Webinar: Innovation & Leadership in Sports by Sportico

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Speakers

Val Ackerman

Commissioner, Big EAST Conference

Val Ackerman was named the fifth Commissioner of the BIG EAST Conference on June 26, 2013. She spent eight years as an attorney and executive at the National Basketball Association, was the founding President of the Women’s National Basketball Association, and is a past President of USA Basketball, which oversees the U.S. men’s and women’s Olympic basketball program. She also served for two terms as the U.S. representative to the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Women Leaders in College Sports and the Board of Directors of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

Val is a 1981 graduate of the University of Virginia, where she graduated with high honors with a B.A. in political and social thought and was a three-time captain and Academic All-American on the women’s basketball team. She received her law degree from UCLA in 1985.

Scott Soshnick

Editor-in-Chief, Sportico

Josh Walker

Co-Founder and President of Sports Innovation Lab

About

Uniting the sports business community with a series focused on leadership, innovation and action, where no questions are off the table and all questions are in bounds.

Sportico and Sports Innovation Lab are thrilled to combine our content, expertise and leadership. We’ll co-produce a monthly series of conversations with the impact players and visionaries that lead the industry, while charting the course for the future of leagues, teams and related businesses.

Co-hosted by Sportico Editor-In-Chief, Scott Soshnick, and Sports Innovation Lab’s President and Co-Founder, Josh Walker, each conversation will focus on leadership, innovation and action. No questions will be off the table.