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Gillian Zucker, master operator at the L.A. Clippers, discussed her unique relationship with owner Steve Ballmer, emphasizing his genuine love for the game. She detailed her career journey, from Hamilton College to roles in PR, sales, and operations. Zucker highlighted the transformation of the Clippers’ fan base and the development of Intuit Dome, focusing on frictionless technology and fan engagement. She shared insights on leveraging data for personalized experiences, such as rewarding loud fans and using facial recognition. Zucker also touched on the Clippers’ commitment to sustainability and efforts to enhance the fan experience through innovative features like the Halo scoreboard and the Wall. 

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For sports franchises built on storied legacies, embracing innovation is a total game-changer— and Gillian Zucker is going long on reimagining the future of sports. We'll hear from this powerhouse president about the winning strategies for leveraging technology in sports  operations, including pioneering initiatives like the tech-enhanced fan journey at the Intuit Dome, home of the LA Clippers–two crown jewels in Steve Ballmer’s Halo portfolio. As stadiums evolve into dynamic, experience-driven destinations, this conversation will explore how v isionary leadership is shaping what comes next. 

CHANGING THE GAME: HOW TECHNOLOGY IS REVOLUTIONIZING SPORTS OPERATIONS

Hello, everyone. All right, so I am dying to know how many of you, uh, prefer to watch a sports game in person versus, uh, on your couch, on your TV. So, show of hands, who prefers it in person? OK, alright, uh, on your couch? All right, all right, it sounds like in person is, is the dominant way to go, which we have the expert here, Gillian, who you've been to over 100 stadiums, is that right, Gillian, in your research for Intuit Dome? Yeah, we just, uh, this past summer, opened the new Intuit Dome, the new home of the LA Clippers. In Los Angeles and as part of that process over the course of 7 years, I visited any facility that I possibly could, some of them sporting facilities, some of them other types of entertainment events. What do you think is the number one thing that makes someone want to come into a stadium versus stay at home, lay on the couch? I think we're in the experiential economy. It's so important to people now to have experiences where they can connect, and I think a lot of that just has to do with how much time we spend looking at our phones and engage with screens. And so when you have an opportunity to do something that sort of forces your head up and forces you to engage with those around you and it's something that's really enjoyable, you want more of it. Yeah, that makes sense now. I don't envy your position because. You have quite the intimidating boss, Clippers owner Steve Ballmer. Talk to me about how you got him to build into a dome, because didn't he come in with the idea that we already have a stadium. I'm buying this team because it's everything's done for me pretty much. Yes, very famously during my job interview with him, I had had some experience in building facilities and I began to tell him about that experience so that eventually. when he wanted to build a new facility for the Clippers, I would be ready to help him to do that, and he stopped me. He said, Stop, stop right there. We are never building a new arena. He's like, This is why I bought this team. It's the best part about the whole thing. I don't have to worry about this. We have somebody else. They manage all of this for us. We don't have to worry about the cleaning the place. We don't have to worry about the capital that's associated with it. This is, this is the best thing about this team. And then a few weeks went by and then maybe a couple more and at that point he said, you know, here's the thing that I didn't realize is you don't have your own home. We shared our arena with another NBA team. We also shared it with a hockey team and a lot of concerts. And so as a result of that there wasn't branding. There weren't the things that make it feel like it has a personality that's associated with your franchise. He was like, we lose home court advantage and we have to fix this. So let's go find a piece of property, and we did. Amazing story. Now you tell me that you've embedded data into every part of Intuit Dome, you know, from shaping staffing plans, from seat assignments, menus once famously overruling Steve Ballmer on a menu placement. Tell us about that and how you integrate this tech into your stadium. You know, I think everybody wishes that they could know everything about their customers. Like, imagine if you could know everything about your customers. And so when we started thinking about Intuit, when you think about a typical Uh, arena experience where you come to a concert or you come to a game, you come in and you may come with let's say 4 people and you have all 4 tickets on your phone. So we would know who you are, but we would not know who those other 3 people are because when you get to the gate, you just swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe. So we essentially know 25% of the people who are coming in, and that's roughly true pretty much across the industry. So in our minds, we said, look, imagine if you could know everyone. So one of the things that we set out. In a dome was to make sure that people understood you have to have your own ticket on your own device when you come into the building, and that enables us to customize the experience. Well, we had to give people something in exchange for that friction that we gave them up front. And so what we said was that if you do that, you can put your phone in your pocket and you will never need it in this facility. It becomes your