Sports Tech World Series

Key note:
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Topic: Why cricket must embrace emerging markets, innovation, data & tech to attract the next generation of fans?

Key Themes:

✅ Smart bats
✅ AI coaching
✅ Building a monetizable community
✅ Strategy to turn technology into a legacy

Key note: Panel with

Topic: The Use of AI & the Impact It Can Have When Portraying Women & Girls

Key Themes:
✅ Develop holistic industry guidelines
✅ Advocacy role to improving the sporting landscape for women and girls
✅ Highlight and impact cultural change in Australian sport
✅ Shifting visibility and awareness into systemic change

Key note: Panel with Dan Dwyer Kate Eddy - Victoria Brackley - & Lyndell Bruce

Topic: The Athlete Voice in Data & Technology Adoption

Key Themes:
✅ Integrating data on physical, tactical & mental perfomance
✅ Changing context from playing to post career
✅ Effective technology within coaching environment
✅ Including the officials

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Topic: 

Surging, Women’s Sport In India Will Impact The World 🇮🇳🌏

Key Themes:

✅ Equality in sport and leadership on the journey
✅ Whispers turning into cheers, the athletes are rising - rapidly
✅ Growth in Olympians, leagues and commercial value
✅ Dream for “my daughter to make herself proud, doing things that I never dared”

Keynote 🎤
Liza Boston
Luke Bould
Sally Capp AO

Topic: 
The Greatest Mispricing In Sport: How The Market Got Women’s Sport Wrong

Key Themes:
✅ Women athletes and fans sit at the epicentre of growth in sport fandom
✅ It’s not who owns the broadcast rights, but who co-creates communities with fans
✅ 7X ROI, cultural credibility, untapped growth

Reset and Embrace: The Human Side of Sportstech
Sportstech is evolving at extraordinary speed. From AI-driven performance tools to immersive fan experiences, innovation is reshaping how we play, lead, and connect. But technology alone does not transform outcomes. People do.
That is why the theme of this year’s Sports Tech Conference—Reset and Embrace—resonates so strongly. It reminds us that progress is not only about adopting the latest tools, but about the mindset and culture we bring to them.

Brain Health - the answers for safer, more informed decisions around head impacts.
Tom Christian, Head of Product at will be delivering a keynote at Australia Sports Innovation Week (ASIW) in on Wednesday 29th October 2025 on this topic.
“Brain health is the new frontier we need to manage in all , to elite and there is no escaping it. At HITIQ we provide world class instrumented mouthguard sensor boards, software and data solutions to provide immediate and continuous care to these markets”, said Christian.

“At HIT IQ, we’re proud to be part of the answer: helping athletes, parents, caregivers, coaches, staff, and administrators to make safer, more informed decisions around head impacts and brain health.”

Kickstart Your Conference Day with a Run Through Melbourne’s Sporting Heart

Lace up your runners and join us for a relaxed 5–6km social run through Melbourne’s world-famous sporting precinct. Whether you’re attending Australia Sports Innovation Week or competing in the Australian Corporate Games, this is the perfect way to energise your morning, connect with like-minded professionals, and soak up the iconic sights of Australia’s sporting capital. All paces welcome. Let’s move together before the ideas start flying at the Australia Sports Tech Conference!

Surging, Women’s Sport in India 🇮🇳 Will Impact the World!
Founder of professional cricketer turned
high performance coach and wellbeing specialist, will be delivering a keynote at
Australia Sports Innovation Week (ASIW) in Melbourne on Wednesday 29th October
2025 at the on this topic.
“I’ve spent the vast majority of my career in and out of teams, always told I had
talent, but could never quite produce results consistently. This led to a constant
search, always looking for the next edge that will get me ahead or even just catch
me up. I fell deep into the world of high performance, chasing this perfection I
thought was required,” said Devchand.
“My inner curiosity has always leaned heavily towards our family Indian heritage.
Being able to travel, connect and communicate with many players from Bangalore
and Mumbai it was impossible to ignore the surging energy within India from
women’s sport and how it will impact the world!

Scoreboard - Sports Podcast Exclusive Partner
has entered an exclusive partnership with STWS to be the Sports Podcast Partner for Australia Sports Innovation Week.
Scoreboard has uncovered powerful stories from guests including ,
Scoreboard has also attracted sponsorship from a prominent corporate player deeply embedded in both business and sport — and a key partner across multiple sports including Cricket, Australian Rules and Rugby League. 🏏🏉
At ASIW, we will be showcasing the ongoing growth of new media being created in the sports sector from podcasts.
Sports podcasts in attract 2.7M average monthly listeners, increasing by 8.5% in the last year, with the market estimated to be valued at USD $3.13 Bn in 2025, expected to reach USD $4.37 Bn by 2032, growing at a CAGR of 4.9% from 2025 to 2032.
Being able to draw upon more than 400 interviews within the finance sector.
Chris Titley has a high quality of experience and knowledge to explore the intersection of sport, business, and life through conversations with athletes, CEOs, league owners, and executives on Scoreboard.

Sports Tech Startup Day: Pitching Your Company

Australia Sports Tech Startup and Investor Day is designed to give innovative grassroots businesses an opportunity to showcase their product to the broader sports tech industry. This can help to identify partnerships, clients, investors and more.

The 2025 Sports Tech Startup Day will give founders the opportunity to pitch their company via a short two-and-a-half-minute video. This video is not expected to be a slick highly produced promo video, it can be a simple smartphone recorded video of you explaining your product. You can choose what you’d like to include in your video pitch, however we encourage you to touch on the following:
- What you do and who it’s for?
- Why is it important?
- What stage are you at and what your future looks like?

Video Requirements
- No longer than 2min 30sec (longer videos will be trimmed)
- Landscape format (16:9) with captions preferred

Submission and Deadline
- Videos are to be submitted to [email protected] (a transfer / download link is preferred for large files)
- One video per company
- Deadline: 3pm Friday 24th October

Any questions, please contact [email protected]

The social impact of the Matt Carroll AM, Former CEO , will be delivering a
keynote at Australia Sports Innovation Week (ASIW) in on Wednesday 29th October 2025 at the on this topic.
“In coming from community sport, playing more than 250 games with the and serving as president, along with being responsible for community
Football, rugby and sailing and leading sports entities of global scale and
significance, the social impact is often referred to, yet could be better understood.
At ASIW, this topic and theme has timely relevance as we shift our collective focus
towards and how this will shape the whole of Australia into “
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