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Virtual Summit Schedule

Thursday, February 4, 2021
11:30 AM - 3:30 PM/ET
​completed

Friday, February 5, 2021
11:30 AM - 3:45 PM/ET

Panels and talks will be held on Zoom. The startup showcase and student poster sessions will be held on Gather.town, an interactive virtual space that resembles a conference environment.

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Jump to Day 1

DAY 2: Friday, February 5, 2021

All virtual Summit spaces will open for attendees at 11:15am ET.
​​Note: All times below are Eastern (ET).

Time (ET)	Zoom Events			Gather.town Events
11:30 AM	Welcoming Remarks			Open for Viewing Startup Booths and Student Posters
11:45 AM	Industry Panel 3 The Competitive Edge: Data-Informed Decision Making Mirko Boccalatte, Chief Operating Officer, Ferrari F1 Team Sean Marks, General Manager, Brooklyn Nets Scott Riewald, Senior Director for High Performance Projects, US Olympic and Paralympic Committee Christina Chase, Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Co-Founder & Managing Director, MIT Sports Lab (moderator)
12:30 PM	Research Flash Talks 3 Jaime Peraire: High Fidelity CFD on Graphic Processor Units Andy Harland: Lab reconstructions of head impacts Jon Roberts: Assessing the accuracy of power measurement technology in cycling
1:00 PM	Private Roundtable Data Validation *	Private Roundtable Sustainability in Sports *	Alumni Talk Fan Engagement ** Sam Feder, Vice President, New York Islanders Nick Davis, Special Assistant - Baseball Research, Milwaukee Brewers	Interactive Startup Showcase and Student Poster Session
1:30 PM	Special Fireside Chat Brian Bilello, President, New England Revolution Tim Zue, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Boston Red Sox Christina Chase, Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Co-Founder & Managing Director, MIT Sports Lab (moderator)			Open for Viewing Startup Booths and Student Posters
2:15 PM	Research Flash Talks 4 Ferran Vidal-Codina: Automatic event detection in football using tracking data Sarah Fay: Runners as Springs
2:45 PM	Industry Panel 4 Myth Busting: Critical Elements in Vetting New Sports Technologies Nicolas Evans, Head of Football Research & Standards, FIFA Ben Peterson, Head of Player Health & Performance, San Francisco 49ers Lorena Torres Ronda, Adjunct Fellow, Institute for Health and Sport (iHeS) at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia Eric Schmidt, Head of Advocacy for Data Analytics, Google Cloud (moderator)
3:30 PM	Closing Remarks

* Private Roundtable Discussions are invite-only to select industry guests.
​** MIT Alumni Talks are only open to current MIT students, faculty, and staff.

ALL DAY

MIT Sports Tech Startup Showcase &
MIT Student Poster Session
These events will be open on Gather.town all day, but the main interactive session will take place from 1:00 - 1:30 PM.

​MIT Sports Tech Startup Showcase

Meet some of the MIT-affiliated startups who are tackling challenges in the field of sport. This will be held on Gather.town.
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Notemeal provides web and mobile solutions for performance dietitians to optimize athlete nutrition. Our applications increase the efficiency of dietitians and provide a vehicle for engagement with athletes. By tracking athlete progress and compliance, Notemeal provides insights and highlights opportunities for furthering nutrition education.
​

Perch brings strength training into the 21st century by using small 3D cameras to quantify weight room workload for velocity and power outputs. With a simple setup and seamless integration, Perch delivers immediate and objective feedback, enhances performance, and reduces injury.
​

Nextiles is reinventing the way the sports industry interacts, connects and engages with consumers. Nextiles is a patent-protected advanced materials company providing biometrics through conductive threads. Nextiles is focused on innovating and providing value to high end athletes, coaches, teams and the overall sports performance industry.
​

