You can now view a photo gallery from the Football Summit 2026, sponsored by TVU Networks. The event took place at Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool on 26 February. Scroll down to view.
Football Summit 2026 took place in front of a capacity crowd at the Hill Dickinson StadiumBefore the main conference programme, senior female executives and mentors led a workshop that explored leadership pathways in sports broadcastingSpeakers included Lowri Davies, Premier League Productions, Nia Wyn Thomas, Sky Sports, Alison Lombardi, FilmNovaFernando Pinto Jez, TVU Networks, delivered the title sponsor’s opening remarksRebecca Jackson from Caretta Research examined the current landscape for football broadcast and streaming rights across EuropeOscar Sanchez, FIFA, and Paul King, HBS, discussed with SVG’s Ken Kerschbaumer production plans for the 2026 FIFA World CupGravity Media’s Paul Sykes and Roisin McKeniry with James Rivers of Imagine Communications on remote productionA networking break at Football Summit 2026 During the lunch break, Damien Cullen, The FA, Shane Warden, Monks, and James Scott, Vizrt led a MAM workshopRob Levi, TNT Sports, Andrew Swift, BBC Sport, Sarah Cheadle, Sky Sports, Rachael Nightingale, Premier League, and chair Will Strauss explored new tools for directing coverage of the Premier LeagueReuters Imagen’s Brian Leonard and Kirsten Lincoln spoke about the J,League’s evolving content workflowsEsteban Galan, Riedel Communications, Johanna Torchetti, Sky Sport, Patrick Kessel, DFB Referee and Chair George Bevir discussed how RefCam is being deployed across the German Bundesliga and Frauen-BundesligaJames Taylor of InSync takes to the stageAlison Lombardi from FilmNova and SVG’s Heather McLean spoke about production of the Women’s FA CupMore networking Sky Germany’s Alessandro Reitano and Marcus Beisiegel of the DFL on the DFL’s ‘Closer to the Game’ conceptRichard Bayliss IMG discusses IMG’s production of ‘The Ligue 1 Show’ and modern approaches to football coverage for international audiencesMarcin Serafin, Ekstraklasa Live Park, explores how the Ekstraklasa league in Poland applys data and AI toolsChris Blake of the United Rugby Championship shares how they apply Eluvio for a D2C streaming modelIn the final session of the day, Jennie Blackmore and Kevin McCue of Sky Sports toobtainher with SVG Europe’s Will Strauss explore the radical rebelieve of production infrastructure to support Sky Sports’ leap from 128 to over 215 live Premier League matches for the 2025/26 season
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