Global Trade Missions and Business Matching Excursions

With support from Federal and State Governments, ASTN regularly facilitate trade missions, business matching and foreign market excursions. Based on having established global relationships over the past decade, ASTN advocates, promotes and connects Australian sportstech companies to the world. In similar ways, ASTN’s global connections give our members genuine networking opportunities with local agencies both from an export and inbound perspective.

ASTN previously hosted international trade missions to China, Europe, India and the USA. Our global connections give our members genuine networking opportunities with local agencies. For details visit our Global Trade Missions Archive.

US Excursion 2025

ASTN plans to lead a US Excursion to the USA. The excursion program will start in early March 2025 and include attending:

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• SBJ Tech Week (4-6 March 2025) in New York NY
  https://www.sbjtechweek.com/2025/
• MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston MA (7 & 8 March 2025)
  https://www.sloansportsconference.com/
  Please note that tickets to the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference generally sell out. Ticket purchase via Eventbrite link. 
• SXSW in Austin TX (10-12 March 2025)
  https://www.sxsw.com/
• Stadium visit and Networking Reception in Los Angeles CA (13 March 2025) - Venue TBC

A draft itinerary is available here.

Optional Travel Package

ASTN Premium Member, Sportlink Travel offers an optional US travel package. For further details please download information here or contact Sportlink Travel directly.

ISPO and Sports Tech Nation 2025

After teaming up for the first time in 2024, Sports Tech Nation will be again co-located with ISPO in Munich. ISPO is the largest tradeshow and conference for sports equipment, apparel and footwear. Together with Sports Tech Nation, the event hosted annually in December in Munich Germany, now also provides a stage for digital sports technologies. ISPO’s BrandNew and Awards are amongst the largest startup competition in the sports business. If you are interested to present your startup company at ISPO Munich´s start-up village, please contact ASTN for further details.

Review the 2024 event.

US Market Research 2025

Through a partnership with the University of Washington Consulting Association (UWCA) in Seattle (Washington, USA), ASTN member companies have been conducting market research with US-based students. The 10-week engagement is a competitive program available to Premium ASTN members based on availability and acceptance of the project brief by UWCA. Students from the University of Washington (UW) have previously visited ASTN’s Australian Sports Innovation Centre of Excellence (ASICE) in Cremorne and worked with several sportstech founders in the past.

For further details, on the program partnership please also see https://magazine.foster.uw.edu/programs and contact ASTN for further details.

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