Sport's Cutting Edge

Naveen Velautham and Kenyan javelin World Champion Julius Yego started Invictus as a way to spread to gospel of sport beyond those with financial or geographic fortune.And the International Olympic Committee have just selected Invictus as one of its top 25 global sportstech start-ups. Yego taught himself how to throw a javelin by watching YouTube- the online scroll took him from novice to world's best.Velautham and Yego are taking this concept broad spec, with online coaching and mentoring videos sent direct to individuals who sign up. There's also a two-way dialogue that allows for feedback and review. This platform can apply to all sports; and go beyond pure skills- to mental toughness, mental health, injury prevention etc. This kind've elite knowledge now falls within reach of those in remote physical locations, and those from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. It also provides branding opportunities for organisations looking to achieve social good, and additional income streams to athletes.

Everclime is a sustainability activation platform that works with clients to create clear economic and rational structure around their ESG pursuits.Sebastian Gray founded the business in 2022, based on his genuine passion for a sustainable world, and his knowledge that a strong economic case must be built for long-term action to take hold.He previously co-founded the digital media platform, DUGOUT, working in partnership with the biggest soccer clubs in the world, including Arsenal, Manchester Ciy, Barcelona and Real Madrid.James O'Hare came on board as a co-founder in 2023, after a successful global business career with Rio Tinto and Salesforce. Seb and James tell us how sustainability can be made sustainable, with strategic execution that drives ROI.  

The Global Institute of Sport (GIS) has bases in London, Miami, Dubai, Toronto and Melbourne, and is a great progenitor of our global sports workforce.Sport is now the 9th largest industry in the world, with revenues exceeding $2.65 trillion.  GIS are equipping the next generation to take the industry further than ever before.They offer in-person and online undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in everything from high performance coaching, to data analytics, and sports marketing. Ray Boggiano heads up APAC, and is about to launch a Sydney Campus, as Australia's role in world sport continues its rapid ascension. 

The greatest sports team of all time is the US Olympic Team, and Team USA has been epically dominant in the pool. In the land of NASA, the Pentagon, and an America-first mentality, one of the biggest revelations of the Paris Olympics was that Team USA would hire an Australian business to run the sports performance tech in the pool. Iggy Jovanovic's Gerford AI powered the Americans to another supreme performance, where they topped the medal tally. Off the back of Paris, Gerford is now being head-hunted by big finance and big medicine to incorporate their tech into those critical fields. Gerford also worked hand-in-hand with David Beckham's esports company Guild in 2024, and helped them rocket up the global rankings. Today we celebrate Aussie sportstech's global prowess, and the might of Iggy and his team!

Esports is a multi-billion-dollar industry that continues its rate of knots growth every year. Sam Ward sees esport as a pathway to equality in sport, where people with neurodivergence, special needs, physical disability, along with people from all backgrounds, can play together as one. Valor Esports is the ultimate training platform for esports- it's like going to fun school, for both gamers, novices, teachers and coaches. Valor's two major markets are Australia and the United States, where they partner with Generation Esports, the largest provider of built curriculums for schools. Ward aims to allow this new-found world to flourish, helping to give all people a place to belong in sport.

Forbes magazine crowned Victoria Zorin as one of Asia's top 30 business people under 30 in 2023. Victoria created Nola, a crowd analytics platform to amplify and ease the experiences of attendees at sporting events, music festivals, shopping centres and other large spaces. With A.I, Nola is able to capture real-time information during events to allow venues to make decisions to ease the burden of crowd control & wait times. Nola takes advantage of the monitoring systems venues already have, and can diagnose issues to prevent traffic during peak times. The MCG and Dreamworld are among her top tier clients in Australia, as Victoria now starts her US pursuit.

Maria Baker founded Nobody's Princess to make snow and ski gear specific for girls and women. Maria came up against the chronic issue of women being paid scant regard in sports apparel, with the “pink it, and shrink it” mentality falling well short of the mark. She wants women of all shapes and sizes to feel completely at home in her gear, and to encourage people to head to the slopes, who may never have given it a go before. Maria shares with us the difficulty of winning Government support, after a female-specific funding program ended, and with her business both too new and too advanced to fit into current funding categories. 

