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Sport analytics leverage AI and ML to improve the game

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Nearly 10 years ago, Bill James, a pioneer in sports analytics methodology, said if there’s one thing he wished more people understood about sabermetrics, pertaining to baseball, it’s that the data is not the point. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Data Management, Data Quality, IT Leadership, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics

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LeagueApps raises $15M to be the ‘operating system’ for youth sports organizations

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Youth sports are an integral part of our communities, bringing families together and helping kids all over gain confidence and skills. Today, LeagueApps , which aims to be the operating system for youth sports organizations, announced it has raised $15 million in a Series B round of funding. It’s a lot. Image Credits: LeagueApps.

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How sport made CIO 100 winner Joanna Drake a better technology leader

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Speaking at the CIO UK 100 awards ceremony at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel in London, Drake explained what it meant to be ranked the top CIO in the UK , how her tennis background shaped her leadership, why automation is freeing up her IT team, and how THG is supporting engineers relocating from war-stricken Ukraine.

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Gainful raises $7.5M for personalized sports nutrition

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.” The Series A round was co-led by BrandProject and Courtside Ventures, with participation from AF Ventures, Round13 Capital, Barrel Ventures and the founder of Polaris Sports. for its healthy sports drink alternative. Gainful was part of Y Combinator’s winter 2018 batch. ” Cure Hydration raises $2.6M

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Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes

Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.

Teams and their leadership need to leverage data to achieve better customer outcomes. And in the era of agile, which recognizes that software development is a team sport, performance reviews need to use data for programmer growth and to give focus to business results.

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Rackspace’s Brian Lillie on the importance of leadership principles

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Brian Lillie is president of Private Cloud at Rackspace and had previous technology leadership roles at Equinix, Verisign, SGI, and the United States Air Force, so he’s worked hard to define his leadership style. With these values clearly defined, Lillie had a new question: “How do I apply these values to leadership?”

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CIO Leadership Live with Ben Fitzgerald, CIO at Tennis Australia

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Tennis Australia CIO Ben Fitzgerald talks with David Binning, Associate Editor at CIO Australia, about the challenges of standing up one of the world’s biggest sporting events in the middle of COVID and how the 2023 Australian Open will be more “digitised” than ever. Watch this episode: CIO Leadership Live