Dear friends,

We invite you to celebrate International Women’s Day with us on March 14 at the special event that we will dedicate to the topics of “Women’s Entrepreneurship and leadership in the sports industry”.

📆 Tuesday

March 14, 2023

🕘 15:00 – 17:00

📍GSIC Singapore

6 Stadium Walk, 01-05

Over the years, women’s representation in the sports industry has improved significantly, with more female athletes and professionals making their mark in various sports. There have been notable strides in recent years, such as the increased visibility of women’s sports events and the growing number of female coaches and executives. These efforts should continue to ensure that women’s voices and contributions are valued and recognized in the sports industry.

For this reason, we would like to organize two round tables:

1. Women in sport: managing your career, with

– Nataly Salazar Hartmann, Founder of Active Breaks

– Anna Milani, Founder & CEO of SPARKD | The Brain & Fitness Hub

Moderated by our APAC Lead, Raj Sambwani

2. Women in sport: pushing the boundaries, with

– Erica Kerner, outgoing CMO of SailGP and formerly of ONE Championship

– Magdalene Ng, Head of Marketing and Commnication at beIN Asia Pacific

– Cheryl Tay, Team Lead, Sports Development at Sport Singapore and professional athlete

After the panel discussion, we invite you to perform yoga activity with Nataly Salazar and a cognitive test with Anna Milani and Sparked.

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Os invitamos a celebrar con nosotros el Día Internacional de la Mujer en una jornada que dedicaremos a los temas de “Mujeres en Esports y el rol de la educación en la industria del deporte”.

📆 Miercoles

8 de marzo, 2023

🕘 12:00 – 13:30

📍GSIC Madrid

Calle Goya, 90

La industria del deporte es competitiva, dinámica y fascinante. Año tras año vemos el aumento de mujeres a la cabeza y sobre todo la generación de nuevas oportunidades y creación de valor que van surgiendo. Por eso, nos gustaría orgamizar dos mesas redondas:

1. Mujeres en Esports: los retos y las oportunidades de la industria, con:

• Andrea Suinaga Domínguez, Marketing Manager en MAD Lions
• Borja Moya, Director de Marketing Digital en BURGER KING IBERIA
• Sandra Cabeza (Leviathan), creadora de contenido de Giants Esports Team, en VALORANT
• Moderado por Tomás González León, Copropietario de Influgamers Agency

2. El rol de la educación en la formación de liderazgo e igualdad, con:

• Marisa Sáenz Bravo, Directora gerente en Escuela Universitaria Real Madrid Universidad Europea
• José Javier Hombrados Ibañez, Director de deportes de SEK International Schools
• Leonor Gallardo Guerrero, Investigadora de Gestion deportiva de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
• Moderado por Guillermo Marin Díaz-Guardamino, Director de Servicios de Innovación en GSIC powered by Microsoft

Después de los paneles, os invitamos a un networking informal con picoteo

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Dear members,

You are already aware of the work that GSIC has been doing over the past years to create new representation offices in different continents, and after our success launching the office in Singapore which now covers APAC region, we are creating bases for GSIC expansion to USA.

On March 3-9 our team will travel to Boston and New York to organize several activities and meetings with US sports entities, as well as attendance to 2 big events. This will be a great opportunity for you to expand your network and learn more about this market.

The complete agenda of the event will be the following:

March 3-4: Attendance to Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston

March 6: GSIC presentation and networking ant Microsoft USA office (11 Times Sq, New York, NY 10036, USA)

The event will consist of 2 parts:

1. Share good practices from Microsoft partners (LaLiga Tech and NBA) and support from the GSIC in these partnerships.
2. Live pitch to the entities that will attend. We have an opportunity to offer up to 8 startups & companies that confirm their attendance to pitch to the entities that will attend the session.

