The WIT Bootcamp, to be held Oct 17, the day before the main WIT Conference in Singapore, is the meet-and-match place for travel tech professionals, entrepreneurs, innovators and investors.

The first half of the day programme will feature experts from across the region including Australia, Indonesia, China, Japan and India who will share the latest online travel trends emerging in their respective markets, with a focus on start-ups.

The second half will feature a Start-Up Gallery in which up to 10 new travel start-ups, selected by the organizers, will pitch their business idea in five minutes each to a panel of mentors and investors.

BANSEA will join the panel which includes a global line-up of investors including Morten Lund, CEO, Everbread, one of the early investors in Skype; Fritz Demopoulos, former CEO of Qunar, China who recently exited following an acquisition by Baidu; Abrar Ahmad, Partner, Travel Capitalist Ventures, of the US, whose fund specializes in travel start-ups; Stephan Ekbergh, CEO, TravelStart, South Africa
 and Danny Oei Wirianto, CEO, Mindtalk.com, a leading digital media entrepreneur in Indonesia who also owns an investment fund to accelerate start-ups.

Established in 2001, BANSEA is an angel networking group that promotes the development of the angel investment community in South East Asia. It has over 60 individual members who are themselves successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, private equity and venture capital investors.

The WIT Bootcamp is free to delegates of the Web In Travel Conference taking place Oct 18-19 at the same venue, Suntec Convention Centre, Ballroom 2. Admission to the WIT Bootcamp only is S$380 per person. Register here.