How do I book Claire B. Soares to speak at a travel event?

Start a speaking inquiry through the contact form or book a call directly. The process begins with a short call to scope your audience, format, and outcomes, followed by a clear agreement.

What topics does Claire speak about?

Three signature sessions: The AI-Powered Travel Business, a flagship keynote on where AI actually pays inside a travel business; Teach AI to Sound Like You, a hands-on V.O.I.C.E. Method workshop; and The Advisor of 2030, an executive session on what AI changes about staffing, service, and fees.

Does Claire speak virtually as well as in person?

Yes. Keynotes, workshops, and executive sessions are delivered in person, virtually, and in hybrid rooms, with technology checked in advance and promotional assets supplied for your marketing.

What do attendees receive?

Every attendee leaves with the Travel AI Kit, the complete AI setup guide, free. The session is built around your specific audience rather than delivered from a recycled deck.

Keynotes · Workshops · Travel AI University

The AI speaker who has run the business your audience is in.

Claire B. Soares closed $3.4 billion in enterprise software at Google, Microsoft, and IBM, built a $16M+ luxury travel brand, and now teaches thousands of travel professionals to put AI to work. Book the keynote your audience implements Monday morning.

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Claire B. Soares

AI Strategist · Keynote Speaker

$3.4B+

Enterprise sales · Google, Microsoft, IBM

6×

Condé Nast Top Travel Specialist

$16M+

Luxury travel sales, her own brand

120K+

Audience across Instagram & email

As Seen In

Forbes
Condé Nast Traveler
USA Today
Yahoo
ASTA
Virtuoso
Black Enterprise
Essence
Ebony
Travel Noire
Huffington Post

Why Claire

Most AI speakers have never run a travel business. Most travel speakers have never sold technology.

Claire has done both, at the highest level. Every example comes from a real luxury travel operation, and every recommendation has survived contact with real clients, real suppliers, and real revenue. Your audience doesn't leave inspired. They leave equipped.

Signature Talks

Three sessions. One promise: your audience builds, not just applauds.

01The Flagship Keynote

The AI-Powered Travel Business

Where AI actually pays inside a travel business — not theory, the exact workflows running inside a $16M+ luxury travel brand. Your audience leaves with a map of the five places AI returns hours and revenue, and the first system to build on Monday morning.

Best for · Industry conferences · consortia annuals · host agency events

45–60 min keynote · in-person or virtual

Your audience walks away with

The five stages of a travel business where AI produces measurable return
Live demonstrations built on your audience's real scenarios
The one setup mistake that quietly ruins most advisors' results

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02The Hands-On Workshop

Teach AI to Sound Like You — The V.O.I.C.E. Method™

The framework that delivered a 490% increase in organic traffic and $97,000 in new revenue in a single 45-day case study. A working session, not a lecture: every attendee writes their own custom instructions and leaves with AI that speaks in their voice.

Best for · Workshops · retreats · advisor training days

90 min – half day workshop · laptops open

Your audience walks away with

Custom instructions drafted in the room, ready to use the same day
The privacy-first setup that protects client data before the first prompt
A voice framework attendees keep using long after the event

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03The Executive Session

The Advisor of 2030

What AI changes about staffing, service, and fees over the next five years — from someone who sold technology transformation in $3.4B of enterprise boardrooms and then lived it inside her own travel company. Straight answers for leaders deciding where to invest.

Best for · Leadership summits · executive boards · enterprise travel firms

45–60 min session + Q&A · in-person or virtual

Your audience walks away with

Which roles AI reshapes first inside agencies — and which it protects
A readiness framework leadership can score their organization against
The board-level questions to ask before funding any AI initiative

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For Event Organizers

Booking Claire is the easy part of your event.

Start with a short call to scope your audience and outcomes. Claire handles the rest — preparation, promotion assets, and a session your attendees will still be talking about next quarter.

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A gift for every seat

Every attendee leaves with the Travel AI Kit — the complete setup guide — free. Your event delivers value that outlasts the session.

Tailored to your room

No recycled deck. Claire builds every talk around your audience's segment, tools, and season — advisors hear advisor examples, executives hear enterprise ones.

Stage or screen, handled

In-person keynotes, virtual sessions, and hybrid rooms — tech-checked in advance, with promotional assets supplied for your marketing.

An easy yes for your team

One call to scope the audience and outcomes, a clear agreement, and a speaker who shows up prepared. Booking should be the easiest part of your event.

After the Applause

A keynote lasts an hour. The University lasts all year.

Travel AI University is where advisors keep building after the talk — the same systems Claire teaches on stage, implemented week by week with her faculty and a community doing the work alongside you.

$97/ month · cancel anytime

Founding members lock in $97/mo for life — first 100 only.

Join the University Start free with the Travel AI Kit

Membership Includes

The Travel AI Black Book — 140+ AI systems for every stage of your business
Weekly live trainings with Claire and her faculty
The full recorded archive, organized by workflow
An active community of advisors implementing together

Live every week · Built for travel professionals

About the Speaker

Claire B. Soares.

A six-time Condé Nast Traveler Top Specialist and Certified AI Consultant, Claire spent her first career in the top one percent of enterprise sales at Google, Microsoft, and IBM — then built Up in the Air Life into a multi-million dollar luxury travel company. She created the V.O.I.C.E. Method™ and founded Travel AI University to bring real AI implementation to the industry she loves.

6× Condé Nast Top Travel Specialist

Certified AI Consultant

$3.4B+ enterprise sales · Google, Microsoft, IBM

Founder, Up in the Air Life ($16M+ in travel sales)

Creator of the V.O.I.C.E. Method™

Founder, Travel AI University

Airbnb inaugural Black Travel List honoree

Led the largest Black-led travel movement to Antarctica

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