Rich Buchanan Blog: Taking Injury Risk Forecasting Beyond the Black Box There is growing interest in the role of predictive analytics in sport, where such extensive data collection now provides an exciting opportunity for the development and utilisation of such models
High Performance Rich Buchanan: Fit For Every Game Q&A with Damian Roden In this Q&A, Zone7’s Performance Director, Rich Buchanan delves deeper into Damian’s work, probes him on his philosophy, and aims to better understand how he goes about applying innovations, such as Zone7.
Artificial Intelligence Rich Buchanan: Demystification of AI in the Injury Mitigation Process As more datasets are fed into AI systems, improved capability and accuracy will accelerate. This perpetual capacity for AI injury risk forecasting systems to improve makes AI systems like Zone7 truly fascinating.
Artificial Intelligence Validation Study: Injury Risk Forecasting with Zone7 AI The potential positive impact of applying an AI injury forecasting system such as Zone7 could be hugely significant across sports. We believe it will only be a matter of time.
Partnership Zone7 Partners with Association of Sporting Directors Zone7 and ASD will create a relevant professional development curriculum around AI application and injury risk forecasting best practices in professional football.
Zone7 Zone7: Top 10 Milestones in 2021 It’s been a momentous year of growth for Zone7 and we’re capping off 2021 in style by compiling our ‘Top 10’ milestones achieved over the last 12 months.
Major League Soccer Zone7 and LAFC Partner to Reduce Player Injury Risk Zone7, the AI-driven human performance platform, and Los Angeles FC (“LAFC”) have today announced a strategic partnership that will see the leading Major League Soccer team adopt Zone7’s injury risk solution within its coaching and medical departments.
Rich Buchanan: Making Sports Performance Innovation a Sustainable Success In my first blog piece I wrote about the importance of horizon scanning for responsible innovation and how I personally identified Zone7 as being a major technological innovation that will
Case Study: Rangers Reclaim SPFL Championship in debut season with Zone7 Rangers ended their campaign having not only achieved their objective of winning the SPFL title, but doing so by a convincing 25-point margin and with 52% less injuries.
Rich Buchanan: The Importance of Responsible Innovation in High Performance Environments As a medical and performance practitioner working in professional sport, the role has at times been very reactive in nature – dealing with injuries as they happen and having to be
AI The Three Codes of Commercial AI Creation Three core principles have been essential to our successful creation and commercialization of AI products. I believe that without following them, no amount of data or capital can optimize legitimate algorithms.
Can AI offer protection that the game’s custodians cannot? FIFA’s ambition to play a World Cup every two years seems on an inexorable path to completion. From a position of opposition when he was a coach, Arsene Wenger
LaLiga Zone7 Partners with Valencia CF to Augment Player Availability and Performance Zone7 will analyze Valencia CF first squad players’ biometric, biomechanical, and positioning data, uncover injury risk patterns invisible to the human eye, and provide suggestions to help players reach their full potential with lower incidents of damage and burnout.
Injury Cost in the Premier League We have taken projected salaries for every player in the Premier League in 2020/21 and performed league-wide calculations on a per-player level.
AI Can AI disrupt insurance markets in sports and wellbeing? Zone7 has the potential to be a protective measure to policyholders within the sports industry. Just as a burglar alarm is able to alert a home-owner to danger of a robbery, Zone7’s alert system is able to inform an athlete, coach, or physio to the risk of an injury.
Company Growth Zone7 Secures $8 Million in Series A to Scale AI-Driven Human Performance Offering Eyal Eliakim and I are extremely proud to announce this milestone. The work continues as the company grows. But this is the right time to acknowledge that an entire village is contributing to this journey.
Tour de France Team Qhubeka NextHash partners with Zone7 for AI-driven injury prevention Technology and data has been at the forefront of Doug Ryder’s philosophy since he first forged his ambitious dream to take an African team to the Tour de France more than a decade ago.
LaLiga AS: Medical report questions injury crisis in LaLiga By definition, a pandemic is an epidemic disease that spreads to many countries or that affects almost all individuals in a locality or region. Sadly, we have become familiar with this term in the last year. Beyond COVID-19, the real pandemic that affects Spanish soccer is injuries.
Case Study: Hull City, EFL League One Champions The net result? Returning to the Championship at the first time of asking.
Zone7 and GSI Performance Announce Partnership Introducing Risk Forecasting to Contact Sports Collaboration designed to help coaches increase performance levels, mitigate injury risk, and extend career longevity.
How I see European football after 2 years in the industry Before starting Zone7, I was one of the first product managers at Salesforce to create and ship enterprise tools with artificial intelligence (AI) capability. This is where I met Eyal,
Human Performance Decorated Human Performance Specialist Rich Buchanan Joins Zone7 as Performance Director PALO ALTO, CA., March 8, 2021 -- Zone7, the AI-driven human performance platform, has appointed Rich Buchanan as Performance Director, to support the company’s rapid expansion across the professional
Human Performance Predictive Guidance: The Next Phase of Human Performance In a new reality where athletes are experiencing less rest time, more pandemic-induced uncertainty, and greater disruption to training, retroactive analysis and reactive insights only tell half a story.
Soccer Former FIFA World Player of the Year Nominee Rebecca “Bex” Smith Joins Zone7 as Strategic Advisor “Zone7 has made it clear their mission is to proactively protect athletes’ health and ensure career longevity. Their technology looks at players as human beings first and has enjoyed proven success among early adopters. I look forward to joining the Zone7 team on this exciting journey.”
Sports Technology Building efficient workflows – Why Salesforce bought Slack (and every other company it’s bought). And it works, too. Zone7 has reported a 70% reduction in incident rates amongst clients, which include professional sports teams, such as Rangers, Getafe CF, and several other clients competing in Champion’s League, NBA and MLB.
