About

Tech evangelist, speaker, entrepreneur and travel enthusiast, contributor for European magazines

Experienced programmer and technical lead, possessing a Master degree in Computer Science and three years of experience as a certified SAP HCM Consultant Human Capital Management).
Marina Shumaieva is the Co-founder and CTO of CruiseBe, Inc. - one-stop shop marketplace and social network for cruisers & B2B end-to-end easily-customizable turnkey technology solutions for the cruise industry.
Among Marina`s responsibilities are coordinating all technical aspects of the company, establishing the technical strategy and technological roadmap, programming algorithms and implementing innovative solutions.
After presenting the first cruise AI chatbot and iOS app on TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley in San Francisco, Marina was invited to be the speaker on major travel conferences.
Marina supports Women in tech movement and giving her experience she writes articles where she shares her knowledge and point of view with the profile publications. Her quotes and CruiseBe products were featured in the popular magazines like Washington Post, Dallas Magazine, Dallas News, Skift, USA Today, Tnooz, etc.

For the past years,I am focused on bringing innovations to the cruise industry, growing my company and concentrating on using machine learning and artificial intelligence as the leading technology for making a virtual travel agent for the cruise industry Marina Shumaieva

Talking up travel industry ‘chatbots’

“We are on the verge of a big disruption in the travel industry,” says Marina Shumaieva, the chief technology officer of CruiseBe.com, which has its own Facebook bot that can offer information about cruise ships.“

Let’s hear it from women in travel

Marina Shumaieva, co-founder & CTO of CruiseBe.com, admits that being a woman in travel tech is “not an easy thing to do”. However, with patience, persistence and intuition she has managed to make a career of her two hobbies – travelling and programming.

It's official: the era of personalisation has arrived

Marina Shumaieva detailed how chatbots can benefit customer interaction. Chatbots are becoming more sophisticated with machine learning, allowing them to self-learn about customer preferences and respond accurately to questions in real time.

From Trip Itineraries To Navigable Maps, Dallas Startup Puts Cruise Planning In One Platform

What started as a trip aggregator has evolved into everything someone needs to take a cruise...CruiseBe wanted to be at the forefront of that technology with its chatbot system. Later this month, Marina will travel to Miami to talk about how her startup has used AI for the Smart Travel Data Summit North America 2018.

The Best Bahamas Cruise

After booking, a cruise itinerary aggregator website and IOS app like CruiseBe.com helps keep all the necessary information in one place.