Adam has worked in sports broadcasting for 25 years and is a vastly experienced presenter on TV, online and radio. He is seen breaking news at home and abroad for Sky Sports covering international and domestic sporting events, whilst also anchoring live coverage from London. He has worked with a wide range of sporting stars on air and at events since his career began in 1995. He is also part of the Talk Sport team in their national football coverage and can also be seen on the Tales From YouTube channel – his publishing company which has released almost 20 titles over the last five years – which also produces a variety of online features. He is also a voice over artist – currently one of the voices of the Economist in the US.

Alan Gilpin is the Chief Operating Officer and Head of Rugby World Cup at World Rugby, and is responsible for the day-to-day management of the globally-renowned Rugby World Cup brand, including the preparations and delivery for Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan and the conduct of the host selection process for Rugby World Cup 2023.

Previously a lawyer, and with a strong track record in sport and business, Alan has been involved in the management and delivery of Rugby World Cup since 2001 in a number of roles.

Alan joined the World Rugby from his previous role as Chief Operating Officer of official hospitality provider, Prestige Ticketing Ltd, where he oversaw the award-winning hospitality programme for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Prior to the London 2012 role, Alan spent nine years with IMG, including responsibility for commercial rights negotiation across Rugby World Cup 2003, 2007 and 2011.

Alex Rice is Chief Rights Officer for Perform, the business behind digital sports experiences. Alex joined Perform in 2007 and has a career spanning 18 years of integrated rights experience across business development, production and strategy. In his time at Perform, Alex has led a number of key long-term acquisitions including the 10-year agreement between Perform and the WTA. which led to the formation of WTA Media and the 17-year Partnership with FIBA to establish FIBA Media. Alex’s team now manage over 200+ rights partnerships focused on driving value for clients and transforming the way the world sees sport.

Alex is a serial web entrepreneur with more than 22 years of experience in the digital space, building and developing tech businesses. In the late 1990s, he pioneered Webcity, the web-based interactive tourism guide, before completing a buyout with retail giant Carrefour, and later merging with a competitor service and selling to Yelp. After co-founding Winamax (the largest French online poker room) and Chilipoker in 2006, the underpinning technology platform was sold to Bally Technologies (now Scientific Games). In 2013, he acquired the Global Poker Index (live Poker’s leading ranking authority) as well as The Hendon Mob (the largest live poker database in the world). Dreyfus recently raised $66 million through a private token sale for chiliZ – a democratic team management platform that aims to revolutionise the worlds of sports and esports, through blockchain technology and smart contracts. The first white label application of the chiliZ platform is Socios.com, which offers a turnkey solution for football and sports clubs looking to adopt blockchain technology to monetise their fan bases through ICOs. To boost blockchain innovation in Malta, Dreyfus has also established the chiliZ Blockchain Campus – a new fintech epicenter that will house world-leading exchanges, crypto-friendly European banks, and leading blockchain media groups.

Alon has been Pixellot’s CEO for the past 4 years and has led the company to become the leader in the field of automated production. He has a wealth of experience in managing high-tech companies both locally and abroad. His expertise lies in providing strategic, business, marketing and operational leadership in the high-tech industry.

Andrea joined UEFA is 2001 as the Manager of Club Licensing. In 2017, he was appointed as the Managing Director Financial Sustainability & Research. Among his new responsibilities, he led the creation of an intelligence centre, the development of the recently approved corporate strategy 2019-2024 and the set up of a new innovation unit. In addition to his role at UEFA Andrea has lectured on various Sports Masters programmes.

As Chief Innovation Officer of Red Bull Media House, Andreas is responsible for managing the process of innovation at the global, multi-platform media company. Andreas has over three decades of media industry expertise including technology leadership positions with Antenne Bayern radio station, 104.6 RTL (Berlin),  and the Austrian Broadcaster ORF. Prior to his current role, he was Chief Technology Officer at Red Bull Media House, where he drove strategic decisions related to technology infrastructure including design, selection of platforms and media post production. He takes pride in generating new ideas and recognizing the innovative ideas of others. Andreas is an Audio, Radio and Television Engineer by education.

Andrew Thompson is the chief financial & business officer for SailGP, a new global sports property setting out to redefine sailing. He is responsible for the overall business strategy and financial planning across the league and its six international teams, as well as the engineering facilities wholly owned by SailGP. Thompson has managed SailGP’s growth from start-up to a global entity embarking on its inaugural season of five events in Sydney, San Francisco, New York, Cowes (UK) and Marseille (France).

Thompson joined SailGP following a successful tenure as CFO for the America’s Cup Event Authority, where he was an integral part of the management team that ensured the 35^th America’s Cup was delivered within budget and in a commercially sustainable manner.

Previously, Thompson was finance director for the Perform Group and was a senior member of the finance team that planned and delivered the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games within the privately funded £2.1 billion budget.

Olympic Gold Medalist and member of the Hockey Hall of Fame with leadership positions at the highest levels of sport, including the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee, Angela guides the strategies of major sports organizations in her role as CEO and co-founder of the Sports Innovation Lab.

Bruna has over eight years of experience across media, advertising and most recently sport. Prior to joining Twitter in 2015, Bruna worked at Ogilvy London & São Paulo, and Publicis Brazil. She now leads content partnerships efforts at Twitter UK with a range of different sports partners including football clubs & leagues, broadcasters and key motorsports leagues. Her goal is helping sports partners to get closer to their followers in the one social platform conversations happen in real-time – through Live content, video, Twitter emojis or other innovation formats.

Danna is CEO of HEED, a new consumer platform that is transforming the sports and entertainment experience for young fans. Using IoT analytics and AI, HEED delivers real-time stories, unique insights and a new way to visualize and engage with live events.

As an accomplished global business and technology executive, Danna held various positions in tech and media companies. Among them were leadership roles in Vocativ – where she was an EP of Dark Net, an original Showtime docu-series – AGT International, and Comverse.

George started his career at DDB Worldwide, New York where he gained valuable marketing and advertising experience.

During his fourteen years at the ATP, George has played a vital role in strategic planning for ATP’s Brave New World (the biggest strategic change process in the organisation’s history), the introduction of the new ATP branding in 2009, creation of the new categories of tournaments (Masters 1000, 500 and 250) and the relocation of the Nitto ATP Finals to London.

George is currently responsible for driving ATP’s business development and marketing, production of the weekly ATP World Tour Uncovered TV show, editorial management of ATP digital & social channels as well as marketing and show production at the Nitto ATP Finals, the world’s biggest indoor tennis tournament. Most recently George co-led the launch of inaugural Next Gen ATP Finals in Milan last November, a pioneering new event that trialled numerous innovations in the game as well as serving as a global platform to promote the future stars of the sport.

Jason is Chief Executive Officer of 23 Capital, leading the business strategy and playing a fundamental role in structuring transactions and setting 23’s culture and values.

23 is a capital and solutions company focused exclusively on the sports, music and entertainment sectors. Since inception in 2014, 23 has deployed and advised on over $2.7bn of transactions. As a specialty finance platform, 23 Capital participates in transactions across the capital structure and employs multiple financing strategies ranging from passive IP lending and project finance transactions, to highly structured corporate facilities. 23 has committed and partnership capital of over $2bn to invest across the SM&E sectors and has recently played a pivotal role in the creation and evolution of OTRO via its funding partnerships.

Prior to founding 23 with Stephen Duval, Jason previously worked within the structured credit team at Investec Bank for over 13 years, during which time he built and headed up the successful sports, media, entertainment offering at the bank. He has structured $1bn of transactions in this space.