Conference Program

Program

This program is preliminary and subject to change.

Talks and panels in room 'Ada Lovelace'.
Company exhibition and refreshments in room 'Ljusgården'. (close to 'Ada Lovelace')
Company hands-on session and refreshments at evening June 2 at Scandic Frimurarehotellet, room Pelarsalen.
Lunches at 'Universitetsklubben'.

Speakers and panelists

Invited football session

  • Jesse Davis (KU Leuven)
  • Ola Lidmark Eriksson (Football Analytics Sweden)
  • Pieter Robberechts (KU Leuven)
  • John Wall (Columbus Crew)

Research track

  • Kseniia Buzko, Amir Nazemi, David A. Clausi, Yuhao Chen
    Ice Hockey Action Recognition via Contextual Priors
  • Priyansh Gupta, Mikael Vernblom, Niklas Carlsson, Patrick Lambrix
    A Gaussian Mixture Model Approach for Characterizing Playing Styles of Ice Hockey Players
  • Evan Iaboni, Sebastian Negulescu, Miles Pitassi, Fauzan Lodhi, Tim Brecht
    Individual Puck Possessions Part I: Frequency, Duration, and Distance Travelled
  • Evan Iaboni, Sebastian Negulescu, Miles Pitassi, Amir Nazemi, Jerrin Bright, Vasyl Chomko, David A. Clausi, Sven Dickinson, Tim Brecht
    Position Paper: New Views of Shots - Towards Measures of Net Visibility and Reachability
  • Fauzan Lodhi, Sebastian Negulescu, Miles Pitassi, Evan Iaboni, Tim Brecht
    Individual Puck Possessions Part II: Speed Bursts and Possession Times within Teams
  • Rodney Paul, Nick Riccardi, Hunter Kuchenbaur
    Dropping the Gloves, Driving the Play? Reassessing the Role of Fighting in Modern NHL Games

Community notes

  • Louis Boulet
    Merging Shot Data to Measure Player Importance to Team's Offensive Flow
  • Evan Lawing
    xReboundsPlus, Creating a Statistic to Predict Rebound Quality
  • Lynn LeVatte, Christina Philipps, Shaun Ranni, Sarah Timmons
    Exploring Leadership and Cultural Training Experiences of Ice Hockey Coaches: Lessons Learned from Nova Scotia

Student competition

  • Daniel Griffiths, Piper Moskow (Syracuse University)
    Gaining Momentum: Uncovering Hidden Scoring Dynamics in Hockey through Deep Neural Sequencing and Causal Modeling
  • Yanjie Lyu, Qingxuan Cui, Huaide Liu, Han Xia, Yi Yang (Linköping University)
    Identifying and Analyzing SHL Ice Hockey Match Styles Based on Event Data Aggregation and K-Means Clustering
  • Arun Ramji, Ethan Batiuk (University of Waterloo)
    A Novel Approach to Quantifying Zone Exits
  • Kiran Roye (Ossining High School)
    A Machine Learning Approach to Score Passes Based on Their Offensive Contribution

June 2

11:30-13:00 Registration and lunch, set up for companies

13:00-13:30 Welcome by LINHAC and LINHAC's gold industry collaborators

13-30-14:30 Panel – Analysts
Miika Arponen (Ässät Pori), Martin Lundholm (Skellefteå AIK), Karl Malmquist (Linköping Hockey Club), Erik Lignell (HC Fribourg-Gottéron SA)

14:30-14:45 break

14:45-15:45 Talks - Industry product talks by industry collaborators

15:45-16:15 Talk - Jesse Davis (KU Leuven), common data format for football (online)

16:15-16:45 Talk - Andreas Hänni (49ing) and Olof Simander (Linköping University), LLMs and hockey databases

16:45-17:00 break

17:00-18:15 Panel – industry
Thorsten Apel (Sportcontract), Tom Bertrand (Bearmind), Michael Elmer (KINEXON), Andreas Hänni (49ing), Albin N Maelum (Stretch on Sense)

19:00-22:00 Hands-on session and reception at Scandic Frimurarehotellet

June 3

10:30 – 11:00 Talk Andreas Hänni (49ing), Analytics for officiating in the Swiss League

11:00 – 11:30 Talk Erik Wilderoth (Färjestad BK)

11:30-12:30 lunch

Invited football session

12:30-13:00 Talk John Wall (Columbus Crew)

13:00-13:30 Talk Pieter Robberechts (KU Leuven)

13:30-14:00 Talk Ola Lidmark Eriksson (Playmaker AI)

14:00-15:00 Panel - Sports analytics in use
Tom Bertrand (Bearmind), Ola Lidmark Eriksson (Playmaker AI), Albin N Maelum (Stretch on Sense), Devin Pleuler (Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment)

15:00–15:30 Break

15:00-16:15 3 research talks

16:15–16:45 Break

16:45-18:00 3 research talks

June 4

10:00-10:40 Student competition

10:40-11:20 Community notes

11:20-11:30 break

11:30-12:00 TBA

12:00-12:30 Talk Mikael Svarén (Dalarna University and Riksidrottsförbundet)

12:30-13:30 lunch

13:30-14:00 Talk Robert Bandemer (d-fine) + Karl Schwarzenbrunner (DEB, online), How data enriches the ice hockey game

14:00-14:30 Talk Curtis Harvey and Samuel Howorth (SMT), Skater and goalie workloads using player and puck tracking (online)

14:30-15:30 Panel - Analytics in the NHL (online)
AJ Bernstein (San Jose Sharks), Hassaan Inayatali (Chicago Blackhawks), Miranda McMillan (Montreal Canadiens), Josh Pohlkamp-Hartt (Boston Bruins), David Radke (Chicago Blackhawks), Matthew Hamann (Nashville Predators)

15:30-15:45 break

Session: Media

15:45-16:15 Robin Blidstrand (Blidgency AB)

16:15-17:15 Panel - Analytics in the media
Robin Blidstrand, Andreas Hänni, Mike Kelly, (Meghan Chayka)

17:15 Closing