Speaking

Talks & Podcasts

Conference presentations, tutorials, and podcast appearances on AI, sports science, and performance modelling.

2025
Training Science Podcast

AI Agents, HRV Readiness & the Next Era of Training

Deep dive on how AI agents are being integrated into training platforms, how HRV readiness assessments are evolving, and what the next generation of training methodologies looks like.

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Training Science Podcast

Workout Reserve and the Future of AI Coaching

Why traditional models like W′ fall short, and how Workout Reserve offers a more flexible mechanical way to understand athlete capability. The future of AI coaching: RAG-AI, LLMs, and agents in training platforms.

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Training Science Podcast

Modelling First: Building Smarter Endurance Training

Why modeling must come before AI can be useful in coaching. Models like Critical Power, Banister TRIMP, and HRV response curves provide the structure AI needs to make smart, adaptable decisions.

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2024
Video

Human-AI Balance in Coaching: Athletica's AI-Assisted HRV Monitoring

HRV and its role in optimising training readiness and recovery. As co-architect of Athletica's AI-assisted HRV monitoring, I explain how AI enhances HRV analysis while maintaining the importance of human expertise.

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Video

From Lab to Athlete: Optimizing Training with Workout Reserve

Development and application of Workout Reserve — an AI-driven tool that helps athletes measure their current effort against historical performances — with real-world applications in elite cycling and Ironman.

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2022
Podcast

What AI-Powered Training Is & What It Is Not

Remote

Discussion with Paul Laursen on what AI can realistically do in training and what it cannot, including ethical and practical constraints when applying AI to training.

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2021
Talk

The DARDAR Project: Reliable Stride-by-Stride Running Kinematic Data

ECSS Virtual Congress · Remote

New algorithms for running kinematic pattern recognition, presented at the ECSS virtual congress.

Tutorial

How to Process Power Data in Sports

International Summer School in Wearable Sensors in Sport · Remote

Hands-on tutorial exploring methodologies for correctly interpreting wearable sensor data in sports — from discerning useful signals to making data-driven, objective choices.

2019
Talk

DeMotu Project: 3D Printed Human Knee for Biomechanics Research

Mountain Sport and Health International Conference · Rovereto, Trento, Italy

3D printing technologies applied to the design of new physical models of the human knee, presented at the Mountain Sport and Health conference.

2016
Talk

An Optimal Control Approach to High Intensity Interval Training Design

World Congress of Cycling Science · Caen, France

A methodology for automatically prescribing HIIT sessions using optimal control techniques.

Talk

Modeling the Acute Physiological Response to Cycling Exercise

Workshop on Modeling in Endurance Sports, University of Konstanz · Konstanz, Germany

Modeling approaches for blood lactate concentration during cycling exercise.