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.

Maria Baker founded Nobody’s Princess to make snow and ski gear specific for girls and women.

Maria came up against the chronic issue of women being paid scant regard in sports apparel, with the “pink it, and shrink it” mentality falling well short of the mark.

She wants women of all shapes and sizes to feel completely at home in her gear, and to encourage people to head to the slopes, who may never have given it a go before.

Maria shares with us the difficulty of winning Government support, after a female-specific funding program ended, and with her business both too new and too advanced to fit into current funding categories.

The recent inclusion of risk management into sports and recreation clubs can be challenging for organisations to manage.

Founder of Safeguarding You, Adam Wood, created a platform where what once was daunting, is now made much easier.

The program provides users with a simple assessment to understand their risks, then actionable advice is delivered to lower the risk percentage.

Wood has been heavily involved with his own children’s sporting clubs, and understands the difficulty in navigating the need to report and adapt to issues that arise.

An area of great interest currently is concussion within the AFL, particularly exploring the trend of under-reporting, and the risks associated with trying to get back on the field.

Safeguarding You is constantly evolving, creating new technology to allow teams and groups to monitor what they’ve done in the past, and prepare for their future.

Ryan Talbot has spent the past two decades as one of Australia’s leading figures in IT security, working with our biggest bank- the Commonwealth, and our biggest state- New South Wales.

Ryan is the one who first introduced biometric security for the Commonwealth Bank, and was a gun-for-hire with international casinos to protect their security systems.

He’s also an athletics coach, and that experience led him to start VueMotion- friction free computer vision performance analysis.

VueMotion are now working with the biggest pro leagues in North America and Europe, having already cornered the domestic Australian market.

Ryan takes us inside an epic career and company story today on the pod!

Emma Thomson worked for two decades as a medical scientist, and in that time, also became a ‘Cricket Mum’.

That latter title led Emma to become a sportstech entrepreneur.

After endless afternoons bowling balls at her young son for batting practice, Emma realised there was a gap in the market.

Bowling machines are commonplace for adult cricketers, and so Emma tailor-made a bowling machine to suit kids as young as Grade 3.

Pitch It Up was born, and her e-commerce business is now also flourishing with major cricket and sporting goods retailers around the country.

Emma has just created a new iteration for visually impaired cricketers, and Pitch It Up has been working closely with the special needs and para sports people.

Today, Emma tells us the origin story, the tech, the growth, and the future of Pitch It Up.

Andrew Lemon has spent the past 15 years working on the front line of healthcare as an osteopath, he is also a business and tech entrepreneur.

Eight years ago he co-founded Strength by Numbers, to finally fill a gap in the market he had been combatting for years, namely, the lack of specific strength measurements in healthcare.

Heart rate, blood pressure, weight, BMI are all measured as a matter of course. Andrew Lemon says for too long, strength has been the missing component.

Strength by Numbers has revolutionised the domestic Aussie market with their AxIT technology, and they’re about to attack the US market.

Andrew takes us behind the scenes of the science, the tech and the forward strategy.