"We have had successful POC opportunities that lead to increased revenue, operational efficiencies, and more differentiated brand positioning, but the ongoing trend content, best practice discussions with corporate peers, and cross-vertical exposure have proven equally as valuable."

"Every year, Plug and Play continues to learn the nuances of our business and brings forth better ideas and startups more tailored to our needs and the needs of our clients. We expect this to hyper accelerate our ability to find great new startup partnerships."

"In the fast-changing air travel environment, we need to deliver innovative solutions on an ongoing basis. Nurturing startups has helped us address critical long-standing customer travel pain points as well as bring innovative solutions at a very rapid pace."

“Plug and Play is the place where the cutting edge of innovation meets partners, including airlines, airports, other travel partners and interested parties like IBM, who aims to make the travel experiences more efficient and enjoyable.”

“Plug and Play is a wonderful vehicle for us to be immersed into the ecosystem. It’s a great place for us to see pitches from great start-ups and interact with them while they are in the accelerator program.”

“Technology is an integral part of innovation at Delta. Partnering with Plug and Play presents a mutual opportunity of benefits. Startups get the advantage of learning what some of Delta’s greatest challenges are and building their businesses based on real world problems and Delta gets the opportunity to help them to grow and evolve while also benefiting our business in the long term.”

“The great things about Plug and Play’s events is they really get the mind flowing and the brain going on different opportunities and one thought pattern might lead to another. So for Swissport, it’s been a great entry into lots of new ideas and fresh thinkings and we see a lot of applications.”   

“Coming to Plug and Play’s events helps Panasonic keep a tap on what is going on in the market and what kind of consumer behavior is evolving.”

“Travel is a multi-trillion dollar industry and there could be a lot more innovation involved. What Plug and Play brings to the table is accelerating this innovation and enabling collaboration amongst different stakeholders to come together.”

"Plug and Play has been an outstanding asset to Utrip! There is nowhere else I know of where startups can collaborate with so many like-minded entrepreneurs and founders in an open and energetic space. Even more importantly, the connections Plug and Play makes between startups and large companies in our industry is invaluable. Without them, it would take us years to get so many high-level meetings with open minded executives."

“We have had a relationship with Plug and Play for many years as a sponsor, investor, and partner and they have been a great asset for us as we have developed FLYR both on the fundraising and on the commercial side. In particular, they are now a great resource for meeting the digital leaders of many global companies, several of which we are now engaged with commercially.”

"Stride had a great experience participating in the Plug and Play Travel accelerator. The interactions with the other entrepreneurs helped stimulate new ideas and partnerships and the staff facilitated many meetings with potential corporate travel partners that would have taken a significant amount of time and effort to arrange independently. Plug and Play is like a priority pass to connect with top executives at leading travel companies."

“I loved being part of the Travel & Hospitality program. Umapped is already seeing results with new commercial relationships and friends in the industry. I also took away some terrific clarity on our focus and expansion opportunities through the various meetings and discussions with mentors and the Plug and Play team.” 

"Plug and Play greatly helped Conichi find valuable partners in a new market and the team offered enormous support throughout the entire program and beyond. The networking part – on top of it all – is priceless. The Conichi team and I are very proud to being part of the global Plug and Play family." 

“Throughout the whole process, it has been incredibly valuable in terms of introducing me to partners and introducing me to smart people who are thinking about the space who can actually think about it differently.”