Sport's Cutting Edge
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Sport's Cutting Edge
This is your home of sports tech, innovation and performance- from the elite through to grassroots. We'll also look at sports business, media, marketing, sports psychology and the power of sport in the community. The latest news, insights and interviews with the people who make it happen!
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#101: Sam Robertson the Sheriff to tame Sportstech’s Wild, Wild West
Sam Robertson is an OG sports scientist- his first big success was the Western Bulldogs’ 2016 Premiership-winning campaign.
He’s gone on to work...
#100: Australia enters Global Top 6 for Sportstech, with Martin Schlegel & Amy Crosland
Australian sportstech revenue last financial year was $5.65 billion, and this 10% year-on-year growth has seen our sector surge into the Global Top 6....
#99: The NRL & Talk All Sport powering next gen sportstech, with Charlie Wilkie & Nikita Vogel
The NRL, Queensland Government and ASTN have joined forces to supercharge sportstech innovation.
Talk All Sport was front and centre in the NRL’...
#98: ‘Revenue driven’, Streamcake’s silver bullet in rough economic times, with Padraig O’Donovan
Padraig O’Donovan started Australia’s first ever digital TV streaming, with Network Ten’s ‘10 Play’.
He completed a world first at the 2014 Soc...
#97: Olympic skills at your fingertrips, Invictus founder Naveen Velautham
Naveen Velautham and Kenyan javelin World Champion Julius Yego started Invictus as a way to spread to gospel of sport beyond those with financial or g...
#96: Making ESG make economic sense, with Everclime’s Sebastian Gray & James O’Hare
Everclime is a sustainability activation platform that works with clients to create clear economic and rational structure around their ESG pursuits.
#95: Your slice of $2.65 trillion, with the Global Institute of Sport’s Ray Boggiano
The Global Institute of Sport (GIS) has bases in London, Miami, Dubai, Toronto and Melbourne, and is a great progenitor of our global sports workforce...
#94: The Aussie sportstech story of 2024: Iggy Jovanovic and Gerford AI light up Team USA in Paris
The greatest sports team of all time is the US Olympic Team,
and Team USA has been epically dominant in the pool.
In the land of NASA, the...
#93: How Esport powers equality for all in sport, with Valor Esports’ founder Sam Ward
Esports is a multi-billion-dollar industry that continues
its rate of knots growth every year.
Sam Ward sees esport as a pathway to equali...
#92: 'Privacy protection essential in AI’s wild west': Nola’s Victoria Zorin
Forbes magazine crowned Victoria Zorin as one of Asia’s top 30 business people under 30 in 2023.
Victoria created Nola, a crowd analytics platf...
#91: “Nobody’s Princess”, How Maria Baker defies the odds at every turn
Maria Baker founded Nobody’s Princess to make snow and ski gear specific for girls and women.
Maria came up against the chronic issue of women b...
#90: How we can keep kids safe in sport, with Safeguarding You founder Adam Wood
The recent inclusion of risk management into sports and
recreation clubs can be challenging for organisations to manage.
Founder of Safeg...
#89: World sport’s best computer vision, and its Aussie! With VueMotion’s Ryan Talbot
Ryan Talbot has spent the past two decades as one of Australia’s leading figures in IT security, working with our biggest bank- the Commonwealth, and...
#88: ‘Allowing kids to feel success’, with Pitch It Up founder Emma Thomson
Emma Thomson worked for two decades as a medical scientist, and in that time, also became a ‘Cricket Mum’.
That latter title led Emma to become...
#87: “There’s nothing wrong with getting strong”, with Strength by Numbers’ Andrew Lemon
Andrew Lemon has spent the past 15 years working on the front line of healthcare as an osteopath, he is also a business and tech entrepreneur.
...
#86: Ending the burden of killer queues! David Javik, Norbert Herrmann and their company Liively
Lining up for food, drinks and merchandise at events can cause the spectator to miss out on the action, spending time standing in a queue rather than...
#85: This company made the video you just watched - with WSC Sport’s Guy Port
WSC Sport is the world-leading AI-generated short form sports video creator.
They create the video content distributed by the NBA, LaLiga, NASCA...
#84: From Novak to Sinner, how Craig O’Shannessy revolutionised tennis, and the biggest names in the game
Craig O’Shannessy is the architect of the Italian Renaissance of tennis- with Jannik Sinner’s AO 2024 win the first of many.
Before leading Tea...
#83: ‘More than token’, how Amy Crosland is driving women and girls’ participation in sportstech
Amy Crosland is the Operations Boss of ASTN, and she has just released a ‘Women in Sports Innovation’ report, showing less than 10% of Aussie sport st...
#82: Chris Zheng, Statstrade, and the adaptability of betting technology
The simplification of betting mechanisms could be the future of sports gambling.
