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In this keynote from our 2018 Digital Transformation Summit, Rikard Steiber (HTC VIVE/Viveport) lays out the possibilities of an exciting, new super reality that combines the latest technologies in AR/VR, 5G, and artificial intelligence. The future of VR is here.

Technology is rapidly transforming the entire sports industry and revolutionizing how athletes train, perform and heal. This event, co-hosted by the Harvard Innovation Lab, OneTeam Collective, and the Sports Innovation Lab, provides an overview of the quantified athlete and sports technology space, from fitness tracking and predictive performance analytics to real-time analytics and athlete career management.

What if you could create designer probiotics using the gut bacteria of elite athletes, and what if those probiotics could enable consumers to tap into the biological advantages that make those athletes so special? Sound like science fiction? Maybe not…

Technological advancements have made it possible to imagine sports competitions of a very different variety than those we enjoy today. With so many avenues of entertainment open to us, it begs the question: in the future of sports who will the athletes be, human — or machine?

When you picture a screaming, sold out crowd at Madison Square Garden, esports (AKA professional gaming) might not be the first thing to come to mind. But with a current global audience of 385 million people and annual revenues of nearly $700 million, esports has become a growing and lucrative industry that’s promising enough to have even the owner of the New England Patriots investing.