Marina Shumaieva

President and CTO CruiseBe, Inc.

Tech evangelist, speaker, entrepreneur and travel enthusiast, possessing a Master degree in Computer Science. Marina is the technical lead of CruiseBe, a turnkey cruise planning technology, AI chatbot & voice solution, an itinerary management platform for travel professionals. For the past years, Marina is focused on bringing innovations to the travel industry, growing her company, and concentrating on using machine learning and artificial intelligence as the leading technology for making a virtual travel assistant that will have travel professionals to save time, manage clients and provide greater customer experience. Marina is a keynote speaker & panel participant on major US travel conferences covering the topic about Machine Learning and AI chatbots in the travel industry, CruiseBe case study (together with travel industry leaders like Expedia, Booking, United Airlines, Marriott, Amazon, etc.). Among them: Smart Travel Data Summit North America, Techstars Startup Week Dallas, EyeforTravel North America, San Francisco Digital Summit, Conversational Interaction Conference, Analytics and AI in Travel North America, SeaTrade Cruise Global, etc. Marina was featured in top media like American Express, Washington Post, Skift, USA Today, Tnooz, Voice of America, Dallas News, etc.