Athlete Remix and the Future of Sport

Claire Stremple is a reporter with an extensive background in sports, and for public radio. She is a producer for Oakland Voices, a community journalism project and an avid rock climber. Her stories can be heard on KALW and KPFA.

Michael Wandell leads corporate sponsorship sales & partnerships for the Dodgers. He has been in basketball for the last 15 years at both the team & league level, most recently as VP/Int’l Business Development & Global Market Partnerships for the NBA. He has been involved in numerous major sponsorship deals to become the official timekeeper of the NBA, WNBA and NBA G League, and the Mercury’s jersey ad deal with LifeLock in ’09.

Bob Watkins, San Diego State University Alum, knows & loves this city like the true local that he is. His love for sports runs deep, too. He played rugby while attending SDSI and afterward, helped found the U.S.A. Rugby Football Union, serving six years as its president. Watkins now chairs the U.S. Rugby Foundation. Watkins enjoys sports and the culture of each across the board. He played a pivotal role in securing the league’s approval of the expansion club and is truly excited for what’s to come.

Wayne Partello joined the Padres in October 2013 and oversees all aspects of the Padres marketing and communications platforms encompassed by the following departments: marketing, creative services, communications, entertainment & production, broadcasting and content.

Lisa Olson is an award-winning sports journalist & columnist for the Sporting News, AOL Sports, the New York Daily News, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Telegraph. Her work has been featured in the anthology The Best American Sports Writing. She has reported from multiple countries, covering rugby & soccer World Cups, the Super Bowl, the Olympics and a vast array of sports feature stories.

Dr. Jurgen Schulze is an Associate Research Scientist at UCSD’s Qualcomm Institute, and an Associate Adjunct Professor in the computer science department, where he teaches computer graphics and virtual reality. His research interests include applications for virtual and augmented reality systems, 3D human-computer interaction, and medical data visualization. He holds an M.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. Schulze is also the director of the Immersive Visualization Laboratory at UCSD’s Qualcomm Institute.

Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design tool. He is a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley). He was the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. He is also the author of The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, Enchantment, and nine other books. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.

Neil Gupta is an engineer, designer, & venture partner at Indicator Ventures, focused on enterprise & consumer solutions that implement augmented reality & other frontier technologies. Neil runs his own consulting firm, NMG Consulting, where he has worked with small/medium/ large companies across the enterprise, consumer, and defense sectors. He is founder of the Boston Augmented Reality community (bostonar.org), and advisor to multiple startups in the VR/AR space. Previously, he was the Venture Lead & active Senior Tech Staff at Draper Labs. Gupta has an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

At NextVR, David Cramer oversees strategy & operations, setting the overall strategy for the company and overseeing development & execution of the business model that sets the course for the company. David has over 18 years of experience in leadership roles in technology companies.

Steve Govett was the president, general manager and governor of the Colorado Mammoth, owned & operated by Denver-based Kroenke Sports & Entertainment. In Govett’s tenure, he built one of the League’s most successful organizations both on & off the field. In addition to his role with the Mammoth, he was also responsible for the business operations of NDP Championships, a profitable youth & amateur-based sports enterprise with a portfolio including national tournaments, competitions, events & festivals. NDP Championships launched several successful spin-off entities in custom merchandising, sponsorship sales, and television productions.

Kevin Acee has been at The San Diego Union-Tribune since 1999 and a sportswriter for more than two decades. Before assuming his role as Padres beat writer, Acee was the Union-Tribune’s lead Chargers beat writer for seven seasons and then a columnist for six years. A San Diego native and Chico State alumnus, Acee covered the Anaheim Angels for the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Dodgers for the Daily News of Los Angeles.

Po Bronson is the author of seven books, most recently The New York Times bestseller Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing, which has become mandatory reading at many professional sports franchises and USA Olympics programs. His science journalism has won nine national awards, and he has been cited in over 100 academic journals and over 300 books. He is a Futurist with Attetion Span’s FWD TEAM, focusing on sport, medicine, and food.