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Stadium Tech Report

May 28th, 2026

Editorial

From features to frictionless: how stadium CIOs can turn new tech into real fan engagement

Driving fan engagement with new stadium technology sounds easy on paper. Deploy better Wi-Fi, roll out mobile apps, layer in AI, and watch the experience transform. In reality, driving fan engagement is far messier. The sports industry has no shortage of innovation, yet adoption remains a struggle. The gap between deploying technology and getting fans to actually use it remains...

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Measuring what never happened

How sports venues are moving from dashboards to decisions If a fan enters a concession line, waits several minutes, and leaves without buying anything, how much revenue did the venue lose? The answer exists but finding it will require some digging. At every game, some fans wait in ticketing or concession lines and ultimately walk away without making a purchase....

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When everyone owns technology decisions, no one wins

Technology runs through every part of a modern sports organization. It supports the business office and the coaching staff. It runs the venue, drives the fan experience, and underpins most of the systems that generate revenue. As a result, it is also something that everyone in the organization touches, influences, or makes decisions about, whether they think of themselves as...

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Stop hiring AI interns: your venue deserves better

Nine years of running AI agents across hundreds of venues has taught me one thing: the technology is never the hard part. Every week, I sit across from a stadium executive holding a list. Twenty items, sometimes thirty, are on their AI wish list. While the list is always ambitious, it’s almost never organized around what the venue actually needs....

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The bottleneck has moved. Is your network ready?

For the better part of a decade, high-density Wi-Fi was a game of managing scarcity. Spectrum was the constraint. Everything we did as engineers, including antenna design, channel planning, and feature development was about extracting performance from a limited resource. We got very good at it. But we were always working around the same fundamental ceiling. Six gigahertz broke that...

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From broadcast booth to AI fabric: why stadiums are becoming technology platforms

Stadiums have historically treated broadcast, IT, and building systems as separate domains, each justified and optimized on its own terms. This approach has led to duplicated infrastructure, fragmented data, and operational complexity that continually increases as new systems and functions are added. To simplify operations and cut costs, a new model is emerging in which systems share a common IP-based...

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