Key takeaways from Web in Travel Singapore 2025

A few weeks ago, hundreds of industry professionals gathered for the 20th annual Web in Travel conference in Singapore. This two-day event has evolved into one of the region’s largest travel tech gatherings, connecting the travel, tourism, and technology sectors across Asia and beyond.

This year’s theme, “The Next 20,” highlighted that while the last two decades were about surviving disruption, the next two decades will be about mastering reinvention. The agenda featured sessions focused on what’s coming in the next two decades, how to build the future of travel, and how industry professionals can lead with imagination, not just innovation. 

Sarosh Waghmar, our Founder and Chief Product Officer, attended the event and spoke on a panel titled “Founders & Futures: Milestone to Moonshot.” 

Moderated by Pete Comeau, Managing Director of Phocuswright, the session brought together three founders to discuss their founder stories, what they are working on now, and their visions for the future. Waghmar spoke alongside Joe Lu, CEO and Co-founder of HeyMax, and Vikas Bhola, CEO and Co-founder of NeoKe.

Moderator Pete Comeau started the session by polling the audience. He asked audience members to raise their hand if they believed that the next twenty years would give us: tech we don’t see but feel and a world where the traveler truly reigns.

Almost everyone in the room raised their hands. The panel discussion then segued to each founder detailing their professional background and the origin story of their company. Waghmar shared his story of founding Spotnana and highlighted how his approach to building technology differs from others in the travel industry. 

“Spotnana came into existence to build the infrastructure for travel,” said Waghmar. “We’re focused on building an open platform that can provide value to everyone in the ecosystem. Everyone is talking a lot about AI, but I’m not sure how many people recognize that for AI to really scale, you need new infrastructure.”

Sarosh Waghmar, Spotnana’s Founder and Chief Product Officer, on stage at WiT Singapore (second from the right)

The conversation quickly turned to each founder’s entrepreneurial journey. Waghmar shared more about his “why” for starting Spotnana and his goal for building a global travel platform designed for travelers, travel managers, and travel agents.

“Travel is a human emotion. The goal of Spotnana from day one was: how do you build this platform so that everyone else can add value to it?” said Waghmar. “You can only call yourself a platform when you create value for everyone else on top of it. That’s the goal for us at the end of the day.”

Sarosh Waghmar on stage

The conversation moved to the topic of the future and the evolution that will take place in the next twenty years. Waghmar was asked what word he thinks will define the next 20 years of entrepreneurialism in travel and responded with the word “trust.”

Trust and transparency have always been at the heart of Spotnana. Spotnana is dedicated to rebuilding trust in the travel industry by providing access to the most comprehensive selection of travel content at competitive prices. Our platform taps into dozens of APIs to pull together travel content, so travelers do not feel the need to shop around.

A common theme emerged from this panel: all three founders shared a vision to create a travel experience where the underlying technology is so effective that the traveler is served perfectly without noticing the systems at work. Spotnana’s vision is to power the perfect trip for travelers everywhere. We’re doing this by collaborating with our growing ecosystem of partners to reimagine how travel is purchased, sold, and experienced.