Technological innovations in team sport: a blessing or a curse?
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Technical innovations in team sports are hot. Wearables, apps, camera technology, drones, big data, smart fields… Technological solutions are there and they’re growing fast.
But what is the actual impact of this additional information on the individual athlete? Does it improve the engagement in sport participation or performance? And is it only accessible for the competitive sporters or does it also apply for social sporters?
Join DashTag (http://getdashtag.com) and SportTechie (http://sporttechie.com) on this first meetup and chat with us about the role coaches and trainers should play in this irreversible change in the sport. Participation is free, but bring your best active you :)
Program:
19.30: entree
20.00: opening by DashTag
20.15: contributes by Ruud van Elk and Laura Jonker
20.30: Open and informal conversation
21.30: Fußbal tournament (if you like)
22.00: The end
Our speakers:
Laura Jonker, KNVB
Since july 2013, Laura is head of the KNVB Research & Intelligence department. She was the first full-time assigned person within a sport federation to use research as the input to develop and determine soccer policy. Driven to build a bridge between sport science and sport practice she published articles, held workshops and has a permanent column in the Sport & Strategie Magazine. She was also key player in large KNVB projects such as Winnaars van morgen, Het nieuwe pupillen voetbal, De hervorming van de Eredivisie, Jupiler League en KNVB beker. Today she’s responsible for innovation on the brand new KNVB Campus.
Ruud van Elk, PSV
Ruud started working as S&C coach and Sport Scientist at the PSV Academy after graduating from Maastricht University (Health Sciences / Biology of Human Performance). In 2014 he became the first team’s Sport Scientist at the club from Eindhoven. Furthermore he's involved in PSV’s Fieldlab Football in which the clubs cooperates with universities and companies to develop innovative sport’s technologies and services as close to the sport as possible. Finally Ruud teaches different courses as a guest lecturer at multiple universities and the KNVB on performance- and data analysis.