**Kristof De Mey **

Keynote:Kristof De Mey will be talking about the current and future state of innovation within the European and global sport ecosystem. He will share experiences in setting up a variety of projects within wearables, exergames, apps and software platforms etc. The technologies are used in settings ranging from professional to recreational contexts, in various age groups and for a multitude of purposes as e.g., increasing sports or physical activity levels, prevention and treatment of injuries, optimizing training etc.About Kristof:Kristof De Mey is working as a Sports technology, Innovation and Business developer at Ghent University (Belgium) where he is managing a consortium of experts called Victoris. He’s involved in various university-industry collaborations within the sports, fitness, and health domain. He’s also lecturing a Sports Technology and Innovation course at the same university.Together with the startup acceleration program and investment fund imec.istart he started an initiative called SportUp supporting startups within sport. He co-founded Sportamundi, that generate, develop and implement various evidence-based tools in physical education settings, cities and municipalities, etc.
He has launched the Sports Tech Research Network, an initiative which aims to facilitate the creation and go-to-market of more trustworthy and effective sports tech products and services.

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Lars Elbæk

Keynote:Lars Elbæk will be presenting new trends in sport and movement design – how movement and physical activity become an integrated element of the design process of sports and health products and services.About Lars:Lars Elbæk is PhD and associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). He teaches and researches movement interaction and design, and has several years of experience in movement science. His special interest is movement-based design methods in sport and movement innovation.

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**Prof. Perttu Hämäläinen **

Keynote:Prof. Perttu Hämäläinen will share his research on AR/VR/MR exergames that aim to make the players feel like they have superhuman movement abilities. This is pursued through both digital and physical means, for example, by combining a real trampoline with exaggerated in-game physics simulation (now also available as Valo Motion’s ValoJump in trampoline parks around the globe).About Perttu:Perttu Hämäläinen is an associate professor of computer games at Aalto University (Finland). His mission is to improve health through exergames and digitally augmented sports that promote physical activity. He has designed, developed and researched new forms of hybrid digital and physical exergaming for over 20 years, since 2001. He is also the scientific advisor of Valo Motion, a spin-off startup from his research group with award-winning Augmented and Mixed Reality climbing and trampoline games ValoClimb & ValoJump, and now also ValoArena, a multiplayer MR exergaming platform.

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**Peter Mattsson **

Keynote:Elite Sports in 2030 – will and can technology play a role in putting elite sports at the heart of some of the challenges society is facing in the future?
There is a global arms race going on in elite sports, fueled by countries wanting to succeed at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Government and corporate money take turns in funding this arms race. Signs of the time make it questionable whether this is a model that can be sustained in the future. In the current economic climate governments have great challenges and the trend is that traditional sports sponsoring is changing rapidly. On top of that Sports washing has become a term that nobody wants to be connected to. In this challenging future technology can connect people as never before and perhaps elite sports can serve to engage people in new ways, leading to both increased physical activity in the population as a whole and to better achievements from the top athletes. In this keynote Peter Mattsson will expand on some visions of the future where sport and technology can work together for the greater good.About Peter:Peter Mattsson manages Swedish #elitesports2030, a joint project between the Swedish Sports Confederation, The Swedish Olympic Committee and the Swedish Paralympic Committee, formed to increase the funding put into Swedish high-performance sports. Peter has an extensive background in the elite end of sports having served as the Performance Director of the Swedish Golf Federation and the English Golf Union, before joining the Swedish Sports Confederation as the Director of Elite Performance. #elitesports 2030 is aiming at attracting funds from government and commercial partners as well as at increasing cooperation with academia and innovators in relevant fields.

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Rasmus Vestergaard Andersen

Rasmus is a research assistant at the University of Southern Denmark and teaches to innovate with movement-based design solutions in the domain of sport, game, play and learning.

Peter Wiborg Astrup

Peter is Center Director at the Test and Development Centre for Welfare Technology, which focuses on bringing companies close to municipalities and hospitals to co-create new and innovative products.

Olov Belander

Olov is senior adviser at the Norwegian Directorate of Health. He is involved in "Smart mosjon i arbeidslivet" that is a new digital research-based solution allowing you to design a tailored training program based on the work life- and physical condition.

Henrik Brandt

Henrik, a journalist by trade, is co-founder and director of SportsHub Denmark (IdrætsPlatformen Danmark) and managing football club IF Lyseng Fodbold. He has been director of the Danish Sports Analysis Institute (IDAN) and Play the Game from 2005 to 2018.

Jakob Breddam

Jakob is project manager at DGI Impact, which aims to empower entrepreneurs to make Denmark the most active sports nation through grassroots and sports associations.

Carsten Couchouron

Carsten's international career in sports business and re-location to DK lead him to found Sports Lab Copenhagen, which supports innovation and entrepreneurship, provides expertise and consultancy, and develops the Nordic sports innovation ecosystem.

Tina Dalager

Tina is associate professor at University of Southern Denmark and her main interest in research is to develop, monitor, and implement physical exercise programs at the workplace, including the exploration of behavior related to training adherence.

Robby van Delden

Robby is a researcher at the University of Twente (NEL). His research focuses on interactive whole-body interaction and persuasion during play. He looks at various contexts from stimulating movement to transforming social interactions.

Tony Dieu

Tony is co-founder and CEO of 50Minutes. Since 2017, Tony has been involved in the development of health and exercise applications with a focus on bridging the gap between academic research and digital application.

