FAI
and Noosphere Ventures decided to sign
an official agreement
on
collaboration. In February this year, Max Polyakov, Head of FAI Fritz
Brink and another FAI representative Susanne Schödel agreed to
engage in strategic partner relationships that will promote the
digitalization of FAI’s events. Noosphere Ventures objective in
this partnership would be developing software that will ease data
management, operations and result scoring for air competitions.
Max
Polyakov, who in many
ways
inspired the agreement, has stated that they are all more than
thrilled to be able to bring tech innovations into the sphere of
sports and to be part of the process of digitizing the entire
industry.
Noosphere
Ventures has presented the first fruit of their joint efforts at this
year’s World Games 2017 held in Wroclaw. The newly designed
software
solution
called
Cup Navigator aided the process of scoring the event, helped the
judges and their assistants to record results with more ease and
speed, and subsequently manage the data with more precision. Max
Polyakov was proud
to see that the software was working flawlessly. It is now expected
that Cup Navigator will be used in other upcoming FAI
tournaments.
The
air
sports competitions
are
constantly facing scoring ambiguity and rising concerns among
athletes. It is indeed much harder to make accurate measurements
while the airplane or a glide is in the air – something many judges
are struggling with. Noosphere
Ventures
is
trying to solve these problems by developing software that will allow
for much more accurate scoring and faster operational management of
events.
Max
Polyakov, founder of Noosphere Ventures and his other
colleagues have shared their hopes on expanding the existing
partnership
with FAI.
Their first collaboration efforts date back to 2013, and today they
are doing a lot of common work to be able to come up with digital
solutions for other air sports like ballooning and paramotoring. They
hope to be able to do so in a few years from now.
Another
successful endeavor of Noosphere Ventures was the renovation of FAI’s
website. The new version is much more user-friendly and intuitive,
has much more demanded content like athletes’ stories of success,
event calendars and educational materials.
It
was understandably pleasant to hear that the participants of this
year’s World Games were happy with the new scoring results. They
have shared the opinion that it was much better than the previous
years. Everybody at FAI and Noosphere Ventures, including
Max Polyakov,
hope that this will increase the attendance of competitive air sports
events and make them more attractive for future athletes-to-be as
well.
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In
their continuous efforts to digitalize the sports industry, Noosphere
Ventures organize hackathons and challenges to attract young talents
to the process of technological
innovation.
One of such hackathons organized with the support of Max Polyakov was
aimed at inventing new and better software to score ballooning
events. The winners of the hackathon will be delighted to present the
results for their work and test their software at the upcoming
ballooning championships of FAI.
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