The greatest sports team of all time is the US Olympic Team, and Team USA has been epically dominant in the pool.

In the land of NASA, the Pentagon, and an America-first mentality, one of the biggest revelations of the Paris Olympics was that Team USA would hire an Australian business to run the sports performance tech in the pool.

Iggy Jovanovic’s Gerford AI powered the Americans to another supreme performance, where they topped the medal tally.

Off the back of Paris, Gerford is now being head-hunted by big finance and big medicine to incorporate their tech into those critical fields.

Gerford also worked hand-in-hand with David Beckham’s esports company Guild in 2024, and helped them rocket up the global rankings.

Today we celebrate Aussie sportstech’s global prowess, and the might of Iggy and his team!

Esports is a multi-billion-dollar industry that continues its rate of knots growth every year.

Sam Ward sees esport as a pathway to equality in sport, where people with neurodivergence, special needs, physical disability, along with people from all backgrounds, can play together as one.

Valor Esports is the ultimate training platform for esports- it’s like going to fun school, for both gamers, novices, teachers and coaches.

Valor’s two major markets are Australia and the United States, where they partner with Generation Esports, the largest provider of built curriculums for schools.

Ward aims to allow this new-found world to flourish, helping to give all people a place to belong in sport.

Forbes magazine crowned Victoria Zorin as one of Asia’s top 30 business people under 30 in 2023.

Victoria created Nola, a crowd analytics platform to amplify and ease the experiences of attendees at sporting events, music festivals, shopping centres and other large spaces.

With A.I, Nola is able to capture real-time information during events to allow venues to make decisions to ease the burden of crowd control & wait times.

Nola takes advantage of the monitoring systems venues already have, and can diagnose issues to prevent traffic during peak times.

The MCG and Dreamworld are among her top tier clients in Australia, as Victoria now starts her US pursuit.