Conferences Convention - New SportAccord Speakers; Latest from SPORTEL Rio

New SportAccord Speakers

David Hill, Senior Executive Vice President, News Corporation, will be a keynote speaker at the 2013 SportAccord Convention.

Hill will speak during the conference on "The State of Our Industry – Examining the Health of Sport" about the "future relationship of sport and television".

New speakers for the panel "How Fit is Sport?" include: Donald Fehr, Executive Director of the National Hockey League Players’ Association; Lisa Murray, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer of Octagon Worldwide; and NBC Olympics Executive Producer Jim Bell.

"There is a terrific buzz about sport and the business of sport in Russia and delegates are really going to feel that excitement when they’re networking at our event," SportAccord Convention tells Around the Rings.

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World Sport Congress

The 2013 World Sport Congress is scheduled for Feb. 26-27 in London.

Speakers include Pat McQuaid, president of the International Cycling Union; Enrique Sanz, general secretary of theConfederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football; and Gideon Sam, president of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee, among others.

Around the Rings Editor Ed Hula will also be speaking at the event.

"The World Sports Congress 2013 will bring together senior-level sporting executives from around the globe to discuss the challenges of sporting infrastructure worldwide. With the world’s eyes on every major sporting event internationally, fueled by the recent London 2012 Olympics, the bar is set high for not only the athletes but for the stadiums too. Expectations are soaring with each event and the World Sports Congress provides the opportunity for countries to come together in one of the world’s most current sporting hubs, London, and discuss the challenges they face surrounding infrastructure developments," organizer International Research Networks tells ATR.

"The agenda has been carefully consolidated through many discussions with senior-level decision makers in the sporting industry and promises to discuss in detail every aspect of sporting infrastructure from the financing, budget management and planning to the design and construction stages. It will also place emphasis on business opportunities in regions where the largest sporting events are due to take place. It is the leading sporting infrastructure event to attend in 2013 due to its unrivalled high-quality agenda and most credible speaking line-up."

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SPORTEL Rio

"The heavyweights of the international sports media industry will once again come together at the home of the 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games for 2013," SPORTELRio 2013 tells Around the Rings.

"The market will take place at the prestigious Sofitel Copacabana and last year’s event attracted almost 600 delegates representing the leading companies from the global sports media market."

According to SPORTEL, major players in the industry are once again confirming their participation, including companies such as CSI Sports, Dentsu, DFL Sports, ESPN, Eurosport, HBO, Eurovision, Fox Sports, Globo TV, Lagardere, MP & Silva and more.

'We are very positive about the up and coming SPORTELRio 2013 market, as Brazil is a major international sport's hub for the foreseeable future," said Amparo Di Fede, SPORTEL general manager.

"For this reason, the majority of our longstanding exhibitors, marketing partners and delegates expressed their desire to return to Rio, especially after the success of SPORTELRio 2012, which played host to 567 participants, representing 312 companies from 48 nations."

SPORTEL Rio will run March 11 to 13.

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Sport and New Media

"Two of the biggest brands in sports media, SportBusiness and Eurosport, are partnering once again to deliver the Sport and New Media conference in Paris on May 16, 2013," SportBusiness tells Around the Rings.

"We are very excited about Sport and New Media 2013, and expect this to be another sell-out event," said Phil Savage, Publishing Director at SportBusiness.

"Over the past year we have witnessed rapid technological and commercial developments in the media industry which have opened up previously unimagined possibilities for communication, and critically ‘engagement’, with consumers. This is a hugely exciting time."

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Written by Aaron Bauer.

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