The recent inclusion of risk management into sports and recreation clubs can be challenging for organisations to manage. Founder of Safeguarding You, Adam Wood, created a platform where what once was daunting, is now made much easier. The program provides users with a simple assessment to understand their risks, then actionable advice is delivered to lower the risk percentage. Wood has been heavily involved with his own children's sporting clubs, and understands the difficulty in navigating the need to report and adapt to issues that arise. An area of great interest currently is concussion within the AFL, particularly exploring the trend of under-reporting, and the risks associated with trying to get back on the field. Safeguarding You is constantly evolving, creating new technology to allow teams and groups to monitor what they've done in the past, and prepare for their future.

Ryan Talbot has spent the past two decades as one of Australia's leading figures in IT security, working with our biggest bank- the Commonwealth, and our biggest state- New South Wales. Ryan is the one who first introduced biometric security for the Commonwealth Bank, and was a gun-for-hire with international casinos to protect their security systems. He's also an athletics coach, and that experience led him to start VueMotion- friction free computer vision performance analysis. VueMotion are now working with the biggest pro leagues in North America and Europe, having already cornered the domestic Australian market. Ryan takes us inside an epic career and company story today on the pod!

Emma Thomson worked for two decades as a medical scientist, and in that time, also became a ‘Cricket Mum'. That latter title led Emma to become a sportstech entrepreneur. After endless afternoons bowling balls at her young son for batting practice, Emma realised there was a gap in the market. Bowling machines are commonplace for adult cricketers, and so Emma tailor-made a bowling machine to suit kids as young as Grade 3. Pitch It Up was born, and her e-commerce business is now also flourishing with major cricket and sporting goods retailers around the country. Emma has just created a new iteration for visually impaired cricketers, and Pitch It Up has been working closely with the special needs and para sports people. Today, Emma tells us the origin story, the tech, the growth, and the future of Pitch It Up.

Andrew Lemon has spent the past 15 years working on the front line of healthcare as an osteopath, he is also a business and tech entrepreneur.  Eight years ago he co-founded Strength by Numbers, to finally fill a gap in the market he had been combatting for years, namely, the lack of specific strength measurements in healthcare. Heart rate, blood pressure, weight, BMI are all measured as a matter of course. Andrew Lemon says for too long, strength has been the missing component. Strength by Numbers has revolutionised the domestic Aussie market with their AxIT technology, and they're about to attack the US market. Andrew takes us behind the scenes of the science, the tech and the forward strategy.

Lining up for food, drinks and merchandise at events can cause the spectator to miss out on the action, spending time standing in a queue rather than enjoying the experience. Tech entrepreneur David Jakic and e-business specialist Norbert Herrmann have created Liively- technology that allows the user to scan a QR code and order straight from their phone, and have their order brought directly to them. The company has already captured the attention of big name clients, notably the NBA and Etihad Arena in the UAE. Choosing to take Liively internationally was the move for the company, signing global clients and gaining exposure with every connection. The company focuses on simplicity and need, onlyproducing what is required to bypass the issues that might arise with an online service. Both Javik and Herrmann plan on expanding www.liive.ly to new ventures, creating something that's integrated and elastic within the technological landscape.

WSC Sport is the world-leading AI-generated short form sports video creator. They create the video content distributed by the NBA, LaLiga, NASCAR, and the AFL, NRL & Cricket Australia. Guy Port is WSC's Asia Pacific Boss, and he describes the company's development of sports technology, and how it will continue to innovate new ways for the viewer to enjoy a personalised entertainment experience.  The company has trained their tech to more than 50 different sports, implementing the data and information available, constantly soaking up new knowledge to become more advanced.  Port, with his expertise in sports marketing, focuses on the visibility of sport to the audience in today's society, and how WSC is taking major league sport to people's screens. 

