Padraig O’Donovan started Australia’s first ever digital TV streaming, with Network Ten’s ‘10 Play’. He completed a world first at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, creating specific digital media revenue properties within the streaming platform. Padraig’s 30-year tech career has seen him at the vanguard of innovation, and in 2018 he started his own shop, Streamcake. Streamcake is based on revenue-driven, rather than cost driven, solutions across media and information management and execution. The...
May 18, 2025•58 min
Naveen Velautham and Kenyan javelin World Champion Julius Yego started Invictus as a way to spread to gospel of sport beyond those with financial or geographic fortune. And the International Olympic Committee have just selected Invictus as one of its top 25 global sportstech start-ups. Yego taught himself how to throw a javelin by watching YouTube- the online scroll took him from novice to world’s best. Velautham and Yego are taking this concept broad spec, with online coaching and mentoring vid...
Apr 06, 2025•51 min
Everclime is a sustainability activation platform that works with clients to create clear economic and rational structure around their ESG pursuits. Sebastian Gray founded the business in 2022, based on his genuine passion for a sustainable world, and his knowledge that a strong economic case must be built for long-term action to take hold. He previously co-founded the digital media platform, DUGOUT, working in partnership with the biggest soccer clubs in the world, including Arsenal, Manchester...
Mar 10, 2025•49 min
The Global Institute of Sport (GIS) has bases in London, Miami, Dubai, Toronto and Melbourne, and is a great progenitor of our global sports workforce. Sport is now the 9th largest industry in the world, with revenues exceeding $2.65 trillion. GIS are equipping the next generation to take the industry further than ever before. They offer in-person and online undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in everything from high performance coaching, to data analytics, and sports marketing. Ray Boggiano ...
Feb 16, 2025•48 min
The greatest sports team of all time is the US Olympic Team, and Team USA has been epically dominant in the pool. In the land of NASA, the Pentagon, and an America-first mentality, one of the biggest revelations of the Paris Olympics was that Team USA would hire an Australian business to run the sports performance tech in the pool. Iggy Jovanovic’s Gerford AI powered the Americans to another supreme performance, where they topped the medal tally. Off the back of Paris, Gerford is now being head-...
Dec 15, 2024•50 min
Esports is a multi-billion-dollar industry that continues its rate of knots growth every year. Sam Ward sees esport as a pathway to equality in sport, where people with neurodivergence, special needs, physical disability, along with people from all backgrounds, can play together as one. Valor Esports is the ultimate training platform for esports- it’s like going to fun school, for both gamers, novices, teachers and coaches. Valor’s two major markets are Australia and the United States, where the...
Dec 08, 2024•55 min
Forbes magazine crowned Victoria Zorin as one of Asia’s top 30 business people under 30 in 2023. Victoria created Nola, a crowd analytics platform to amplify and ease the experiences of attendees at sporting events, music festivals, shopping centres and other large spaces. With A.I, Nola is able to capture real-time information during events to allow venues to make decisions to ease the burden of crowd control & wait times. Nola takes advantage of the monitoring systems venues already have, ...
Nov 24, 2024•51 min
Maria Baker founded Nobody’s Princess to make snow and ski gear specific for girls and women. Maria came up against the chronic issue of women being paid scant regard in sports apparel, with the “pink it, and shrink it” mentality falling well short of the mark. She wants women of all shapes and sizes to feel completely at home in her gear, and to encourage people to head to the slopes, who may never have given it a go before. Maria shares with us the difficulty of winning Government support, aft...
Nov 10, 2024•55 min
The recent inclusion of risk management into sports and recreation clubs can be challenging for organisations to manage. Founder of Safeguarding You, Adam Wood, created a platform where what once was daunting, is now made much easier. The program provides users with a simple assessment to understand their risks, then actionable advice is delivered to lower the risk percentage. Wood has been heavily involved with his own children’s sporting clubs, and understands the difficulty in navigating the ...
Oct 26, 2024•51 min
Ryan Talbot has spent the past two decades as one of Australia’s leading figures in IT security, working with our biggest bank- the Commonwealth, and our biggest state- New South Wales. Ryan is the one who first introduced biometric security for the Commonwealth Bank, and was a gun-for-hire with international casinos to protect their security systems. He’s also an athletics coach, and that experience led him to start VueMotion- friction free computer vision performance analysis. VueMotion are no...
