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Siri co-creator Dr Luc Julia will open the Global Travel Futures Forum in Paris next month, with organisers positioning travel as the proving ground for a world where AI is developing along five distinct paths.

Convened by the Global Resilience Network (GRN) with Atout France, the European Travel Commission (ETC), the European Tourism Association (ETOA) and Sorbonne University, the forum will run on 28-29 October at La Sorbonne and the Hôtel de l’Industrie. About 250 senior leaders from travel, technology, finance, government, destinations and academia are expected to attend.

Julia, a former chief scientific officer at Renault Group and former CTO and SVP of Innovation at Samsung, will deliver the opening keynote on 29 October, titled “AI without the hype: what artificial intelligence can and cannot do”. He will then join forum host and BBC presenter Rajan Datar in conversation.

“If I had to say something nowadays, that would be ‘Breathe, AI isn’t going to kill us’, but also ‘Be afraid of ourselves, not of AIs’,” Julia said.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his recent address to the UN General Assembly in New York to argue the case for reining in artificial intelligence through additional safeguards, framing AI alongside climate change as a challenge that demands urgent global co-operation.

He cited the recent infiltration of a government website by an AI agent as evidence of how quickly the technology is creating new international challenges, a reference to an OpenAI agent reportedly hacking a Medicare statistics website.

Albanese said Australia was among the more than 20 signatories of a joint statement earlier in the week calling for stronger AI safeguards. That put him at odds with US President Donald Trump, who dismissed both AI and climate concerns as hoaxes in the same forum two days earlier.

The speech also doubled as a pitch for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, with Albanese telling delegates that countries can only meet these challenges together.

The forum’s signature session, “You’ve only seen one future: five AI pathways meet in Paris”, will compare how AI is being built in the US, Europe and the UK, China, the Middle East and India.

Later sessions will test those pathways against the traveller journey, including identity, payments, mobility, interoperability, data governance, ethics and human agency.

A pre-forum event on 28 October at Sorbonne University will explore AI, traveller behaviour, the future workforce and tourism in 2030, including findings from a Generation Z survey.

Travel is the proving ground

Global Resilience Network CEO and Global Strategist Laurie Myers said travel could not prepare for only one future.

Travel exposes the challenge faster than almost any other sector. A single journey can cross national borders, airlines, airports, rail networks, hotels, payment systems, identity checks and digital platforms. As AI agents begin to search, plan, book, pay and respond to disruption on a traveller’s behalf, no one company or country controls the whole experience.

The Forum will move beyond demonstrations of individual AI tools to confront the questions now facing industry leaders. Who orchestrates a journey that no single organisation controls? Who owns identity and data when a traveller crosses borders? How will competing AI agents, payment systems and mobility networks communicate? And where must human judgement remain in charge?

“AI is not arriving as one global system with one set of rules,” said Laurie Myers, CEO and Global Strategist of the Global Resilience Network. “Travel cannot prepare for only one future. Resilience will depend on operating across competing ecosystems while protecting trust and human agency. Paris puts those futures side by side and asks what leaders must do now.

“Resilience will depend on operating across competing ecosystems while protecting trust and human agency.”

Organisers pointed to uneven adoption as evidence of divergence, citing Eurostat data showing EU enterprise AI use rose from 13.5 per cent in 2024 to 20 per cent in 2025, ranging from 42 per cent in Denmark to 5.2 per cent in Romania.

Confirmed Global Resilience Network speakers include ETC CEO Eduardo Santander, ETOA CEO Tom Jenkins, Atout France CEO Adam Oubieh, European Commission Tourism Unit Director General Maximilian Strotmann, BCG managing director and partner Rylan Henriques, and HBX Group’s Javier Cabrerizo and Carlotta Galvin. Alibaba and Fliggy, Alibaba Cloud, Sabre, MMGY, Caisse des Dépôts and Worldia are also represented.

The forum forms part of GRN’s international executive AI programme, which has included a day at Alibaba’s Hangzhou headquarters in May and two sessions at Arabian Travel Market in Dubai last week. It continues at World Travel Market London on 3–5 November and returns to China in May 2027.