From bold ideas to powerful connections, the Summit delivers two days built to challenge and inspire how you think, operate, and lead in performance.
The working programme for 2026 is now live, dive in below.
Before your conversations at the Summit begin, create the conditions for better ones
Before your conversations at the Summit begin, create the conditions for better ones
Join Leaders and BON CHARGE for a guided Yin Yoga and Sound Healing experience designed to help you slow down, reset and prepare for a day of learning and conversations. Combining gentle movement, breathwork and immersive sound healing, this session offers a rare opportunity to step away from the pace of performance and reconnect with your recovery, focus and wellbeing. Suitable for all experience levels.
Rethinking performance communication for athletes making decisions under pressure. In this Daktronics session, in partnership with T1V, we'll explore how to create greater understanding and absorption of key information.
Rethinking performance communication for athletes making decisions under pressure. In this Daktronics session, in partnership with T1V, we'll explore how to create greater understanding and absorption of key information.
In elite sport, coaches rarely struggle to find information. The challenge is communicating the right information at the right moment. During a match, halftime, a substitution or a training intervention, coaches may have only a few seconds to communicate a complex tactical message to an athlete who is fatigued, emotionally engaged and processing multiple stimuli simultaneously. Yet critical context is often fragmented across video clips, analysis tools, presentations, and staff conversations. In this Daktronics session, in partnership with T1V, we’ll explore how to create greater understanding and absorption of key information.
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Setting the intent for two days of human-first performance
Setting the intent for two days of human-first performance
Moving beyond inspiration, turn ideas into action inside your own teams, organisations and environments by connecting to the Summit’s core themes:
How to reshape football to meet the demands of athletes today
How to reshape football to meet the demands of athletes today
Go inside Emma Hayes’ leadership journey, from building one of the most successful teams in women’s football at Chelsea to leading the US Women’s National Team into a new cycle of international competition, including the upcoming 2027 Women’s World Cup in Brazil.
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What is an ‘Octopus Organization’ and how can it make us and our teams more adaptable
What is an ‘Octopus Organization’ and how can it make us and our teams more adaptable
Drawing on their work with executive teams across global organisations, Phil Le-Brun will explore why most organisations do not fail because they cannot change, but because they are trapped in repeated cycles of reset.
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Time to ask your questions
Time to ask your questions
Explore new technologies and help shape how they’re applied
Explore new technologies and help shape how they’re applied
Get closer to emerging technologies and explore how they could be applied within high-performance sport. Hear from SonicBone Medical, using ultrasound technology to assess skeletal age and biological maturation, and Game On Technologies, using automated video technology to support coaching and performance analysis. Then join small-group discussions with fellow performance leaders to test potential applications, explore adoption opportunities and share candid feedback.
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Explore new technologies and help shape how they’re applied
Explore new technologies and help shape how they’re applied
Join Hexis and Entourage AI for an interactive Performance Innovation Lab exploring how nutrition technology, AI and proteomics can support better decision-making in high-performance sport. Hear directly from both companies before joining small-group discussions to explore practical applications, adoption opportunities and where technology can add most value. You’ll have the space to test the thinking, share candid feedback and influence the development of solutions helping to create better performance outcomes.
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Select a session shaped around the challenge most relevant to your environment
Select a session shaped around the challenge most relevant to your environment
Kate will introduce sessions that explore the Summit themes in greater depth. You’ll then choose the session most relevant to you before moving to the corresponding room.
Giving critical decision-making back to the athlete
Giving critical decision-making back to the athlete
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How to communicate with clarity, connection and conviction
How to communicate with clarity, connection and conviction
In this session, you’ll explore:
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Never before have performance teams been able to know so much about an athlete. And increasingly, AI is helping teams process and connect that information faster.
Never before have performance teams been able to know so much about an athlete. And increasingly, AI is helping teams process and connect that information faster.
This session explores how today’s performance teams can bring together data, technology, scientific research and practitioner expertise to create a more complete picture of the athlete, and, crucially, turn that picture into better decisions. From identifying the information that really matters to connecting previously siloed disciplines, discover how performance science can enable more personalised training, sharper interventions and better conversations around the athlete.
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How Ainslie and his team are building Britain’s team to win the 2027 America’s Cup
How Ainslie and his team are building Britain’s team to win the 2027 America’s Cup
From Olympic gold medals to leading Britain’s America’s Cup challenge, Sir Ben Ainslie has built a career on pushing the boundaries of performance. Now, as he prepares GB1 for the 2027 America’s Cup in Naples, AI, advanced engineering and data-driven design are opening new frontiers in competitive sailing.
Leading across the America’s Cup, SailGP and talent development, Ainslie faces challenges that extend beyond the water.
