More than 100 speakers ready for knowledge sharing and debates in over 40 sessions on the current challenges of sport.

The first results from Play the Game’s new Sports Governance Observer paint a picture of international sports federations often lacking proper tools against corruption, undemocratic procedures or other characteristics of poor governance.

Reporting about powerful people can be a dangerous line of work. In Azerbaijan, it may cost you your freedom. Investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova is currently in jail for exposing corrupt practices in the Azeri elite. Play the Game has invited her to speak at the conference in October.

Major organisations and institutions in Danish sport have volunteered financial support worth more than 50,000€ to the Play the Game 2015 conference this summer.

A new agreement will enable a closer dialogue between European governments and the experts, whistleblowers and NGOs represented at the upcoming Play the Game 2015 conference.

Play the Game 2015 extends the abstract deadline until 15 June 2015, giving you an opportunity to have your say about sports governance and participate in the international sports debate.

With the waves in international sports politics running high, previously unseen methods of match-fixing, corruption and doping offenses unfold. Play the Game calls upon you and other expert stakeholders in sport to join its ninth conference on how to identify the challenges and remedy them.

In December 2014, revelations about widespread doping and cover-up in Russian and international athletics, led both WADA and the IAAF to initiate investigations. The journalist behind the documentary as well as the two Russians who blew the whistle on the doping practices will share their story at Play the Game 2015.