Inaugural Sabre Asia Pacific hackathon opens competition to virtual overseas entries and unveils new emerging technology challenges

SINGAPORE
and SOUTHLAKE, U.S., October 12, 2016 – Sabre
Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), the leading technology provider to
the global travel industry and one of the world’s largest software companies,
has opened up its inaugural Asia Pacific hackathon, 14 to 16 October, to
also include virtual entries from the global developer community.

“We’ve
received an overwhelming response to the announcement of our first ever Asia
Pacific hackathon, with over 200 participants registered already from Singapore
and the Asia Pacific region. We’ve decided to add the virtual entry component to
meet demand from additional overseas developers seeking to participate but
unable to join in person,” commented Roshan Mendis, senior vice president of
Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific.

Additional
challenges have also been announced to run alongside the overall ‘Best New
Technology Application’ category, which has a Grand Prize of US$10,000. These
include ‘Best Use of Virtual Reality’, a ‘Chatbot Challenge,’ and travel
merchandising challenges that showcase the New Sabre Red Workspace widgets,
Sabre’s advanced platform for selling and booking travel which will launch in
2017.

“These
extra categories are designed to accelerate the adoption of some of today’s key
breakthrough technologies by the travel industry. From enhancing the traveller
experience to providing travel consultants with more tools to sell and manage
travel bookings, create efficiencies and drive up revenues, there is real scope
for the boundaries to be pushed,” added Anupam Bokil, Vice President of
Technology for Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific.

Entries
will be judged by a panel of industry experts, including:

·         Roshan
Mendis, Senior Vice President, Sabre Travel Network Asia Pacific

·         Toni
Portmann, CEO, DHISCO

·         David
Moore, Senior Vice President, Software Development, Sabre

·         Jason
Shi, Director, R&D, Ctrip

·         Greg
Schulze, Senior Vice President, Commercial Strategy and Services, Expedia

Destination
Hack: Singapore will take place from 14 to 16 October 2016 at The Hub, Singapore’s largest
co-working community of techies, entrepreneurs and creatives. It is being held
in partnership with WIT and in conjunction with the WIT Conference taking placeOct 17-19,
where the winner will have the chance to present their Application. For more
information, visit Destination Hack: Singapore.