and drive up revenues, there is real scope for the boundaries to be pushed.”

Entries will be judged by a panel of industry experts, including:

- Roshan Mendis, Senior Vice President, Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific

- Toni Portmann, CEO, DHISCO

- David Moore, Senior Vice President, Software Development, Sabre

- Jason Shi, Director, R&D, Ctrip

- Greg Schulze, Senior Vice President, Commercial Strategy and Services, Expedia.

Click here to register.

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