Beyond the Booth: GBTA 2025 with TripAI’s Samar Khan

How can AI close the gap between sustainability goals and real-world travel operations?In this episode of dojo.live, we welcome Samar Khan, Founder of TripAI Technologies, a company using AI to drive smarter, more sustainable solutions across aviation, travel, and hospitality. The conversation explores how TripAI is tackling one of the industry’s biggest challenges: translating sustainability commitments into scalable, automated action. Samar shares insights into the overlooked components of the tech stack that are making real change possible, and explains why deeper ecosystem collaboration is still missing from the sustainability equation. With a human-centered approach to AI, Samar emphasizes the need to keep travelers and stakeholders in mind when designing next-gen travel tech. He also reflects on standout innovations from GBTA 2025’s AI & Innovation Pavilion.About Samar KhanSamar Khan is the Founder of TripAI Technologies, a product and technology services company focused on applying AI in the aviation, travel, and hospitality sectors. With over 20 years of experience developing, delivering, and maintaining mission-critical software across multiple industries, he is recognized as a thought leader in sustainability, cloud computing, and AI technologies. Samar holds a BS (Honors) from the University of Texas at Arlington and an MBA from the SMU Cox School of Business.