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24th & 25th September 2026
Life & Mind Building
Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RF
Registration to attend the Annual Podium Institute Conference on Sports Medicine & Technology 2026 is now open!
This year’s event will take place in the University of Oxford’s newly opened Life and Mind Building, and will be hosted by the Podium Institute Director, Professor Constantin Coussios OBE FREng. Building on the success of our past two annual events, attended by over 120 international experts, this year’s conference will bring together leading researchers, clinicians, and innovators to explore advances at the intersection of sports medicine and emerging technologies.
The conference will be split into four core themes
with focus on the development, application, and validation of innovative technologies such as Wearables, Digital Health & Remote Monitoring; Computer Vision; Imaging & Neuroimaging; Personal Protective Equipment (PPE); Biomarkers; Biomechanics and many more, to transform sport safety across the youth, community and professional sports.
| Speaker | Organisation |
|---|---|
| Dr Karen Jones | Rugby Football Union |
| Dr Charlotte Cowie | British Olympic Association |
| Professor Conor Walsh | Harvard University |
| Professor Ann McKee | Boston University |
| Professor Sanjay Sharma | St George’s, University of London |
| Professor Anthony Kontos | University of Pittsburgh |
Find the full list of keynotes and more information about the conference on our Conference pages. The full programme will be announced in the coming weeks. Please share widely with your network. We look forward to seeing you there!
Registration will close on Monday 7th September 2026.
ABOUT THE PODIUM INSTITUTE
The Podium Institute for Sports Medicine and Technology at the University of Oxford, is the world’s first independent academic institute focused on the safety and lifelong health of youth and grassroots, as well as professional, athletes. Its purpose is to inspire and forge evidence-based changes in sport and physical education, and to develop innovative and scalable technologies to monitor, analyse and ultimately prevent sport injury across the 22 million adults and 3 million children who participate in sport annually across the UK, as well as the hundreds of millions who partake in amateur and professional sport internationally.
For queries, please contact podiuminstitute@admin.ox.ac.uk
For more information visit our Conference page.