Speakers

Kirsty Coventry
IOC President, Double Olympic Champion - Swimming
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Prof. Dr. Uğur Erdener
President
SportAccord
Émilie Moeschler
Conseillère Municipale
Ville de Lausanne
Cody Almond
Co-Founder & Director of Player Development
ATHOS Agency
Leyla Amirsultanova
Lead Media Relations and CSR Specialist
Baku City Circuit
Fabio Azevedo
President
International Volleyball Federation (FIVB)
Pernille Blume
Olympic Champion & Advocate for Female Empowerment
Niccolo Campriani
Vice President, Sport
LA28
Professor Simon Chadwick
Professor of AfroEurasian Sport
Emlyon Business School
Ingmar De Vos
ASOIF President, FEI President, IOC Member
Pierre Ducrey
Sports Director
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
David Eades
Master of Ceremonies and Moderator
Shana Ferguson
Chief of Sport and Games Delivery
LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee
Andrea Francisi
Chief Games Operations Officer
Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026
Andrew Fulton
CEO
Dawson Andrews
Zeynep Gencaga Dechelotte
Esports Associate Director
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Niels Geven
Director of Sports & Arenas
Signify
Thomas Guesde
Senior Vice-President Global Sports and Events
Marsh
Ana Jelušić Black
Moderator
Former ski race, Communications Specialist
Tim Kasper
Manager, Event Attraction
Explore Edmonton
Kit McConnell
Chief Sport Officer
Brisbane 2032
Cindy Medynski
Director, Sport and Culture Events
Explore Edmonton
Kaveh Mehrabi
Director, Athletes’ Department
International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Dr. Payoshni Mitra
Executive Director
Humans of Sport
Midori Miyazaki
International Executive Director
ISPS Handa (International Sports Promotion Society)
Jonny Murch
CEO
RedTorch
Shaun Murphy
CTO
Dawson Andrews
Lombe Mwambwa
CEO
Global Observatory for Gender Equality & Sport (GO)
Dr Madeleine Pape
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Social Sciences
University of Lausanne
Michael Payne
Chairman CEO
Payne Sports Media Strategies
Richard Pettit
Secretary General
International Canoe Federation
Yannis P. Pitsiladis
Professor
Hong Kong Baptist University
Robert “Nob” Rauch
President
World Flying Disc Federation
Anna Riccardi
Sport Director
Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026
Colin Smith
Director General
International Skating Union (ISU)
Jack Smith
Sport Group Senior Manager
LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organising Committee
Prof. Dr. Juergen Steinacker
Head of the Division of Sports and Rehabilitation Medicine center of internal medicine
University of Ulm
Richard Tolley
Deputy Leader of Marsh’s Global Sports and Events Industry Practice
Marsh
Boris van der Vorst
President
World Boxing
François Vergnol
Executive Director, Commercial, Marketing & Communications
FEI
Beau Welling
President
World Curling
Filip Šuman
President
International Floorball Federation