AI, Big Data and Telecommunications at the Service of Performance
The digital revolution is radically transforming the way we live, work and relate to sport. Aware of the need to adapt to change, the event brings together national and business leaders from the Balearic Islands to Palma to show how technology is redefining training, safety, health and the sporting spectacle.
During the day, professionals, federations, companies, educational centers and administrations will be able to learn about real cases of success, generate networking and explore new areas of collaboration.
The meeting is configured as a unique opportunity to promote technological vocations applied to sport, promote innovation and strengthen the Balearic sports and technology ecosystem.
General objective: to organize a nationwide event to raise awareness of the transformative role of technology, artificial intelligence and telecommunications in the field of sports.
Specific objectives:
- Show real cases of application
- Generate networking
- Promote collaborations
- Fostering technological vocations
- Inspire the adoption of technology in the sports sector.
- Target audience/addressees:
- Sports federations
- Public administration
- Students and research centers
- Sports centers
- Small and medium-sized companies whose main activity is sport, technology and health.
- Athletes and sports training professionals
PROGRAM
(9:30 – 10:00) Accreditations
(10:00 – 10:15) Institutional welcome
Sebastián González, General Director of Innovation and Digital Transformation of the Government of the Balearic Islands and Vicepresident of the Bit Foundation.
(10:15 – 10:30) Welcome COITT
Luis Miguel Chapinal, Dean of the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros Técnicos de Telecomunicaciones (Official Association of Telecommunications Engineers)
(10:30 – 11:00) Opening speech “New challenges for high competition sport in the new digital era”.
Mateu Cañellas, coordinator of sports technical training at the Balearic Islands Sports Foundation, will explain how high competition sport is facing a growing sense of urgency: the need to respond quickly in an environment where data and decisions have become immediate. In this scenario, information management is the central axis, with the integration of technologies capable of automating processes, validating protocols and connecting different devices – such as smart rings, training logs or physiological analysis systems – into coherent and useful ecosystems for sports performance. The real value lies not only in accumulating information, but in transforming it into knowledge applied in real time. Finally, the great challenge will be the management of the cultural change: the transition from the classic school of coaches to a new digital mentality, capable of balancing risks and opportunities. The key will be to ensure that technology complements, not replaces, the human essence that defines sporting excellence.
11:00 – 11:30) Coffee break & networking
(11:30 – 12:00) Keynote speech “Artificial Intelligence in Sport: increased capabilities thanks to technologies”.
Cecilia Celeste Danesi, Professora de la Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials, UPSA.
(12:00 – 12:45) Panel discussion: “AI and technology for performance and sports health”.
Moderator: Zara Pons, manager of the biotechnological and biomedical cluster of the Balearic Islands(BIOIB)
Participate:
- Dr. José Hernández Poveda, founder and creator ofAge Reversal, will explain how technology and AI are used to optimize health, physical and cognitive performance.
- Isabel Ruiz Bravo, physiotherapist and CEO of Dermei Business, will explain the HumanAI app (by Global Clinics), an application that accompanies athletes, provides feedback to manage both physical and general symptoms and, through an algorithm, allows to predict and prevent possible injuries.
- Dr. Cristian Casseus Schurig, cardiologist, director and founder of Deporvidas, will explain the technologies applied to increase sports performance, such as stress tests, intermittent hypoxia and calorimetry. He will offer a context for athletes and society in general.
(12:45 – 13:45) Sessió 1. Infraestructura esportiva intel.ligent
Moderator: Jorge de la Torre, COITT National Vice-president
“Automation and democratization of sport: AI cameras and audiovisual accessibility”.
Juan Ochogavía, co-founder of Eivo, an online platform where the games of the Balearic grassroots sport are broadcasted. The broadcasting is accessible from the app, web or TV, and the recording of the games is done using automated cameras with AI. At the conference, they will talk about how they have developed their own infrastructure of servers and programming to have full control of the games. In addition, it will be explained how the AI-based cameras system has a violence prevention control at the fields and stadiums, system with which they received the Onda Cero Mallorca Award, for having reduced the cases of aggression, contributing to reduce violence in the Balearic grassroots sport.
