Life at Expedia Group Blog

This year Vrbo celebrated its 25th anniversary with travelers, partners and employees! It has been a busy quarter of a century for Vrbo, embarking on a rewarding journey to become a world leader in the vacation rental space. We take a look at how the team celebrated the achievement and how they continue to connect with the Vrbo community. […]

Earlier this month, we held two virtual tech panel events for our global audiences. The event focused on “Inclusion, Innovation and the Future of Travel” and we featured six of our Expedia Group leaders from Geneva, London, Gurgaon, Seattle and Chicago. They shared their insights on what it’s like to work at Expedia Group, what […]

In June of 2019, 11 Expedians participated in our Global Ambassador Program. The program gives employees the opportunity to visit a challenged destination, immersing them in the local culture to understand how we can help support tourism and sustainable living in the area. This past year, employees visited Puerto Rico and St. John, U.S. Virgin […]

Demi Kavaratzis | Director, Transport Partner Services in Sydney In celebration of International Women’s Day, Demi will be speaking at A Force For Good events in Australia and New Zealand. The annual event features change-makers in the travel industry sharing stories and perspectives on how they have helped drive inclusion and diversity. Demi’s topic is […]

In the first few weeks of the year, Aida Mashkouri Najafi and I (Katrina Soderquest) presented at the January session of the London Women in Machine Learning and Data Science Meetup group. We both Lead Data Scientists within the EG Data Science Centre of Excellence and previously, Hotels.com data science team. Between us, we presented a range of thoughts on careers in general and opportunities & projects within Expedia Group [EG].

A few weeks ago, 20+ Expedians joined forces from London, Austin and Seattle to attend the biggest Data event in the world – the Tableau Conference.  Ayo Taiwo – Director, Business Intelligence Expedia Group and David Pires – Sr Manager, Data Visualisation Expedia Group were among the lucky Expedians who attended the conference and have […]

Matt Callanan | Senior Software Dev Engineer in Brisbane Matt Callanan, Senior Software Dev Engineer at Expedia Group, is speaking at YOW! conferences in Australia. Matt will be speaking about “Automating Operations with Machine Learning” in all three cities – Sydney (Friday, 6th December at 11:30), Brisbane (Tuesday, 10th December at 11:30) and Melbourne (Friday, […]

Alessio Caradossi | Software Dev Engineer in Rome Last 12th September we celebrated the second edition of “Child at Work” in the Expedia Rome Office. More than 100 people took part in the event: * 60 kids ranging from 5 months to 13 years old * 60+ parents looking after their children * 30 internal […]

Mamtha Banerjee | Senior Director, Technology in Bellevue Mamtha Banerjee, Senior Director, Technology, at Expedia Group, is speaking at this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando. Catch Mamtha speaking about ‘Concrete Steps to Tech Entrepreneurship’ on Friday 4th October at 13:30. Please tell us more about yourself I am a Tech entrepreneur and have previously […]

Charlotte Stewart, HR Director, Asia Pacific, based in Singapore Charlotte Stewart speaks to us about her role in human resources and shares her thoughts on the HR Directors HR Leaders Summit, taking place on 3 October 2019.   Charlotte is the lead HR Business Partner, responsible for designing and delivering the HR strategy for the Lodging […]