With experts predicting that the global sports industry will be worth $130bn within the next decade*, the time is right to debate the opportunities and examine the potential threats to ROI for those investing in the sector. The IHT has developed its inaugural Sports Business Summit to bring together leading global players and investors, in conversation with IHT sports journalists, to identify and explore developing business models, emerging markets and potential risk factors.
We are very excited about taking the IHT Sports Business Summit to Istanbul. Appointed the European Capital of Sport in 2012, Istanbul is committed to investing in its sports infrastructure and striving to be a part of the huge global growth in international sports business – delegates to the conference will have the first hand opportunity to learn more about the opportunities that this investment will create.
Key topics to be discussed include:
• How do you value high risk sports investment prospects?
• How do you build new revenue streams through new media technologies?
• Emerging markets: where is the potential for growth?
• The business of bidding: what's in it for you?
• What’s the outlook for financial activity in the sports sector?
• How are sponsorship objectives and metrics evolving?
Just some of the speakers to have already confirmed their participation include:
• Bruce Buck, Chairman, Chelsea F.C.
• Anders-Sundt Jensen, Vice President, Mercedes-Benz Cars
• Ronald Noble, Secretary General, INTERPOL
• Richard Ayers, Digital Playmaker, Manchester City F.C
• Ram Reddy, Owner, Deccan Chargers
• Jim Small, Vice President Asia, Major League Baseball
• Jin-Sun Kim, President and CEO, The PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
• Dmitry Chernyshenko, President, Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee
• Rob Hughes, Sports Writer, International Herald Tribune
• Brad Spurgeon, Auto Racing Correspondent, International Herald Tribune
• Christopher Clarey, Chief Sports Correspondent, International Herald Tribune
*PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (UK) and Wilkofsky Gruen Associates.
