🏟️ 2024 European Upside Tech Summit (Paris). Our First Speakers: Rick Cost (US Soccer Federation),Pierre Barrieu (MLS/EPL), Alan McCall (Arsenal fc), Sloane Tilley (Dia Sensor), Coralie Gallis (Sm24)
Dear colleague,
On September 5, we will host our annual 2024 Upside European Sports Tech Summit in Paris, which will be hosted by a world’s class European team. We are excited about catching up with all of you there. We have a packed agenda for you guys with a great lineup of speakers, pro teams, vendors and investors. We are also actively working on our and later on in 2024 in the US in Miami FL hosted by a top US team. We can’t wait to catch up in person with all of you.
If you cannot attend our Paris Tech Summit in person, no worries. You can now sign up here, email us and we will send you for free the recorded videos of the panels and keynotes by clicking on the link below:
Teams & Leagues, vendors and partners:
Location / Time:
Location: Paris, France (Hosted by a Top European team).
Date: September 5, 2024
Time: 7.30 am to 6 pm EST
Highlights:
Top Leagues: Premier League, Laliga, Ligue 1, Calcio, Bundesliga, National rugby teams, Top tennis academies, European basketball teams, Olympic teams, NBA, MLB, MLS, NHL, NFL, NCAA, etc
VCs (Sports tech VCs, Team owners, Sports tech accelerators, angel investors..)
Media (TV, newswires..)
12 Speaking Sessions
2 Keynotes
30 exhibitors
50 Top Speakers
Featured Speakers
This week we are delighted to announced our first speakers at our 2024 Upside European Sports Tech Summit in Paris. We have a lot more speakers (teams, leagues, vendors..VCs, team owners, athletes) across various leagues (Laliga, Premier League, Ligue 1, Calcio, Bundesliga, national rugby teams, pro tennis..) to be announced.
New speakers:
Rick Cost is the high performance director at the US Soccer Federation. He also previously worked for Feyenoord Rotterdam N.V and Hockey Club Rotterdam.
Pierre Barrieu is an experienced high performance director in the MLS (LA Galaxy, LAFC, Toronto FC, NY Red Bulls, etc.), Premier League (Leeds United FC) and FIFA expert.
Alan McCall is the Head of R&D at Arsenal FC, a top Premier League team.
Ismael Fernandez is the CEO of ThermoHuman, a leading company in the thermography space, which helps teams reduce muscle injuries and quantify internal load.
Sloane Tilley, CEO of DIA Sensor, an early stage VC-backed tech company making electrochemical sensors to measure a variety of endogenous and exogenous chemical threats in real-time.
Coralie Gallis, CTO of Sm24, a non invasive real time biomarker analysis sensor company.
Pierre Barrieu and Ismael Fernandez will be speaking on our panel discussion on “Injury reduction & recovery”.
Sloane Tilley and Coralie Gallis and Ismael Fernandez will be speaking on our panel discussion on “The Emergence of next gen biomarkers”.
Rick Cost will be speaking on our panel on “Athletes’ data access and ownership”.
Agenda:
At our 2024 Paris Tech Summit, we will have 2 keynotes and various panel discussions on timely topics. Here is the detailed agenda.
7.30 am: Registration
8.30 am - 8.40: Opening remarks by Julien Blin, CEO, Upside Global
8.40 am - 9.20 am: Opening Keynote
9.20 am - 10 am: Panel discussion:
Title: The future of AI in sports.
Summary: Will 2024 be the year of AI in sports? What are the top use cases for AI in sports? Will ChatGPT help enhance the work of medical and performance execs?
10 am - 10.40 am: Panel discussion:
Title: Injury reduction & recovery.
Summary: What are the similarities and differences between US and European teams when it comes to teams’ approach towards injury reduction and recovery? What are the best practices? Where are we heading?
Participants:
Pierre Barrieu, Experienced high performance director (MLS / EPL), and FIFA expert.