Helios Hockey is an early-stage sports technology company based in Portsmouth, NH. We are developing sensor-based IoT technology, mobile and cloud analytics platforms to bring real-time performance stats to ice hockey. Our team from MIT, the NHL, formerly Intel, Nike and Bauer, is building products to improve the next generation of player, team and equipment development.
​

Rivet is an enablement platform applicable to creative entrepreneurs, allowing them to retain and nurture their most valuable fans around their highest value content. Rivet allows you to leverage better email through powerful audience segmentation and robust CRM features to create flexibility and robust infrastructure for higher-margin monetization in simple easy steps. 
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​MIT STUDENT POSTER SESSION

Discover research done by MIT students with varying applications in the field of sports. This will be held on Gather.town.

​List of Student Posters

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11:30 AM

Welcoming Remarks

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11:45 AM

Industry Panel 3
The Competitive Edge: Data-Informed Decision Making

SPEAKERS

Mirko Boccalatte
Chief Operating Officer
Ferrari F1 Team

Sean Marks
General Manager
Brooklyn Nets

Scott Riewald
Senior Director for High Performance Projects
​US Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Christina Chase (moderator)
Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Co-Founder & Managing Director, MIT Sports Lab

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12:30 PM

Research Flash Talks 3

SPEAKERS

Jaime Peraire
H.N. Slater Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
MIT
High Fidelity CFD on Graphic Processor Units
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Andy Harland
Professor of Sports Technology & Associate Dean for Enterprise
Loughborough University
Lab reconstructions of head impacts
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Jon Roberts
Senior Lecturer & Head of Sports Technology Research Group, Loughborough University
Assessing the accuracy of power measurement technology in cycling
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1:00 PM

Private Sessions 3
​Private Roundtable Discussions are invite-only to select industry guests. MIT Alumni Talks are only open to current MIT students, faculty, and staff.

If you are not participating in either of these events, this is a great time to visit the Startup Showcase and Student Poster Session on the Gather.town platform.

PRIVATE ROUNDTABLE
​Data Validation

With selected industry guests.

PRIVATE ROUNDTABLE
​Sustainability in Sports

With selected industry guests.

Alumni Talk
FAN ENGAGEMENT

Sam Feder
Vice President
New York Islanders
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Nick Davis
​Special Assistant - Baseball Research
​Milwaukee Brewers

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1:30 PM

Special Fireside Chat

SPEAKERS

Brian Bilello
President
New England Revolution
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Tim Zue
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Boston Red Sox
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Christina Chase (moderator)
Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Co-Founder & Managing Director, MIT Sports Lab

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2:15 PM

Research Flash Talks 4

speakers

Ferran Vidal-Codina
Research Scientist and Instructor
MIT Sports Lab
Automatic event detection in football using tracking data
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Sarah Fay
Graduate Researcher
​MIT Sports Lab​
​Runners as Springs

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2:45 PM

Industry Panel 4
​Myth Busting: Critical Elements in Vetting New Sports Technologies

speakers

Nicolas Evans
Head of Football Research & Standards
FIFA
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Ben Peterson,
Head of Player Health & Performance
San Francisco 49ers
​

Lorena Torres Ronda
Adjunct Fellow
Institute for Health and Sport (iHeS) at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia
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Eric Schmidt (moderator)
Head of Advocacy for Data Analytics
Google Cloud
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3:30 PM

Closing Remarks

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Jump to Day 2

DAY 1: Thursday, February 4, 2021 (completed)

All virtual Summit spaces will open for attendees at 11:15am ET.
​​Note: All times below are Eastern (ET).