Oct 13, 2024•44 min
Emma Thomson worked for two decades as a medical scientist, and in that time, also became a ‘Cricket Mum’. That latter title led Emma to become a sportstech entrepreneur. After endless afternoons bowling balls at her young son for batting practice, Emma realised there was a gap in the market. Bowling machines are commonplace for adult cricketers, and so Emma tailor-made a bowling machine to suit kids as young as Grade 3. Pitch It Up was born, and her e-commerce business is now also flourishing w...
Sep 29, 2024•58 min
Andrew Lemon has spent the past 15 years working on the front line of healthcare as an osteopath, he is also a business and tech entrepreneur. Eight years ago he co-founded Strength by Numbers, to finally fill a gap in the market he had been combatting for years, namely, the lack of specific strength measurements in healthcare. Heart rate, blood pressure, weight, BMI are all measured as a matter of course. Andrew Lemon says for too long, strength has been the missing component. Strength by Numbe...
Sep 15, 2024•45 min
Lining up for food, drinks and merchandise at events can cause the spectator to miss out on the action, spending time standing in a queue rather than enjoying the experience. Tech entrepreneur David Jakic and e-business specialist Norbert Herrmann have created Liively- technology that allows the user to scan a QR code and order straight from their phone, and have their order brought directly to them. The company has already captured the attention of big name clients, notably the NBA and Etihad A...
Sep 01, 2024•1 hr 1 min
WSC Sport is the world-leading AI-generated short form sports video creator. They create the video content distributed by the NBA, LaLiga, NASCAR, and the AFL, NRL & Cricket Australia. Guy Port is WSC’s Asia Pacific Boss, and he describes the company's development of sports technology, and how it will continue to innovate new ways for the viewer to enjoy a personalised entertainment experience. The company has trained their tech to more than 50 different sports, implementing the data and inf...
Aug 18, 2024•49 min
Craig O’Shannessy is the architect of the Italian Renaissance of tennis- with Jannik Sinner’s AO 2024 win the first of many. Before leading Team Italy climb back up the mountain, O’Shannessy was head-hunted by the most successful player of all time, Novak Djokovic in 2017. O’Shannesy worked with Novak when during the most contested time in tennis history, with Federer, Nadal and Djokovic competing for the crown. Craig O’Shannessy is an Aussie who dared to think differently, question the status q...
Aug 04, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Amy Crosland is the Operations Boss of ASTN, and she has just released a ‘Women in Sports Innovation’ report, showing less than 10% of Aussie sport start-ups are female-founded. The study also shows female-founded start-ups give a 63% greater return on capital investment than male start-ups. 20-year-old sports journalist Ava Stone also joined the discussion, and said true equality will be reached when we no longer need to discuss gender at all. Amy and Ava gave insight into how we can increase f...
Jul 21, 2024•52 min•Season 6Ep. 83
The simplification of betting mechanisms could be the future of sports gambling. Founder of Statstrade, Chris Zheng has adapted an existing software to take up residency in the betting and sport statistics world. Predicting the wager for sporting matches is becoming mainstream, with anyone able to view the odds right from their phone. Zheng took the technology, and created tools companies can use to grow their business, furthering benefits for the user. The future of Statstrade could potentially...
Jun 30, 2024•40 min
Over time, the presence and persona of community-level sporting clubs continues to adapt. Steve Pallas, founder of Sports Community, is aiming to help nurture inclusivity and support clubs around Australia. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, clubs have struggled to stay afloat- so understanding continued and strategic growth is more important now than ever before. Pallas’ platform, now part of the Belgravia business family, supports clubs in reaching these goals. There has been a noticeable differ...
Jun 16, 2024•45 min
Swimming in Australia is adapting to change with the times, benefitting from all that technology has to offer. The traditional, most common timing process can lead to varied outcomes, and a lack of consistency across competitions within Australia and beyond. Multiple staff or volunteers are required to manually record the results of a swimming race, with human error, an ever-present risk. Ben Ramsden, and his company Olly Timing, have founded AI timing to solve this problem. Ben is also the firs...
Jun 02, 2024•50 min
The proliferation of digital and social media has furnished the rapid rise of misinformation across all corners of life. Health, exercise and body image being no exception. Elena Von Rosenberg and Andrew Schox are fighting back against the wave of superficiality with a healthy dose of science. Elena is a musculoskeletal physiotherapist, who has worked in public and private health in Europe and Australia, with community, pro and Olympic athletes. Andrew Schox is one of Western Australia’s leading...