Ismael Fernandez, CEO, ThermoHuman.
Moderator: Julien Blin, CEO, Upside Global
10.40 am - 11.20 am: Panel discussion:
Title: Building in-house Vs Buying 3rd party solutions Vs hybrid approach: One size does not fit all. The pros and cons of each approach.
11.20 am - 12 pm: Panel Discussion:
Title: The team behind the team
Summary: The emergence of athletes hiring their own staff (Private chef, S&C coach, PT, fitness coach, sports scientist..) on the side. What are the benefits for athletes? Is this here to stay? Which leagues are ahead?
Participants:
Dr Bill Burgos, experienced NBA S&C coach (Timberwolves, Orlando Magic/NBA), and adjunct professor at 2 universities: Mississippi state and Austin Peay State university.
12 pm - 1 pm: Lunch & Networking
1 pm - 1.40 pm: Panel discussion:
Title: Athletes’ data access and ownership.
Summary: Athletes want to get better access to their own data. What are the various approaches? Where are we heading?
Participants:
Rick Cost, High performance director, US Soccer Federation.
1.40 pm - 2.20 pm: Panel discussion:
Title: The Future of sports fan experiences.
Summary: What are the future “killer” use cases? What are the best monetization strategies and best case studies? Is Web 3.0 the future of digital in sports?
2.20 pm - 3 pm: Panel discussion:
Title: The importance of innovation within teams.
Summary: How can teams successfully bring new technologies, build innovation hubs and research departments? What are the similarities and differences between US and European teams? Are the US and European teams on equal footing? What are the best practices? What are the key KPIs?
Participants:
Alan McCall, Head of R&D, Arsenal FC (Premier League)
3 pm - 3.20 pm: Break & Tech Expo.
3.20 pm - 4 pm: Panel discussion:
Title: Teams’ nutritional strategies.
Summary: What are the similarities and differences between Similarities and differences between US and European teams? What are the best practices? Where are we heading?
4 pm - 4.40 pm: Panel discussion:
Title: The Emergence of next gen biomarkers.
Summary: Are biomarkers (lactate, cortisol, glucose, hydration…) the new holy grail for teams? What types of new biomarkers are likely to emerge in the future?
Participants:
Sloane Tilley, CEO, DIA Sensor.
Coralie Gallis, CTO of Sm24.
Ismael Fernandez, CEO, ThermoHuman
4.40 pm - 5.20 pm: Panel discussion:
Title: Sports tech investments.
Summary: What are the similarities and differences between US and European investors (VCs, team owners, athletes)? What are the best practices?
5.20 pm - 6 pm: Panel Discussion
Title: Women in sports
Summary: What types of emerging technologies for women teams and athletes will be see in the future? What are the main challenges faced by women teams today? What can we do to increate the number of research towards women teams?
6 pm - 6.30 pm: Closing keynote
So why should you attend our Paris Summit?
Our exclusive 2024 Upside Paris Sports Tech Summit will give you the opportunity to:
Meet practitioners (Athletic trainers, strengths coaches, sports scientists, head of performance, team doctors..) of top teams to present your product.
Meet innovative companies in areas (rehab tech, thermography, wearables, AI based injury reduction tools, hydration assessment tools, AMS, OTT/Web 3.0, etc.)
Meet top VCs, team owners, athletes and investors as part of your fund raising effort.
Speak on our panels and keynotes about the latest trends in sports and tech (Load management, injury reduction, OTT/Web 3.0, etc.)
If you are interested in sponsoring our event, exhibiting or speaking at our event, please reach out to us ASAP and click on the button below or email us at julien@sportsouncilsv.com
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Here are some video testimonials of some of the attendees (Vendors, sports organizations, VCs..) at our NY Summit:
At our 2024 Paris Upside Summit, we will have 50 top speakers. You can check our first speakers below. We will soon announce many more new speakers for our 2024 Paris Summit.
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As always, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me.
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