Craig O'Shannessy is the architect of the Italian Renaissance of tennis- with Jannik Sinner's AO 2024 win the first of many. Before leading Team Italy climb back up the mountain, O'Shannessy was head-hunted by the most successful player of all time, Novak Djokovic in 2017. O'Shannesy worked with Novak when during the most contested time in tennis history, with Federer, Nadal and Djokovic competing for the crown. Craig O'Shannessy is an Aussie who dared to think differently, question the status quo of tennis and use tech and innovation to take an Edwardian sport and make it Web-4. Craig's agent Elia Hill, from Connecting In, also joined our discussion, to share how we can all benefit from greater connection and collaboration.

Amy Crosland is the Operations Boss of ASTN, and she has just released a ‘Women in Sports Innovation' report, showing less than 10% of Aussie sport start-ups are female-founded. The study also shows female-founded start-ups give a 63% greater return on capital investment than male start-ups. 20-year-old sports journalist Ava Stone also joined the discussion, and said true equality will be reached when we no longer need to discuss gender at all. Amy and Ava gave insight into how we can increase female participation, and how women and men can both appreciate their unique value.

The simplification of betting mechanisms could be the future of sports gambling. Founder of Statstrade, Chris Zheng has adapted an existing software to take up residency in the betting and sport statistics world. Predicting the wager for sporting matches is becoming mainstream, with anyone able to view the odds right from their phone. Zheng took the technology, and created tools companies can use to grow their business, furthering benefits for the user. The future of Statstrade could potentially allow people to create markets, as well as bet on existing sporting match-ups. Creating a product of interest in the ever evolving market is the hand that every business wishes to be dealt.

Over time, the presence and persona of community-level sporting clubs continues to adapt. Steve Pallas, founder of Sports Community, is aiming to help nurture inclusivity and support clubs around Australia. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, clubs have struggled to stay afloat- so understanding continued and strategic growth is more important now than ever before. Pallas' platform, now part of the Belgravia business family, supports clubs in reaching these goals. There has been a noticeable difference over the last 20 years, with more local cricket and football clubs supporting female teams in competition, providing that opportunity to broaden their reach. sportscommunity.com.au works alongside clubs to help them reach their full potential for the community in its entirety. Sport's Cutting Edge is hosted by Lachlan Wills, and produced by Ava Stone.

Swimming in Australia is adapting to change with the times, benefitting from all that technology has to offer.  The traditional, most common timing process can lead to varied outcomes, and a lack of consistency across competitions within Australia and beyond.  Multiple staff or volunteers are required to manually record the results of a swimming race, with human error, an ever-present risk. Ben Ramsden, and his company Olly Timing, have founded AI timing to solve this problem.  Ben is also the first to introduce the Hawkeye technology into swimming, and bridge the gap between technology and the historic sport.

The proliferation of digital and social media has furnished the rapid rise of misinformation across all corners of life. Health, exercise and body image being no exception. Elena Von Rosenberg and Andrew Schox are fighting back against the wave of superficiality with a healthy dose of science. Elena is a musculoskeletal physiotherapist, who has worked in public and private health in Europe and Australia, with community, pro and Olympic athletes. Andrew Schox is one of Western Australia's leading health industry figures- a podiatrist, software developer, and also a futurist Elena and Andrew have founded Pibbot- an online platform creating a scientific path to a healthy lifestyle. The app tailor-makes health and wellbeing ‘prescriptions' to each individual participant, with one-on-one mentoring and support, and community inclusion.

Iggy Jovanovic is the founder of Gerford AI- a real-time in play AI data acquisition and distribution platform that gives athletes that elusive 1% edge. In May 2023, Iggy inked the deal of a lifetime, becoming the AI partner of the United States' Olympic Swim Team. Iggy's Gerford AI has already helped deliver Winter Olympic Gold, Commonwealth Games Gold, and he's working with David Beckham's Esports company, Guild. Today, Iggy takes us inside the tech, inside the road to Paris with Team USA, and into his amazing broader life story.

Dene Menzel is a singer-songwriter who's gone to Number 1 on the iTunes charts. She's also an author who has topped Amazon best seller lists in the USA. And Dene is the founder of Branthem. Branthem work hand-in-hand with clients to create the right sound to engage their target audience through the power of music. Dene joins us to today to speak about her passion for sportstech, and how music branding can help Aussie start ups to cut through the clutter.

