{"id":197502,"date":"2025-10-08T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197502\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:15:12","slug":"fiba-and-genius-sports-show-how-they-are-unlocking-technology-for-national-federations-leagues-and-clubs-about-fiba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/197502\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA and Genius Sports show how they are unlocking technology for National Federations, Leagues and Clubs |\u00a0About FIBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIES (Switzerland) &#8211; More than 250 members of the worldwide basketball community have engaged in a webinar which revealed how FIBA and longstanding partner Genius Sports are transforming and elevating the global game to new levels using the power of AI technologies in a sports data revolution.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A demonstration of how FIBA is actively delivering on its strategic objective centered around <a class=\"_1pmct9j0\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/about.fiba.basketball\/en\/organization\/strategy\/sustainability-and-innovation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sustainability and Innovation<\/a>, the webinar also underlined its work to <a class=\"_1pmct9j0\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/about.fiba.basketball\/en\/organization\/strategy\/empower-national-federations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Empower National Federations <\/a>with AI technologies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Still available to view <a class=\"_1pmct9j0\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SmI9IjLfzHg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>, the main aim of the webinar was to inspire National Federations, Leagues, and Clubs to harness technology moving forward and realize a number of growing benefits. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the most engaging and popular elements of the webinar was the live demonstrations of AI-driven augmented broadcasts, which can expand fan bases and create new commercial opportunities for Federations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the most compelling insight was the roaring success of the latest innovations being rolled out at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup in Lausanne, which was heralded as a triumph for fan engagement. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Related News <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ru3du4v\" href=\"https:\/\/about.fiba.basketball\/en\/news\/geniusiq-offering-fans-a-new-game-watching-experience-at-fiba-u19-basketball-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:10\/5.625;opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/>GeniusIQ offering fans a new game-watching experience at FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup\u202f <a class=\"ru3du4v\" href=\"https:\/\/about.fiba.basketball\/en\/news\/fiba-u19-basketball-world-cup-in-lausanne-set-for-ground-breaking-genius-sports-ai-powered-technology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:10\/5.625;opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/>FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup in Lausanne set for ground-breaking Genius Sports AI-powered technology<\/p>\n<p>FIBA and Genius Sports unveiled augmented, data-driven live streams of games for fans watching the competition on YouTube. With real-time game insights including player names, shot probabilities, and defender distances, it helped to create a more immersive experience for basketball fans worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as National Federations, Leagues, and Clubs look to engage with basketball supporters and consumers in more dynamic and sustainable ways, embedding technology into their day-to-day operations can prove to be a potential game-changer. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This includes using automated data collection tools to support competitions and to reduce administrative workloads &#8211; something which could potentially streamline operations. Webinar participants were also shown ways that new performance insight and analysis technology can assist coaches, players, and referees in decision-making and development. One of the most interesting aspects was a discussion on how officiating will become empowered by AI technologies and not replaced by it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other takeaways from the webinar have zoomed into the successful accessibility of best-in-class technology. Just as FIBA LiveStats became an integral part of the basketball ecosystem, the introduction of AI-powered tools and applications, via GeniusIQ, looks destined to be a totally collaborative process between FIBA, National Federations and Leagues.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Finally, as technology continues to accelerate and evolve at a rapid pace, the webinar also highlighted the shared mission of FIBA and Genius Sports in working together and innovating to continually grow the sport globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FIBA &#8211; Genius Sports Webinar: Unlocking Technology for National Federations <img alt=\"\" style=\"opacity:0;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FIBA\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIES (Switzerland) &#8211; More than 250 members of the worldwide basketball community have engaged in a webinar which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-197502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}