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The stage is set for Skift Global Forum East 2025 in Abu Dhabi this October. The first lineup of speakers has just been revealed, and it is packed with visionaries who are changing how the world travels.

Skift Global Forum East 2025 returns to Abu Dhabi as the meeting point of the Middle East’s booming travel sector and the global industry at large. With regional leaders and international power players sharing the stage, here's what to expect at the Skift Global Forum East.

Eric Resnick, CEO and Co-founder of KSL Capital Partners, brings three decades of travel investment expertise to Skift Global Forum. With $25 billion dedicated to experiences, his insights on growth, resilience, and traveler identity will spotlight the industry’s future.

Skift Global Forum 2025 brings together the most powerful room in travel. This week’s event will be our biggest yet and comes at a pivotal moment for travel leaders seeking to stay ahead of consumers, AI, and the macro shifts impacting the industry.

The world’s most powerful travel leaders, ranked at the top of the Skift Power Rankings, take the stage at Skift Global Forum 2025. Authority, insight, and influence converge in New York this September.

Skift Global Forum 2025 takes place in New York City from 16–18 September, bringing together leaders across airlines, hospitality, technology, finance, and media for three days of big ideas and industry-shaping conversations.

Non-core expansion. Rewired distribution. Live public-policy experiments. This year’s Power Rankings spotlight the leaders taking the biggest risks in travel, staking cash, reputation, and time on moves they can’t easily unwind. The next 12 months will reveal who placed smart bets — and who just rolled the dice.

Skift Global Forum 2025 puts you in the room with the executives, innovators, and disruptors who are redefining airlines, hotels, and destinations. Are you in or watching from the sidelines?

Women aren’t afraid of risk – but they do face unique challenges. These leaders have blown past them and are reshaping the travel industry in the process.

Supply chains, shifting demand, geopolitics, sustainability mandates, and digital transformation are colliding to reshape the skies.