Time (ET)	Zoom Events				Gather.town Events
11:30 AM	Welcoming Remarks				Open for Viewing Startup Booths and Student Posters
11:45 AM	Industry Panel 1 The Inflection Point: From Adaptation to Innovation RC Buford, CEO, Spurs Sports and Entertainment David Morehouse, President and CEO, Pittsburgh Penguins Christina Chase, Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Co-Founder & Managing Director, MIT Sports Lab (moderator)
12:30 PM	Research Flash Talks 1 Peko Hosoi: Is it ok to put fans in stadiums during a pandemic? Alok Pattani: Scaling Statistical Insights: Automating MLB Game Notes Using Google Cloud Ben Shields: Reimagining what it means to attend a sporting event
1:00 PM	Private Roundtable Using Technology to Aid in Health and Wellness *	Private Roundtable What’s Working for You? Engaging the Next Generation of Fans *	Alumni Talk Entrepeneurship ** Kevin Kusch, Co-Founder & CTO, Notemeal Carlo Salmini, Co-Founder and CEO, SHRED. Bill Near, Founder and CEO, Helios Hockey Jacob Rothman, Co-Founder & CEO, Perch	Alumni Talk It's Not Just About Technology ** Mike Fitzgerald, Vice President of Research and Development, Arizona Diamondbacks David Hesslink, Project Manager, Baseball Operations at Seattle Mariners Matt Lindsay, Director of Data Science and Software, New England Patriots	Interactive Startup Showcase and Student Poster Session
1:30 PM	Private Roundtable Considerations for Stadium/Arena Reopening *	Private Roundtable Quantifying Cognitive and Mental Attributes to Optimize Performance *
2:00 PM	Research Flash Talks 2 Jessika Trancik: Identifying climate solutions to match energy consuming behaviors Seung Kyun (SK) Ha: Modeling player dynamics in football dribbling Ivan Jutamulia: Evaluating decision making in basketball with Expected Possession Value (EPV)				Open for Viewing Startup Booths and Student Posters
2:30 PM	Industry Panel 2 Championing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion across Sports Rich Cho, Vice President of Basketball Strategy, Memphis Grizzlies Amy Huchthausen, Commissioner, America East Conference Ray Reagans, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management, Professor of Organization Studies, and Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, MIT Sloan School of Management (moderator)
3:15 PM	Closing Remarks

* Private Roundtable Discussions are invite-only to select industry guests.
​** MIT Alumni Talks are only open to current MIT students, faculty, and staff.

ALL DAY

MIT Sports Tech Startup Showcase &
MIT Student Poster Session
These events will be open on Gather.town all day, but the main interactive session will take place from 1:00 - 2:00 PM.

​MIT Sports Tech Startup Showcase

Meet some of the MIT-affiliated startups who are tackling challenges in the field of sport. This will be held on Gather.town.
​

Notemeal provides web and mobile solutions for performance dietitians to optimize athlete nutrition. Our applications increase the efficiency of dietitians and provide a vehicle for engagement with athletes. By tracking athlete progress and compliance, Notemeal provides insights and highlights opportunities for furthering nutrition education.
​

Perch brings strength training into the 21st century by using small 3D cameras to quantify weight room workload for velocity and power outputs. With a simple setup and seamless integration, Perch delivers immediate and objective feedback, enhances performance, and reduces injury.
​

Nextiles is reinventing the way the sports industry interacts, connects and engages with consumers. Nextiles is a patent-protected advanced materials company providing biometrics through conductive threads. Nextiles is focused on innovating and providing value to high end athletes, coaches, teams and the overall sports performance industry.
​

Helios Hockey is an early-stage sports technology company based in Portsmouth, NH. We are developing sensor-based IoT technology, mobile and cloud analytics platforms to bring real-time performance stats to ice hockey. Our team from MIT, the NHL, formerly Intel, Nike and Bauer, is building products to improve the next generation of player, team and equipment development.
​

Rivet is an enablement platform applicable to creative entrepreneurs, allowing them to retain and nurture their most valuable fans around their highest value content. Rivet allows you to leverage better email through powerful audience segmentation and robust CRM features to create flexibility and robust infrastructure for higher-margin monetization in simple easy steps. 
​​

​MIT STUDENT POSTER SESSION

Discover research done by MIT students with varying applications in the field of sports. This will be held on Gather.town.

