speaker
Xavier Lagardere
Chief Data Officer & VP Innovation,
Lufthansa Group
Keynote Lufthansa Group
Xavier Lagardère has been appointed as Head of Data
Strategy and Transformation for Lufthansa Group in
January 2021. He is responsible for LHGs data strategy &
governance and enables the transformation of LHG
towards a data-driven airline group. With his appointment
as Vice President Project Innovation
Management leading the establishment of the Groupwide
Innovation Management, he is now also responsible
for accelerating innovation, setting up of innovation
partnerships and aligning the Group's innovation potential.
Xavier Lagardère began his professional career as
Research & Development engineer at HP in 2003. In
2005 he joined the travel & mobility industry taking a
position at Amadeus IT Group with responsibility for
product development and innovation. For Groupon he was
appointed business unit director, responsible for the travel
business in France.
Xavier joined Lufthansa Group in 2013 as Vice President
online retail & distribution at Brussels Airlines where he
set up new direct distribution channels with a focus on
online sales. In 2016 his responsibility expanded to
defining the go-to-market strategy and the global channel
solutions for Lufthansa, SWISS and Austrian Airlines.
He is a board member of several companies in the travel &
mobility sector and holds various patents in the domain of
travel & mobility system automation and passenger
interaction.
Xavier holds a master degree in computer science from
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and a Master in
Business Administration from INSEAD.