PROGRAM

Program Sessions (provisional)

Our program is structured around five key areas, with each session designed to provide practical, operational solutions and foster actionable strategies for the global anti-doping community. These interactive sessions focus directly on the implementation and day-to-day realities of delivering world-class anti-doping programs.

FAIR & EFFICIENT ATHLETE EXPERIENCE

1. Improving the Athlete Experience through Quality Testing Operations
Discussing the need for consistency, process harmonisation, and quality standardisation for global testing operations to ensure a fair and respectful process for every athlete.

2. Athlete Whereabouts: Balancing Rights and Responsibilities
This round table discussion will feature athletes and anti-doping experts discussing the real-world challenges of whereabouts management. The session will focus on the 365-day impact on athletes' lives and the balance between the system's effectiveness and its infringement on privacy. It will also explore how technology and digital tools could improve the quality and efficiency of whereabouts systems, while considering the ethical implications of new technologies like location-based services.

3. Contamination: A Multi-Faceted Challenge
Unpacking the complex issue of contamination through real-world case studies from legal, scientific, analytical, and athlete perspectives.

INNOVATION & IMPLEMENTATION OF DATA & SCIENCE IN TESTING

4. Smart Testing: Using Data Analytics for More Effective Testing
Discover how leading organisations are using data analytics and AI to pioneer the next generation of smart testing.

5. The Future of Dried Blood Spot Testing: From Research to Practice
A deep dive into Dried Blood Spot (DBS) testing, from the latest science and practical implementation challenges facing anti-doping organisations today, to its current and future role in anti-doping.

ENHANCING COLLABORATION & CONNECTIVITY

6. Connecting the Anti-Doping Community through Technology
Solving the connectivity Gaps by exploring solutions for integrating IT platforms across the global anti-doping community.

7. Enhancing Intelligence & Investigations (I&I) Networks
Discuss how to enhance intelligence networks by improving collaboration between anti-doping bodies, law enforcement, and the wider sports community.

PRODUCTIVITY & OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

8. Testing Workforce Expansion: Development & Productivity
Strategies for recruiting, training, and retaining a high-performance anti-doping workforce around the world.

9. Designing an Anti-Doping Program from Scratch: New and Emerging Sports
Where do you start when building an effective anti-doping program from the ground up for new, emerging sports or urban sports?

10. Laboratory Challenges & Solutions
An open and honest look at the critical funding and operational pressures facing laboratories and the knock-on effect for the entire anti-doping system.

NAVIGATING COMPLEX CASES & CRISES

11. Communications & Management of Complex, High Profile Cases
Essential strategies for managing public pressure and reputational risk when a major doping case hits the headlines and looking at how those cases are managed internally, from end-to-end, under the pressure of a major sporting event.

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