The Cricket
Innovation
Forum 2026
Where cricket’s decision-makers meet the technologies, ideas, and evidence shaping the future of performance and player welfare.
A focused one-day
forum for
Focussed discussions &
presentations across
Planned agenda
featuring
Connecting the people
shaping cricket's next
performance era.
The Cricket Innovation Forum is a one-day event bringing together the people shaping the future of elite performance, coaching, analytics, rehabilitation, research, technology, and player welfare in cricket.
The focus is practical, evidence-led, and cricket-specific – what works, what needs testing, what can scale, and where the game should go next.
Event details
10 November 2026
Lord's Cricket Ground,
London, UK
Keynotes, panels
and breakouts
Performance, technology
and player welfare
Sponsors & partners
We’re adding speakers, sponsors, contributors & partners as the forum takes shape.
Five content pillars
Performance systems
& player development
Exploring:
- Joined-up performance environments
- Cross-discipline workflows
- Technology in everyday practice
Applied analytics, AI
& decision support
Exploring:
- Data into coaching action
- AI capability versus hype
- Access across levels of the game
Fast bowling, workload
& biomechanics
Exploring:
- Load, fatigue and injury risk
- Biomechanics in the real world
- Useful monitoring versus false precision
Rehab, return to play
& player welfare
Exploring:
- Return-to-play frameworks
- Data and monitoring in rehab
- Risk, uncertainty and alignment
Immersive training,
simulators & XR
Exploring:
- Current cricket use cases
- Representative practice and transfer
- Evidence, adoption and scalability
Built for cricket's innovation community
Organisations
Teams & cricket bodies shaping systems, pathways, and performance decisions.
- Counties & franchises
- Governing bodies & institutes
- Schools & academies
- Indoor cricket centres
Practitioners
Applied staff working across coaching, performance, rehab & medicine.
- Coaching & performance
- Analysts & data science
- Sports science & S&C
- Physio, medicine & rehab
Brands & investors
Technology, product & service providers building new solutions for cricket.
- Performance technology
- Training tools & equipment
- Analytics, data & services
- Injury prevention & rehab
Researchers
Science & evidence leaders testing what works and what transfers to practice.
- Biomechanics & load
- Skill acquisition & learning
- Performance & analysis
- Rehab & player welfare
Inside the forum
Main stage sessions
You can expect:
- The future of cricket performance
- Innovation adoption across the game
- Lab-to-training-ground conversations
Breakout topics
You can expect:
- Performance systems & player development
- Analytics, AI, biomechanics & load
- Rehab & player welfare
Networking & showcase
You can expect:
- Relevant cricket connections
- Product & partnership conversations
- Sponsor & showcase opportunities
Hosted at the
home of cricket
The Cricket Innovation Forum will take place at Lord’s Cricket Ground, bringing cricket’s performance, technology, research, and innovation community together in one of the game’s most iconic settings.
Be part of the first
Cricket Innovation Forum.
Register your interest for event updates, speaker announcements, ticket information, and opportunities to speak, sponsor, exhibit, or partner.
Join the event list
We’ll share updates as the programme develops, including speakers, sponsors, tickets, agenda details, and partner opportunities.
Speak, sponsor, exhibit, or partner
We’re now speaking with people and organisations interested in contributing to the forum as speakers, sponsors, exhibitors, partners, or collaborators.