Gregory Diment

Gregory is Head of Sports Psychology for Team Danmark which aims to create the best possible conditions for Danish elite sport and for the individual athletes.

Mauro Frota

Mauro has been active in several Martial Arts since childhood. His academic career focused on retention in fitness. With over 20 years of experience in fitness, he created BHOUT, the "first boxing bag with a brain", as a logical next step.

Peter Gréen

Peter is founder and CEO of Finland-based Rehaboo!, making exergames for rehabilitation of hospital patients, for workplace exercising at office or home, and for physical- and cognitive activation of elderly people.

René Engelhardt Hansen

René is assistant professor at University of Southern Denmark. His main fields are project- and innovation management and design process facilitation. His research focuses on gamification and design to motivate users towards health behavioral change.

Peter Kock Hansen

Peter has several years of experience working with activity and technology development at ParaSport Denmark, the national sports organization for disabled sport. Peter is currently Head of Activity and Members at the Danish Foundation of Neuromuscular diseases.

Uffe Holmskov

Uffe is a professor and vice-dean for research and innovation at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark. He has a long research career with him and is the former head of the Department of Molecular Medicine.

Henrik Horst

Henrik is CEO of CurveX, which has developed a device and software that helps you become more aware of your brain, the cognitive stages you go through on a daily basis, and achieve mental well-being in the long term.

Daniel Jørgensen

Daniel has played football in super-league divisions 1 and 2 in DK. Today, he works as a football and mental coach with youth football in FC Helsingør.

Maximus D. Kaos

Max is a assistant professor of Human-Computer Interaction, Play, Movement, and Learning at the University of Southern Denmark. His primary research lies in technology and games for health behavior change.

Søren Kleberg

Søren has developed health and exercise apps since 2009. Currently involved in among others the EU's Expert Groups on Harmonisation of Digital Medicine Devices.

Andreas Küttel

Andreas is an assistant professor at SDU and a former professional skijumper and Olympian from Switzerland.His research interest are athletes´ mental health and (dual) careers.

Søren Jul Kristensen

Søren is Sport Director in Parasport Denmark. He has worked with parasport for more than 30 years, primarily with non-elite sport. He is also National Director for Special Olympics.

Søren Lekbo

Søren Lekbo is research assistant in the research unit Learning and Talent in Sport at University of Southern Denmark. He uses bodily experience in facilitating design processes to create insights for engaging and exciting movements solutions.

Naja K. Lindberg

While a student at SDU, Naja started Silent FIT, a headphone-based system allowing training anywhere, without disturbing the environment, or being disturbed, now a growing startup.

Majbritt Lyckhage

Majbritt Lyckhage is founder and partner of Brandlife Sport and Cosmo Child, an app for parents who want to strengthen their child's well-being.

Aviaja Borup Lynggaard

Aviaja is the inventor of Hopspots and holds a Ph.d. in interaction design. Her focus is on developing new products for children that enhances movement, digital creativity, playfulness and learning.

Lasse Werner Madsen

Lasse is founder and CEO of Levitate, helping people who either experienced leg amputation or were born with it to be active by producing high-quality running blades at an affordable cost.

Merete Spangsberg Nielsen

Merete is Director of "colleague fitness" at the Danish Association for Corporate Sport.

Nikos Ntoumanis

Nikos is Professor of Motivation Science at the University of Southern Denmark. He is interested in personal and contextual factors that promote motivation for sustained behavior change and result in psychological well-being. His particular interest is physical activity promotion in different community settings.

Kenneth Just Petersen

Kenneth is Body SDS-educated mental coach at Helsingør FC, where he is using both group and individual therapy. He has been a youth football coach for 20 years and holds a B-license from the Danish Football Federation (DBU).

Maja Pilgaard

Maja Pilgaard, Ph.D. in sports science has 15 years of experience within sports policy research with a long portfolio of projects about sports participation. She is Chief Analyst at the Danish Sports Analysis Institute.

Dennis Reidsma

Dennis is associate professor at the University of Twente (NEL).
He specialises on behavior generation for coordinated interaction with social agents and interactive playgrounds for play, care, and learning through user experiments.

Lisa Schlage

Lisa is a teacher at Egmont Højskolen (high school), where her work focuses on creating an atmosphere and environment at school that promotes inclusion. This includes making adjustments so that students with and without disabilities can participate.

Dhruv Seshadri

Based in Chicago, Dhruv has a PhD in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and is focusing on developing and translating medical technologies to optimize and improve health and performance.

Jonathan Vaarst

Jonathan has since January 2022 been a sports consultant at Parasport Denmark. He focuses on knowledge gathering and sharing and produces valuable solutions for the parasports members of the organisation.

Matias Welsien

Matias is Chief Experience Officer & co-founder of startup Pleaz. He uses his knowledge of sports science and entrepreneurship to develop new products that help people thrive at the workplace.

Søren Würtz

Søren Würtz is a physiotherapist with 20 years’ experience within health and safety, specializing in work related injury prevention. Today he is co-founder and CCO of PRECURE.

Morten H. Østli

Morten is CEO and co-founder of Norway based SmartGroup which produces a patented wireless brake technology enabling disabled to enjoy cycling and other activities.

Nordic Sports Innovation Summit is an event co-organised and hosted by the University of Southern Denmark’s Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics and Sports Lab Copenhagen.

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