ticket, it becomes your wallet. It becomes your entry to clubs. It becomes your pass. It also you know, your reward system so we can reward you for behaviors during the game because we know who you are. Can you give me an example of that? Like what's the reward someone would get? Yeah, so one of the things that we have is this really amazing technology that we found that allows us to measure decibel levels down to a single seat. So when we first discovered the technology, it could do that down to about 25 seats, and we met the CEO and we said, Hey, could you get this down to a single seat in 2.5 years when we open? And he said, Yes, I can do it. And he did. And so that allows us to know how loudly each fan is cheering, and we can reward them for that behavior. So every game at the end of the game we actually reward the very loudest fan in the arena and we know exactly who they are and they win things like an autographed James Harden jersey and other fantastic things. And during the playoffs we utilized it. We had a pivotal game 6. We were playing it into a dome. It was must win against the Denver Nuggets and what we had learned through this information was not only who our loudest people were, That cheering's contagious that when you cheer you give the people around you permission to be loud as well. And so we invited the loudest fans and we had them bring a guest so that they can encourage that throughout the arena and help us with home court advantage. So interesting. So can you, you can tell in real time who is actually screaming the loudest. Yes, we can. We don't know what they're saying, but we do know how loud, right? That was my next question. And then how does that relate to, and I don't know if people have heard of the Wall, which is tell us what the wall is. And how that works with the tech you have and maybe you even have some props. I do. I have a couple of problems. So it's important to keep in mind that the whole idea of this building was was to create home court advantage but also to delight people, to bring them kind of more than they would expect, and Intuit Dome has a real personality. It's quite a unique place to see a game. So on one end of the arena is an architectural marvel. It's basically the steepest grandstand code allows, but it's also very comfortable. It has a lot of leg room. It starts in row 1, goes up to row 50. On 4500 people strong and we only let Clippers fans sit there. So you cannot sit there if you're wearing an opposing team jersey, if you're cheering for the other team, we kick you out. And in the middle of it is a standing supporter section that you have to basically audition to come to. But we've made those seats really, really affordable. It's $999 for a season ticket. The trick is your seat gets assigned when you show up. So if you show up early, you're going to sit down low, and if you show up late, we oversell it, so you might be standing and then they come to us and they ask us for all kinds of props. They come up with crazy ideas. I brought a couple of them. Our mascot is Chuck the Condor. Their job is to keep the opposing team from making their free throws. So the time when the opposing team is shooting, they do things like this, and we have this direction, pretty good, and they also all have these. This is our loud cup. This is actually intended to reduce lines at concessions. So bottomless drinks, you have your own cup on one side you sip, and on the other side you chair. Love that sound. OK, I'll come to the audience for a question in a second, but Gillian, I have to ask, you know, with all this, it seems like consumers are putting a lot of trust into you to safeguard their data, all these things, measuring their sounds. How do you ensure that their data is treated with respect and how do you alleviate concerns that people might have about it? were really worried about it, you know, I remember in the beginning how much research we did about this, and what we learned was when you go to people and you ask, how do you feel about facial recognition, they say adamantly opposed to it. I want to have nothing to do with it. And then we say, how do you feel about clear? And they're like, I love clear. And they're like, how do you feel about your iPhone and the ID that you use with your face to open your iPhone? People are like, it's amazing. So what we learned is that there are certain technologies that they really trust and so we went to them. We didn't have any we're a basketball team, we don't build tech. So we went to people who do do this who safeguard people's information that they're comfortable with and we utilize that. Any questions out here in the audience? OK, well, I have another and this is based on uh my own personal background and bias. So I feel like, you know, a lot of legacy sports fans, uh, my dad, a Mets season ticket holder being one of them since the 80s, are really resistant to new tech and, and to changes. They like the old school way it's done. How do you balance that need for tradition when you're dealing with sports also with new technology? Well, I think it's two things. Number one, it's entirely voluntary. So you don't want to do it, you're not comfortable with it, you don't have to. We have other. Mechanisms, but what we found was that a certain number of people would sign up for game face ID before the game, and then we would find that that number would increase by 15 to 20% by the time they left the arena. So what you really need to do is provide them with something that's so incredible, that's so advantageous to their experience that they say, I definitely want this, you know, our concept was, can we eliminate lines? Like, imagine going to a sporting event and not having to wait in line for your hot dog. Yes, it's possible. Come into a dome and you can experience it yourself. How? How do you do