Sports technology and innovation are becoming more and more popular worldwide. In Belgium, an increasing amount of initiatives are taking place, with the objective to promote the implementation of existing technologies and to facilitate creativity and entrepreneurship among the community of sports professionals, researchers, students, trainers, and developers.
Four of the main actors in this field joined forces to organize the first ever sports hackathon in Belgium recently. Victoris (the consortium of experts in sports technology and innovation at Ghent University), Sports.tech (a cluster of sports technology researchers, clubs, entrepreneurs and policy makers in the region of the Flemish part of Brabant), the Flemish Microsoft Innovation Center and imec (the Flemish institute for nano-electronics, sensor technology, internet-of-things and data science), organized ‘Hack4Sports’.