SPORTS INNOVATION AWARD
Cityzens Giving x PUMA x Xylem – Manchester City Away Shirt 2021/22 – Manchester City
Manchester City are the current Premier League Champions and one of eleven clubs comprising City Football Group. With millions of fans across the world, the club prides itself on playing beautiful football, innovating and being at the forefront of new trends and technology, and giving back to the communities it serves globally.
Cityzens Giving is Manchester City’s global foundation programme, empowering young leaders to use football as a tool to uplift the health of young people in cities around the world, together with our fans, colleagues, and partners.
The 2021-22 Manchester City Away Shirt, the world’s first football jersey dedicated to safe water, was developed through a unique collaboration with two Club partners: PUMA, one of the world’s leading sports brands, and Xylem, a leading water technology company committed to “solving water” by creating innovative and smart technology solutions to meet the world’s water, wastewater and energy needs. The programme delivered alongside the kit provided real and measured life change for young people, improving health, well-being and awareness of the importance of clean water and water conservation, in addition to being one of the most succesful away kits for the club.
EE 5G Wembley Superstore – EE
EE has been awarded best mobile network for eight years in a row in the UK, coming out as the fastest, most reliable and with the best data performance, plus leading the UK rollout of 5G, now in 160 towns and cities across the country.
EE has been a longstanding partner of Wembley Stadium since joining forces back in 2014 and has used the home of the national team to showcase advanced network technologies to support fans and better connect them to the game they love.
Continuing to lead the way in innovation, this year, EE launched the world’s first Augmented Reality Superstore powered by 5G. Positioned outside Wembley Stadium across two international match days, the immersive store was a shoppable cube, where football fans were able to browse and purchase official England matchday merchandise through the magic of augmented reality.
The innovative tech-first experience demonstrated EE’s network superiority, by showcasing the strength of 5G and increased understanding around the benefits it brings to both everyday life and those big Wembley moments.
Formula E – Formula E
Developed by engineers and sustainability experts at the FIA and Formula E, the Gen3 racing car is the pinnacle of high performance, efficiency and sustainability innovation.
Designed to show the world that high performance and sustainability can powerfully co-exist without compromise, the Gen3 pioneers cutting-edge technologies that will make the transfer from race to road, making the future of electric mobility a much closer reality.
INTHEGAME – INTHEGAME
INTHEGAME is a global leader of viewer interaction technology and a patented in-stream gamification and monetization platform. All connected TV’s and mobile devices supported with interactions enabled directly on the TV, with a simple click on the remote (no app or second screen download necessary).
Showreel- https://drive.google.com/file/d/19chszWVZ4ND7fc1fbQO8vURY7lxIk3i1/view?ts=62ce80b4
Quidich Innovation Labs
Quidich Tracker (QT) is a first-of-its-kind, custom-built technology for cricket, providing real-time optical tracking of players on a cricket field. The system works in tandem with an object tracker via a monocular camera placed at the highest accessible point of the stadium. The end-to-end workflow is integrated into an interface that allows our operator to offer on-demand fielding graphics and analytics, live from the OB Compound.
Traditionally in cricket, stories are built around batting and bowling stats, with limited data and
analytics focussed on fielding strategies. QT offers a solution to add fielding as a dimension to the sports’ storytelling potential by showcasing and analysing field plots, full framers, and data analytics to highlight team strategies. QT is a custom-built, self-learning system and is the only one of its kind that integrates optical tracking with a single camera, to analyse player movement on a cricket field. The system is fully compatible with the Vizrt engine and has been built in-house from the ground up.
Quidich is building QT as an all-encompassing three-part solution. Key features include:
1. On-demand Real-Time Field Plot
2. Player Highlights Module
3. Data Integration Module
4. 3D Stadium Environment
Zena Sport
Zena Sport is an Australian based business founded and directed by husband and wife duo, Donna and Brad Johnson.
They have been involved with the AFL for 25+ years and Brad was Captain of the Western Bulldogs.
They know the dedication, sacrifice and discipline required to play and perform at the highest level.
Emerging growth in female participation in contact sports got the duo thinking about the need for female protective garments, and after
extensive market research validated the need. The duo have developed a world leading performance garment that not only protects but assists females with injury prevention and recovery.
Designed specifically for females to protect against rib and breast injury
Multi axis design enables flexibility, allowing naturalcontouring
Extremely lightweight providing optimal comfort and minimalinterference
Specifically formulated and patented polyurethane foamtechnology
Treated with Microban Antimicrobial
Used in over 25 Sports.