“Estadis intel.ligents i bessons digitals: BIM a l’èlit del futbol”.
Andreu Fiol, in charge of the control department of TALAT, will explain what has been his engineering contribution to the Santiago Bernabéu hypogeum, which consisted of designing the engineering project for the climate control of the building and coordinating its execution through the BIM methodology, which allows the coordination, centralization and access to the different contributions and agreements of all the agents involved in the design and construction phase.
“Instantaneous data and intelligent timing: towards a safer and more efficient sports management”.
Guiem Bosch “Mito”, manager at Elitechip, a company specialized in the organization and timing of races and all kinds of events. Company that has developed an exclusive timing system implementing the ChampionChip – MyLaps systems, technology approved by the International Association of Athletics Federations that is used in races and athletic events. It measures the times and results of the competitors through a radiofrequency system connected to the xip that is provided to the participants to control the density of runners and show results in real time.
(13:45 – 14:15) Keynote speech: “AI and new technologies applied to performance and health in sports teams: from data to decision”.
Adolfo Muñoz, director of performance and medical service at Real Club Esportiu Mallorca, will give a talk exploring how to build, govern and exploit a daily data ecosystem that integrates health and performance to transform decision making at a professional club. We will start from the reality of the locker room and the field, and arrive at useful, auditable and clinically sound AI models. The focus: moving “from data to precision” without losing the human and sports context.
(14:15 – 15:15) Dining & Networking Break
(15:15 – 16:15) Session 2. “AI and data applied to performance and sports ergonomics”.
Moderator: José Antonio Teixeira, technical director of the Xarxa Espanyola de Ciutats Intel.ligents, president of the subcommittee of definition and indicators of the Smart City of the standardization committee 178 of AENOR and president of the Patrimonial of COITT.
“Canoe Data Analytics: Balearic innovation in the analysis of Olympic performance”.
Jaume Mestre and Toni Anglada, technicians of the Centre de Tecnificació Esportiva de les Illes Balears. The two of them, together with Carlos Badiola and the Balearic Canoe Federation, have designed the Canoe Data Analytics, a software that allows to analyze in detail the performance of paddlers and boats. The software will be present at the last Olympic Games in Paris 2024.
“The evolution of Motion Capture towards intelligent ergonomics with AI”.
Joan Munar i Fiol, consultant in occupational risk prevention at Asepeyo, will explain how MoCap (Motion Capture) works, a system that collects real-time data on the physical requirements of elite athletes through sensors that are placed on the athlete’s body. In addition, he will show the evolution of MoCap to the Ergoniza system, software that analyzes the same data, but in this case, allowing to eliminate the sensors and working with an AI data reading. These systems allow to evaluate postures and movements, and to test different scenarios with improvements to predict future injuries.
“AI and personalization of amateur training in racquet sports: train like a professional”.
Toni Bota and Lluís Vilà, founders of Bivo, will explain their application project that uses artificial intelligence so that amateur users can train like professionals in racket sports in any space and customize their training to their physical conditions in order to maintain progress and avoid injuries. It was the winning project of the first edition of the national program “Impulsa Startups”.
(16:15 – 16:30) Institutional Cloenda
Pedro Vidal Montserrat, Autonomous Secretary of the Autonomous Secretariat of Culture and Sports
Organizers:
First Vice-presidency and Regional Ministry of Economy, Finance and Innovation, and Fundació Bit
In collaboration with:
- Autonomous Secretary of Culture and Sports of the Government of the Balearic Islands
- Col.legi Oficial d’Enginyers Tècnics de Telecomunicacions (COITT)
- Association of Graduates and Technical Engineers of Communication (AGEITT)
- RCD Mallorca
- Fundació per a l’Esport Balear
- Biotechnological and biomedical cluster of the Balearic Islands (BIOIB)