Pitch Perfect Innovation Contest

Carlos Ballesteros

CEO and Co-Founder, PENDULAR

Pendular is a Madrid-based AI company transforming how sports content is created, distributed, and monetized.
Its platform automates video production from live and archive footage, enabling rights holders to scale content delivery, engage fans, and generate new revenue streams.

Trusted by organizations such as the Australian Open and Premier Padel, Pendular combines cutting-edge technology with sports expertise to help clients automate content generation, distribution and monetization.

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Alastair Smith

CEO of PROTERN.IO

Open-venue sports create unique challenges for media production.
Courses are long, camera coverage is fragmented, and athletes often compete one at a time.
Most tools today rely on computer vision, which struggles in these environments due to terrain, motion, and limited visibility.
Protern Media links athlete sensor data to video with near-live responsiveness, making it possible to search, clip, and activate the stories already hidden in raw footage.

Rights-holders can now extract more value from their existing video by generating highlights, enabling fan experiences, and creating sponsor-ready content at scale.

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Jean-Michel FELDERHOFF

CEO of FAIR VISION

Featuring FAIR VISION's latest algorithms, ARGOS is a unique portable, AI-powered system that automatically captures sport matches using dual 4K cameras and variable focal lenses.

It tracks players & the ball in real time and delivers live ready-to-use 4K video with different views, all without needing a cameraman or large crew.
It makes professional match coverage easy, fast, and scalable.

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Grant Prophet

Head of Product Marketing, VITEC

In today’s fast-paced and competitive sporting environments, providing the ultimate fan experience at stadiums and venues is becoming more important than ever.

Find out how VITEC’s vast knowledge of ultra-low latency video encoding has enabled them to create some of the lowest latency end-to-end video transmission products on the market today, ensuring visitors and fans don't miss a moment of the action, wherever in the venue they happen to be.

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Alex Dubinsky

CTO & Co-Founder, SYNCWORDS

Sports rights owners are seeking new ways to expand audiences and monetize live events. SyncWords enables this by transforming a single live sports stream into multiple AI-dubbed localized streams in real time. This allows rights holders to reach global audiences instantly, increasing accessibility and fan engagement while driving new advertising and subscription revenues.

With proven deployments across broadcasters and streamers worldwide, SyncWords delivers scalable, low-latency AI dubbing that maintains speaker authenticity and emotion. The future of monetizing live sports isn’t limited to borders—it’s localized, live, and powered by SyncWords.

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Michal ORSAVA

Co-founder & CMO, WEBOUT

Webout transforms fan engagement into real revenue.
Our platform delivers hyper-personalized and interactive video experiences, tailored to every single fan.
The results are powerful: campaigns achieve a 29% boost in ticket sales, over 90% video completion rates regardless of length, and viral organic sharing that extends reach without extra spend.

Fans can buy tickets, merchandise, or memberships directly inside the video—creating a frictionless journey from attention to purchase. Fully scalable to millions of fans, Webout requires no customer data, making it both innovative and GDPR-compliant.

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Marte Harkestad

Head of Presales and Solutions, CAMB.AI

Imagine broadcasting your event simultaneously in 150+ languages without extra commentators or studios.
CAMB.AI makes this possible today.

We have solved one of sports broadcasting’s toughest challenges: real-time localization for live events, preserving the emotion of commentary and the energy of the crowd. Unlike traditional translation services, CAMB.AI delivers a complete localization stack, enabling sports organizations, leagues, and broadcasters to become instantly multilingual.

Already live with MLS, NASCAR, the Australian Open, and Eurovision, this proven technology expands global audiences and unlocks new markets.
Welcome to the future, where every fan watches your broadcast in their own language.

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Jerome Beauguitte

Jerome Beauguitte, Co Founder and CEO of FalconHQ

Sponsorship remains one of the most influential yet least measured marketing channels. FalconHQ changes that.
Our AI driven platform gives brands, rights holders, and agencies a unified system to benchmark, match, manage, and evaluate sponsorships in real time.
By transforming fragmented data into actionable insights, FalconHQ helps stakeholders make confident, evidence based decisions.

In an evolving market, FalconHQ brings precision, redefining how the business of sport is measured, optimized, and scaled through data and intelligence.

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