• 09:00 – 09:10 – Welcome – Frank Mesa, General Manager Sports & Entertainment US at Microsoft​; Iris Cordoba, General Manager at GSIC Powered by Microsoft
• 09:10 – 09:30 – GSIC: Digital Transformation Journey – Iñigo Bonilla – Strategic Alliances Director at GSIC
• 09:30 – 10:00 – LaLiga Tech: Digital Ecosystem 
• 10:00 – 10:30 – NBA: New experience for fans driven by the power of data​
• 10:30 – 10:45 – Coffee Break and Networking
• 10:45 – 11:45 – Problem Statements Sport Entities​ (sports entities presentations)
• 11:45 – 12:45 – Startups & companies live pitches
• 12:45 – 13:30 – Lunch Break and Networking
• 13:30 – 15:45 – Sports entities 1:1’s with startups & companies
• 15:45 – 16:00 – Coffee break
• 16:00 – 18:15 – Sports entities 1:1’s with startups & companies

March 7-9: Attendance to SBJ Tech Week in New York

If you are interested in joining us for the listed activities, please contact [email protected] 

The GSIC powered by Microsoft and our members are working in different areas offering solutions for any type of challenge in the sports industry. Within these areas, we consider Sponsorship to be one of great potential (before the pandemic, it represented more than USD 69 billion). In 2022, sponsorship clearly started picking up, and enabling Sponsorship investment is the key area that differentiates brands and enables them to achieve their goals.

For this reason, in 2022 we had launched the Sponsorship Working Group, which in several sessions had elaborated on topics such as the activation of sponsorship as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda, and how brands can take advantage of the digital transformation and enhance their sponsorship activation plan.

The working group is attended by representatives of brands such as Iberdrola, Porsche, Adidas, Burger King, Marca, Dia, Endesa, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Estrella Galicia, Carrefour, BAXI, Pelayo, Herbalife, VISA.

The first work result of this working group is our new report “Sponsorship activation and digital transformation” that we are going to present online:

We invite you to attend this presentation session that will last approximately 45 min:

10:00 – 120:15 – Welcome by Iris Cordoba, General Manager of GSIC powered by Microsoft

10:15 – 10:45 – Report Presentation – Guillermo Marin, Services Director, GSIC and Carlos Canto, CEO, SPSG Counsulting

10:45 – 11:00 – Q&A

We are looking forward to seeing you at this event!

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Dear friends, 

Cybersecurity is one of the most relevant tech trends of the last decade, and it’s now becoming a top priority in the sports industry. Given the degree of dependence on digital systems, the diverse stakeholders inside the sports industry are vulnerable to digital attacks.

As we can see, most (if not all) stakeholders in sports rely on the cyber world to deliver experiences and operate. Without proper cyber protection, businesses in sports might not only be risking their operations and revenues – but their reputation as well. 

This is why we are inviting you to the in-person presentation of its new White Paper on “Online threats & security risks facing sport in a post-pandemic world” that includes best practices of sports organizations from Europe, Asia, Oceania and America.

We will have a prominent panel of speaker with who we’ll descussed topics covered in this new White paper.

– Cameron Walter, Head of Cybersecurity at Cricket Australia

– Neha Monga, Area Business Group Leader – Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Risk & Compliance – APAC at Microsoft

– Michael Henry, CTO of CYFIRMA

The agenda of the session will be the following:

• Welcome address by Raj Sambwani (APAC Lead): 5 minutes
• Paper presentation: Summary and key conclusions by Unmish (GSIC Ambassador): 10 minutes
• Round table discussion : 35 minutes

Open Q/A: 10 minutes

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Desde GSIC powered by Microsoft volvemos a colaborar con Kirolaren Euskal Eskola (Escuela Vasca del Deporte) y queremos ofreceros nuevamente la oportunidad de ampliar los conocimientos acerca de la oferta del mercado de innovación tecnológica aplicada a las diferentes área de la industria del deporte.

En dos sesiones especiales podréis conocer de primera mano las soluciones más innovadoras desarrolladas por los socios del GSIC y explorar las oportunidades que ofrecen para avanzar en los procesos de transformación digital.

La segunda sesión rondará sobre “Control y gestión dirigida a técnicos del deporte”.

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Desde GSIC powered by Microsoft volvemos a colaborar con Kirolaren Euskal Eskola (Escuela Vasca del Deporte) y queremos ofreceros nuevamente la oportunidad de ampliar los conocimientos acerca de la oferta del mercado de innovación tecnológica aplicada a las diferentes área de la industria del deporte.

En dos sesiones especiales podréis conocer de primera mano las soluciones más innovadoras desarrolladas por los socios del GSIC y explorar las oportunidades que ofrecen para avanzar en los procesos de transformación digital.

La primera sesión rondará sobre “Nuevas tecnologías para mejora del rendimiento de los deportistas”.

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