Founder of Statstrade, Chris Zheng has adapted an existing sof...
#81: The importance of understanding & supporting inclusivity in community sport with Steve Pallas
Over time, the presence and persona of community-level sporting clubs continues to adapt.
Steve Pallas, founder of Sports Community, is aiming t...
#80: The inception of A.I timing into world swimming, with Ben Ramsden
Swimming in Australia is adapting to change with the times, benefitting from all that technology has to offer.
The traditional, most common tim...
#79: Fighting back against exercise misinformation: Elena Von Rosenberg & Andrew Schox from Pibbot
The proliferation of digital and social media has furnished the rapid rise of misinformation across all corners of life. Health, exercise and body ima...
#78: The Aussie AI start-up now powering the world’s greatest Olympians, Team USA
Iggy Jovanovic is the founder of Gerford AI- a real-time in play AI data acquisition and distribution platform that gives athletes that elusive 1% edg...
#77: Empathetic branding, with singer-songwriter Dene Menzel from Branthem
Dene Menzel is a singer-songwriter who’s gone to Number 1 on the iTunes charts. She’s also an author who has topped Amazon best seller lists in the US...
#76: The world’s leading sports psychologist, Scott Goldman from Athletic Intelligence Quotient
Scott Goldman is Performance Psychologist at the Golden State Warriors. Prior to that he was at the Detroit Lions, after being the head of Performance...
#75: Cutting the puffery: How Graham Dudley is helping sportstech get real with the consumers
Graham Dudley comes into sportstech companies like a specialist coach, to help them make sense of data, and turn artificial intelligence into actual i...
#74: Winning the biggest gig in sport: Craig Green, SprtsHQ & the FIFA World Cup
Aussie media executive Craig Green was the International Marketing Director & Advertising Boss during his 20-year career with Sony Entertainment. He t...
#73: The NFL’s secrets to social media success, with Aaron Eisman
Aaron Eisman is renowned in America as a social media savant.
He’s run socials for the NFL Network, Bleacher Report and Turner Sports.
Aa...
#72: Removing sport’s socio-economic barriers: Clubfunders’ Blake Lawrence & Stuart Jacobs
Clubfunders’ co-founder Blake Lawrence grew up as one of five
boys with a single Mum. He saw first-hand how money can be a major hurdle to jump...
#71: When the Italian Renaissance meets revolutionary electrical engineering: Callum Laurenson & EnPointe Fencing
The sport of fencing is a throw-back to medieval sword fighting, with its modern incarnation drawing from the Italian Renaissance.
Fencing was a...
#70: Getting kids active, with PrezentBox’s Dan Frkic & Con Apostolopoulos
PrezentBox is a platform to enable and facilitate activity-based gifting for kids.
Parents can create a profile that allows family members and f...
#69: Capturing the moment, capturing the world: Andy Edwards’ GeoSnapShot global rise
GeoSnapShot is a tech platform creating a centralised place to upload and download photos- with cutting edge AI recognition technology allowing for an...
#68: A Place to Belong: How Michelle Walshe & Leigh Kenyon’s CoachMate is driving joy in kids’ sport
Michelle Walshe is a film & TV director who has worked with Warner Bros., the BBC, and her own Augusto Group, based in New York City.
Leigh Keny...
#67: Flying High! the Power of High Altitude, with Rico Rogers & Callum Taylor from Box Altitude
No longer do you need to fly to Arizona for high altitude, because Arizona comes right your bedroom, or lounge room, or anywhere you want to set up Bo...
#66: The Aussie business that got head-hunted by the biggest sports broadcaster in the world, NBC: Craig Horobin from Aircast
Craig Horobin has spent the past 25 years at the tech cutting edge of sports broadcasting.
His first big gig came as the Olympic Broadcast Manag...
#65: XV Capital’s Stirling Mortlock & James Godfrey, powering the future of Aussie sports technology
Australian rugby union legend Stirling Mortlock, and much-vaunted sports mentor James Godfrey, are dynamically opening-up capital flow into sportstech...
#64: Fearless: The Steph Bofinger story
Steph Bofinger is the founder of Fempro Armour.
In 2019, Steph and 12 other ladies completed the first all-female motorbike run of the Simpson D...
#63: ‘Feel the fear and do it anyway’, with ASTN Women in Sportstech Boss, Amy Crosland
Amy Crosland is one of Australian sport’s leading figures turbo-charging the women’s sportstech sector.
Born and raised in iconic Tamworth, Amy...
#62: Data that makes us smarter, with ECAL’s UK Boss Will Wright
Will Wright was at the vanguard of e-commerce 20 years ago, and he now leads ECAL’s European expansion.
ECAL are the world’s leading calendar ma...