Innovation in sport

Innovation in sport: accelerating breakthroughs in engineering, optimisation and performance
 

About this event

This Royal Society conference will bring together stakeholders from across industry, academia and competitive sport to explore how cutting-edge advances and innovations in data, modelling, simulation, and design engineering are enabling humans and machines to operate ever closer to peak functional and mechanical capacity. Talks will include case studies from Formula 1, high-performance sport and Paralympic engineering, and will discuss the key scientific, translational and commercial opportunities and challenges of the coming decade within the elite and everyday sporting industries.

The conference will conclude with a panel discussion to consider debates around ethics, accessibility, and how scientific and technical challenges and research gaps might be addressed to drive continued interdisicplinary innovation.

Programme

Please see the more detailed programme here: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2022/11/innovation-...

09:10 Introduction by Dame Sue Ion GBE FREng FRS

09:15 Keynote speech by Professor Dame Sarah Springman DBE FREng (University of Oxford)

09:55 Session 1: Innovations in data - part 1

Talks by Beth Potter (UK Triathlon) and Ray Maker (DC Rainmaker)

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11:05 Session 1: Innovations in data - part 2

Talks by Marek Ziebart (UCL), Prof Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge) and Dr Rob Harle (Google Fitbit).

12:05 Session 1 Q&A

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14:00 Session 2: Innovations in materials, modelling and simulation - part 1

Talks by Naomi Stenhouse (English Institute of Sport), Ben Waterhouse (Red Bull Technology), Rob Lewis OBE (TotalSim) and Paul McNamara (WAE).

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15:20 Session 2: Innovations in materials, modelling and simulation - part 2

Talks by Dimitris Katsanis (Metron A. E.) and James Roche (NeuralAlpha).

16:00 Session 2 Q&A

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16:20 Panel discussion: ethics, accessibility, interdisciplinary collaboration and translation for societal benefit

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