18-20/10 – ANNUAL PRACTICAL SPORTS BUSINESS FORUM IN ST.PETERSBURG
Sports and business professionals will meet again in St. Petersburg at the end of October
From 18 to 20th of October 2018, representatives of sports and business management will meet in St. Petersburg again. The International Sport Leaders Global Forum will be held for the second time in the northern capital of Russia. The largest sports business event is established to provide an effective platform for meetings, business connections, training, informal business communication and contracting.
About 80 speakers and experts communicated at the forum area last year. They presented the best practical cases of the industry to online and offline audiences and signed dozens of contracts. Reports and the Forum Diaries have aroused keen interest through auditory of social media. By the result of the Sport Leaders Global Forum over 4 million people reviewed materials only on VKontakte, the total number of guests at the event was about 700 top- level delegates.
The priorities of Forum organizing team are to help representatives of professional and amateur sports to earn on their own resources by developing them. Moreover, it is important to introduce potential partners and investors to each other, to show to business that sport is not a charity and it provides effective brand promotion.
In 2018 founders of the Forum – center of sport strategies, Sport Leaders – expands limits of the business program. Experts from Russia, Belarus, China, USA, Western and Eastern Europe are going to be speakers.
Legendary boxer and State Duma deputy Nikolay Valuev, famous Russian football scorer Alexander Kerzhakov, famous Russian biathlete Olga Zaitseva, ex-head coach of Zenit FC Vlastimil Petrzhela, representatives of international federations – FIFA, FIBA, FIVB, leading Russian and overseas sports clubs and leagues.
Experts of the forum will show the best Russian and foreign examples of marketing arenas, sports clubs and federations, will present selected creative cases for promoting sports – TV shows, books, digital projects and visual solutions using VR/AR technologies.
The largest commercial brands and corporations will talk about their social and marketing projects in the sport, and innovative companies will talk about new fantastic technologies designed to make the sport more spectacular and in-demand. And the editors-in-chief of the leading sports media of our country will discuss the future trends – how exactly sports media should become in the coming years, and how exactly we will watch sports battles in just a few years.
Also participants of the event will learn first hand how Artemy Lebedev’s rebranding of the Russian Football Premier League was prepared by, how much the Spanish La Liga earns around the world, who plays football in China, whether the sale of T-shirts with the image of a carpet was profitable for FC Rostov, what is the secret of organizing the right MatchDay, as well as how and why make bets on sports in Russia and all over the world.
The educational section is included to the business program of the Sport Leaders Global Forum. Visitors of the forum will have the opportunity to listen to a practical course confirmed by the issuance of official certificates of a leading Sports University on the most relevant topics: the commercialization of sports facilities and work with sponsors. And the forum will be finished with the Sport Leaders Cup tournament – the participants and partners of the event will take part in a tournament in a new spectacular sport – footgolf.
The SPIBA Organizing Committee provides for their friends, colleagues and partners with the opportunity to buy a ticket with a discount. For the “СПИБА” promo code on https://sportleaders.global, the ticket price will be 5900 rubles.
To view the latest information about the Forum please visit https://sportleaders.global/en/