Big Issues Keynote Session 2: The Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) For Sport
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Community Sport & Leisure Facilities | In partnership with IAKS | Sponsored by Otium
Thursday, June 27, 2024 |
11:05 AM - 12:05 PM |
Details
The future of AI for sport is to identify how technology can help the industry manage sport smarter, increase community participants, and enhance participant experiences to encourage retention.
Speaker
Nick Ward
Cloud Solution Architect
Microsoft
The value of AI technology to the industry, re-imagining the future and how it will change our own visions for our participants, our leaders and the approaches to being smarter in how we plan and manage. What should we expect from technology
11:10 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Nick is a technologist at Microsoft. Over 19 years at the company he has helped many organizations leverage the latest technological advances. These days he helps many to understand and capitalize on the AI wave.
Stuart Morgan
Lead Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Data Innovation
Australian Institute of Sport
Sporting pathway and sporting excellence experience Participation – what will that look like with AI
11:30 AM - 11:50 AMBiography
Dr Stuart Morgan is the Director of Machine Learning at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), Canberra. Dr Morgan received his PhD in 1999 from Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), Australia, in sensory neuroscience. He worked as a sports analyst at the Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS) before commencing as a Senior Analyst, leading the Data Analytics Unit at the AIS, developing next-generation game analysis techniques.
Dr Morgan has worked with numerous high-profile international teams including the Australian Women’s Hockey team at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, and has consulted to Tennis Australia, and Cricket Australia as well as numerous professional football teams in all major codes.
Dr Morgan designed and launched the Masters of Sports Analytics graduate program at La Trobe University in 2017, a program that was unique and first-to-market. He has written dozens of research articles in computer science and sports analytics and was co-author of the winning paper at the 2016 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, with “The Thin End of the Wedge”. His current work is in the development of artificial intelligence algorithms for computer vision and large-scale data analytics in sport.
Alexandra Ash
Chair, ActiveXchange APAC
President, Royal Life Saving Society
Managing Sport Smarter - Does AI and smart technology provide us with the opportunity to transform sport and participation in a manner that allows us to be more customer focused where it matters. A myth or reality
11:40 AM - 11:55 AMBiography
Alexandra is the President of Royal Life Saving Society Australia and most recently the CEO of Gymnastics Australia supporting over 240,000 participants and 600 clubs across the nation. Prior to this role, Alex was the EGM of Recreation at The Y Victoria managing 83 facilities across three states, seeing over 16M visitations per year.
What is unique to Alex’s experience is business and commercial experience ranging from high performance to community sport, learn to swim, skate, camp environments all the way to childcare, and recreation activities in the justice system. She brings knowledge and thought leadership outside the traditional sport leaders to think differently.
Alex is also currently Non Executive director at Western Leisure Services along with Vice President of Oceania Gymnastics Union and Chair of ActiveXchange APAC. Alex holds Masters qualifications, along with being a graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Chair
John Persico