Scott Goldman is Performance Psychologist at the Golden State Warriors. Prior to that he was at the Detroit Lions, after being the head of Performance Psychology at the Miami Dolphins.  Through his own shop, Athletic Intelligence Quotient (AIQ), Scott and his team consult with a wide array of pro teams in the USA (NBA, MLB, NFL), Europe and now Australia. Scott is renowned for his humility and sincerity, in an approach where he builds organically with an individual, rather than dictates from on high.  Today we hear the role data, analytics and intuition plays in helping to build the mindset of world class athletes.

Graham Dudley comes into sportstech companies like a specialist coach, to help them make sense of data, and turn artificial intelligence into actual intelligence. He founded Global Performance Testing in 2011, and works with companies in North America, Europe, Australasia and now India.   Graham and his team assess products, provide evaluation and validation, tech support, training, analytics and cyber security. In today's show, Graham says overselling and underdelivering is a major modern problem in sportstech.

Aussie media executive Craig Green was the International Marketing Director & Advertising Boss during his 20-year career with Sony Entertainment. He then did the same thing at EA Games & EA Sport. Craig now has his own shop, SprtsHQ, creating an all-encompassing digital collectible business model, amplifying leagues, engaging fans, and integrating commercial partners. SprtsHQ won the world-wide race to become official licensee to the FIFA World Cup, and are now surging into both grass roots and elite level sport.  

Aaron Eisman is renowned in America as a social media savant. He's run socials for the NFL Network, Bleacher Report and Turner Sports. Aaron now has his own shop, Eisman Digital, and he works hand-in-hand with brands throughout North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific to “cut through the clutter” and “stop the scroll”. Today, Aaron opens up with key lessons on his 15 years in the sports entertainment industry, and his time at the coalface of the globe's social media revolution.

Clubfunders' co-founder Blake Lawrence grew up as one of five boys with a single Mum. He saw first-hand how money can be a major hurdle to jump for kids to play sport.  Fellow co-founder Stuart Jacobs grew up in South Africa, and was a gun young golf talent. But golf is a sport that requires significant financial investment to make it all the way to the top. Stuart eventually reached a financial tipping point.  These two have come together to create Clubfunders- an open source banking platform that aligns sports bodies, clubs and leagues, along with participants and sponsors. It's a win-win-win formation, where leagues grow their competitions, players have more access to sport, and sponsors can realise greater return on their investments. It's a model for junior, community and elite level sport. Blake and Stuart join us on the show today to talk us through the mission, the growth and their cutting edge open banking technology.

The sport of fencing is a throw-back to medieval sword fighting, with its modern incarnation drawing from the Italian Renaissance. Fencing was an original Olympic sport in 1896, and has captivated people with its grace, daring and precision ever since. Callum Laurenson, an electrical engineer and avid fencer, began a journey in 2012 to solve a perennial problem for the sport- electrical wires. Laurenson, and co-founders Tony Grubman and Rachel Muir-Smith, have built multiple iterations of world-leading patented wireless technology for the sport they love. Today, Cal takes us inside the inventors lab, and tells us how it was done, and how EnPointe is now setting its sights on new sports to revolutionise.

PrezentBox is a platform to enable and facilitate activity-based gifting for kids. Parents can create a profile that allows family members and friends to contribute money towards their kids' participation in a sport or activity, rather than just buying another toy to sit on the shelf. Sport and activity providers can also use the platform to help connect with parents and communities. PrezentBox was founded by Dan Frkic, a business manager who built a stellar career with two of Hollywood's biggest studios, Paramount and 20th Century Fox. Dan's great mate and former colleague from Paramount and Fox, Con Apostolopoulos, is also on board at PrezentBox, as they help to get kids more active. They both join us on today's show.

GeoSnapShot is a tech platform creating a centralised place to upload and download photos- with cutting edge AI recognition technology allowing for an instantaneous user experience. GeoSnapShot also broadens the opportunity to commercialise image content, provide brand integrations, and deeper fan engagement and connection. Tech maverick Andy Edwards founded this company, which has just been invested into by the most important media company in world sport, Comcast NBC Universal. Geo's client list now includes NBC Sports, NASCAR, PGA Golf, the USCAA College sports, the San Antonio Spurs, USA Boxing and Tough Mudder. Andy gives us the inside story of his world beating tech!

