What’s Inside Every Skift Global Forum Ticket and How to Use It

Skift Take Every Skift Global Forum ticket works across six windows, from two weeks out to on-demand afterward. Attendees who use each one walk in with meetings booked, stay present in the room, and leave with the introductions that turn into next quarter's deals. The people deciding who owns the traveler when an AI agent does the booking will be in one room in September. Many on stage, more in the roundtables and the hallway between them. Skift Global Forum is three days of those conversations, and your ticket starts working two weeks before. Here is how to get into every conversation that matters. Two weeks before: fill your calendar The Skift Live app opens about two weeks out, and it is the highest-leverage tool you get. Browse attendee profiles and book your onsite meetings before you land. The best-connected people in the room fill their calendars while everyone else is still packing. Confirm your meetings in-app, and use the same place to follow the agenda and live Q&A once you arrive. If your team is coming, split the room between you now. One week before: know the story The Skift Intelligence Briefing lands in your inbox the week before you arrive. It maps how AI is reshaping distribution and loyalty economics, so you walk in ready to decide what it means for your own budget rather than catching up on the context. Read it once and every question you ask on-site gets sharper. During the event: work the room around the sessions Speaker sessions and panels are the spine, and each one puts a decision on stage with the disagreements left in. This year the forum runs under one frame, Travel’s Great Recalibration: how sectors adjust as geopolitics, technology, and traveler behavior all shift at once. The confirmed lineup already runs deep: Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO, Uber Christopher Nassetta, President and CEO, Hilton Glenn Fogel, CEO and President, Booking Holdings Ariane Gorin, CEO, Expedia Group Corneel Koster, CEO, Virgin Atlantic Bret Taylor, Co-Founder, Sierra, and Chairman of the Board, OpenAI Carry those questions into the expert-guided roundtables, which run off the record and are small enough to say what you think. Seats there are limited and open first to the earliest registrants, so claim yours early. Skift Meetings Forum, Creator Summit, Live Tourism Summit, Women Leading Travel Leadership Exchange all run before the main stage opens, each built around its own set of decisions, so scan those agendas too. Then guard your breaks. Networking breaks and evening receptions are where the deal you came to explore gets its first honest conversation. Same day: leave with clarity The Skift Takeaway publishes a one-scroll summary after every session, the same day. It lays out what was argued and why it changes the call you own, so you stay present in the room and let the recap do the note-taking. 48 to 72 hours after: get the synthesis The Skift Verdict publishes a few days after the event wraps. It pulls the thread across every session, tracing where the industry aligned and where it split, so you know which of your own assumptions the week just validated and which it broke. On demand: revisit and follow up Full video of every session goes on-demand after the event. If your team came together, the recordings let each of you revisit the tracks the others sat in, so the whole group leaves with the same picture instead of comparing notes secondhand. Then work your introductions within the week, while the room still remembers you. A meeting booked in October is worth more than a business card found in March. Skift Global Forum returns to New York this September. The ticket covers all six windows, from the meetings you line up two weeks out to the sessions you rewatch in December.