Workshops
With renowned experts and professionals from the industry sharing their views and experience, Slidiz analyzes new industry trends and developments and discusses the approaches sports companies can adopt in facing the current challenges. Topics cover innovation, marketing, practice, and other issues of importance to the gliding and sliding sports industry.
Interactive Workshops: You will be provided with practical tools for problem solving. We specifically limit the number of participants and encourage audience participation.
Workshop 01
Accelerometers everywhere : from rowing to ski jumping
If the accelerometers were, in a close past, applied relatively confidentially, they are now about to be integrated in many sliding & gliding sports equipments. This workshop presents new case and development studies for both winter and summer sports.
Workshop 02
What high tech can bring to training method ?
The current trend is interaction between athlete and their environment. Slidiz present the new information systems that will generate tomorrow products and services, and which will turn sports infrastructures into leisure parks: move apprenticeship, performance measure, security, ticketing, video souvenir…
Workshop 03
From production to distribution : life cycle of your innovation
An innovative project in the field of sliding & gliding equipment does not always manage to reach the market. To transform innovation into product, the entrepreneurs have to deal with production cost, material quality, and distribution channels
Workshop 04
Technical textile as systems for sport
By integration of Microsystems and electronics, Technical textiles can be considered as complex systems. An interactive discussion about Sensors and integration in textile, Signal treatment, Energy generation and management, Connection, packaging and maintenance is foreseen. Keeping in mind the applications in protection, health and performance improvement by adapted training, signal transfer to media for entertainment.
Workshop 05
The climatic laboratory
In order to improve sporting equipments performances, collaborations between the main actors of the industry emerge to submit sporting equipments to extreme climates resisting tests. This workshop will present a dedicated platform proposing such services.
Workshop 06
Can Sport handicap benefit from high tech taylor made solutions ?
Handisports practices require tailor-made equipment. This workshop will present the state of the art of the high technologies and materials forecasting new sensations for the athletes.
