Travel Tech Podcast
Informal hallway track conversations with industry pioneers exploring the intersection of AI, aviation, and travel technology.
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Is AI in a Bubble? What Happens When Hype Meets Regulation
AI "bubble" talk usually collapses into a lazy binary: everything is hype, or everything is inevitable. In this episode, we break it apart properly — drawing on years of building and operating aviation data platforms where reliability and cost structures matter more than narratives.
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Dude, Where's My Car? The Hidden Cost of Broken Indoor Navigation
Dustin Gimbel
Indoor navigation solutions in aviation environments — how RouteMe's video-based approach is transforming wayfinding across airports, airlines, and healthcare.
Beyond Line of Sight: The Infrastructure Drones Need to Fly
James Dunthorne
Why beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) drone operations are constrained by surveillance infrastructure and detection physics — not aircraft capability.
Jevons Paradox for Knowledge Work
Ian Painter, Oliver Deakin, Adrian McKenzie
How AI efficiency gains may actually increase demand for human expertise. A panel discussion about AI transforming developer and PM roles, commoditization risks, and Jevons Paradox applied to knowledge work.
About the Podcast
The Travel Tech Podcast brings you informal "hallway track" conversations with innovators, technologists, and industry leaders who are transforming how we travel. Think of it as the conversations you'd have at an industry conference — candid, insightful, and unrehearsed.
Hosted by Alex Brooker, Founder & CEO of Airside Labs.
About Airside Labs
Airside Labs is a highly innovative startup bringing over 25 years of experience solving complex aviation data challenges. We specialize in building production-ready AI systems, intelligent agents, and adversarial synthetic data for the aviation and travel industry. Our team of aviation and AI veterans delivers exceptional quality, deep domain expertise, and powerful development capabilities in this highly dynamic market.