Australia's leading sports analytics company takes centre stage alongside President Obama
Announcement posted by Fusion Sport 05 Feb 2018
Fusion Sport are pleased to announce their sponsorship of the 2018 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, to be held February 23rd and 24th in Boston, Massachusetts.
Presented by ESPN, the two-day event will highlight the impacts of innovations driven by industry experts, team owners, league executives, coaches, and players in the sports industry - both on and off the field.
“We're extremely excited to be part of such a world-class event and lead the way on data analytics technology in the sporting arena” said Dr. Markus Deutsch, CEO and Co-Founder of Fusion Sport.
The breadth and scope of the conference has evolved over the years from only a few panels to a massive, multi-day event featuring speakers, interactive activities, presentations, and workshops. This year's event will feature high profile speakers like President Obama, the 44th President of the United States, and a well-known sports fan. Other notable speakers scheduled for this year's conference include Adam Silver, Rob Manfred, Nate Silver, Alex Rodriguez, Steve Ballmer and Maverick Carter.
The team at Fusion Sport have been attending the conference for a number of years and in 2015 they took home the Alpha award for technology most likely to impact sport on a global basis.
“We’re well on our way to impacting human performance globally. Our sponsorship of this year’s conference shows our continued commitment to providing the best human performance technologies” said Dr. Deutsch.
Fusion Sport's SMARTABASE is an intuitive platform for managing all data and provides athletes, coaches and management with clear and concise interactive data visualisations which are tangible and usable instantly.
SMARTABASE is used by hundreds elite sporting organisations across the globe including the likes of the Australian Institute of Sport, San Antonio Spurs, Detroit Pistons and Red Bull. More recently the technology has been used by the military and performing arts institutes like The Royal Ballet of England.
As part of Fusion Sport's sponsorship of the 2018 event they have gathered some of the top human performance organisations to be part of the event for all attendees to benefit from.
Head of North American Operations for Fusion Sport, Derek Wester, remarked “We want the audience to come away with real life examples of how analytics platforms can revolutionise their human performance organisations. What better way to do this then to showcase those who have done just that.”
In partnership with Fusion Sport, The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) will be taking part in a Competitive Advantage session at the conference. With a user base of over 15,000 including athletes, medical staff, coaches, sport scientists, data analysts, high performance managers, and dieticians, the AIS have developed a truly centralised national system. The AIS has successfully transformed the culture around data and outcomes for athletes across the Australian sporting landscape, especially in the area of injury prevention.
The 711th Human Performance Wing of the Air Force Research Laboratory, will explore their need to stay at the forefront of Human Performance.
Lastly, the University of Oregon will expand on their experience with centralising data across their universities 19 sports and professional Australian Rules Football team, the Geelong Cats, will showcase their world-class training reports.
Over the course of the two-day event Fusion Sport will also be educating delegates in the Data Visualisation Room and taking them on an interactive journey into the world of human performance data.
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About Fusion Sport
Fusion Sport develops, implements and supports a range of technologies to optimise human performance. Put simply, we help people to strive to do their best. We do this by using leading technologies to collect accurate and reliable data, to store and manage data securely and conveniently, and to then use that data to inform, educate and assist people to analyze the past and guide the future. Fusion Sport is headquartered in Australia and has offices around the globe in North America, Europe and New Zealand.
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About MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference debuted ten years ago, around 150 attendees, many of them self-proclaimed 'data geeks', gathered in classrooms at the renowned Institute to discuss the increasing role of analytics in the global sports industry. The growth and acceptance of sports analytics has paralleled the conference's transformation into the world's largest conference dedicated to sports analytics and business.
Presented by ESPN, the two-day event being held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center will highlight the impacts of innovations driven by industry experts, team owners, league executives, coaches, and players in the sports industry – both on and off the field –in a series of panels, presentations and workshops from top industry professionals and academics. MIT Sloan MBA organisers are expecting an all-time high of 3,600-plus attendees.
http://www.sloansportsconference.com/