Conference 2021

A Stellar Line-up of Industry Speakers

From a range of football clubs, and other sports giving coveted insight into their internal processes and research projects

Full line-up to be announced in due course

Dr Ian

Graham

Director of Research, Liverpool FC

Since 2012, Ian has worked for Liverpool FC as Director of Research. He was previously head of football research at Decision Technology. Before working in football, Ian completed a PhD in Physics at the University of Cambridge

@IanG

Ted

Knutson

CEO, StatsBomb

Ted is an entrepreneur with decades of leadership experience in analytics across sports and industries including Pinnacle Sports, Brentford and Midtjylland. Ted drives strategy and leads the global team

@mixedknuts

Nicole

Kozlova

Data Science, StatsBomb

Nicole is a Ukrainian International footballer and a Division 1 collegiate athlete with a scholarship to attend Virginia Tech University, where Nicole is also majoring in Computational Modelling Data Analytics

@nicolekozlova17

Victor

Orta

Director of Football, Leeds United

As Director of Football since 2017, Victor has been present for a successful period at Leeds United, including their promotion to the Premier League. Before joining Leeds, he occupied senior roles within an impressive portfolio of clubs, including Elche CF, Middlesbrough FC, and Sevilla, to name a few

James

Cryne

Director and Co-Owner, Barnsley FC

Since 2018, James has worked within Barnsley FC, providing the analytics for their data-driven philosophy alongside his work as Director. Before Barnsley, he studied Mathematics at Imperial College followed by a Masters in Computer Science at Birmingham University

Daryl

Morey

President of Basketball Operations, Philadelphia 76ers

Daryl recently completed his first season as President of Basketball Operations at the Philadelphia 76ers. He joined the 76ers after 14 years with the Houston Rockets, 13 of which were spent as General Manager. Daryl's new team secured a No.1 seed in the NBA Playoffs in his first season, after a 49-23 regular season which included a formidable 29-7 mark at home

@dmorey

Mladen

Sormaz

Head Of Football Analytics, Leicester City

Mladen has been Head of Football Analytics at Leicester City since April 2019. He was previously a Data Scientist at Twenty3 Sports and a First Team Data Analyst at Huddersfield Town. Before working full time in football analytics, Mladen completed a PhD and Post Doctoral Research in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of York's Neuroimaging Centre

@Mladen_Sormaz

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Head Of Sports Science & Data Analytics, Champions League Club

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Deputy General Manager, Champions League Club

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2021 Conference Agenda

With two full tracks, keynote speakers will share coveted insight from the world’s top sports clubs, and our research paper competition will showcase new innovative data driven research

An Industry Leading Research Competition

Applications are now OPEN to submit research papers and present at the event. Participants will be given access to: 170 or 190 games of StatsBomb Data AND StatsBomb 360 Data from either the 2020-21 German Bundesliga or Spain’s La Liga respectively

Deadline for submissions: 31st July 2021

Details for submissions >>

2019 Papers >>

Lukasz Szczepanski How to shoot and how to save: Football analytics for dads

Estefania Vidal Understanding entry zones in football

Tom Decroos "Is our model learning what we think it is learning?" Estimating the expected goal impact of actions in football using interpretable models

David Perdomo, et al How to break down a set defence

Robert Hickman Considering defensive risk in expected threat models

Ryan Beal, et al Valuing player influence within teams

Available upon request

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Plus

Unparalleled Networking Opportunities

600 attendees from across the football and analytical spectrum

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