Innovation Day with Quidich Innovation Labs
Scaling Quidich’s Fan Engagement and Sports Media Capabilities for Global Growth
Quidich is looking for innovative companies that can help expand its capabilities across sports broadcasting, fan engagement, immersive experiences, data-driven storytelling, content creation, media technologies and adjacent sports innovation sectors.
Deadline to apply: July 22, 2026
What is an Innovation Day?
An Innovation Day is a GSIC initiative where a sports organization presents a real challenge and selected technology companies showcase solutions tailored to that need.
The objective is to connect industry stakeholders and accelerate the identification of practical solutions that can be implemented in a real operational environment.
The selection process is fully online and open to companies from all over the world. Priority will be given to GSIC members as part of the GSIC global innovation network.
About this edition
Quidich Innovation Labs is looking for innovative companies that can support its global growth by expanding its capabilities across sports broadcasting, fan engagement, sports media, digital experiences, and adjacent sports technology sectors.
Through this Innovation Day, Quidich aims to identify startups, scaleups, and technology companies with solutions that can contribute to its market expansion, strengthen its service offering, and create new opportunities for collaboration, integration, partnership, investment, or potential acquisition.
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About Quidich Innovation Labs
Quidich Innovation Labs is a sports broadcast technology company focused on enhancing live sports coverage through innovative camera systems, artificial intelligence, computer vision, player tracking, augmented reality, and immersive visual experiences.
The company works with broadcasters, sports leagues, rights holders, and production companies to improve storytelling, audience engagement, and the commercial value of sports content.
The Challenge
Quidich is seeking innovative companies that can help accelerate its business expansion by supporting its entry into new markets, geographies, and sports verticals.
The challenge is to identify solutions that are relevant to Quidich’s ecosystem and can demonstrate how they could contribute to the company’s growth. These solutions may be directly focused on broadcast technology or operate in adjacent areas such as fan engagement, digital experiences, data-driven content, sports media innovation, immersive technologies, or other solutions that can add value to Quidich’s current capabilities.
Selected companies will have the opportunity to present their solutions and explore potential strategic fit with Quidich’s business growth priorities.
Support Quidich’s expansion into new markets, geographies, and sports verticals.
Enhance live sports broadcasting, fan engagement, and media innovation capabilities.
Explore opportunities for partnership, integration, investment, or acquisition.
What Quidich Is Looking For
Quidich is interested in companies that can:
- Help expand into new geographic markets and sports verticals.
- Complement, enhance, or expand Quidich’s current broadcast and fan engagement offering.
- Bring new value to broadcasters, leagues, rights holders, production companies, and sports organizations.
- Demonstrate clear traction, product maturity, customer validation, or business potential.
- Explore potential collaboration models such as commercial partnership, technology integration, investment, acquisition, or strategic collaboration.
Relevant Solution Areas
Companies applying may offer solutions in areas such as:
- Fan engagement platforms and digital audience experiences.
- Broadcast technology for live production, graphics, camera systems, data visualization, or storytelling.
- Sports media innovation and content enhancement tools.
- Data-driven content solutions for broadcasters, leagues, and rights holders.
- Immersive visual experiences, augmented reality, AI, computer vision, or player tracking.
- Technologies that can support Quidich’s expansion into new sports, markets, or geographies.
- Complementary products or services that could be integrated into Quidich’s current portfolio.
- Startups or scaleups with potential for partnership, investment, merger, acquisition, or strategic collaboration.
Selection Criteria
Applications will be evaluated based on:
Relevance to sports broadcasting, fan engagement, sports media, or adjacent sports technology sectors
Ability to support Quidich’s market penetration and service expansion objectives
Clarity of product, customers, traction, and business value
Potential for partnership, integration, investment, acquisition, or strategic collaboration
Strategic fit with Quidich’s current capabilities and future growth priorities
Why Apply?
Direct Access to Quidich
Selected companies will have the opportunity to connect directly with Quidich Innovation Labs and present how their solution could support its global growth strategy.
Real Business Opportunities
This Innovation Day is designed to explore real business opportunities, including strategic partnerships, commercial collaboration, technology integration, investment, acquisition, or other forms of long-term collaboration.
Position Your Solution Globally
For companies operating at the intersection of sports, media, technology, and fan engagement, this is an opportunity to position their solution in front of a leading sports broadcast technology company with international growth ambitions.
Previous Innovations Day
Over recent years, GSIC Innovation Days have become a core open‑innovation format, developed in collaboration with leading sports organizations worldwide. Through these initiatives, we work with federations, leagues, clubs, and global brands to address strategic challenges across athlete performance, fan engagement, data monetization, sustainability, health & wellbeing, and digital transformation. Partners include organizations such as FIFA, EHF, US Soccer, Cricket Australia, LaLiga Tech, Red Bull, FIBA 3x3, Sport Lisboa e Benfica, MARCA, and the Spanish Paralympic Committee.
Genoa CFC – Injury Prevention
Genoa CFC Innovation Day attracted over 30 applications offering cutting‑edge solutions in player health and injury reduction.
Grandvalira – Alpine Skiing World Cup: Fan Engagement
The event received more than 20 applications focused on transforming the fan experience at one of the world’s most iconic winter sports competitions.
Dinamo Zagreb – Sponsor Visibility & Analytics
With over 30 high‑quality applications, the event showcased breakthrough technologies designed to redefine how sponsorship is measured.
Success Story:
From Challenge to Collaboration
More than 50 startups had follow‑on engagements with Real Madrid Next, LALIGA, and Cricket Australia, showcasing how the program opens real pathways from innovation to collaboration with flagship organizations.
Apply to the Innovation Day
If your company can help shape the next generation of sports broadcasting, fan engagement, or sports media experiences, we invite you to apply and present your solution to Quidich Innovation Labs.
Apply before July 22, 2026 to be considered for this Innovation Day.
Questions? Contact our team