Sports Tech Research Podcast

Michael Naraine , Assistant Professor in Sport Management at Brock University  (Canada) already performed research in a high variety of sports technology-related topics, such as marketing analytics, WiFi in stadiums, blockchain, and eSports. What are the key findings of these studies? How relevant were/are they for the industry? And what are the key factors in university-industry collaboratio...

Liz Wanless is an Assistant Professor of Sports Administration and Assistant Director for Analytics at Ohio University, where she’s involved in various sports business analytics projects - of which some with sports organizations as e.g. in football or basketball. In this episode of the podcast, we discussed her recent work in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) as it is used e.g. in...

In this episode of the podcast, I talked with Stina Lundgren Högbom (Global Relationship Manager at the Health & Sports Technology Initiative in Blekinge, Sweden) and Mikael Mattsson (Adjunct Professor at the same Blekinge Institute of Technology and Senior researcher at Stanford University and Karolinska Institute). Key questions we talked about were: what is the initiative about? Should rese...

Imec is an R&D hub for nano- and digital technologies in Flanders (Belgium). The institute is linked to the 5 universities in the region and is well known on an international level when it comes to high-tech R&D and commercializations. In the framework of sports technology innovation, we were wondering how the organization is facilitating entrepreneurship and spin-off creation, and what ca...

Chad Goebert  is one of the few PhD students who's working on Immersive Sport Technologies research. He’s doing this at the Virginia Commonwealth University in the US, from where he's also feeding the popular Twitter handle  ARVRInSport . After talking about some of his own research, we also touched upon the broader topic of how to bridge the gap between academia & industry in this a...

Kim Blair is one of the most experienced people in the sports engineering & technology area worldwide. He has worked for many organizations including NASA, MIT and various consultancy companies, such as Cooper Perkins, where he is working again now. He's also a Board member of ISEA (International Sports Engineering Association). Given his extensive experience and reputation in both academ...

Martin O’Reilly calls himself 'a passionate sports-wearables and analytics entrepreneur and researcher'. And he is! As a CEO & Co-Founder at Output Sports , which is a spinout of the University College Dublin in Ireland, Martin and his team went through an exciting journey from academic research to a sports wearable company in the market, focusing on physical therapists, strength & conditi...

Working for Progressive Sports Technologies and many other organizations, Patrick Burge has a broad experience in topics as Innovation. Strategy. Startup and Scale-up Financing, etc. Supported by his dog Suzy (the first dog on the podcast 😀), Patrick is skilled in connecting the dots, asking the right questions, composing the best possible teams, etc. in order to make innovations happen. We talke...

Working in the Sport Innovation Research group at the Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), Adam Karg is closely involved in various research projects in collaboration with industry, As a result, Adam is innovating in various areas of sports organization management, fan engagement, team & league marketing, etc. with the help of (his) research. Besides that, he is also the President o...

Being a Senior researcher at Ghent University in the research group for Media, Innovation and Communication Technologies , Jeroen Stragier has worked on various aspects as motivational affordances of Online Fitness Community features, the use of Wearables, Mobile apps and Exergames in promoting physical activity, and the potential of new Media and Persuasive technologies to induce Behavioral chang...

What's the status quo of sports innovation ecosystems , from both a theoretical and practical perspective? Benjamin Kinsky (Bundeswehr University Munich) is making his PhD on this interesting topic. We talked about the daily business in sports and why teams or leagues would/should focus on creating innovative products, services and processes, despite their limited time and financial resources . Wh...

In order to have student sport entrepreneurship to flourish, it helps to have some good practices and examples. Giorgi Khubua and his team created one with their smart mirror solution called Solos . The story started at the Technical University of Munich in 2016 and after winning prizes and attracting investments, the team recently sold the startup to a larger fitness company. In this episode, we...

Jack Goodloe-Haßmann, Senior Manager Consumer Insights at Puma (at the time we spoke), explains his approach and vision within the Puma R&D process. We discussed the interaction between physical (material) versus sensor and digital innovations and the role of academic research for a company as Puma. Also: what will the future for Puma bring? Contact Jack Goodloe-Haßmann  here .

During this episode of the podcast, Lode Goossens talks about the transition from the Ghent University spin-off SpartaNova to the re-start of the company under the name 'Hylyght'. We talked about the state-of-the-art in the sports talent identification research area, and the opportunities for automation using smart testing devices and machine learning models, creating purpose build algorithms...

During this podcast episode, Ted Hayduk, Assistant Professor at the Preston Robert Tisch Institute for Global Sport (New York University) discusses his research in the areas of sports entrepreneurship & innovation and the role of data analytics within it. Prof. Hayduk elaborates on how to bridge the gap between (his) research and the sports world. We also discussed some parts of his...

In this intro episode, we shortly explain the purpose of our podcast and the topics we'll cover. Happy listening!