OpenTrack Update: All About AthTech, and We're Hiring!
Some very important updates from the world of athletics data
Fewer shiny new features for you this week, but we promise it’s worth it, as we get to bring you some great opportunities for anyone looking to get involved in athletics behind the scenes.
In this update:
We’re Hiring!
AthTech Conference, 7-9 October
Open Athletics Forum
Read on for details on joining the OpenTrack team, attending the 2025 AthTech conference, or making the most of the Open Athletics Community Group web forum!
We’re Hiring!
We’re looking for support interns and technical support interns for this season and beyond!
If you have a few hours available each week, and want to gain great work experience for technical and project-based industries, while working to support athletics, get in touch!
AthTech Conference, 7-9 October
We’re proud once again to be involved in the 6th Athletics Technology Conference (AthTech), taking place 7-9 October in San Marino!
AthTech is a place for anyone to showcase what’s new, shiny, and digital in athletics, and to get together to try and solve common problems facing the sport.
Attending AthTech
The conference is free, and sponsored and organised by European Athletics, who cover the costs for one person from each member federation. Anyone else is welcome to attend, for the cost of hotel and meals only.
What’s on the agenda?
The agenda takes shape in a ‘bottom-up’ manner, with attendees encouraged to raise topics on a forum (more on that below). Details of how to register will be published shortly — keep an eye out here.
We can, however, confirm that the agenda will feature An Dang Duy, World Athletics CIO, taking us behind the scenes of the World Athletics Championships, which will have happened just a fortnight before in Tokyo.
The history of AthTech
OpenTrack can proudly claim to have helped found AthTech, and sit on the organising committee.
First hosted in Madrid in 2016 with participants from 16 countries piggybacking a day of talks onto a larger conference, it was the first time that the people working hard under the surface to deal with stats, rankings, entries and athlete databases had come together in one place.
This continued with conferences in the Algarve, Portugal (2017); Gijon, Spain (2018), Zadar, Croatia (2021); and Malta (2023).
At the beginning OpenTrack took registrations and it was very much a community-run event, but from 2021 it grew too big for volunteers, and European Athletics has taken over, providing professional management and sponsorship, and World Athletics regularly attend.
Open Athletics Forum
If you’re involved in athletics data and want to be involved outside of an annual conference, the Open Athletics Community Group operates an open discussion forum year round, found here.
Contained within is a call for proposals and topics at this year’s AthTech conference — get submitting!
We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week, but until then, as always, if you have any feedback, requests, or want help bringing your athletics into the 21st century, feel free to get in touch at info@opentrack.run.