Pat Summitt Room

Soccer Analytics: Shaping the Future of the Game (Presented by Optapro)

As the beautiful game continues to adapt to the rise of analytics, player positions are evolving in accordance with these changes.

Scoring Sponsorships: Metrics to Maximize Brand Value (Presented by Hookit)

With most aspects of our daily lives featuring advertising or sponsorships of some kind, it is increasingly difficult for brands to quantify and attribute the value that they get out of specific sponsorships.

Ticketing Analytics: The Power of Open Distribution

Ticketing is the next frontier of major growth in the sports business.

Changing the Game: How Advanced Data is Enhancing Broadcasts (Presented by ESPN)

Recent years have seen an uptick in the use of advanced data and analytics to enhance game broadcasts and drive second-screen platforms, creating differentiating viewing experiences for sports fans.

Baseball 2.0: Updating America's Pastime

Baseball has been a constant through the years with limited innovation while the world of sports shifts around it.

The People Advantage: Culture Analytics

The availability of data today is rapidly expanding, and while this promises to unlock valuable insights for all businesses, many organizations find themselves at a crossroads.

Game (Show) Theory: An Omnibus Conversation with Jeopardy GOAT Ken Jennings and Nate Silver

What is “the next field to be transformed by analytics”? Tune in to hear the clue.

Sponsorships In The 2020s: Leveraging Technology to Uncover Gems Presented By Hookit

From headphones to tennis shoes, sponsorship influences buying decisions because of one simple reason: fans want to be like their sports idols.

Tackling Name, Image, and Likeliness in College Sports

California’s passing of the Fair Pay to Play Act in late 2019 reignited the longstanding, nationwide debate over collegiate athlete compensation.

Investing With the Bulls: Wall Street Analytics In Sports

Not only has the popularity of sports investing increased in recent years, but the value of sports franchises has grown by 3-5x in the past decade.

Save the Data: The Future of Data & Technology

Technology has transformed how sports organizations engage with their fans and collect information.

Basketball Analytics: Nothin' But Net... Rating

Analytics has revolutionized the modern game, but there are changes happening off the court that are unseen by the public.

Soccer Analytics: The Beautiful Game Meets the Analytics Edge

The arms race is on – more teams from FC Barcelona to Liverpool are using analytical tools to influence and inform their technical decisions, transfer market game plan, and scouting strategies.

No Industry is Safe: The Opioid Epidemic in Sports and Society

Addiction is now the leading cause of death in America for those under 50.

Data, Snipe, Celly: The State of Hockey Analytics

Painting the Black: The State of Baseball Analytics

OK, Zoomer: How Data Can Win Back Gen Z

Entrepreneurship, Fundraising, Investing: Approaches to Success

Packing a Punch with Data: How Analytics Have Fueled the UFC

Swim, Bike, Run, Data: The Next Frontier for Driving Human Performance

Beyond Expected Goals: Analyzing and Implementing the Next Phase of Soccer Analytics

The Evolution of Sports Business: Keeping Up With the Shifting Landscape Presented by Wasserman

Career Kickoff

The Career Panel provides a lively discussion on the skills vital in today’s sports industry and what analytical and business leaders are looking for in talent.

Managing The Big League Levers

The ecosystem of a sports league is unique, and league offices are given the difficult task of bringing together a set of disparate teams and pointing them towards the best interests of the collective whole.

Unlocking Potential: The Next Generation of Tracking Data (Presented by STATS)

Player tracking technologies in the past decade have provided information that was once unattainable—the distance and speed a player runs in a game, effectiveness against certain defenders, the game situations which are most likely to produce a fast break, and so much more.

Achievement Unlocked: ESports Analytics

A multitude of esports leagues and tournaments are thriving globally across various blockbuster games.

Direct-To-Consumer: Disrupting & Engaging Today's Sports Fans (Presented By Rakuten)

The ability to create and view content on-the-go has changed how fans engage with their favorite teams on game days and beyond.

It’s Complicated: Athlete Relationships with Social Media

Every league has, at least to some degree, embraced social media outlets like Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook as critical channels to connect fans more closely to the sports they watch.

Competing with the Couch: Improving the Venue Experience

With increasing options for when, where, and how fans are able to watch their favorite teams play, legacy venues are trying to accommodate newer technologies and comforts to encourage fans to come to live games and engage with their team.

Defending The Pass: Using Player Tracking Data to Gain New Insights Presented By ESPN

“You have to pass to set up the run.”

Built To Last: The Importance of Inclusion & Diversity in Sports Organizations Presented By Wasserman

Countless studies have shown that diverse teams outperform homogeneous counterparts. Yet in an environment where everyone is looking for a competitive edge, why is the sports industry so far behind?

Ticketing Analytics: Secondary To None

Ticketing and game attendance remains the cornerstone of sports organizations.

Sports Gambling Innovation: Betting on the Future Presented by Sig Sports Analytics

In the 18 months since the Professional & Amateur Sports Protection Act was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, revenue generated across states offering legal gambling has reached an astounding $15 billion.

Pass The Secret Sauce: Learning Across Sports

Athletes, coaches, analysts, and executives have remained siloed in their respective sports for decades.

1:1 With Enes Kanter

Howard Beck sits down with Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter for a wide-ranging conversation on his unique basketball career and his stance on expressing his beliefs and freedom of speech.

Data is the New Muscle: Technology and Sports

ESPN Daily: Maximizing Competitive Meaning

Birdies & Big Data: The Golf Revolution

Continuing to Grow in the Esports World

Ticketing: When Precedent is No Longer a Predictor

The Numbers Behind the Books: How Gambling Companies Leverage Data