The organizers of the next edition of the SportAccord Convention, now more soberly named SportAccord, have lifted the veil on a first list of 25 speakers invited to speak during the event, scheduled for April 15 to 20, 2018 in Bangkok. It includes the following personalities:
- Weerasak Kowsurat, Minister of Tourism and Sports of Thailand
- Adolfo Bara, commercial and marketing director of La Liga
- Caroline Baxter Tresise, international consultant at UNESCO
- Charmaine Crooks president of NGU Consultants
- Craig Howe, founder and director of Rebel Ventures
- David Eades, journalist and presenter at BBC World
- David Simon, president of the Los Angeles Sports Council
- Frédérique Reynertz, director of the legal and commercial affairs department at the IAAF
- Giles D. Morgan, consultant, former head of sponsorship at HSBC Holdings PLC
- Guy Port, Director for Asia at Nielsen Sports
- Hayden Opie, researcher at the University of Melbourne
- James Pearce, BBC producer
- Jeff Benz, mediator, former advisor to the USOC
- Kim Andersen, President of World Sailing
- Laurie Cavan, general manager of the “Parks, Recreation & Culture” department of the city of Surrey, Canada
- Margo Mountjoy, president of the medical department of ASOIF, consultant to the IOC and FINA
- Matteo Vitello, commercial relations director of Technogym SPA
- Matthieu Reeb, Secretary General of the CAS
- Mélanie Duparc, coordinator of Smart Cities & Sport
- Michael Lenard, vice-president, ICAS
- Fabio Pigozzi, president of FIMS (International Federation of Sports Medicine)
- Stephen Townley, Chairman of Active Rights Management Ltd
- Thomas Lund, Secretary General of the International Badminton Federation
- Troy Pugmire, executive director of Gramercy Global Media