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One idea to test, one conversation to continue and one action to take back
One idea to test, one conversation to continue and one action to take back
Enjoy drinks with your peers at Water's Edge, Fulham Pier
Enjoy drinks with your peers at Water's Edge, Fulham Pier
Before your conversations at the Summit begin, create the conditions for better ones
Before your conversations at the Summit begin, create the conditions for better ones
Join Leaders and BON CHARGE for a guided Yin Yoga and Sound Healing experience designed to help you slow down, reset and prepare for a day of learning and conversations. Combining gentle movement, breathwork and immersive sound healing, this session offers a rare opportunity to step away from the pace of performance and reconnect with your recovery, focus and wellbeing. Suitable for all experience levels.
Putting your learnings from Day 1 into action
Putting your learnings from Day 1 into action
High performance prizes being hard as nails. What happens when that toughness starts holding performance back?
High performance prizes being hard as nails. What happens when that toughness starts holding performance back?
What does it cost your team when someone spots the problem but says nothing? In high-performance environments, the teams who don’t challenge the head coach, or departments that never speak to each other, can quietly undo marginal gains. Drawing on peer-reviewed research and his national Hard As Nails campaign, author and rule-breaker Sam Conniff shows how workplace courage and competitive culture shape performance. And he’ll invite the room to put it to the test, live on stage.
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When teams want to develop their people, we often hear ‘programmes.’ It might be a course, a qualification, a leadership pathway or a block of time away from the day job. These certainly add value and are tried and tested approaches, but can treat development as an add-on. They run for a set period, often sit outside the daily work and can fade once people go back to their day to day.
In this session, Iain Brunnschweiler leads a workshop, alongside insights from Keith Sharpe, 25 Beyond (Former Head of Coach & Leadership Development at British Cycling) and Tash Angel, UK Sport Coaching Network Advisor (UK Sport) to discuss the key principles that make development programmes work, and arguing why embedding these approaches into regular workflows can supercharge your people. You’ll then work with teams in the room to consider how these approaches could fit into your own organisation.
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High-performance sport is full of exceptional people, sophisticated programmes, cutting edge technology and specialist expertise. But does having all the right components necessarily mean we’re deliberately building the Human Capability our future performance requires? What if we started with a different question: What must our people, across the entire organisation, be capable of doing, under what conditions and for how long, to achieve our ambitions?
In this interactive workshop, Rachel Vickery will challenge senior sporting leaders to think differently about how their organisations develop, enable and sustain Human Capability. Drawing on practical examples from elite sport and Special Operations, Rachel will explore how existing expertise, everyday practices, leadership decisions and operating environments can either deliberately develop critical capability or unintentionally compromise it.
Participants will then work individually and with peers to examine whether the capabilities their organisations need are the natural outcome of how they operate, identify opportunities they may be overlooking, and consider what they might currently be leaving to chance.
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This session, led by Performance Advisor Darren Shand, will explore how high‑performance leaders differentiate between driving performance outcomes and cultivating performance growth, and what each philosophy means for long‑term success.
Darren will share real examples from his experience shaping the culture and environment behind the New Zealand All Blacks, prompting you to reflect on where you sit on this spectrum. You will engage in shared discussion and leave with practical ideas to strengthen your approach to building sustainable, high‑performing teams.
When schedules compress and intensify, can athlete care keep pace with the demands of global sport?
When schedules compress and intensify, can athlete care keep pace with the demands of global sport?
Drawing on two global sporting moments, Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Dr. Celeste Geertsema will share with you how these moments:
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How the Knicks built a championship team 53 years in the making
How the Knicks built a championship team 53 years in the making
After more than five decades of near misses, heartbreak and expectation, the New York Knicks are NBA champions once again. In June, the Knicks defeated the San Antonio Spurs to secure its first title since 1973. Behind the breakthrough was a multi-year effort to reshape the organisation, assemble the right roster and build a team capable of delivering when the stakes were at their highest. Gersson Rosas, who joined the Knicks’ front office in 2022 was part of the leadership group behind that transformation.
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Inside the conditions that turn different teams, systems and perspectives into one Lions performance
Inside the conditions that turn different teams, systems and perspectives into one Lions performance
Every four years, players, coaches and staff come together from different teams, systems and cultures to turn team expertise into collective performance. Behind them sits an organisation balancing the demands of the field with commercial priorities and the expectations that come with representing one of rugby’s most iconic institutions. In this conversation, CEO Ben Calveley takes us inside the Lions to explore what leadership from the top can contribute to performance.
From his relationship with the Head Coach and performance staff to creating the conditions for trust, autonomy and alignment, Ben will consider where a CEO should influence the performance environment and when to step back. The conversation will also explore how learning is carried from one Tour to the next, the leadership required when sporting and organisational priorities compete, and how the Lions respond to pressure and expectation. Looking ahead, Ben will share how those lessons are informing preparations for the inaugural Lions Women’s Tour and shaping ambitions towards 2029 and beyond.
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