New technology is helping in the prevention of sports injuries by facilitating better practice and training sessions, educating players on game fundamentals, and inventing new protective gear. Innovative mouth-guards and wearables gather performance data and can even help prevent brain injuries.
Bharathan is a Director of Product Management at Microsoft Corporation. He has been associated with the company for over twenty years now, in varied engineering roles, of which product management is a significant set. In the journey to building empathetic products for end users, he has honed his product management skills over the years and helped several people grow and thrive in this domain. Outside of technology, Sports has been one of his core passion areas – including recreational participation, games analysis. He loves to talk about the impact of technology in sports. Bharathan holds Bachelors in Information Systems from BITS Pilani in India, Masters in Computer Science from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg and an MBA (Technology focus) from University of Washington, Seattle. He can be reached at [email protected]
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