Calling the Game: Tech, Governance and the Future of Sport

Activity: Service and engagementPublic outreach/ public event

Description

Hardware, software, data capture and data analytics in sport have accelerated on a rapid and unchecked timeline.

From monitoring cricket bowlers with wearable accelerometers and footballers with GPS-enabled chest-harnesses, to automated line-calling in tennis, data is now considered the holy grail in player monitoring, team and player performance and sports officiating. But in the field where fair play is a defining and foundational commitment, are athlete rights and protections and rules of fair competition keeping up?
Period7 Nov 2020
Event titleDisrupted Festival: State Library of Western Australia
Event typeFestival
LocationPerth, Australia, Western AustraliaShow on map