Tech evangelist, speaker, entrepreneur and travel enthusiast, possessing a Master degree in Computer Science. Marina is the technical lead of CruiseBe (Dallas based tech-travel company), one-stop shop marketplace and social network for cruisers & B2B end-to-end easily-customizable turnkey technology solutions for the cruise industry. For the past years, Marina is focused on bringing innovations to the cruise industry, growing her company and concentrating on using machine learning and artificial intelligence as the leading technology for making a virtual travel adviser for the cruise industry.

Marina is a keynote speaker & panel participant on major US travel conferences covering the topic about Machine Learning and AI chatbots in the travel industry, CruiseBe case study (together with travel industry leaders like Expedia, Booking, United Airlines, Marriot, Amazon, etc.). Among them: Smart Travel Data Summit North America, Techstars Startup Week Dallas,  EyeforTravel North America,  San Francisco Digital Summit, Conversational Interaction Conference, Analytics and AI in Travel North Americam, SeaTrade Cruise Global, etc. She was featured in top media like American Express, Washington Post, Skift, USA Today, Tnooz, Voice of America, Dallas News, etc