Unofficial Partner Podcast

UP373 AI in Sport: Regulate or let it loose?

February 16, 2024
UP373 AI in Sport: Regulate or let it loose?
Unofficial Partner Podcast
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Unofficial Partner Podcast
UP373 AI in Sport: Regulate or let it loose?
Feb 16, 2024

A conversation on the potential and limits of AI technology in a sports context, both performance and commercial. What's possible, what's probable, what will get in the way of progress. Will AI be an engine for inequality between the haves and have nots of sport, and what can we do now, today, to embrace the coming wave.
Our guests are two leading experts in sport and technology.
Gonzalo Zarza is Chief Data Officer of Sportian and holds a PhD in this space.
Leanne Bats, head of web3 at New Zealand rugby and president of The Rugby DAO, the decentralized group aiming to bring fan powered revolution and innovation to rugby.

Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry.
To join our community of listeners,
sign up to the weekly UP Newsletter and follow us on Twitter and TikTok at @UnofficialPartner

We publish two podcasts each week, on Tuesday and Friday.

These are deep conversations with smart people from inside and outside sport.

Our entire back catalogue of 300 sports business conversations are available free of charge here.

Each pod is available by searching for ‘Unofficial Partner’ on Apple, Spotify, Google, Stitcher and every podcast app.

If you’re interested in collaborating with Unofficial Partner to create one-off podcasts or series, you can reach us via the website.



Show Notes

A conversation on the potential and limits of AI technology in a sports context, both performance and commercial. What's possible, what's probable, what will get in the way of progress. Will AI be an engine for inequality between the haves and have nots of sport, and what can we do now, today, to embrace the coming wave.
Our guests are two leading experts in sport and technology.
Gonzalo Zarza is Chief Data Officer of Sportian and holds a PhD in this space.
Leanne Bats, head of web3 at New Zealand rugby and president of The Rugby DAO, the decentralized group aiming to bring fan powered revolution and innovation to rugby.

Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry.
To join our community of listeners,
sign up to the weekly UP Newsletter and follow us on Twitter and TikTok at @UnofficialPartner

We publish two podcasts each week, on Tuesday and Friday.

These are deep conversations with smart people from inside and outside sport.

Our entire back catalogue of 300 sports business conversations are available free of charge here.

Each pod is available by searching for ‘Unofficial Partner’ on Apple, Spotify, Google, Stitcher and every podcast app.

If you’re interested in collaborating with Unofficial Partner to create one-off podcasts or series, you can reach us via the website.