that? Well, in a lot of different ways. I mean, one through technology and secondly through architecture. So you know Steve spent so much time talking about the restrooms, and I remember we were saying, oh, we can use technology to kind of indicate where the shortest lines might be to send people to the right place, and he just denied that on its premise. He was like, no, you know this can be solved by just having more. So we did some pedestrian modeling. We had 50% of the people in a single section get up at the same time. Go to the restroom, go to a concession stand. Could we get them back in their seat before the end of the quarter break? And if we could, we had enough restrooms, and if we couldn't, then we kept adding more. So we have over 3100 different fixtures for people. So if you come into a dome, you're not waiting in line for the bathroom. You tell Madison Square Garden. because I'm constantly line again you have a lot of luxuries with a new facility that you don't necessarily have with one that's been very fair. Uh, what is the biggest tech investment that you've made that you don't think hasn't that hasn't paid off yet, I would say, or one that that really flopped that you're really excited about. Um, we have one that actually I'm really excited about, but I don't think it's, it's progressed to the level that we want, but we have a board that's in the facility that when you come in, it actually um specifically greets you. So when I look up at that board, it will say Hi Gillian, welcome to Intuit Dome. You're sitting in and it'll have my section row and seat number and it'll tell me where the. This concession stand is to my seat or it'll tell me something interesting about the game or concert that's coming up. If you were coming in and you were standing right next to me, you would see your name and your seat location, and over 100 people can look at that same board at the same time and all see something different. So it's pretty amazing and it is one of these, you know, we said we weren't going to have any tech for tech's sake in the building. Like we only wanted things that actually enhanced your experience, and this one what we found it does is it it it's exciting enough that it gets people to engage with our face ID so it's helped us to achieve, you know, more buy-in for that. But I think um at the same time at some point when um the detail on it gets better we'll be able to do much more with it and I'm looking forward to that day. One last call for questions. OK, I have one for you. All of this tech sounds really cool but also very expensive at the same time. So what metrics or KPIs do you use to measure the real return on investment for these types of innovations, both in terms of fan engagements and also growth of your business? Steve was pretty clear when we built the building. He, he wanted it to be this incredible experience for fans. I mean, it was built for. Basketball fans, um, but he also wanted to not be dumb about the investment and what he kept saying was like I look at index funds. I need to get the same return on the building as I get on index funds and anything that you can do within that ROI is good by me. So that was basically our metric as we looked at these things and there were a lot of different technologies that we saw that were very expensive that we had to pass on because we couldn't do that and deliver the kind of. ROI, but there were other things, and you know you have to be choosy. What are the things that are going to have the biggest impact? It's, I think it's interesting at the end of the day that some of the things that have had the biggest impact in that building are definitely not the most expensive. Interesting. All right, last question for you. You've kind of just alluded to this. What are some of the craziest tech pitches or ideas that you've gotten that either you didn't consider or or the ones that you did and now they're in there. Yeah, I mean, we had an awful lot around holograms, you know, so there were a lot of different companies that came to us that said they could make holograms of our players or different ways that people could interact with them, and those are wonderful, but they tend to be the kind of thing that people have that interaction once, but by the time they see it multiple times, it's something that people grow weary of. So we were always looking for technologies that would be things that would continue. like excite people. We found all sorts of interactive games that were really popular. I think the things that we try on our Halo boards, so we have this giant two-sided Halo scoreboard, the largest video screen of its kind in any indoor facility. It's a full acre of LED and with this board we're able to do a whole bunch of things like provide a lot of. Statistical information and other opportunities to entertain, but one of the things that we really wanted to do was figure out a way that players could kind of jump out at the board at the fans, and it almost feels like they can reach out and touch you. And so we spent a lot of time focused on that and we're finally able to achieve it midway through the season. Very cool. Well, thank you so much for your time, Elaine. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you.

Saudi Arabia’s push to get more women and girls engaged in sports is working, with over 70,000 girls participating in school football league, in only it’s second year, and the opening of 500 women's sports centers. As part of Vision 2030, the country’s national sports strategy is clearing the way for women’s participation and developing a pipeline for female athletes, as part of the broader campaign to improve quality of life in the Kingdom. What’s next for Saudi's promising female athletes on their journey from amateur to elite, and for the women’s sports in the Kingdom and beyond?

