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.
1. Improving the Athlete Experience through Quality Testing Operations
Discussing the need for consistency, process harmonisation, and quality standards for global testing operations to ensure a fair and respectful process for every athlete.
2. Athlete Whereabouts: Balancing Rights and Regulations
Join athletes and anti-doping experts to discuss the real-world challenges of whereabouts management. Explore how technology and digital tools can improve the quality and efficiency of whereabouts systems for both athletes and administrators.
3. Contamination: A Multi-Faceted Challenge
Unpacking the complex issue of contamination through real-world case studies from legal, scientific, analytical, and athlete perspectives.
4. New Testing Methods: Efficient & Effective Implementation
A practical discussion on how to implement new testing methods, like Dried Blood Spot (DBS), efficiently and effectively.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Athlete Biological Passport (ABP): Improving Efficiency & Scope
Making the ABP smarter, faster, and more effective through multi-stakeholder collaboration by exploring new technologies and accelerating case resolution.
8. Solving the Connectivity Crisis: Connecting the Anti-Doping Community through Technology
Solving the connectivity crisis by exploring solutions for integrating IT platforms across the global anti-doping community.
9. Enhancing Intelligence & Investigations (I&I) Networks
Discuss how to enhance intelligence networks by improving collaboration between anti-doping bodies, law enforcement, and wider sports community.
10. Testing Workforce Expansion: Development & Productivity
Strategies for recruiting, training, and retaining a high-performance anti-doping workforce around the world.
11. 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?
12. 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.
13. Management of Complex Doping Cases
Test your skills in a realistic workshop focused on collaboration in the management of complex cases from end-to-end under the pressure of a major sporting event.
14. Communications & Media Management for High Profile Cases
Essential strategies for managing public pressure and reputational risk when a major doping case hits the headlines.
More sessions to be announced.
