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FINDING THE NEXT FOOTBALL STAR WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Football. Soccer. The beautiful game. Whatever you call it, Dutch startup SciSportsis using artificial intelligence to transform the world’s most popular sport.  Founded in 2012 by two self-proclaimed football addicts and data geeks, this sports analytics company uses streaming data and applies machine learningdeep learning and artificial intelligence to capture and analyze massive amounts of data, making way for innovations in everything from player recruitment to virtual reality for fans and even helping coaches on the bench.

“Our ambition is to bring real-time data analytics to billions of soccer fans all over the world. By partnering with SAS, we can make that happen”, says Giels Brouwer, Founder and CEO of SciSports.

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Pedro Mier

Pedro Mier holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineer ing from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, MBA from ESADE and PADE from IESE. He is currently President of AMETIC (Association of Electronics, Information Technology and Telecommunications Companies of Spain), Shareholder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of TRYO Aerospace & Electronics, Board Member of the Premo Group and Committee of CTTC. member of Space Angels Network and Member of the Sc ientific Advisory