Schedule

Day of Summit: Wednesday, March 4, 2026
9:00AM - 5:00 PM (ET)
MIT Media Lab 6th Floor

Time (ET)	Events
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM	Registration
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM	Welcoming Remarks
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM	Industry Panel #1: Rethinking Analytics Teams in the Era of AI Expansion Jimmy Buffi, Co-founder and CEO, Reboot Motion Luke Bornn, Advisor, Teamworks Patrick Lucey, Chief Scientist, Stats Perform Moderator: Kirk Goldsberry,
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Research Flash Talks #1 Skylar Tibbits, Associate Professor of Design Research, MIT Architecture Mikaela Springsteen, PhD Candidate, MIT Sloan School of Management Carlos Portela, Robert N. Noyce Career Development Associate Professor, MIT Mechanical Engineering Luka Secilmis, Master's Student, MIT Computer Science Peko Hosoi, Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor, MIT Mechanical Engineering, Co-founder, MIT Sports Lab Tess Smidt, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT EECS Henry Wang, PhD Candidate, MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	Networking + Coffee Break
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM	Industry Panel #2: The Athlete as Design Partner: Reshaping Sports Manufacturing Aiden Hallihan, Performance Lab Manager, CCM Hockey Leif Sunde, Founder and CEO, Fallinje Nori Taniguchi, CEO, ASICS Institute of Sports Science America LLC John Tsang, Advisor, Comfiknit Moderator: Andy Harland, Professor of Sports Technology, Loughborough University
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch + Startup Showcase + Student Posters
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM	Fireside Chat Host: Christina Chase, Managing Director, MIT Sports Lab
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM	Research Flash Talks #2 Malia Smith, Master's Student, MIT Mechanical Engineering Jess Rosendorf, PhD Candidate, MIT Mechanical Engineering Melody Yu, Graduate Student, MIT Mechanical Engineering Andy Harland, Professor of Sports Technology, Loughborough University Duncan Lee, PhD Candidate, MIT Mechanical Engineering Jadal Williams, PhD Candidate, MIT Mechanical Engineering
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM	Networking + Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM	Industry Panel #3: Talent on the Move: The Globalization of Sports Excellence Vosse de Boode, Director of Data & Insights, AusCycling Ben Peterson, VP Player Health and Performance, Atlanta Hawks Koji Murofushi, Olympic Medalist and VP of Sports Science, Institute of Science Tokyo Moderator: Claire Conceison, Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture, MIT
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Closing Remarks

Sports Summit Location

MIT Media Lab, 6th Floor
75 Amherst St, Cambridge MA, 02139