Main Challenge - Fan Experience

This theme is about turning fans into active participants. Participants are challenged to create immersive solutions using XR, gamification, and interactive platforms to deepen fan engagement and create new ways to experience sports.

Challenge Experts

Anrijs Brencāns

Mentor / Latvia

Anrijs Brencāns Founder & CEO, Fan Apps ltd. (UseAward.com) Sports-tech founder from Latvia building UseAward, an AI-powered fan engagement and data platform helping clubs and leagues turn audience…

Skills: Business Sport Tech

Gatis Gudelis

Mentor / Latvija

I am an enthusiast of IoT and connectivity technologies. My professional career has developed from remote reading of various energy meters to becoming the B2B product manager at Tele2 Latvia. I have …

Skills: Business Tech

JORDANE CZAPSKI

Mentor / Lithuania

I’m Jordane, and I’ve spent 18 years at Decathlon working across retail, logistics, supply, digital, and production, in France, China, Thailand, Latvia, and across the Baltic countries. I love conne…

Skills: Business Sport

Kristaps Zaļais

Mentor / Latvia

I’ve spent the past decade helping students and startups turn ideas into working businesses. At Rīga Stradiņš University, I lecture on practical entrepreneurship and business model design, and I’ve a…

Skills: Business Design Sport

Marina Petrakova

Mentor / Latvia

I help founders navigate the development of their business idea through product, design, AI tools, various technologies, and marketing. Additional expertise in Medicine, Neuroscience, Behavioral Scie…

Skills: Business Design Science Tech

Marta Rautenschild

Mentor / Latvia

I believe that capital follows character. Trust, friendship, and long-term collaboration build more value than any spreadsheet ever could. If we don’t enjoy talking, there’s no reason to talk busine…

Skills: Business

Rasmus Kalep

Mentor / Estonia

Hey! I am Rasmus an enthusiast at connecting people and building new startups in the TalTech Startup Centre. I have experience in business development and also sports, as I have been a sailor for 15 …

Skills: Business Sport

Salvis Roga

Mentor / Latvija

Business support volunteer over 15 years. Value proposition, target market, funding, networking. Liepaja city as Sandbox for Your project. Last 3 years responsible for development of sport ecosystem…

Skills: Business Sport