FANCENTRIC - The Fan Journey is the Experience!
About Us
The Innovation Institute for Fan Experience (IIFX) was founded in 2020. IIFX’s vision is to be the leading and most trusted global authority on providing exceptional, memory-making fan experiences for the sports and entertainment industry. The Institute focuses on the fan journey and creating the ideal fan experience for its member organizations, one that results in increased revenue, sustainable growth, operational efficiency, a diversified workforce, new and repeat attendance, and maximized health, safety, and security through best practices, innovative technology solutions, and high-quality services. IIFX produces content and events and facilitates dialogue and collaboration around its core areas of expertise.
Our FANCENTRIC Podcast Series explores topics about the sports and entertainment industry that should interest all fans throughout their journey. Our guests include visionary industry thought leaders, advanced practitioners, authors, technologists, and fans from around the world. We are bound together by passion and the incomparable skills of visionary thought leaders throughout the international community. Along with our technical and subject matter experts, we discuss new ways to change the world’s sports and entertainment fan experience for the better.
FANCENTRIC - The Fan Journey is the Experience!
NTT Ltd. - IIFX COVID TECH PLAYBOOK
NTT Ltd. - IIFX COVID TECH PLAYBOOK
Leveraging NTT Smart Solutions to Revolutionize the Stadium Experience
This is the first segment of the Innovation Institute for Fan Experience's (IIFX) COVID-TECH Playbook series. Dr. Lou Marciani, the IIFX Director and the host of Dr. Lou's Views, welcomes Bill Baver, the Vice President of NTT SMART WORLD as he hosts his team of NTT experts who explain how to leverage NTT Smart Solutions to Revolutionize the Stadium Experience as we return to work, play, and spectate.
You will hear from NTT experts about some of the key challenges sports organizations are facing right now and how technology and data can help them solve these to become more resilient.
Our NTT experts will share real world examples of how sports events and organizations across cycling, baseball, car racing and golf have leveraged Smart Solutions to improve fan safety and enhance the overall fan experience by enabling them to better follow and engage with their favorite sports and athletes.
You will leave this session with some concrete ideas on how to accelerate your own Smart Sports journey, where to start and how to grow a small pilot into a project that will revolutionize your all business.
About NTT
NTT is a leading global technology and services provider for your digital journey: from planning and strategic design, to implementation, deployment and ongoing support.
NTT Smart Solutions can help transform your data into actionable intelligence. Powered by a big data engine, our solutions can calibrate and curate data in record time with highly accurate results to reveal trends that are hidden in your data.
To accelerate Smart Sports, we have developed Stadium solutions with enhanced occupancy control and we’re proud to be part of the global holding company under NTT, called NTT Incorporated (Inc.) Jun Sawada, current President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for NTT, is also the CEO of NTT Inc. For more information, please visit www.global.ntt.
Host and Panelists
HOST: Bill Baver, Vice President of NTT SMART World
PANELISTS
· Bennett Indart, Vice President of NTT SMART World
· Peter Gray, Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology for Sport, NTT
· Akhil Uniyal, Vice President of Growth & Strategy for Smart Sport, NTT
· Kirk Compton, Vice President Cloud & Enterprise Application Management Services Sales, NTT
Music by: Volodymyr Piddubnyk (Epic Awards Ceremony Opening Fanfare). Available on Storyblocks
About the Innovation Institute for Fan Experience
Founded in August 2020, the Innovation Institute for Fan Experience (www.iifx.org) is building the leading and most trusted authority on the ‘Fan Journey’ for the sports and entertainment industry. IIFX provides training, industry content creation, Fan Journey best practices, consultancy, and business and education services to domestic and international sports & entertainment organizations.