SVG Europe Audio: Sports Audio Summit 2025 announced with speakers from OBS, Riot Games, Sky Sports and more
SVG Europe Audio is pleased to announce the Sports Audio Summit 2025, which is taking place on Wednesday 19 November at Kings Place, Kings Cross, London. Speakers from OBS, Riot Games, Sky Sports and more will be sharing their audio views and news on the biggest sports events and most spectacular technological breakthroughs and trends from around Europe and beyond in the region’s top annual sports broadcasting audio event.
Find out more about the programme for Sports Audio Summit here
The full day event, sponsored by Audio-Technica, will consist of panels and presentations from a plethora of the top people working in live sports broadcasting sound, and will include plenty of time for networking.
Our keynote – ‘Powder and ice: Looking ahead to the sound of Milano Cortina’ – will be given by Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) sound design and audio manager, Nuno Duarte, who will provide a preview of what we can expect to hear from the slopes, as well as what challenges are being faced by his team in capturing the sounds of snow and ice.
In ‘Production virtualisation for audio in outside broadcast’ we will hear from Alex Judd, Sky Sports technical specialist, alongside outside broadcast companies, talking about the audio on new hybrid production models and designing flexible trucks that can be fully remote controlled or operated on site.
We will also hear from Alex Rybalko, Riot Games senior manager of broadcast engineering, in ‘Follow the sun: Riot Games on its evolution of esports audio’. Rybalko will talk about how the esports pioneer’s new Remote Broadcast Centre (RBC) powered by AWS in Seattle, US – which joins the first RBC in Dublin, Ireland – is revolutionising esports audio production.
Additionally, looking at the European live sports broadcast community, in ‘Another brick in the wall: Students in audio’, we will explore how the new generation of audio engineers and guarantees that are out there, looking at audio in live sports production and hoping to join the crews that bring all the action to TV screens across Europe, perceive this industry – from what interests them, to what they hope to gain from a career in this area.
The SVG Europe Audio team of editor Heather McLean and independent consultant, Roger Charlesworth, will be on hand to ensure the day goes smoothly.
More speakers will be announced soon.