Mark 18-20 September 2024 in your calendar and save the date! 🙌
The Summit is back and, like last time, will take place in Ghent, Belgium. 📌 More details about the program, the venue and the speakers will follow, so keep an eye on this page and our social media channels!
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The upcoming STRN Summit is focused on a variety of topics such as:
The latest scientific breakthroughs and how these could lead to actual products and services to be used in the field
Lessons learned from university-industry partnerships when it comes to innovations relevant for sports and the broader society
Needs and desires from real-life contexts such as team or individual sports, and how to set up innovation projects including the end-user early in the process
The event is relevant for:
Academics who want to explore partnerships with external stakeholders such as startups, companies, teams, federations, etc.
Research and Innovation managers looking for inspiration, talent and good practices from like-minded people and organizations
Practitioners looking forward to embracing the latest innovations early in the process
The STRN Summit also aims to collectively define and (partly) answer some of the big questions in the sports and health domain, such as:
How to evaluate the quality of technology?
How to facilitate the transfer of knowhow from academia to society?
How to set up successful partnerships with limited resources?
This year, we're paying special attention to the crossroads between the Sports and Health tech fields, meaning:
We’ll discuss how technology used in elite sport could benefit sport for all and healthy living conditions
How advancements in the health and medical domains may be of benefit in a sports, fitness or physical activity context (+ vice versa)
How different research, startup and funding ecosystems can be brought closer together for the benefit of sports and society
The Sports Tech Research Network is an initiative of the sports innovation consortium at Ghent University (Belgium) called Victoris, in collaboration with the non-profit organization SportaMundi.