Sports Technology Podcast

CEO Huub Valkenburg and designer Dan Richards of the Finnish company Karhu talk about re-inventing the running brand while keeping the original core principles intact. 31 August 2012.

Peter Mackness (@petermackness) works at ThrillCapital, a crowd-sourced funding body for sport and entertainment. 3 February 2013.

Mark Henderson leads the Future engineering team at the adidas headquarters in Portland. We speak about his beginnings in the field and some of his projects while at Adidas. 15 August 2012.

Jeff Beckham writes for ESPN and Wired about science in sport and he tells us about some of his favorite stories - the 'moneyball' approach to basketball, and Sara Reinertsen, the first woman with a prosthetic leg to try, and first to compete the Kona Ironman. 7 October 2013.

Mounir Zok is the Senior Sports Technologist for the US Olympic Committee, and we talk about how technology is implemented to tie together the huge US Olympic Team and keep the athletes performing at their peak. 27 July 2013.

Nick White specializes in sports business law, working with governing bodies, teams and athletes.

John Needham of Newton Running talks about the Newton shoe philosophy and growing trends in minimalist footwear. 14 December 2012.

Steve Otto is director of research for the R&A, golf's governing body. He stresses the importance of maintaining the balance between technological advancement and preservation of the game. 16 February 2014.

Jessica Leitch is the creator of a physiotherapy and injury prevention service for runners called Run3d. The company uses 3D gait analysis to provide specific and evidence-based recommendations to help resolve injury. 5 August 2013.

Ryan McGinnis is a PhD student at the University of Michigan (in 2012). We met Ryan at the ISEA conference in 2012, where he presented some of his work developing systems of accelerometers in baseballs. 17 October 2012.