May 19, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Iggy Jovanovic is the founder of Gerford AI- a real-time in play AI data acquisition and distribution platform that gives athletes that elusive 1% edge. In May 2023, Iggy inked the deal of a lifetime, becoming the AI partner of the United States’ Olympic Swim Team. Iggy’s Gerford AI has already helped deliver Winter Olympic Gold, Commonwealth Games Gold, and he’s working with David Beckham’s Esports company, Guild. Today, Iggy takes us inside the tech, inside the road to Paris with Team USA, and...
May 05, 2024•51 min
Dene Menzel is a singer-songwriter who’s gone to Number 1 on the iTunes charts. She’s also an author who has topped Amazon best seller lists in the USA. And Dene is the founder of Branthem. Branthem work hand-in-hand with clients to create the right sound to engage their target audience through the power of music. Dene joins us to today to speak about her passion for sportstech, and how music branding can help Aussie start ups to cut through the clutter.
Apr 21, 2024•54 min
Scott Goldman is Performance Psychologist at the Golden State Warriors. Prior to that he was at the Detroit Lions, after being the head of Performance Psychology at the Miami Dolphins. Through his own shop, Athletic Intelligence Quotient (AIQ), Scott and his team consult with a wide array of pro teams in the USA (NBA, MLB, NFL), Europe and now Australia. Scott is renowned for his humility and sincerity, in an approach where he builds organically with an individual, rather than dictates from on h...
Apr 07, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Graham Dudley comes into sportstech companies like a specialist coach, to help them make sense of data, and turn artificial intelligence into actual intelligence. He founded Global Performance Testing in 2011, and works with companies in North America, Europe, Australasia and now India. Graham and his team assess products, provide evaluation and validation, tech support, training, analytics and cyber security. In today’s show, Graham says overselling and underdelivering is a major modern problem...
Mar 24, 2024•33 min
Aussie media executive Craig Green was the International Marketing Director & Advertising Boss during his 20-year career with Sony Entertainment. He then did the same thing at EA Games & EA Sport. Craig now has his own shop, SprtsHQ, creating an all-encompassing digital collectible business model, amplifying leagues, engaging fans, and integrating commercial partners. SprtsHQ won the world-wide race to become official licensee to the FIFA World Cup, and are now surging into both grass ro...
Mar 17, 2024•47 min
Aaron Eisman is renowned in America as a social media savant. He’s run socials for the NFL Network, Bleacher Report and Turner Sports. Aaron now has his own shop, Eisman Digital, and he works hand-in-hand with brands throughout North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific to “cut through the clutter” and “stop the scroll”. Today, Aaron opens up with key lessons on his 15 years in the sports entertainment industry, and his time at the coalface of the globe’s social media revolution....
Mar 03, 2024•42 min
Clubfunders’ co-founder Blake Lawrence grew up as one of five boys with a single Mum. He saw first-hand how money can be a major hurdle to jump for kids to play sport. Fellow co-founder Stuart Jacobs grew up in South Africa, and was a gun young golf talent. But golf is a sport that requires significant financial investment to make it all the way to the top. Stuart eventually reached a financial tipping point. These two have come together to create Clubfunders- an open source banking platform tha...
Feb 25, 2024•37 min
The sport of fencing is a throw-back to medieval sword fighting, with its modern incarnation drawing from the Italian Renaissance. Fencing was an original Olympic sport in 1896, and has captivated people with its grace, daring and precision ever since. Callum Laurenson, an electrical engineer and avid fencer, began a journey in 2012 to solve a perennial problem for the sport- electrical wires. Laurenson, and co-founders Tony Grubman and Rachel Muir-Smith, have built multiple iterations of world-...
Feb 18, 2024•38 min
PrezentBox is a platform to enable and facilitate activity-based gifting for kids. Parents can create a profile that allows family members and friends to contribute money towards their kids’ participation in a sport or activity, rather than just buying another toy to sit on the shelf. Sport and activity providers can also use the platform to help connect with parents and communities. PrezentBox was founded by Dan Frkic, a business manager who built a stellar career with two of Hollywood’s bigges...
Dec 17, 2023•50 min
GeoSnapShot is a tech platform creating a centralised place to upload and download photos- with cutting edge AI recognition technology allowing for an instantaneous user experience. GeoSnapShot also broadens the opportunity to commercialise image content, provide brand integrations, and deeper fan engagement and connection. Tech maverick Andy Edwards founded this company, which has just been invested into by the most important media company in world sport, Comcast NBC Universal. Geo’s client lis...
Dec 10, 2023•54 min