Michelle Walshe is a film & TV director who has worked with Warner Bros., the BBC, and her own Augusto Group, based in New York City. Leigh Kenyon is a former soccer star, who played with New Zealand's Football Kingz in Australia's National Soccer League. Together they founded CoachMate, drawing upon their individual expertise, to make engaging, easy-to-digest content designed to educate and empower grassroots coaches, parents, kids and communities, to create sporting environments where all kids feel at home. The pair are now backed by Australian sportstech heavyweights Stirling Mortlock and James Godfrey's XV Capital. Michelle and Leigh tell us how we can all make a better place for kids to play and love sport.

No longer do you need to fly to Arizona for high altitude, because Arizona comes right your bedroom, or lounge room, or anywhere you want to set up Box Altitude. Founder Rico Rogers is a former international pro cyclist, who used to benefits of high altitude training to try to bridge the gap he and other clean riders faced during the drug-riddled racing days of the early 2000s. Now he is allowing everyone to create a high altitude environment at home, through their Altitude Bedroom, Training Cloud and Sleep Cloud offerings. Rico, and leading engineer Callum Taylor, give us the inside story on this world-leading technology.

Craig Horobin has spent the past 25 years at the tech cutting edge of sports broadcasting. His first big gig came as the Olympic Broadcast Manager for Telstra at Sydney 2000. Craig spent the next two decades working on FIFA World Cups, Olympics Games, Commonwealth Games, and major international diplomatic events like APEC. In 2015 he started his own shop- Aircast. Aircast provide ultra-low latency in-venue and at home streaming, and they are now working with one of the world's largest media companies, Comcast NBC Universal, as their streamer of choice. Craig tells us how he did it!

Australian rugby union legend Stirling Mortlock, and much-vaunted sports mentor James Godfrey, are dynamically opening-up capital flow into sportstech start-ups, through their firm XV Capital. XV are investing capital, acumen and energy to help start-ups reach their full potential. They are behind the hottest sportstech property in the world, the Smart Ball, from UK company Sportable. Their Smart Ball- or as described by Eddie McGuire, ‘Super Footy'- will now be used in the AFL. It is already used in global rugby, while Nike and Adidas are jostling to bring it into soccer, and Sportable are now pushing into the USA. Mortlock & Godfrey are working with a wide array of tech start-ups like CoachMate- who's mission is to empower women, girls, and all kids to have positive experiences in sport. And the likes of Queensland business, Clubfunders, which is using tech to help breach the perennial divide between how much money sports have, and how much they need. Mortlock & Godfrey tell us there's so much room for growth and performance in Australian sports technology.  

Steph Bofinger is the founder of Fempro Armour. In 2019, Steph and 12 other ladies completed the first all-female motorbike run of the Simpson Desert- four days of gruelling off-road riding, in the unforgiving, and at times fatal, Australian Outback. For Steph, that ride was part of her healing process, having just escaped and survived domestic violence. While the Desert allowed one dark chapter to close, it brought to life a whole new world. On that ride she discovered the dire lack of female protective equipment for riders. All 13 women faced that same problem. So, Steph decided to find the solution. And Fempro Armour was born. Steph has expanded beyond motorsport, and is working hand-in-hand with Bond University with their Rugby Union program. She has also created a range of products for health care, aged care and disability care. Fempro Armour also create products for men and boys. For more info, check out femproarmour.com

Amy Crosland is one of Australian sport's leading figures turbo-charging the women's sportstech sector. Born and raised in iconic Tamworth, Amy has built an epic career, working with United Nations, the UK Ministry of Justice, and recently was Australian boss of global tech firm, Orion. She is now ASTN's Women in Sportstech Boss, with a mission to empower and promote women and girls to become front and centre, in what has been a male-dominated sphere. For more info on women in sportstech, you can email Amy at: amy.crosland@astn.com.au

Will Wright was at the vanguard of e-commerce 20 years ago, and he now leads ECAL's European expansion. ECAL are the world's leading calendar marketing solution, and service the English Premier League, Liverpool FC, FC Barcelona, the International Cricket Council, Formula One and many other of the world's biggest brands.  ECAL are an Australian business that have blitzed the international field, and today we'll hear how they've done it, as we get a look under the hood, discuss the growing role of AI, and look at future growth.

