How is that affecting your business?

We need to compete at that experience level.

You see so many other platforms, companies, agents that are pivoting towards end-to-end one-stop shops.

So people want to be able to book their flights, book their hotels, restaurants and experiences.

And as hoteliers, we have to respond to that.

We don't need to necessarily provide the full end-to-end experience, but we need to have partners that can provide work alongside us to deliver that experience because people, for my hotels at least, aren't necessarily come to the hotel.

They want the destination.

How have you approached that to ensure that you optimize that direct experience all the time?

But, um, ca- can you tell me more about this, our audience more about that, and how folks can get in touch with you if they wanna discuss more?

Yes, absolutely.

So I have to rewind to about 19 months ago, when I started, uh, my first real job position at a regional four-year university.

Uh, I was directing, um, health professions programs, uh, among other different duties.

And what I found was that advising pre-health students, we shared a, uh, we shared a border with a large, uh, military installation, uh, that actually houses a lot of enlisted, uh, healthcare trained service members.

And what I found was that when they came to enroll in courses-- This is at Wright State University, uh, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, uh, Dayton, Ohio.

What I found was that when they would come to enroll, we would go through and evaluate their, their, uh, prior learning, uh, their prior experience for credits, as is required by the GI Bill.

Is, is my perception reality? Like, like, was your experience, like, super smooth and you're just, like, walking in a, a meadow of flowers and just, like, everything's wonderful? You know, like, what, what, what barriers, like, like, what friction did, did you hit? And, um, can you share any lessons learned to the audience, you know, the, the, the people that are preparing to transition that wanna be as successful as you?

Competitive events like this are a big part of the AI boom in this town right now, a chance for new developers to show off their new AI apps and maybe attract investors.

Yeah, my name is Jonathan Liu and I'm the founder of Cupidly which is an AI agent that swipes for you on Hinge.

But Liu is typical of this crowd in his bullishness about AI and the prospect of AI eventually becoming as smart or even smarter than humans.

I think once we do get superintelligence, hopefully we'll live in a utopia where nobody has to actually work ever again.