​List of Student Posters

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11:30 AM

Welcoming Remarks

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11:45 AM

Industry Panel 1
The Inflection Point: From Adaptation to Innovation

SPEAKERS

RC Buford
CEO
​Spurs Sports and Entertainment
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David Morehouse
​President and CEO
​Pittsburgh Penguins
​

Christina Chase (moderator)
​Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Co-Founder & Managing Director, ​MIT Sports Lab 
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12:30 PM

Research Flash Talks 1

SPEAKERS

Peko Hosoi
Associate Dean, School of Engineering
Neil and Jane Pappalardo Professor, Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Co-founder, MIT Sports Lab
Is it ok to put fans in stadiums during a pandemic?
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Alok Pattani
Data Science Developer Advocate
​Google
Scaling Statistical Insights: Automating MLB Game Notes Using Google Cloud

Ben Shields
Senior Lecturer
​MIT Sloan School of Management​
Reimagining what it means to attend a sporting event

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1:00 PM

Private Sessions 1
Private Roundtable Discussions are invite-only to select industry guests. MIT Alumni Talks are only open to current MIT students, faculty, and staff.

If you are not participating in either of these events, this is a great time to visit the Startup Showcase and Student Poster Session on the Gather.town platform.

PRIVATE ROUNDTABLE
​Using Technology to Aid in Health and Wellness

With selected industry guests.

PRIVATE ROUNDTABLE
​What’s Working for You? Engaging the Next Generation of Fans

With selected industry guests.

ALUMNI TALK
​Entrepeneurship

Kevin Kusch
Co-Founder & CTO
​Notemeal
​

Carlo Salmini
​Co-Founder and CEO
SHRED.

Bill Near
Founder and CEO
Helios Hockey

Jacob Rothman
Co-Founder & CEO
Perch
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ALUMNI TALK
​It's Not Just About Technology

Mike Fitzgerald
Vice President of Research and Development
Arizona Diamondbacks
​

David Hesslink
Project Manager
Baseball Operations at Seattle Mariners

Matt Lindsay
Director of Data Science and Software
New England Patriots
​

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1:30 PM

Private Sessions 2

PRIVATE ROUNDTABLE
​Considerations for Stadium/Arena Reopening

With selected industry guests.

PRIVATE ROUNDTABLE
​Quantifying Cognitive and Mental Attributes to Optimize Performance

With selected industry guests.

(CONTINUED) ALUMNI TALK
​Entrepeneurship

Kevin Kusch
Co-Founder & CTO
​Notemeal
​

Carlo Salmini
​Co-Founder and CEO
SHRED.

Bill Near
Founder and CEO
Helios Hockey

Jacob Rothman
Co-Founder & CEO
Perch
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(continued) ALUMNI TALK
​It's Not Just About Technology

Mike Fitzgerald
Vice President of Research and Development
Arizona Diamondbacks
​

David Hesslink
Project Manager
Baseball Operations at Seattle Mariners

Matt Lindsay
Director of Data Science and Software
New England Patriots
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2:00 PM

Research Flash Talks 2

speakers

Jessika Trancik
Associate Professor of Energy Studies
​MIT IDSS
Identifying climate solutions to match energy consuming behaviors

Seung Kyun (SK) Ha
Graduate Researcher
MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
Modeling player dynamics in football dribbling
​

Ivan Jutamulia
Graduate Researcher
MIT Sports Lab
Evaluating decision making in basketball with Expected Possession Value (EPV)

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2:30 PM

Industry Panel 2
​Championing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Across Sports

SPEAKERS

Rich Cho
Vice President of Basketball Strategy
Memphis Grizzlies
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Amy Huchthausen
Commissioner
America East Conference
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Ray Reagans (moderator)
Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management, Professor of Organization Studies
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, MIT Sloan School of Management

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3:15 PM

Closing Remarks

Cover photo from MIT Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER)
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