In this incredible panel, Lennart Wernecke (DFL) discusses how the Bundesliga was the first soccer league to restart in May 2020 without having any benchmark while Daniel Krischner (Greenfly) maps out how Covid has changed the way in which Greenfly is collaborating with sports organizations, delivering content from athletes at home and dealing with fewer people available to capture content on the sports field. We also hear from Jean-Baptiste Alliot (UEFA) on the challenge of scheduling the Champions League’s Final 8 as well as from Erik Stark (Slate) on how Slate uses digital media to help empower and differentiate sports brands. Finally, the panel discusses how digital content as well as sponsorship on social media becomes increasingly important since most sports matches are played without any spectators.

In this incredibly insightful discussion, Chen Shachar (Playsight) and Dror Briger (Playsight) explain how their company uses AI to develop smart sports venues but also helps referees, provides clubs with fan engagement tools and allows leagues to increase their visibility and ultimately their revenues. Wim Van de Keere (Beligian Euromillion Basketball League) and Dan Shiray (Israeli Volleyball Association) talk about the perspective of sports leagues on how new technologies like Playsight create amazing business development opportunities.

In this greatly anticipated conversation moderated by Josh Frydman (WGN-TV), Lance Armstrong (Next Ventures) and Melanie Strong (Next Ventures) cover several trends that they are closely following in the sports tech investment realm. More specifically, they discuss how health and wellness is more important for Gen Z than for any other generation, as well as how this trend has gained momentum in the past year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They also touch on how innovation in recovery and sleep is now possible. Finally, the conversation concludes with Lance and Melanie talking about how they try to give unprivileged populations access to the newest sports tech innovations as well as how the importance of mental health in high performance sports has increased since the beginning of the pandemic.

Shmulik Barrel (Playform), and Tony Robert (Washington Youth Soccer Association), discuss their partnership and how Playform enables youth soccer players to have analytics about their performance and skills, using their phones.

In this insightful discussion moderated by Stephane Mottaz (Mottaz Consulting), Greta Bodino (ECA) gives an overview on how football clubs navigated the pandemic and developed best practice scenarios to return to play. Greta also discloses the ECA-NBA collaboration on the return to play as well as how the ECA worked with Cricket Australia and the Australian Football League to hear about their approach on the return of fans. Mathieu Lacome (PSG) then shares how the French club has tackled the issue of the return of fans to the stadium and how it developed an innovation process to create a covide-free passport for players, staff and, ultimately, fans.

Alex Dreyfus (Socios.com), Dorukhan Acar (Galatasaray) and Dan Ghosh-Roy (Professional Fighters League) discuss the latest trends in Fan Engagement and Monetization through tokens. As the CEO at Socios.com, Alex explains how his company enables fans to participate in club decisions through online tokens. Dorukhan from Galatasaray SK gives the club perspective on the topic and provides examples of fan-based club decisions. Next, Dan from the Professional Fighters League discloses why their partnership with Socios.com is the perfect way to grow their emerging league