🎙️ On our second week of Accessibility & Inclusivity through SportsTech month, we are joined by Elodie Draperi, CEO and Co-Founder of GiveVision, the pioneers who are making stadiums and arenas worldwide more accessible for visually impaired fans.

Elodie talks about her foray into social entrepreneurship and the early foundations of GiveVision. She discusses the crossover between smart glasses and people who are visually impaired, and how that led to the early inception of the GiveVision Headset. She also explains the application of this technology to help their user base access information in everyday life.

GiveVision has recently partnered with Crystal Palace in Football and Wimbledon in Tennis to improve the match-day experience for people with sight loss. They're looking to partner for the Wheelchair Rugby World Cup and have big plans for Paris '24.

GiveVision™ enhances the remaining sight of people with sight loss, allowing them to see live events with their own eyes. They are dedicated to making stadiums and arenas worldwide more accessible for visually impaired fans and offer seamless installation and support to venues, ensuring an inclusive match-day experience like never before.

To learn more, visit https://www.givevision.net/

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In this week's episode we are joined by Ali Jawad, Britain’s world champion Para-Powerlifter, (4 time Paralympian) and the Co-Founder and Director of Accessercise, the world's first fitness app exclusively designed for the disability community. 

Ali talks about his journey as an athlete from winning a silver medal at the Paralympic Games in Rio to co-founding Accessercise. He talks about the need to create a diverse, supportive and passionate community around fitness and discusses his own personal challenges with establishing brand presence in an oversaturated industry, where 70,000+ fitness apps exist but none cater to the disability community.

Accessercise is the world's first fitness app exclusively designed for people with impairments. They aim to empower, guide, and educate disabled peoples journey into living a healthier and fitter life by making informed decisions based on their impairment, and giving them more access to exercise. It has a unique exercise library that can be tailored to specific needs. Users can also build workouts, schedule to their calendar and filter based on a range of options including difficulty, location and equipment.

To learn more, visit https://join.accessercise.com/

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In this week’s episode we have an exciting guest Mr. Amir Zonozi, Co-founder and CEO of Zoomph, the developers behind one of the most powerful analytics platforms for tracking sponsorship ROI, media-value exposure, and audience behavioural shifts. Zoomph tracks brand partnerships across social media, streaming, and broadcast, providing quality data to guide sponsorship decisions, and offering partnership insights across sports and entertainment for organizations like WWE, Golden State Warriors, Angel City FC, & Invisalign.

As a Board Member for Women in SportsTech and a member of Ally’s Women’s Sports Club with Sports Innovation Lab, Amir talks about brand visibility and how it is helping grow the market for Women's Sports to reach newer audiences. From their early inception as a project for the U.S State Department working with President Obama and their gateway into sports through Ted Leonsis & Monumental Sports as a marketing tool, to their eventual transition into providing analytics for the Dallas Cowboys and MSG, Zoomph has had an incredible journey!

To learn more, visit https://zoomph.com/

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In our second week of SportsTech for Women's Sports, we chat with Helene Guillaume founder and CEO of Wild.AI. Wild.AI is a Smart Coach for Women helping them train, fuel and recover based on the female physiology.

In this conversation, Helene talks about how the idea for Wild.Ai was conceptualised. We discuss her journey from a former hedge fund and management consultant in AI (while being an ultra marathon runner, semi-pro rugby player and a triathlete on the side) to breaking the status quo in the wearable tech industry by founding a company by women, for women.

Wild.ai uses A.I.-sourced data sets from active women to analyze their vitals and performance in order to make training, recovery, and nutritional recommendations specifically adapted to their physiology. It helps women reach their peak performance by helping them understand how to work with their physiology, not against it.

To learn more, visit ⁠https://wild.ai/⁠

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In this week’s episode we chat with Jasmine Robinson, Co-Founder of Monarch Collective  an investment fund exclusively focused on investing in women’s sports. The $100 million fund will invest in women’s sports, from teams and leagues to adjacent revenue streams like media and gaming.

In this interview, Jasmine talks about growing up around sports and her journey from the San Francisco 49ers to working with a consulting firm in the nexus of sports innovation. Her experience across different sports verticals led her to create Monarch Collective.

Monarch Collective is focused on using sports teams and ownership to foster communities and future changemakers, in addition to funding sports such as soccer, basketball, golf, tennis and potentially even cricket, which have a large global or domestic audience. 