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Please go to fortune.com. Now switching gears, let's talk about sports. Saudi women and girls are participating in sports in record numbers from joining youth leagues to coaching the next generation of promising athletes and competing in national and international competitions. This is all part of the government's national sports strategy. Joining us to discuss this historic initiative is Adwa al-Arifi, the Assistant Minister for sport affairs in the Ministry of Sport for Saudi Arabia. So she's going to be interviewed by Lama Al Hamai, a reporter for Arab News. Please welcome them to the stage. OK, welcome to our session Reaching New Heights. My name is Lehed Hemoy. I'm a reporter with Arab News and the founder and host of the Discussions podcast. We're in store for a treat in this session because we're going to be reaching new heights and discussing about the new heights through Vision 2030. Um, as a Saudi woman that's been living and working in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I've seen firsthand the advancements that have taken place in women in sports, um, from athletes, football players to schools and new programs coming about each and every day. And we're in store for a treat because I have the assistant of Minister for sports at the Ministry of Sports Abel Abife with me on stage to talk about the advancements. Um, I, I wanna ask you initially when Vision 2030 came about in 2016, um, we, we talked about the diversification of economy, but immediately I thought of sports. I thought of culture. I thought of tourism, um, sports wasn't the initial initial topic that came about. It was kind of the second topic. So I want to ask you, why is sports such an important pillar of Vision 2030 and looking at it now in 2025, what is the biggest advancements we've seen in the past couple of years? Can you hear me? Yes, thank you. It's a pleasure to be with you all here today and to whoever is here for the first time in Saudi Arabia, I would like to welcome you and our beloved country, and I hope you're enjoying your time here in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Going to your question, um, why is sports important for Saudi? Because it's important for our people, for our nation. It makes us happier, healthier every day. Speaking of Vig 2030, Vision 2030 was launched back in 2016 by His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince Prince Mohammad bin Salman. This vision, vision 2030, has quality of life at the heart and core of that vision. As part of quality of life, we have sports, entertainment, tourism, and culture. So if we look at sports, we started working on our national sports strategy, and we say when we say national sports strategy, it's not about the strategy of the Ministry of sports, but it's the whole nation's strategy. So we focus on three main pillars in this strategy. The first pillar is mass participation. And we're proud to say that today more than 50% of Saudis are physically active, which that percentage before Vigen 2030, it was only 13%, so that number jumped from 13% to 58%. And we target how can we have more people into physical activity to get people more healthier, happier, and more active on their daily lives. The second main pillar is amateur to elite. So how can we identify talent from a young age? Boys and girls, how can we identify that talent? His Royal Highness, the Minister of Sport, Prince Abdel Aziz Binky, launched Mad Academy 4 years ago. Mad Academy is um across the whole kingdom of Saudi Arabia focusing on identifying uh talent from a young age in collaboration with Ministry of Education. The third pillar, which is elite. How can we as Saudis perform better in elite performance in international competitions? And we're proud to say that we've in the previous years female sports was new to Saudi, but we're proud that we had for the first time a female athlete qualifies to the Olympics, Dua Bota, who qualified in taekwondo and competed. To the last, she was very close to get a medal in Paris Olympics. So, um, so this is, this is our strategy. Those are our main pillars, and this is our focus, and whatever we do is for our people and our nation. And we've seen the success we've um, but there had to have been challenges along the way. I don't want to only touch upon the positive because it's a difficult journey through a transformation there might be resistance and there might be difficulties. So I wanna ask you, what were the hurdles involved in getting women in sports in Saudi Arabia? Um, to be honest, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, as part of Vision 2030, have removed all hurdles, and let me speak about my own journey. Sports is my passion since I was a young girl, and limited opportunities were back then, but that did not stop us. We played sports. I played soccer, football back then, had the first female team in Rio and a community league as well. Um, back then I've never imagined that the kingdom of Saudi Arabia will have a national team, a women's national team, or a league, an official league within within the kingdom. But today we went from not having national teams or leagues to today having 4 women national football teams. The first team. Under 20, under 17, and under 15, we have our Premier League, which has more than 10 clubs, female clubs playing in the Premier League, and it's the only league in the region that is broadcasted internationally and has global sponsorships as well. We have the first division, the 2nd division. We've launched the Schools league 3 years ago and for the first season we had more than 70,000 girls playing football in schools. So I think whatever we're doing is working. So other than that there are a lot of reforms that happened as part of Vi2030. So back in 2017, PE was introduced for girls' schools. 