Sport Innovation Summit Chooses Paris for its First Edition in Europe

Jean-François Martins close the Sport Innovation Summit in Paris on 7 June, an event that will bring together over two days of international and national experts in the sports industry around themes related to innovation in the world of sports.

Sport Innovation Society launched in Paris on 6 and 7 June the Sport Innovation Summit, both two days of sharing between international and national experts from the sports industry on a variety of topics around innovation in the world of sports . This first edition in Europe will take place in the Auditorium Paris Center Marceau.

Sport Innovation Summit (# SISParis2017), supported by the City of Paris and Paris 2024, aims to create links and synergies between international and national experts in a collaborative spirit. This event intends to strengthen the role of innovation as the sports industry growth accelerator. Indeed, the interests and the sports consumption patterns are changing at high speed and it is important to understand trends and innovations that impact the industry at global and national level.

About 300 sports industry decision-makers, from different backgrounds, will be present to share with more than 25 speakers and international experts at the 20 minute conference of opportunity for rights holders, advertisers, media, agencies, funds investment, startups, athletes and other personalities. On this occasion, Etienne Thobois, CEO Paris 2024 Bid Committee will detail the project for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The City of Paris is recognized as one of the most attractive cities in the world in the field of sport. With recurring international sporting events such as the Formula E, the Tour de France or the Roland Garros tennis international, but also the organization of Euro 2016, the Handball World Championships 2017 Ryder Cup 2018. This reflects international influence from Paris with a very active sports movement, headlights clubs at European and national level in most disciplines and dynamism of Parisian themselves symbolized by the rise of race walking, fitness sports and health activities.

For Jean-François Martins, "Paris is ranked world leader in innovation and intellectual capital" by the firm PricewaterhouseCoopers study (PwC) and host city for many international sports competitions. This was reinforced by being the first city in the world to have created an incubator dedicated to sport innovation: Springboard. Since its creation in 2014, it proved its purpose: the first two specials - 40 startups in total - have developed solutions, new products and consolidated its business model through a strong support program. Since their entry into Springboard, the incubated startups and raised over 25 million euros background. Startups, Innovation and major sporting events are at the heart of the project of the city and look forward to welcome Paris events as the SIS. "

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Press Service of the City of Paris

Email: presse@paris.fr

Tel: 01.42.76.49.61

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