To learn more, visit https://www.monarchcoll.com

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In this week’s episode we chat with Xavier Green, Co-founder and CTO of ScorePlay, the all in one media platform built for professional sports. ScorePlay is a media asset manager tailored for sports specific workflows. It connects the entire sports media ecosystem within an organisation- from the athletes and sponsors to every other relevant stakeholder through AI.

Xavier talks about his early introduction to robotics, his passion for sports, business and entrepreneurship, and how that journey eventually led him to co-founding ScorePlay. ScorePlay works with 100+ sports organisations around the globe ranging from the MLS to the Premier League. ScorePlay's investors include 35V (the media and investment company founded by Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman), Nicolas Julia (the CEO of Sorare) and Mario Götze.

To learn more, visit https://www.scoreplay.io/

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🎙️ On this weeks episode of The SportsTech Allstars Podcast we chat with Pawel Osterreicher, Co-Founder and CEO of #ReSpo.Vision, the AI and Computer Vision-powered 3D sport’s tracking data system that is bringing the next-generation sports analytics and entertainment experience to the forefront.

We talk about the application of Computer Vision in sports and how it's one of the most exciting prospects of #AI. We discuss how ReSpo.Vision uses Computer Vision to automatically collect player skeletal tracking data to unlock new performance, tactical, and scouting insights. We also talk about its truly immersive applications in sports entertainment such as using V.R to provide users an opportunity to experience games from their favourite player's point of view.

To learn more, visit https://respo.vision/

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In this week’s episode we chat with Swupnil Sahai, Co-Founder and CEO of the tennis performance tracking app SwingVision and recipient of the 2023 Apple Design Award. We talk about his journey from working at Tesla to co-founding his company in a sport that’s been dear to him from the very beginning- Tennis.

We discuss how SwingVision harnesses the potential of the Neural Engine to bring real time pro-quality shot tracking, video analysis and line calling on any court with the help of just the iPhone and the Apple Watch, thus reducing barriers of entry to sports intelligence which were limited to a select few professionals.

To learn more, visit https://swing.tennis

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Interviewing Tal Brown, Co-Founder & CEO of Zone7

In this conversation, Tal talks about working in the homeland cyber security space, briefly. He worked on big data systems, as an engineer by training and worked in tech for about a decade and was probably one of the first engineers to work on building an AI platform. Tal talks about how he was particularly interested in machine learning connected with Human Workflow with an emphasis on human workflow. He took all of that knowledge and experience and co-founded Zone7, but had a fresh start in the sports ecosystem. The Co-Founder , Eyal Eliakim is a sports scientist and as they joined forces they were also keen on figuring out how to reduce human downtime. He talks about the three vectors that are driving the growth of Zone7.  He talks about how they conduct a risk forecast as they gather and analyse data from sports teams. He also sheds light on all of the teams that they have been working with. 

Zone7 provides a comprehensive suite of products and services utilising data and AI to enable greater performance and durability amongst high-performance teams. They leverage artificial intelligence and the Zone7 technology analyses disparate performance datasets to detect patterns, uncover insights, and make proactive training recommendations that inform load management, elevate athlete performance, and reduce overall injury risk. Zone7 is used by more than 30 professional sports franchises to track the performance and injury risk of some of the world’s leading athletes. Zone7 is also being used to monitor the physical well-being of medical staff in leading hospitals around the world. By analysing data from wearables, video cameras, medical records, and various biomechanics metrics, Zone7 provides coaching staff and hospital administrators with actionable advice to positively influence rest, work assignment, and planning to protect and optimise human performance.

To learn more, visit www.zone7.ai

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Interviewing Tamir Plachinsky, CEO of Griiip

In this conversation, Tamir talks about how he grew up with a passion for motorsport and wanted to be a driver. At 22 he switched his focus to being a motorsport world champion from the engineering side. While studying in one of the top Engineering Universities in Israel he combined his passion for adrenaline and speed with his engineering knowledge and started a Formula student team in Israel. He started Griiip out of passion and frustration towards the difficulties associated with motor sport. Griiip is currently working with some of the biggest names in the industry - FormulaE, the world endurance championship, DTM and SRO. Having been established in 2016, running rounds in Italy in 2018 and finally pivoting in 2020 when Covid struck.

Griiip is an Israeli-based tech company that develops market-leading storytelling tools for the Motorsport industry. They have a racing Insights platform that changes the way users engage with Motorsport. Griiip is taking the motorsport fan experience to the next level. They make motorsport data exciting and accessible to the entire motorsport ecosystem by using state-of-the-art data technologies. Griiip created the first cloud-based data platform which collects, analyses, and visualises data. 

To learn more, visit www.griiip.com

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