Second Annual Event to Take Place on September 10 in Los Angeles, CA
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., & NEW YORK, N.Y., August 19, 2024 – CNBC and Boardroom will host the second annual Game Plan Summit on September 10 in Los Angeles, CA, bringing together industry leaders, visionaries, and influencers to explore the dynamic intersection of business, sports and entertainment.
Speakers for CNBC x Boardroom’s Game Plan Summit include:
- Cameron Brink, WNBA Player, LA Sparks
- Kevin Durant, Boardroom Co-Founder and two-time NBA Champion
- Grant Hill, Team USA Managing Director and Atlanta Hawks Co-Owner
- Rob Manfred, Major League Baseball Commissioner
- Rich Paul, KLUTCH Sports Group Founder and CEO and UTA Board Member and Co-Head of Sports
- Matt King, Fanatics Betting & Gaming CEO
- Marie Donoghue, DraftKings Chief Business and Growth Officer
- Christian Genetski, FanDuel Group President
- Bob Myers, Washington Commanders Advisor and former Golden State Warriors General Manager
- Angela Ruggiero, Sports Innovation Lab Co-Founder and former Olympian
- CC Sabathia, MLB’s Special Assistant to the Commissioner and Players Alliance Board Vice President
- JuJu Watkins, USC Women’s Basketball Player
Attendees will hear from industry pros who will lend their expertise to topics such as the sports betting boom, investing in women’s sports, sports leadership opportunities, the power of fandom and much more. Additional panelists and speakers to be announced.
Sponsors for Game Plan Summit include Galaxy, Sportradar, Wilson Sporting Goods, Fundrise, Morgan Stanley Global Sports & Entertainment, Relo Metrics, and Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP.
Requests for credentials can be emailed to cnbcnewspr@nbcuni.com.
About CNBC
CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news, providing real-time financial market coverage and business content consumed by more than half a billion people per month across all platforms. The network’s 14 live hours a day of news programming in North America (weekdays from 5:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC’s global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC at night features a mix of reality programming, CNBC’s highly successful series produced exclusively for CNBC and a number of distinctive in-house documentaries.
CNBC also offers content through its vast portfolio of digital products such as: CNBC.com, which provides financial market news and information to CNBC’s investor audience; CNBC Make It, a digital destination focused on making you smarter about how you earn, save and spend your money; CNBC PRO, a premium service that provides in-depth access to Wall Street; a suite of CNBC mobile apps for iOS and Android devices; Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple Siri voice interfaces; and streaming services including Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV and Samsung Smart TVs. To learn more, visit https://www.cnbc.com/digital-products/.
Members of the media can receive more information about CNBC and its programming on the NBCUniversal Media Village Web site at https://www.nbcumv.com/programming/cnbc. For more information about NBCUniversal, please visit https://www.nbcuniversal.com/.
About Boardroom
Boardroom is a media brand co-founded by Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman that focuses on the intersection of sports, entertainment, and business. Boardroom’s media arm produces daily and weekly newsletters along with premium content showcasing how athletes, executives, musicians, and creators are moving the business world forward. Recent film and TV projects include the Academy Award-winning Two Distant Strangers (Netflix), the critically acclaimed scripted series Swagger (Apple TV+) and Emmy-nominated documentary NYC Point Gods (Showtime).
Boardroom’s ecosystem also consists of curating and producing high profile events and experiences, including NBA and WNBA All-Star events as well as Game Plan in partnership with CNBC. Other partners have included Visa, Meta and FanDuel. Boardroom’s advisory arm consults and connects athletes, brands, and executives with its broader network and initiatives while Boardroom Sports Holdings invests in emerging sports teams and leagues, including the Major League Pickleball team, the Brooklyn Aces, NWSL champions Gotham FC, and MLS’ Philadelphia Union.
