While our educational programs are shaping, different professors for our Master and Sports Entrepreneurship course are joining GSIC Institue to offer their expertise in the sports industry to the future students. All our professors are members of the GSIC and 27 of them have already committed to the initiative in order to design programs of classes that will adjust and represent in the best way current situation on the different sports industry scenarios.

On the last week of April, startups associated to the GSIC had received a private invitation to the event we organized together with More Than Players Foundation created by elite athletes (active and former) from the most important leagues in the world, to support entrepreneurship in the sports industry. Hand in hand with Offside Communication agency and the GSIC by Microsoft, this initiative was carried out with the intention of uniting the true protagonists of the industry, the athletes, with the entrepreneurs who try to innovate within the sector.

On April 29th and 30th, the World Football Summit Asia took place in Kuala Lumpur. The congress offered quality conferences in its two stages, where world-class speakers discussed and debated the key topics of the industry with a special focus in the region and it closed its first edition in Asia with more than 1,600 attendees and a hundred accredited journalists in its international debut, which will continue next year.

We’ve been waiting for the perfect moment to bring you the biggest international event for our network and here it is! We are organizing our first Summit for GSIC Members in order to bring you all together for 2 days full of intensive work, networking, knowledge transferring and also catching up with our team!

On April 23rd, the Global Sports Innovation Center held the 4rd General Assembly, in which both the management aspects related to 2018 and the action plan for the year 2019 were approved unanimously. The General Manager of the GSIC, Iris Córdoba, presented the key figures corresponding to the operational and economic activity during the last fiscal year, which are included in the Activity Report of the GSIC.

Startup Competition 2019 had already completed its first phase closing the call for applications on March 30th. Since the launch of this project we are developing together with LaLiga, we have received application from 55 different countries and now we are moving toward the screening of all the companies who entered the competition. This process will be developed on different stages including the evaluation on behalf of GISC, LaLiga, Microsoft Corporation and major sports industry experts. We will know the list of 25 pre-finalists by the end of April.