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“Tech-wondo": A presentation on how World Taekwondo uses technology in its daily operations – from membership to competitions. Technology is used as a tool to enhance Transparency, Fairness, Safety, Sport Presentation and excitement for spectators. WT also uses technology to deliver online education courses, online competitions, and meetings to respond to the current crisis.

Thomas Bosser works as IT Manager at World Taekwondo Lausanne Liaison Office. He is in charge to build the technical specifications, harmonize, standardize, manage and deliver the technology for World Taekwondo’s worldwide competitions.

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What an exciting opportunity to learn with the challenging journey of a three-time Olympian!

Join Mikel Thomas (110m hurdles) holistic evolution process that went far beyond the call for sport; continued by the call for being a firefighter and going back to school. Understand the fears and challenges that drove him to diverse life experiences by living his passions and achieving meaningful purposes. During this talk, Mikael describes lessons learned from London 2012 to Rio 2016 and expectations to Tokyo Olympics.

What is personal branding? And why is it important to understand your personal brand as a Sport business professional?

FIBA, the International Basketball Federation, has announced the launch of its first-ever international esports competition for national teams, the FIBA Esports Open 2020. FIBA is thrilled to be joining the esports movement together with its National member Federations, as part of this pilot project…

International sports governing bodies often face difficulties reaching out to their grassroots player communities for various reasons.

Mega-events are becoming too large, too complex, and too costly, subsequently discouraging potential candidates for future host cities. Commonwealth Sport is applying lessons learned from past events to reduce the risk of delivery and help make future Commonwealth Games more affordable and efficient. Birmingham 2022 is the opportunity to apply those lessons to change the technology template.

From the delivery of short knowledge-sharing initiatives to the creation of a dedicated sports business school with over 2,000 graduates, the importance of education at UEFA has grown exponentially over the decade beyond football.

Sharing the approach that World Triathlon has taken with their events, the guidelines that have been issued and its implementation. These guidelines are helping Event Organisers giving the right answers to all the queries on how to run competitions with the impact of Covid-19.

In the aftermath of COVID-19, it isn’t enough for the women’s game to just survive, it needs to thrive. The focus now needs to shift to those at the centre of any business’ growth strategy; the customer (fan).