DLD Sports 2026
2026-09-05
Valencia, Spain
as the organisers put it
The future of sports and gaming met at DLD Sports in Valencia. The conference brought together founders, investors, scientists, creatives…
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Sponsorship: What Happened, and What It’ s Worth | Juan Luis Hortelano, Christian Teichmann | 12m |
Company Blinkfire explains that 14 years of measuring sponsorships turned social posts from freebies into quantifiable assets, using computer vision and AI to… | ||
| Highlight Video | 01m | |
A fast-paced highlight reel of DLD Sports Valencia, Sept 5, that stitches short talk excerpts, crowd shots and on-deck sailing imagery into an energetic… | ||
| Big Balance Finale | Kenny Belaey | 13m |
A decade-long project documents riding a slackline across a cliff: a 5‑ton webbing stretched to 120 m cliff height, 11 years in development, eight months of… | ||
| What’s the Future of Technology in Refereeing? | Moran Cerf | 21m |
Refereeing is mostly reliable—referees are 90% accurate on replayable calls—but close calls disproportionately cause controversy, so replacing humans sparks… | ||
| Beyond Talent: Building Africa’s Sports Economy Through Technology | Stephen Domingo, Amy Wanday, Oliver Cantrill | 16m |
Okapi claims it captures and sells African sports media and data to grow leagues and player pathways, citing 1.4 million live views of the Rwandan basketball… | ||
| Community Is the Last Moat | Roald van Buuren-Natale | 09m |
Claims that community is the last defensible moat, backed by concrete figures: a platform built around community reaches 30 million users and achieves a $1.5… | ||
| A Rising Sports League | Krieglstein, Christian Teichmann | 11m |
SailGP claims a startup‑at‑scale rise: six seasons in, a cost cap and only four training days per team create a high‑skill bottleneck while celebrity backers… | ||
| Sports Sisters Act | Merel van Dongen, Sanne van Dongen, Tessel van Dongen | 19m |
Three concrete takeaways: early multisport play but late specialization increases longevity and lowers injury risk—examples include transferable skills from… | ||
| The Power of Sports: People, Places, Power | Eike Bürgel, Florian Kurz, Nils Giese | 20m |
Sports claim to be uniquely universal and community-building while the industry actually shifts: media power decentralizes, athletes become the power, and… | ||
| Breaking Boundaries with eFoiling | Justin Chait, Markos Kern, Jasmin Gaertner | 20m |
A 200 km Danube efoil relay is described with five teams, four finishing and the winner in about six hours, highlighting 200 km Danube race, five teams, four… | ||
| Sold Out or Selling Out? The Future of Football in a Commercialised World | Martin Kallen, Lorenz Beringer | 15m |
UEFA runs 15 competitions and reports €2.4 billion generated at the last European Championship, while revenue growth concentrates wealth in ~20 top clubs and… | ||
| Circular Economy Challenging the Sports Business | Marcus Bocklisch | 26m |
Prezero and the Schwarz Group deploy a certifiable Road to Zero Waste framework across 10 countries, 4,600 locations and 170 recycling facilities, handling 15… | ||
| When In-Person Becomes Premium | Esther Sedlaczek | 20m |
Describes how second-screen arenas recreate a stadium feeling for fans priced out by sky-high tickets and already run successfully in the US; names competition… | ||
| How AI Is Changing the Club Business | Thomas Ehemann, Paulius Motiejunas, Dominik Schreyer, Otto Beisheim, Eva Lihotzky | 20m |
Clubs report concrete deployments: a club-level AI center with 300 daily users powering personalized emails and 200 content pieces per match day, real‑time… | ||
| Reaching the Next-Gen Through Sports Formats | Yoran Henzler | 10m |
Launches a five-a-side Icon League that hits 18 million revenue in year one and draws 2.1 million unique viewers per match day, and a Legacy Series basketball… | ||
| A New Generation of Recycled Sportswear: Low-Impact. High-Performance | Irene Díez Ruiz, Bianka Morgen | 19m |
Brand converts fishermen-collected marine litter into recycled polyester yarn and uses it in a sports line launched in 2023, balancing performance by… | ||
| Sports as an Asset Class | Lea-Sophie Cramer, Christian Teichmann, Luis Vicente, Alexander Thiel | 31m |
Argues sports are investable assets now: paddle shows 185% year‑on‑year growth (14.5% US growth), running clubs up 60%, reform Pilates brand YTDP tops… | ||
| Exercise for Longevity: From Fasting Physiology to Next-Gen Performance Nutrition | Borja Martínez Téllez, Victor Wilhelmi | 22m |
Clinic research shows 10 days fasting preserves muscle power despite reduced volume, and a 5‑day fasting kit shifts substrate use so cyclists burn fat at… | ||
| Welcome | Garcia, Czerny, Hortelano, Rivera, Sinzger, Christian Teichmann | 29m |
DLD launches a sports strand in Valencia and frames sport as a tech, health and city-building engine; Valencia claims ~1,700 startups, a 50,000-person… | ||
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