Archive for Category: "Events & Conferences"

2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

2013 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

At the beginning of March, Boston played host to the 7th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. The conference attracted analysts, team executives, sports journalists and many more from the sporting world. Having originally been based on discussing analysis and issues surrounding America’s favourite pastime, baseball, the conference has developed massively into a global sports [...]

Science & Football and Sports Analytics Conferences

Science & Football and Sports Analytics Conferences

The 2013 Science + Football Conference will take place at the London Soccerdome. Located next to the O2 Arena, the London Soccerdome is recognised as Europe’s leading indoor football facility. Incorporating two full size 3G indoor football pitches accompanied by a number of seminar rooms, the London Soccerdome will significantly enhance the content for 2013. [...]

Big Data In Sport Conference

Big Data In Sport Conference

Not a lot of notice with this one. Only discovered it last night on Twitter. “With Big Data being the buzz word of the year, it’s high time someone showed the practical benefits of Big Data in sport. In this half day session, three of the leading sports technology companies across both B2B and B2C [...]

World Congress of Performance Analysis in Sport

World Congress of Performance Analysis in Sport

ISPAS (International Society of Performance Analysis in Sport) – World Congress Review – Andy Elleray The World Congress of Performance Analysis of Sport takes place every 4 years – and it can be anywhere in the World! Luckily my 1st congress took place at my old stomping ground of Worcester University so I knew my [...]

Performance Analysis Training Courses

Performance Analysis Training Courses I usually do my best to avoid mentioning companies on this blog, I am not interested in promoting one software/service over another but when it comes to education I take a different view. Thats why I’m more than happy to give Prozone’s upcoming Performance Analysis Training Courses a mention. I have [...]

Conference Update

Conference Update

I just wanted to fill everyone in on where we are with the ‘Introduction to Performance Analysis’ workshop. It’s been a really busy few weeks organizing everything and we feel confident we’ve put together a fantastic line-up, packing with insights into key areas and invaluable in helping people get into performance analysis. There has been a change to one of the speakers since [...]

World Congress on Science and Football 2011

World Congress on Science and Football 2011

World Congress on Science and Football 2011 You may or may not know that the World Congress on Science and Football was held in Japan in late May. The WCSF is a conference event for sports scientists, coaches, medical doctors, administrators and players to provide a great opportunity to further enhance scientific research geared towards football [...]

Performance Analysis Conference – August 5th

Performance Analysis Conference – August 5th

I am delighted to announce that thevideoanalyst.com and Out of Play are joining forces to run a Performance Analysis conference specifically aimed at those wanting to know more about, or trying to break into professional performance analysis. Who Should Attend? A unique platform for current students, graduating students, postgraduates, recent professionals and anybody else looking to [...]

Sports Analytics Conference

Sports Analytics Conference

Sports Analytics Conference This is a quick post as most of the content is contained in the video below. As I mentioned on the site a few weeks back, there is a conference held every year in MIT in the US covering the area of Sports Analytics. What is so great about this conference is [...]

Performance Analysis Conferences

Performance Analysis Conferences

Performance Analysis Conferences I tend find conferences can be really hit or miss. Often they try and cater for everybody and in the end cater for nobody. However there are two interesting conferences coming up this month that specialize or heavily feature Performance Analysis. The Science of Professional Football This year’s Science and Football Conference promises to [...]