AthTech Conference [5-6 October] [via OpenTrack Community Group]

The OpenTrack Community Group is pleased to announce AthTech (Athletics
Technology), a conference aiming at standardising Athletics competition
technical management, with a strong focus on data. This two-day conference will
be held at the IAAF High-Performance Training Centre in Algarve (Portugal) on
5-6 October 2017.

European Athletics is putting efforts on the homogenization of competition data
structures, building a common infrastructure that guarantees data
interoperability between all stakeholders: regional/national federations, sports
clubs, associations, event organisers, media agencies, and the public in
general. This conference will serve as the discussion forum to define
requirements, look for use cases, and present existing solutions to solve this
challenge in sports management.
Standards for Athletics
A standard infrastructure for Athletics data management would enable a common
mechanism to gain effectiveness and efficiency in the process of collecting and
sharing data on a global scale. Thus we would be able to: federate resources in
an automatic way; establish universal identifiers for athletes, clubs, and other
entities; access better reports; track competition issues, and records; have
centralised up-to-date rankings; create and publish live results; create new
services and products on top of the data.

We will discuss the European and global requirements of Athletics management
systems to implement a standard to collect, process, publish and share Athletics
information (athletes, teams, governing bodies, participation in competitions,
results, issues and results, etc.). This event will serve as a forum to search
for a common solution built on top of the existing local platforms to share
Athletics information in a common way.
Register now
Anyone is welcome to AthTech. Athletics federations, clubs and event organisers,
as well as open data experts, are invited to present their experiences on
competition management (how information is collected during a competition, how
entries are registered, how/where results are published, etc.).

Read more about AthTech, and register now on the website of the event.

 
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