Kronos Enterprise use cutting edge tech to deliver key information to their clients across sport, event management, timing solutions, sustainable energy and cyber defence. Lachlan King is a Master of Business Information Technology from RMIT, and is a Global Senior Business Analyst for Kronos. Lachy and his team delivered the sportstech that powered the Special Olympics in Berlin this year. Today we hear how tech can be purpose built to ensure people of all different abilities can fully immerse themselves in sports, and big event experiences.

Anya Lee is regarded as one of the sharpest young minds in Australian architecture. She works with Smartform Architecture, who have just completed the $250 million rebirth of Marvel Stadium in Melbourne. Smartform have made a name for their algorithmic and computational design processes- creating the cutting edge of new world architecture. And they take a holistic, human centred approach. Anya's passion and expertise runs deep into health and wellbeing, and she is building the Smart360 platform to create immersive, accessible and individualised health and exercise.

Australian Ben Turner is Head of Sports Content and Partnerships APAC & Head of Global Basketball at Sportradar. Ben was an early architect of our industry, first with SportingPulse, before co-founding Atrium and Synergy Sports.  His reputation for landing the biggest clients in the world saw Ben head-hunted by Sportradar, where he now helps them set the global agenda. Ben says Aussies must seize the day on the world stage, and he tell us how you can do it!

Alicia Nagle is a passionate community builder. This firefighter and surf life saver has spent the past decade working in media and marketing across Australia and the United Kingdom. Alicia's grandpa, Kel Nagle, is an Aussie golf legend, who won the 1960 British Open, and was runner-up at the 1965 US Open. Naturally, Alicia's first venture as a start-up entrepreneur is Zonely- a platform that uses golf as a vehicle for community-building. Zonely's accent is on promoting physical, mental and social health through bringing diverse groups of people together to have fun and play golf.

Chris Smiles is one of the world's leading tech-driven architects. He has mastered the use of digital technology and computational design to create sports stadia that will dominate deep into the 21st Century. He is the man behind the quarter of a billion-dollar Marvel Stadium redevelopment. He was a key member of the winning bid to build Optus Stadium, and was lead designer of the new Adelaide Oval. Prior to starting his own firm, Smartform, Chris did major projects everywhere from China, to Kazakhstan, and even worked on the Royal Botanic Gardens and Kings Cross Station in London. Today, Chris gives us an exclusive insight into the cutting edge tech driving the future of sports stadiums.  

In the past 18 months, crypto has crashed, NFTs have gone from rare gold to rarely spoken about, inflation continues to bite hard, and recession fears loom. Despite the adversity, Australian sportstech has continued to power forward, with ASTN's Australian Sports Innovation Report 2023, showing the industry now generates $4.25 billion annually.  ASTN Chair Dr. Martin Schlegel says the tough economic times are actually driving a greater appetite for the kinds of efficiencies that sportstech companies can deliver.  Today we delve deep into the undercurrents of the industry, the new areas for growth, how to survive tight capital markets, and the future of AI in sportstech. 

Cricket is one of the world's oldest sports, first played in the 1500s in England. The modern game is equal parts tradition and revolution- first seen with Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket, and now T20. BBL team the Melbourne Renegades, in conjunction with ASTN, selected Spark-Up Studios to digitally revolutionise their fan connection. Today we hear from Spark-Up founder Luke Santamaria and Renegades Fan Engagement Boss, Felicity George on how gamification and personalisation can keep this 16th century sport relevant in the Web-4 era.

