Elite Line-up for Host City Americas - Conferences & Conventions

(ATR) IOC member and World Archery president Ugur Erdener will address the safe staging of Tokyo 2020 amid a pandemic atthe inaugural Host City Americas.

Erdener is a physician and chairof the IOC Medical and Scientific Commission.

He joins fellow IOC member and International Equestrian Federation (FEI) president Ingmar De Vos and IOC vice president Anita DeFrantz as part of the speaker program at the event later this month.

Host City Americas, with the theme of Investing in Events, takes place virtually on June 29-30. It is expected to bring more than 1,000 people together, including IOC members, sports ministers, mayors, International Federations and Organizing Committee leaders.

The program also has a regional flair with Nick Sellers, CEO of the World Games 2022 organizing committee in Birmingham, Alabama, and Chris Carroll of the Lake Placid 2023 Winter World University Games among those taking part.

The opening panel, Emerging from the Perfect Storm, includes Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General of UNESCO and Al Kidd, President & CEO of Sports Events & Tourism Association (Sports ETA).

Current and former International Federation leaders are on a panel tacklingthe question of Can Private Investment Save Traditional Sports.

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The 2021 edition of Host City will be a global, hybrid event held in Glasgow, Scotland on December 7-8. The format change is designed to build on last year’s first digital edition, combining the face-to-face interaction at Glasgow’s Technology & Innovation Centre with online connectivity.

ISC Fan Engagement Week

International Sports Convention will spend a week in June showcasing the best in fan engagement.

The ISC Fan Engagement Week runs from June 21-25, 2021 and will focus on how sports organizations can engage younger fans, monetize digital fans and use technologies to gain a competitive advantage.

Innovation pioneers will present best practices and original case studies on the current digitization that sports organizations are going through.

Sports federations, leagues, clubs, agencies, and tech companies are all involved in the event.

Those who want to become one of the experts at the forum can contact: info@internationalsportsconvention.com.

2021 VISTA Conference Goes Virtual

The 10th edition of the VISTA Conference will be held virtually over six days between November 18 and December 16, 2021.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said the conference, designed to provide a platform for sport scientists and researchers to hear from and have dialogue with experts in the field of sport for athletes with impairments, will be a partnership with six leading universities.

VISTA 2021 will be led by KU Leuven, Belgium; University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden; School of Kinesiology; Western University, Canada; University of Pittsburgh, USA; and Yonsei University, South Korea.

The conference will address six themes at the heart of the Paralympic Movement: Ethics and Integrity (Nov. 18); Socio-Cultural Legacy (Nov. 22); Health and Medicine (Nov. 29); Evidence-Based Classification (Dec. 1) – Technology in Paralympic Sport (Dec. 14) and Paralympic Performance (Dec. 16).

Each theme will be presented by a different university, with KU Leuven as the main host. Each of the six online sessions will run three hours and will be reserved for Q&A and interaction with the audience. Keynotes, oral and poster presentations will be pre-recorded and made available online on Nov. 1 for viewing ahead of the sessions.

Sports scientists and experts in Para sport have until July 10 to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations through the conference website www.vista2021.com.

An early bird rate of EUR 175 and a student rate of EUR 80 are available until Sept. 15 at www.vista2021.com. Participants can also sign up for selected themes rather than all six.

The conference is free for all Paralympians who participated in the Paralympic Games from Rome 1960 to Tokyo 2020. The registration fee is also waived for delegates from countries on the lower 50 percent of the UN Human development Index ranking 2020.

Conference on Inclusion in September

USA Cycling will host a multi-day Cycling Industry Inclusion Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado in September 2021.

The NGB said the conference is needed given that "recent discriminatory anti-transgender legislation in Arkansas and several other states where USA Cycling and UCI events are being held threatens access to sport".

The event will focus on four key underrepresented communities in cycling: BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual), Disabled athletes, and Women.

Representatives of these communities will be invited to shape the conference agenda and lead the conversations, presentations, and workshops during the event. Cycling industry members will be invited to attend as audience members and tasked with listening and learning.

The conference will be free to attend in-person and live virtual attendance will be available. The dates and other details have not been finalized yet.

Smart Cities & Sport Online Session

Smart Cities & Sport will host a special free online session on June 24 on sport and tourism, two sectors hit hard by the pandemic.

The session, entitled "Sport Tourism (R)evolution: Shaping the Future", will be held from 0900 to 1030Central European Summer Time (CEST)and focus on how to use sport and tourism to boost economies in the post-pandemic world.

The dates and venue of the next Smart Cities & Sport Summit will also be revealed.

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Written by Gerard Farek

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