SportAccord 2013
The theme for SportAccord 2013 will be "The State of Our Industry – Examining the Health of Sport".
"We are planning some exciting innovations for this year’s conference, which is going to have a very powerful list of speakers from Russia and around the world," said Nis Hatt, SportAccord Convention Managing Director.
"Our aim is to facilitate strategic discussion on the direction of the global industry."
Three sessions are so far announced for the conference. "The Advent of the Blade Runner – Bionic Sport of the Future" will examine how new technology impacts sports and its boundaries in the coming years.
"Sochi in the Spotlight" will focus on Russia’s first Winter Olympics.
"Sport in the Global Economy" will bring together business leaders in sport to debate ongoing challenges and opportunities.
Click here for the program and registration details.
CITYEvents
The theme for this year’s CITYEvents conference will be "Preparing to bid, and bidding to win."
The conference will sport speakers from national, regional and city public sectors as well as international sports federations, event organizers and other key stakeholders.
Speakers will also represent a wide variety of successful – and unsuccessful – bids, sharing the lessons learned from each.
The cities of London, Kazan and Stockholm are a few of the speakers slated for the three-day conference.
Meanwhile, voting is winding down for the inaugural Sports Cities Index, presented by Around the Rings and TSE Consulting.
The comprehensive biannual ranking is built around a group of 50 cities selected through criteria such as staging recent and upcoming Olympics or other major multi-sport Games, hosting professional sports teams as well as organizing major championships or world-class events such as tennis Grand Slams and Formula 1 races.
Though the initial batch is already set, it’s up to the public to help sort them out 1 through 50 based on their perceptions of the cities as having hosted major events, having quality facilities and being healthy and active places to live.
An online survey open through Nov. 11 asks respondents four brief questions on those themes and then gives them the opportunity to suggest other cities for inclusion in future editions.
A group of 100 "TSE Survey Experts" drawn from international federations, National Olympic Committees, sports media and other influencers will also respond to the survey.
Answers from these experts will be combined with those from the general public to produce the final Sports Cities Index, to be released at CITYEvents, scheduled for Nov. 14 to 16 in Lausanne.
Click here for the full CITYEvents program.
IOC World Conference on Sport For All
The 2013 edition of the IOC World Conference on Sport for All will be staged in Lima, Peru.
The conference is being run in accordance with SportAccord and will be hosted by the municipality of Miraflores and the Peruvian Institute for Sport.
The Sport for All conference gives a platform to discuss the latest research in sport as well as "share successful experiences and discover the latest trends."
"[Sport For All] encourages sports activites that can be exercise by people of all ages, both sexes and different social and economic conditions," says Jose Quinones Gonzales, president of the Peruvian Olympic Committee.
Sport for All will run April 24 to 27 of 2013.
For the complete program, click here.
ASPIRE4SPORT
Ruud Gullit and Martina Hingis are the latest additions to the speakers list for ASPIRE4SPORT in Doha, Qatar.
They join confirmed speakers H.E. Sheikh Saoud Bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, head of the Qatar OlympicCommittee; Hassan Al Thawadi, General Secretary of the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee; and Ian Ayre, Managing Director of Liverpool FC.
The theme for the conference will be "Connecting Business and Sport in the Middle East."
"Aspire Med", "Aspire Tech", and "Aspire Build" will be the three programs the conference is built around.
ASPIRE4SPORT will run Nov. 12 to 15 in Doha.
Click here for the full program.
World Sports Congress
The 2013 World Sports Congress will be held in London on Feb. 26 and 27.
The Congress aims to "bring together senior-level executives from the top sporting organizations and businesses internationally to explore best practices for designing and constructing infrastructure."
The Congress is invite only.
For other information and the full program, click here.
Written by Aaron Bauer
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