Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN), the AI-powered business travel and expense management platform, is marking its 11th anniversary this month with the launch of Navigate26, its inaugural customer conference, set for May 13 in New York City.
The event will bring together travel, finance, and procurement leaders from companies ranging from the Fortune 100 to high-growth mid-market enterprises. On the agenda: a state of T&E address from President Michael Sindicich, an AI keynote from co-founder and CTO Ilan Twig, product roadmap sessions, and a fireside chat featuring CMO Erika White and board member Shai Weiss, the former CEO of Virgin Atlantic.
Founded in 2015 as TripActions by Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig, the company has since rebranded and expanded into a full-stack global T&E platform. Navan pegs its addressable market at roughly $185 billion. Its own Business Travel Benchmark data shows business travel up more than 41% over the past three years and 16% year-over-year in 2025 — a pace that significantly outstrips consumer travel growth of 5.3% over the same period and 0.1% YoY last year per TSA figures.
Navigate26 positions Navan as something more than a software vendor — it’s a bid to own the conversation around where corporate travel and expense management are heading as AI starts to reshape both categories in earnest.
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