đ Challenge The Future of Play 2025
đ Challenge The Future of Play 2025
Transform the future of play for youth engagement! đ Showcase your innovation and compete on the global stage. Apply now!
Sport Innovation Challenge - The Future of Play Results
After an intense challenge that lasted over 4 months and saw over 30 ideas, the Final of the 2025 Sport Innovation Challenge - The Future of Play took place on 13 May 2025 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The challenge The Future of Play in Sport took a broader lens, exploring how play, creativity, and connection can reshape how people engage with movement and physical activity in their everyday lives.
The 5 finalists gave it their all during their 2-minute pitches, each followed by a 3-minute Q&A with the judges, and responded with a range of solutions addressing athlete performance, operational efficiency, accessibility, and fan experience.
Let's Discover who the Grand Winners are!
Let's Discover who the Grand Winners are!
Congratulations to the winners!
On top of the cash prizes, all 5 semi-finalist startups will benefit from 1-on-1 executive coaching by Anthropy Partners, helping them scale their business.
Presage Technologies
Winner – First Place
Presage Technologies blended immersive tech, art, and physicality to reimagine how people experience space. Their interactive installations invite movement and exploration, unlocking new ways to engage diverse audiences in active play.
Equip Sport
Second Place
Equip Sport addressed inclusivity head-on with a platform that facilitates the sharing of adaptive sports equipment—removing financial and logistical barriers to access.
MoveAhead
Third Place
MoveAhead a movement analytics platform turning passive screen time into personalised play, helping kids build movement competence and confidence.
Congratulations to the Finalists
Presage Technologies
Presage Technologies provides a robust means of producing physiological data using only a camera. In the sports context, They have a patent pending for our unique ability to produce assessments of hypovolemia using only a consumer grade camera.
MoveAhead
MoveAhead is a movement analytics platform built on kids’ data and science, turning passive screen time into active play, delivering personalised movement games and performance insights that build movement competence and confidence in kids globally.
Exoligamentz
Exoligamentz has developed a patented second-skin sports glove that offers advanced finger reinforcement for contact sports, seamlessly integrating with the hand’s anatomy.
Equip Sport
Equip Sport makes sports more accessible by bringing equipment directly where activities take place, promoting healthy lifestyles sustainably. With 400+ stations in cities like Paris or London 85% of users report being more active thanks to our solution.
Rezon
Brain injury in sport is a global high-profile concern. There exists no wearable technology product combining brain protection, clinical brain injury detection, and performance enhancement for use in sport until now with Rezon Halos and Halos Edge.