Mp & Silva Confirmed As #sibc Partner
Sport Industry Group has announced leading international media rights company MP & Silva as a supporting partner to the Sport Industry Breakfast Club.
MP & Silva, which owns, manages and distributes television media rights, has a portfolio that provides over 10,000 hours of programming to over 200 broadcasters in 215 countries.
MP & Silva will support the Sport Industry Breakfast Club, the industry’s number one networking event series, incorporating international stakeholders and key clients throughout the year across its four events.
The Sport Industry Breakfast Club will kick off its 2016 schedule on 10th March with Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson and Damian Collins MP to discuss how sport can use recent negative stories for positive future development.
Judy Murray has also been confirmed to take to the stage and offer her expertise on driving tennis participation, increasing physical activity and commercial support at all levels on 8th June.
Commenting on the partnership, Marco Auletta, CEO, MP & Silva, said: “MP & Silva is proud to be a partner of the Sport Industry Breakfast Club. It has a truly comprehensive network of members across and around sport, and is the perfect forum for decision makers to share experience and opinions. There’s never been a more exciting time to be a key player in the sports industry. Technology is pushing boundaries, and reshaping the ways fans around the world enjoy sports. At MP & Silva we are already seeing how sports and entertainment are very much content driven and the change is already happening.”
Nick Keller, chairman, Sport Industry Group, added: “MP & Silva are a major player in sport and sit at the heart of a truly exciting space, as broadcast and media rights continue to have an increasingly dramatic impact on how sport is funded and how fans consume sport. We are extremely pleased to welcome one of the biggest names in the business to the Sport Industry Breakfast Club.”
Memberships are still available for the Sport Industry Breakfast Club 2016, with access to all four events available for £495 + VAT, find out more here.
Doors open at 8am for an hour of networking with key representatives from the sport industry, before a 45-minute panel interview begins. There is then further opportunity for networking following the on-stage discussion.
Further dates and speakers for the Sport Industry Breakfast Club will be announced soon.
