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Stadium Tech Report

May 19th, 2026

Editorial

The Digital Diamond: How Wi-Fi is powering the next era of the fan experience at Oracle Park

While baseball remains timeless, the venues it is played in are increasingly powered by network platforms built for a generation that thinks digital first. That dynamic was on full display at the San Francisco Giants annual Media Day, where Oracle Park demonstrated how an iconic ballpark must continually evolve to remain a high-performance digital environment. From connectivity upgrades to AI-driven...

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Building the AI-Ready Stadium

What Google published in 2017 could unlock your venue's AI potential In 2017, a team of researchers at Google published a paper with an understated title: Attention Is All You Need. It introduced a new way of processing information called the transformer architecture that led to the AI explosion we are experiencing today. Most people outside the field ignored it...

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Is your stadium ready for AI?

I speak with sports, stadium, and live environment executives around the world frequently, and AI continues to come up as a board-level topic. Leadership teams are asking the same questions: what should we be doing with AI, where is the value of using it, and how fast do we need to move? The urgency is understandable. AI is already changing...

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Stadium networks are about to get more complicated

The Internet is no longer a human network. With connected devices projected to surge past 30 billion by 2030, we have officially entered an era where the silent conversations between machines far outpace the digital footprints of the people who created them.- Hans Vestberg, Chairman and CEO, Verizon, CES 2019 When Vestberg made this claim in 2019, he was describing...

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Let’s define ‘Smart’ before spending another $18 Billion on smart stadiums

The "smart stadium" market is projected to grow from $18.1 billion in 2024 to nearly $39.6 billion by 2030, according to Grand View Research—a compound annual growth rate of about 14.4 percent. Similar forecasts from other firms paint the same picture: massive spending ahead, driven by demand for IoT infrastructure, immersive fan experiences, and data-driven operations. There's just one problem....

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