EPSI Conference 2016: Crossing Borders: Innovation for economical and societal impact
The 2-day event explored innovation opportunities and challenges within the sports industry, exchanging knowledge, crossing borders, learning best practices and discovering key insights. The first day took place at Cluster Sports&Technology in Eindhoven (The Netherlands), on the second day was organized at Flanders’ Bike Valley in Paal-Beringen (Belgium). During both days inspiriting site visits to Sport Field Labs and research facilities were included in the program. The program provided an excellent environment for matchmaking during the international sports matchmaking event, SportTechMatch, co-organized with the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN).
The event was supported by the Dutch Government, as part of Dutch EU Presidency in 2016.
The inspiring program and presentations around “Crossing borders” in combination with a motivated professional audience created the right atmosphere for discussing innovation chances and for creating new cooperations.
Inspiring speakers and discussions
The program includes sessions with speeches from interesting guest speakers, as well a sessions and deepening discussions in topics of your choice supported in the SportTechMatch.
Matchmaking at SportTechMatch
The conference will be an excellent environment for matchmaking during the international sports matchmaking event, SportTechMatch, organized in cooperation with Enterprise Europe Network (EEN).At SportTechMatch entrepreneurs, researchers, technologists and representatives from sports organisations and clusters will be offered a chance to meet potential foreign partners active in the field of sports related technologies. In pre-arranged face-to-face meetings they will have a chance to establish profitable new cooperation opportunities in business, technology transfer and research & development. Participants will have the opportunity to publish cooperation profiles on this website and to send and receive cooperation requests. On the basis of accepted requests b2b meetings will be scheduled which will take place on June 6th in Eindhoven (the Netherlands) and on June 7th 2016 at Flanders’ Bike Valley in Paal-Beringen (Belgium).
Focus
- Business creation and acceleration in sport
- Wearables, sensors and data in sports
- Vital cities: smart cities
- Sport Performance
- Aerodynamics
- From idea to production
- Talent community
Why to participate
- Latest trends sports technologies
- Short, sharp 20 minute meetings to foster effective networking
- Showcase your most favorable projects, products or know-how
- Initiate cross-border contacts and co-operations
- Find new commercial/technological/research partners
- get latest information on sports related research findings
- present, discuss and develop new projects
Site visits
SportFieldLab visits
On June 6th a selection of the SportFieldLabs of the cluster Sports&Technology will be visited. These visits will provide you inspiration with state of the art technology and innovation in several SportFieldLab locations. Demonstrations of state of the art innovations will be given by entrepreneurs as part of the visits.
Visit Facilities Flanders Bike Valley
On June 7th the facilities of Flanders Bike Valley will be visited among which the state of the art wind tunnel that has recently been opened.
