The World of Global Football is Getting Smaller: How Data, Devices and Digital Video Are Improving Talent Discovery

Wednesday, November 30 | 12:30 PM ET

The World of Global Football is Getting Smaller: How Data, Devices and Digital Video Are Improving Talent Discovery

The global pandemic accelerated the adoption of technology and analytics to identify and scout the sport's most promising prospects, no matter their county, country or continent. Join us for this SportTechie Live episode on Wednesday, November 30 at 12:30 P.M. ET as we discuss the sports tech that is helping to improve talent discovery.

Featured Speakers

Sam Lloyd is the SVP of Hudl's Elite business, Sam leads global expansion of professional sports organizations and U.S. college sports, focused on creating a single product eco-system for elite match analysis, video capture, human performance, and player recruitment. In 2009, Sam founded Replay Analysis, an online video platform for elite sports teams which joined the Hudl family in 2014. Dr. Lloyd holds a PhD in the Effects of Performance Analysis on Athlete Development from Loughborough University.

Barry Watters, from Ireland is the Head of Product, Sports Science & Research at STATSports Group LTD – the leading provider of athlete performance monitoring and analysis through their wearable GPS technology and customer driven software solutions. STATSports work with clients such as Juventus, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal and The New York Jets. Barry has extensive industry experience having worked within the sports technology sector for 10+ years, helping STATSports and its products be at the forefront of the industry, within both the B2B and B2C wearable technology sectors. Barry and STATSports pride themselves on providing data to the industry which is of the highest validity, reliability and integrity – ensuring that the software products developed to analyze and feedback this data provides valuable practical actionable insights, that make a difference to the athlete and teams performance. It is critical that it is a user centric platform that is intuitive and allows live decision making in full confidence.

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