AI Horizons: Transforming Cruise & Hospitality Through Intelligent Innovation
About This Exclusive Event
As leaders in the cruise and hospitality industries pursue the competitive advantage of AI, they will encounter complex challenges such as distributed and highly sensitive guest data, costly upgrades to legacy IT systems, and highly capitalized business models that require strict compliance to maritime and safety regulations.
AI Horizons is an intimate gathering of industry leaders that offers an unprecedented opportunity to discuss how AI can transform operations with solutions that:
Process data where it lives without risky and difficult data centralization
Maintain strict compliance with maritime and data privacy regulations
Work with your existing infrastructure instead of requiring costly upgrades
Deliver guaranteed business outcomes with fixed, predictable pricing
Enable your current teams to implement best-in-class AI solutions
What You'll Discover
We will discuss topics on:
Real-World Implementation Strategies: distributed AI orchestration to process massive operational data without moving it off ships or compromising security.
Private AI: how you can train large language models on your own operational data while maintaining complete control over privacy. Perfect for creating AI assistants that understand your specific procedures, regulations, and let's not forget specialized AI solutions for the crew and guest needs.
Practical Roadmaps: ideas for AI governance, data retention, AI strategy development, and phased implementation that align with cruise and hospitality industry standards and regulations.
Who Should Attend
This exclusive event is designed for senior executives and decision-makers, including:
Cruise Line Executives (C-Suite, VPs of Operations, Technology, Guest Services)
Hotel & Resort Leadership Teams
Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers
Heads of Innovation and Digital Transformation
Port Authority Technology Leaders
Smart City Officials focused on tourism infrastructure
Technology Partners serving the cruise and hospitality sectors
Please Note: This is an industry-only event limited to cruise and hospitality professionals, executives, and technology leaders. All registrations are subject to approval to ensure meaningful peer-to-peer discussions.
Your AI Partners
AdaptAI specializes in creating custom AI solutions for mid-sized and enterprise organizations, offering everything from AI strategy consulting to private LLM development. Their approach combines fixed pricing with deep expertise in security and compliance for regulated industries—critical for cruise and hospitality operations.
Kamiwaza delivers enterprise AI orchestration that processes data where it lives, eliminating the need for costly data migration while guaranteeing business outcomes. Their platform works with existing infrastructure and enables current teams to implement sophisticated AI without specialized expertise.
Together, we're pioneering an approach to AI that respects the unique challenges of cruise and hospitality operations while delivering transformative results.
Reserve Your Seat
Space is extremely limited for this executive gathering. Submit your registration request to join fellow industry leaders in charting a practical path to AI transformation.
Meet the Panelists:
Wes Chaar:
With over two decades of distinguished experience, Wes has established himself as a preeminent authority in Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Fusion. His extensive body of work has been published across prestigious journals.
Wes' expertise drove transformative change across a diverse array of industry sectors, including Airlines, Hospitality, CPG, Retail, Advertising, Media, Marketing, Finance, and Data Services.
His proficiency in Revenue Management, Pricing, Channel Management and Distribution, Audience Targeting, Advertising Solutions, and Data-as-a-Service make him an ideal thought leader in the hospitality management space.
Scott Piccolo:
Scott served as a member of the executive leadership team for Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings from September 2018 through December 2023. As Co-CIO and Senior Vice President of Enterprise Applications and Emerging Technology, his role included responsibility for defining the overall vision, roadmap, strategy and execution for his respective technology organizations.
James Urquhart:
Field Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Technology Evangelist for Kamiwaza AI, where he leads strategic technical engagement with enterprise customers and the global developer community, advancing Kamiwaza AI’s mission to make real-time, agentic AI accessible, secure, and scalable across any infrastructure.
Urquhart brings more than 30 years of experience designing, deploying, and operationalizing distributed systems at scale. Recognized by MIT Technology Review as one of the “Ten Most Influential People in Cloud Computing,” he is the author of Flow Architectures: The Future of Streaming and Event-Driven Integration and has held senior roles at VMware, Dell, Cisco, and AWS. His expertise in flow-based, event-driven systems leads him to believe that AI is the killer app for flow architectures.
Carlos Jofre Jr.:
An accomplished senior technology executive with over 30 years of extensive experience across multiple industries. As a co-founder of adaptAI, he firmly believes artificial intelligence will significantly disrupt all sectors of the economy.
Carlos has over 30 years of industry experience, he has implemented several data centric enterprise solutions for Norwegian Cruise Line, Motorola and BioTissue.
This fire side chat will be moderated by:
Lenny Chesal:
Lenny is a respected leader in the South Florida tech community with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry, including developing IT companies, such as Florida Digital Network, Teleport Communications Group, Host.net, Cybraics, and iM Critical, where he is currently the Chief Evangelist.
Lenny’s skill sets include sales, IT strategy, professional services, data center infrastructure, cybersecurity, and management.
Lenny is incredibly passionate about his community, with civic involvement, including the Board of Directors at South Florida Tech Hub, SoFloTechKids, InfraGard National Members Alliance, Levan Center of Innovation at NSU, Past Chairman of the Board of Tech Runway (now The Runway) at Florida Atlantic University, CIO Council of South Florida, and the 2023 American Heart Association Leader of Impact for South Florida.
He is most often seen around South Florida behind a drum set or with a microphone as an emcee or panel moderator.