MIT Sloan Sports Business Conference: Panels

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2007 Keynotes
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2007 Panels

To see details on one of the panels from the inaugural 2007 MIT Sloan Sports Conference, please click the link below.

Sponsorship
Fan Management
Personnel Decisions
Media Rights
League Management
Minor Leagues
Sports Technology
Basketball Analytics
Career

Panel: SPORTS TECHNOLOGY

DESCRIPTION

How has technology changed the way teams and players prepare? How has it impacted fan involvement? What future technological innovations will be the real game changers?

PANELISTS

Jeff Ma is the Co-Founder and VP of Research for PROTRADE. He co-founded PROTRADE In 2004 and leads PROTRADE's efforts to produce state-of-the-art tools and methods for athlete valuation and performance assessment. He is constantly researching deeper and more effective means of evaluating performance and predicting results. A tireless evangelist for the PROTRADE mission, Jeff has a tremendous passion for sports. He has been the technology lead for two internet startups and was an options trader on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. He gained notoriety as the protagonist, under the name Kevin Lewis, in the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, the story of the MIT blackjack team. Jeff is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in mechanical engineering.

Matthew Marolda is the founder and CEO of StratBridge. Since its founding in 1999, Matthew has led the rapid growth of StratBridge in terms of revenue, clients and software development. StratBridge has served a wide range of clients, including: large professional services firms, major global consulting firms, Fortune 500 corporations, a variety of investment firms, and professional sports teams and leagues. Matthew and StratBridge have been covered in numerous publications, including BussinessWeek, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, ESPN, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, Sports Business Journal, ComputerWorld, InfoWeek, Mass High Tech, and eWeek. Prior to starting StratBridge, Matthew was a consultant at Braxton Associates, now the strategy practice of Deloitte Consulting. Matthew earned his M.B.A. at the Tuck School at Dartmouth where he won the Adams Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship. Matthew graduated from Bowdoin College with Honors, earning majors in Economics and Mathematics and a minor in Art History.

Gerry Wilson is co-founder and CEO of yOOnew. As one of the original thought leaders behind yOOnew's unique product offering, Fantasy Seats™, Gerry has spent the last three years developing the Fantasy Seats™ concept into a revolutionary marketplace. He provides strategic vision and leads product development as yOOnew pioneers the world of ticket futures. He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to attending Sloan, he founded OmniAnalytics™, a consulting firm specializing in business intelligence software solutions. Gerry also holds a BSE in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University where he was a 3-year starting cornerback on the Tiger football team.

MODERATOR

Michael Schrage is one of the world's leading experts on the economics of innovation. He helps companies worldwide design innovation processes that maximize return on investment by managing the links between innovation, the supply chain and the customer cost-effectively. Schrage is a research associate at MIT Media Lab and author of the groundbreaking book, Serious Play: How the World’s Best Companies Simulate to Innovate (Harvard Business School Press, 2000). He lectures and consults on these themes at several MIT executive education programs, overseas business schools and corporate workshops worldwide, showing audiences how to become more innovative and control costs without jeopardizing either their internal culture or their business model. He’s been a Merrill Lynch Forum Innovation Fellow and executive director of the Merrill Lynch Innovation Grants Competition. Schrage is the former director of Ticketmaster. He has advised numerous Fortune 500 companies and contributed to many business strategy and technology publications. Mr. Schrage has a patent pending for non-Internet-related point-of-purchase network technology and is collaborating on the development of a new drug delivery technology.