Technological advancements have been changing sports for the last couple of decades: carbon fiber, wearable sensors, player tracking, clothes manufacturing and many more are helping athletes and coaches in raising the bar to almost superhuman levels. But we shouldn’t sit back and enjoy the ride. New technologies are popping up and it’s important to keep track of what is happening right now. Teams or countries that don’t do this stand a high risk of falling behind. This is why we held an evening on the current stance of where we are today and how we see sports evolving in the future.

We sat down with Lotte Branson, Lead Data Scientist at SciSports. The conversation is in Dutch, but this blogpost on the same topic might be interesting if you're not a native Dutch speaker: https://www.inthepocket.com/blog/how-machine-learning-is-changing-sports