Ahmad Nassar remembers walking through the 2.6 million net square feet of exhibit space at CES last year and being hit immediately with a rush of emotion. As a first-time visitor to the annual high-level business event that drew over 180,000 attendees in 2017, Nassar – the President of NFL Players, Inc., since 2014 – […]
Imagine you’re watching your favorite team on your couch or in person. What sports technologies do you think are impacting that game the most? Perhaps the coaches and front office staff that utilize a number of different data-gathering tools to better analyze X’s and O’s? What about the athletes who are a product of hundreds […]
In recent years, professional athletes have been focused on leveraging their personal brands and athletic gifts to become more business-savvy and get involved in tech startups and digital content creation. In selecting the SportTechie Award for Most Tech-Savvy Athlete, there were dozens of strong candidates from across the sporting spectrum who demonstrated investment savvy, digital […]
At a time when demand for new technologies that improve the fan experience are at an all-time high, the New York Jets have worked hard to maintain an edge over other teams. This season, the team began engaging fans at the stadium with real-time graphics featuring Next Gen stats collected from Zebra chips in shoulder […]
The inaugural SportTechie Awards highlight the teams, executives, sports technologies, venues, athletes, investors and startups that most deserve recognition for their work in pushing our industry forward. For information on all nominees and award winners see our Awards page: The 2017 SportTechie Awards