Lydia Lassila is one of Australia's all-time Olympic greats, having won aerials Gold at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, and then become the first ever woman to complete a quad-twisting triple somersault at the 2014 Games in Sochi. Lydia says “playing it safe is not my style”, and she used all of that resilience to get her through the depths of despair in 2006, when she tore her ACL apart, twice, in the space of six months. That time of agony was also the genesis of her creation-BodyICE. Experiencing first-hand the desperate lack of suitable ice and heat therapy products, Lydia created her own. BodyICE is now a global business operating in health, wellness and sports. Lydia uses the latest in tech, and also a deep understanding of mental and emotional wellbeing, to help create a wholistic approach to healing and recovery. Her BodyICE Woman range has been a game changer for women around the time of pregnancy and post-pregnancy, and also those having undergone major surgery. Today, Lydia gives us the inside story on an epic sporting career, and her global sensation- BodyICE.

George Gregan is one of greatest rugby union players of all time: A Wallabies captain, 1999 World Cup winner, 5x Bledisloe Cup winner, and the Australian games record holder. George co-founded PTP Fitness to bring his fitness passion and expertise to the wider community. PTP now work with the Wallabies, Matildas, the Diamonds, Boomers and the Opals. They are also with Richmond, Carlton and Sydney in the AFL, and the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL. George is bringing the latest tech to the grassroots community, and helping to enable older Australians to keep living healthy, active lives. Today, we go inside his extraordinary sporting journey.

NTT is one of the world's largest telecommunications companies, founded and based in Japan. NTT have become a major player in sports technology, and Aussie Peter Gray is their Global Sportstech & Innovation Boss. Peter heads-up NTT's Tour De France operation, powering one of the world's most iconic sports events with revolutionary technology. Today, Pete takes us behind the scenes of the Tour, and we also celebrate the Tour de France Femme, the ground-breaking new women's cycling event.

Carsten Koerl founded Sportradar in 2001, and the NASDAQ-listed company are the official data partner of FIFA, the ICC, the NBA, MLB, NHL, NASCAR and UEFA. Carsten Koerl is the mastermind who made it happen. With a Masters in Electronic and Microprocessor Engineering, Koerl has always been two steps ahead of the competition. Before the ‘dot-com boom', he founded sports data company B-WIN, in 1997. Then on a trip through the Australian Outback around the turn of the millennium, Carsten imagined the idea of Sportradar. He's spent the past two decades making that dream a reality, and making Sportradar the best in the world. Today, we hear how he does it.

Paul Hoon is the CEO of etrainu. He's been with the Queensland company since day one, 18 years ago, when he started as the Sales Boss. Paul is an Engineer by profession, and was formerly General Manager at SumTotal, and Sales Boss at YomStar. etrainu is an online learning platform now playing on the global stage- working with golf's PGA and LPGA, Youth Soccer in the USA, as well as Basketball Australia, Surf Life Saving Australia, Gymnastics Australia and Touch Football. Paul shares his passion today about how knowledge and education are key to driving better outcomes for the individual and for the community.

Cameron McKenzie-McHarg is a 2-time Olympic rower, winning Silver in Beijing. He is a 2-time World Champion, and former Australian Captain. The prodigious athlete was also a top-10 AFL Draft Pick, who went on to become Chair of Rowing Australia, forge a successful commerce career, and then found 776BC with wife, Kate. 776BC are now a global leader in performance apparel, as the official outfitter of Team USA Rowing, the Ivy League US Colleges, the Aussie Rowing team, and working with others like Major League Baseball teams and Cricket Australia. 776BC products also allow for unique motion-capture performance analysis through their patented technology. Cam takes us inside his cutting edge tech, global conquest, and we reflect on a magnificent sporting career.

Libby Owens has been a leading figure in Australian sport, business, and media for more than a decade. Formerly managing broadcast rights at Cricket Australia and a formative stint with the Indian Cricket Board, the BCCI, Libby was also formerly at Australia's media watchdog, ACMA. Since April 2016, Libby has been CEO of the company that invented modern sports data in Australia, Champion Data. Champion are now a strong global player, operating out of the United States and Europe. Libby shares how sportstech innovation is driving sports data and reflects on lessons learned from her prolific career.

Courtney Smith has been a prolific business and tech entrepreneur for the past quarter century. He has now founded the world's first blockchain volunteering rewards platform, Firefly Initiative. This not-for-profit is on a mission to pump $25 million worth of direct social benefit into local communities, empowering local sport and local business. Most importantly, their goal is to honour the tireless work of Aussies all over the country who volunteer for their communities.