The sports industry turned its attention to SBJ’s Tech Week at The Times Center in Manhattan on May 19-20 as executives shared expertise on topics including venue innovation, ticketing strategies and ownership priorities.
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Faces & Places from Tech Week Lew Sherr shared his journey from being CEO at the USTA to
joining New York Mets owner Steve Cohen as president of
business operations. (Marc Bryan-Brown)
Faces & Places from Tech Week Kate Dramstad, SeatGeek director of engineering, detailed how SeatGeek IQ uses AI to analyze
historical and live data to help clients develop ticket pricing strategies. (Marc Bryan-Brown)
Faces & Places from Tech Week Ticketmaster Global President
Saumil Mehta said he
encourages his employees to
keep working for clients and
fans as the company awaits the
remedies phase of the federal
antitrust lawsuit against it. (Marc Bryan-Brown)
Faces & Places from Tech Week Oak View Group CTO Katee LaPoff, on a panel with Andrew
McIntyre (center) of the Tennessee Titans and Nissan Stadium
and Justin Stahl of the United Center and The 1901 Project,
spoke about the lessons learned with every new venue the
company opened. (Marc Bryan-Brown)
Faces & Places from Tech Week Harbinger Sports Partners co-founders Steve Cannon (left) and Rashaun Williams
described how team owners are making their operations more sophisticated by
hiring executives from outside of sports. (Marc Bryan-Brown)
Faces & Places from Tech Week Breaks in the
Tech Week
programming
gave
attendees
time to
network: Miheer
Walavalkar
of LiveLike
and Dan
Reed of the
Heisman
Trophy Trust (Marc Bryan-Brown)
Faces & Places from Tech Week Breaks in the
Tech Week
programming
gave
attendees
time to
network: Jeffrey Hintz
of Sports
Tech HQ,
Blaine Scully
of Sportable
and Aadit
Parikh
of Sony
Ventures (Marc Bryan-Brown)
