AIS to host pre Tokyo 2020 sport science and engineering symposium
With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics approaching, the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is to host a two-day symposium involving the nation’s leading sport science, engineering and high performance sport experts.
Intoducing the inaugural Sport Technology and Applied Research Symposium (STARS), AIS Deputy Director Ian Burns says Australian athletes and coaches deserve to have the best technology on their side, stating “the AIS has an amazing history in sport science and research and this symposium will be the first step in setting the bar even higher for the future.
“We want to bring the brightest minds in sport and technology together to collaborate because that is what it’s going to take to give Australian athletes and coaches world-class support.
“We want to take it to the next level, to continue evolving, so our athletes and coaches can be confident they have the best sport science and technology on their side.”
To be held on 4th and 5th September at the AIS headquarters in Canberra, the Symposium will feature sessions on innovations such as the Athlete Management System (AMS).
The AMS system is a partnership between the AIS and Fusion Sport, collating training and physiological data from more than 17,000 athletes.
The system, which recently won the ANZ Sports Technology Award for Sports Analytics and Data, is now utilised by 45 sport organisations around the country and more than 5,000 high performance sport staff.
Burns, an America’s Cup-winning engineer, adds “sport science is a competitive industry where everyone is seeking the next big breakthrough, but the AMS is an example of where Australian sport can come together to beat our international competitors with collaboration and smarts in data analytics.
“The AMS is paving the way for a data-driven approach to high-performance sport, tracking training loads and helping to keep our athletes healthy and at their peak. It’s also one of the largest athlete datasets and we are constantly on the lookout for ways to convert the data into improved performance.
“The Symposium will exchange many more ideas, ranging from the latest artificial intelligence for data gathering, through to analysing training regimes, to minimising athlete injury.”
Attendees at STARS will include data and tech experts from National Sporting Organisations, State and Territory Institutes of Sport representatives, high performance personnel, commercial technology companies and start-ups.
Image: The AIS's European training centre.
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