Event agenda

Registration & Coffee

Doors open for bag check and registration. Once you're checked in, head to the Hudl Wyscout Networking Space for coffee, tea, and breakfast before the day begins.

Ty Chin & Rob Wood, Hudl

Details being announced soon.

How Information Drives Efficent Workflows in Player Recruitment

Jörg Stadelmann & Will Sparkes, Hudl

Mark Thompson, Get Goalside

After the First Touch: What Decides the Second Ball at Set Pieces

Horoscope or Blueprint? What player profiling can (and cannot) do for individualized training

Every club claims to individualize training, but change the test or the day and the same player lands in a different profile. This talk separates what profiling can and cannot do — and where individualizing football training actually works.

Morning Networking Break

Take a break and connect with fellow delegates in the Hudl Wyscout Networking Space. Use your pre-scheduled speed networking meetings or simply catch up over coffee and tea.

Does Juego de Posicion exist in Dead-Ball Situations?

Nick Winkleman, IRFU

Rhianna Farr, FAI

25 Years of Performance: What Worked, What Didn’t

After 25+ years across the AFL and clubs like Liverpool, Arsenal and Juventus, Darren Burgess shares what the science got right, what it got wrong, and where practitioners really make the difference.

Monte Carlo Pass Search for Setpieces

Lunch Break

Chasing Shadows: Detecting and Valuing Decoy Runs in Soccer

The Limits of Linear: Putting Multidirectional Monitoring into Practice

The Player's Perspective

A Causal Framework for Evaluating Pressing Efficiency Using Broadcast Tracking Data (xPS)

From volume to value: Rethinking running in professional football

Running volume alone doesn’t tell the whole story. Drawing on his doctorate, Tom explores how tactical context and game state change what counts — and how to frame running in terms coaches actually value.

Leander Forcher, Hoffenheim

Evaluating counter-pressing efficiency

Afternoon Networking Break

Take a break and connect with fellow delegates in the Hudl Wyscout Networking Space. Use your pre-scheduled speed networking meetings or simply catch up over coffee and tea.

Thomas Muller must be destroyed - the irresistible rise of the Assassino Spaziale

Analytics in Women's Football

Performance Decision Making in Complexity

The highest-stakes decisions in performance sport — selection, load management, return to play — happen under complexity, every week. What does that mean for how we lead the process, and how do we apply it in the real world?

Driving Change: Building a Culture of Innovation

The Load We Don't See: Uncovering Hidden Mechanical Work in Elite Football

Acceleration counts are our proxy for mechanical load — but football isn’t linear. Using multidirectional data, we show how much traditional metrics miss, and why that hidden load matters for training and recovery.

The score shapes the team: Correlation functions of off-ball structure in football

Building a Recruitment Department in Women’s Football

Player-Aware EPV: Separating Skill from Tactical Context in Possession Value

Sports Data in the Age of AI: Three Keys to Better Insights

As sports data grows, how do we make better use of it? Drawing on her experience across elite sport, Jo Clubb explores bringing multidisciplinary data together to inform decisions — and where AI can help, alongside the context practitioners bring.

A Legend's Lens

Details being announced soon.

Networking Drinks Reception

Join us to close out the day with drinks and good company. A chance to reflect on the day's sessions and continue the conversations that matter.