For the first time ever, the 12th Annual Opta Forum is heading to the U.S.!
On June 3rd 2025, in NYC, we’re bringing together top executives from across global and U.S. sports media and content to explore how data and AI are reshaping how fans are reached, stories are told, and revenue is grown.
With the men’s 2026 FIFA World Cup on the horizon, we’ll spotlight how soccer’s momentum can serve as a launchpad – not just for the sport itself, but for how the entire U.S. sports ecosystem evolves its approach to fan engagement and storytelling.
If you’re a media, content, marketing, or commercial exec, and your goal is to tell better sports stories, engage fans for longer, and grow your viewers, subscribers, users, customers, and sponsors, register now to be on the list for our exclusive, invite-only full-day event.
The Opta Forum is the premier meeting place for the leading figures in sports storytelling. Since 2014, it has united the industry’s brightest minds to explore how innovations in sports data, AI and storytelling can grow sports fans, subscribers, viewers, customers and sponsors.
Opta Forum US will bring together top executives from across global and U.S. sports media and content to explore how data and AI are reshaping how fans are reached, stories are told, and revenue is grown. With the 2026 FIFA World Cup on the horizon, we’ll spotlight how soccer’s momentum can serve as a launchpad – not just for the sport itself, but for how the entire U.S. sports ecosystem evolves its approach to fan engagement and storytelling.
So whether you’re a media, commercial or content executive at a team, broadcaster, technology provider, betting operator, app or sponsor, if your goal is to engage and monetize more sports fans, this is the event you can’t miss.
The Opta Forum NYC kicks off just ahead of the FIFA Club World Cup and marks the one-year countdown to the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Get set for a full-day of ideas and inspiration from the most creative and innovative minds in global soccer media and content. It will help you ignite a new wave of soccer fandom in the US, that endures far beyond the tournament – and is packed with insights for other U.S. sporting codes too.
The 2025 Opta Forum is an intimate, invite only event for senior execs across sports broadcasting, sponsorship, media, teams, rightsholders, agencies, apps, games and sportsbooks.
If you are unable to attend, you can also fill out the form to receive the session recordings after the event.
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The Opta Forum NYC event will be an unprecedented mix of insights from sports media and content’s sharpest global thinkers, producers, marketers and creators. But don’t just take our word for it: here’s what last year’s delegates had to say:
