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Necessity drives innovation, it is about opportunity. Potential is everywhere, but while some young people get every opportunity to explore theirs, others do not. Exploring two innovative initiatives to create impact or young people.
For us to make an impact on the community, the globe is exploring alternative approaches to the planning, design and management of community sport and leisure facilities. This year’s NSC is proud to have worked with the International Association of Sport and Leisure Facilities (IAKS) to bring ANZ with global insights, including:
NSC22 is host of the Australian Sport, Recreation and Play Industry Innovation Awards, powered by NSC Innovations and Awards partner FieldTurf Tarkett. The purpose of these Industry Innovation Awards is to recognise and celebrate individuals and organisations from the play, recreation, community sport, government and education sectors who through their innovations are encouraging more people to be active. The awards celebrate the following categories:
With a plethora of global championships over the next decade for Australia and New Zealand, what impact will these major events really have on participation? Post London Olympics 2012, the question of impact on participation was shown to be low. So what is Australia doing differently?
Four key industry Thought Leaders have collaborated with our Gold Partner, Rubner Holzbau, partner of Theca Timber, to explore why they think it is critical to our industry and our community’s future. This episode includes; Anthony Uahwatanasakul (K20 Architecture); Ellis Lamond (KPMG Infrastructure, assets and places); and Brett Diprose (Warren and Mahoney).
Claire Poole will be joining NSC this year virtually, sharing her latest thinking on sport and Climate Change and the Economic Opportunities for Sport and Government. Her weekly global podcasts interview, The Climate of Sport, features key sustainability and climate change thought leaders. This week she speaks to Aileen McManamon, Founder of 5T Sports and OG/Godmother/Coach of the sustainable sport movement. With a discussion that focuses predominantly on brand strategy, partnerships and sponsors.
To create impact, we need to focus on how do we put people first, we need to change our thinking, change the way we plan, build and operate programs, facilities and environments.
The NSC Sport and Recreation Expo will be the home of the delegates, peak bodies, collaborators over the two event days. We are excited to be able to share that the Sport and Recreation Expo Hall will offer delegates:
Following on the past decades increased understanding of climate change from the broad community, we have seen a significant interest in how sport is both being impacted by and can influence climate change.
The narrative about the Environmental Footprint that many community groups are concerned about, we are featuring an expert panel to explore what this means with the circular economy. Three expert speakers will provide an understanding of a circular economy and what innovation is being embraced to make this a reality for synthetic fields.