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!
AlertTrace - IIFX COVID TECH PLAYBOOK
COVID TECH PLAYBOOK
Xperience, an IIFX technology network of enterprises and startups is producing a COVID-19 Return to Work, Play and Spectate Tech Talk Series. This is the second episode 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 Kyle Hopkins, Vice President of Business Development for VOS Systems LLC.
As we move into 2021, sports and entertainment organizations will prepare to reset/restart/reopen to fans. The process of opening a venue and delivering a live sports/entertainment experience has never been more difficult. Not only must venue operators meet medical and government requirements to ensure safety, while maintaining a security posture, they must also convince skeptical fans that after watching sports and entertainment events from their homes during the pandemic, the in-venue experience is worth it.
COVID Tech Playbook is a forum for technology companies who are delivering real solutions to helps sports and entertainment organizations in the COVID-19 Return to Work, Play, and Spectate. Technology provides some of the most important tools in the toolkit to help the sports and entertainment industry manage risk, signal they are ready to their staff and fans, reopen their doors, and deliver memory making experiences. AlertTrace provides automated contact tracing services using wearable devices to help mitigate the spread of infectious disease by helping determine when someone has had close contact with an infected person and ensuring compliance with social distancing requirements.
ALERTTRACE
Is your organization having trouble following CDC guidelines? Manual contact tracing is not accurate, contacts can be easily missed or forgotten, and social distancing can be hard to enforce in the workplace.
AlertTrace is a sophisticated and affordable contact tracing solution that offers a unified approach in ensuring all your bases are covered. With zero tracking or GPS capabilities, user-friendly software, and encrypted and secured anonymous data for maximum privacy protection, AlertTrace technology assists you in keeping your employees safe and your organization in operation.
How It Works (From the AlertTrace website)
Assign
Unique ID’s are used to match employees to an AlertTrace wearable. Wearables are then deployed to the workforce – much like ID badges.
Capture
AlertTrace wearables, using real-time measurements, capture “contacts” when within a specific distance of another wearable. AlertTrace captures the contact with full data security and protection of personal privacy.
Trace
Critical contact data is viewable on our analytics dashboard. This platform can be used to quickly trace the contact history of positive cases of infection to alert those most at risk.
HOST: Kyle Hopkins, Vice President of Business Development , VOS Systems LLC
Music by: Volodymyr Piddubnyk (
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.