The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 23: All About Food And Tech
In Asia we love
to eat. We also love to talk about it, almost as much as we eat. In this
episode, we get stuck into the marriage between food and tech.
Because if there’s
one breakout star of Covid 19 and the great human experience of staying home
for prolonged periods, it is food.
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WiT Startup Pitch to receive US$250,000 in technology credits and support from Amazon Web Services
WiT announced today that Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, is collaborating with WiT Startup Pitch for the third year running. AWS will provide over US$250,000 worth of technology credits and support towards WiT Startup Pitch 2020 throug [...]
LCCs the right model for post-Covid world; recovery is not near, but out of creative destruction may emerge new entities
Low cost carriers might just be the right model for the post-Covid world, said Scoot’s CEO Campbell Wilson, but recovery is still some distance away.
Speaking at
CAPA’s virtual Australia Pacific Aviation Summit, Wilson suggested “this is a
good time to be an LCC for a few good reasons”.
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Turner urges, fix the present; Harbison says, fix the future; Joyce raises funds to invest in restructuring to ensure Qantas lasts 100 years
“We need to bring as many people as we can through this”, says Flight Centre Travel Group CEO
Airlines don’t make money at the best of times and these are the worst of times. Watching the opening couple of hours of Wednesday’s CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit on the screen was a bi [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 22: Tom Peacock-Nazil, Founder, Seven Clean Seas
This is a
story that begins on Koh Lipe, an island in the Andaman Sea near the border of
Malaysia, a popular spot for travellers. It is known for lots of small islands,
sandy beaches and coral-rich waters.
Tom Peacock-Nazil and wife Pamela needed a break from their hectic urban life in Singapor [...]
Guest Blog: Airlines, Brand Trust & Covid-19
Over the past
month, I've been evaluating the Covid-19 policies and corporate communications
of 66 airlines.
As someone with a geeky love of both air travel and digital branding, I've been curious about how the airlines are responding to the ongoing pandemic.
The airline industry's revenue [...]
Groundhog Day on rewind; no one is in charge yet everyone is in it
Do you feel that at times you are a character in the movie “Groundhog Day”? In that 1993 movie, Bill Murray plays Phil, a weatherman, who finds himself trapped in a blizzard and forced to relive the same day over and over again until he makes the right choices.
One of
his quotes – “What [...]
The WiT Podcast: Unity In Crisis – Episode 21: Carl Jones, VP and Head of Travel, APAC and Greater China, SAP Concur
Carl
Jones’ last trip was to Seoul in February and since his return to Singapore, he
hasn’t flown nor has he returned to the office. Like all of us, the executive,
who’s been in the corporate travel world for many years, is rethinking how he
will travel in future.
While he’s
hoping to be [...]
How boutique hotels are like sourdough bread: AKARYN’s Anchalika on navigating Covid with wellness and sustainable luxury
Like most
of humanity during lockdown, Anchalika Kijkanakorn became really good at baking
sourdough bread. Each morning, she’d wake up at 6am to “go and feed the beast”,
the beast being the starter needed to make sourdough, as the non-baker me learnt.
And if she
could, she said, she’d s [...]
More “good companies” will go public post-Covid, says Saberwal as RedDoorz enters positive recovery territory
As Airbnb prepares for its much-anticipated IPO, Amit Saberwal, founder and CEO of RedDoorz, predicts that good travel companies will emerge out of Covid and there will be a lot of focus on getting these companies public.
“The good companies that will emerge will go on to become your unicorns [...]