2018 girls and females were allowed to enter the stadiums. Um, 2018 women were allowed to drive in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and by law, all sporting federation needs to have a female seat in that federation to ensure the progress and and the transformation in women's sport in that sport. So these are all reforms that happened and personally we're living our dreams today and challenges were all removed. Exactly. They really were standing before me as an assistant minister, but for those of you that don't know, I think. Saudis, majority of Saudis know that Awa was one of the early trailblazers in football, by the way, in 2006, she was a legend in the very, very early on before Vision 2030 changes, she was the one leading the football sector and quite literally uplifting women around her way before Vision 2030 came to fruition. So please give her a round of applause. Honestly, we're setting for our legends. You're very humble. I know it's a team effort and the panel afterwards, my colleague Alia Rashid, who is leading women football in the Saudi Football Federation, she'll speak more about it, so I don't want to ruin. No, of course. I want to ask you, how do you change the cultural norms around sports participation in Saudi Arabia? Um, so whatever we're doing, we do, so our national sports strategy is catered for all. Uh, it's not only for men, it's not only for women, it's for, for everyone. And what we do is to open opportunity for all so we ensure that we have access for everyone, and that's the reason why we've went from 30 sporting federations before Virgin 2030 to today having more than 97 sporting federations to ensure that we have an opportunity for every single person living in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia to try any kind of sport that they would wish for. So whatever we do, it's a personal choice. If you would like to enter the sports sector or be physically to be more physically active or to join any kind of sport, then the opportunity is there. So our role is not to change the cultural norms. We're our culture. We respect um uh um anyone's decision, but the opportunity is there to welcome everyone to be part of the transformation and to be part of the sports sector. I want to ask this question for anyone visiting the kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the first time or doesn't really know about sports in Saudi. When we think of Saudi Arabia, obviously we think of football. If you're thinking internationally, you can't help but think of football and some of the football legends we have here. But what are some of the other sports drawing attention in Saudi Arabia? So we're a football nation, so everyone watches football, plays football, so definitely football is is is one of the most popular sports in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. However, because sports is transforming within the kingdom. Um, so we find demand in all sports. So from paddle to e-sport to martial arts, Dunya Botale, for example, who is our first female that qualified to the Olympics, qualified in taekwondo. So demand is is moving. Very quick across all sports, so we see every day new athletes coming into the sports sector, and we have a whole new generation that is entering the sports sector across different, different sports. So there is no one popular sport. It's the demand is across all. And obviously we've seen Formula One, we've seen Formula E, we've seen the WTA being hosted right here in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Um, why is the Ministry of Sports driving for this transformation and investing so heavily in these international sports in Saudi Arabia? Um, so as I mentioned, whatever we do is for our people, for our nation, and let me give you an example of the WTA finals that we've hosted last year. The hosting of those events is to inspire our people. We're a young nation. 60% of the population are below the age of 30. Um, so when you see young girls attending the WTA and looking at, looking at those professional athletes, they get inspired to be that athlete one day, and we've worked on different programs across tennis, and during that WTA final we had more than 30,000 girls playing tennis because they are inspired from that that event. So that's an example. Another example is E1. Which is electric boat racing. We've hosted that and we're very proud of Medan, who you'll see in the next panel who won as a first, not only a first female but 1st 1st Arab that wins that race, and she's a Saudi female. So because of hosting the E1, we've realized that we have a talented athlete that became a champion. We're approaching the last few minutes of our session. I have one final question for you. What would success look like for you in your journey, in your career as assistant minister? How would you define success? So I think we we're living in a golden era today. So what we're witnessing today is success. When I was a young girl, I've never dreamt to work in sports, let alone looking at all the girls that are today involved in sport. Um, on behalf of all the girls that are passionate in sports, um, we are living our dreams, and this is the success we we we talk about. It is, I think we're seeing it firsthand. I have so many friends that are competitive athletes. This wouldn't have been possible to say in Saudi Arabia back in the day. And I think if it's OK to say this, we were talking backstage, we said that Saudi Arabia isn't working on catching up right now. We've already exceeded it. I think we're leading at the front line when it comes to women in sports. Yeah, definitely it's one of the fastest countries in the world that is growing in in in sports and Um, we might have been late, but we've already exceeded a lot of countries in terms of the progress that are happening, and we're one of the few countries in the world that applied equal pay for our athletes, which is the showcases that. So this showcases the progress that we're going through um and that it's it's real and um and we have equality across all sports and equality and progress in such a short amount of time when we think of Vision 2030, it wasn't that long ago that it was announced. Look at it now, the advancements are. Remarkable, and I've never seen anything like it anywhere around the world and for we're visiting Saudi Arabia, you might read about it on the news you might talk to friends, but being here in person firsthand speaking to Saudi women across this forum and listening to these panels, I hope that we can convey the true message of what's happening here in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. That's all the time that we have. A thank you so much for your time. Please give a round of applause. Thank you so much

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