All-Star Panel: “Innovations in fantasy sports and sports betting”

Join us Monday, April 22nd at 6pm at Twitter HQ in San Francisco as the Sports and Tech Meetup (#sportsandtech) presents an all-star panel discussing: “Innovations in fantasy sports and sports betting.” Our panel of entrepreneurs, investors, and professional gambling and sports media personalities will discuss how fantasy sports and the sports betting environment are changing. Our panel will weigh in on everything from the increasing use of analytics to the changing regulatory environment with respect to “real-money gaming” to the impact of mobile and social technologies on these industries and products. Q&A will follow.

Panelists Include:
Gavin Teo – Venture Capitalist at Comcast Ventures (investors in Fan Duel). Previously at Zynga and XBox (Microsoft).

Guy Lake – Product Lead at Yahoo Fantasy Sports. Previously at Fan IQ and ESPN.

Gill Alexander - Sports gaming, betting, and statistics personality. MLB Analyst for Dr. Bob Sports and host of the The Betting Dork podcast on pregame.com.

Brandon Ramsey – Founder and CEO, Fanhood Sports (venture backed social sports betting startup).

Agenda
6:00 – 6:15 Pregame – snacks, drinks, networking (maybe some stretching)
6:15 – 7:05 Game – Panel: “Innovations in fantasy sports and sports betting” followed by Q&A
7:05 – 8:00 Postgame – networking, drinks, and side-bets!

This event is generously being sponsored by Squarespace (http://www.squarespace.com/), Thuuz (http://www.thuuz.com/), and Cater2.me (http://cater2.me).

Squarespace is a beautiful and intuitive website publishing platform that allows anyone to easily create professional blogs, pages, stores, and galleries without touching a line of code.

Thuuz is an award-winning mobile and connected TV service revolutionizing how consumers discover and connect to sports programming.

Cater2.me connects chefs, food trucks, restaurants, and top local food with offices and startups.

If you have questions, comments, suggestions about the event or interest in sponsorship or a display table for your company, or if you want to discuss title odds for the NBA postseason, then email Michael Frank at mfrank [at] nsv [dot] com.