Golden State Warriors and Accenture Team to Reimagine Audience Experience at Chase Center and Surrounding District
December 01 2016 - 11:43AM
Business Wire
Long-term technology innovation partnership to
include “Fannovate,” designed to engage the fans and community in
co-creating the future Chase Center experience
The Golden State Warriors, GSW Arena LLC and Accenture
(NYSE:ACN) announced today a multi-year partnership to reinvent the
fan and community experience at Chase Center and the surrounding
district. Accenture has been named the Official Technology
Innovation Partner for the Warriors and will begin its relationship
this season at Oracle Arena. Accenture will also be a Founding
Partner of Chase Center, the state-of-the-art sports and
entertainment complex to be built in San Francisco’s Mission Bay
neighborhood, which is planned to open for the start of the 2019-20
NBA season.
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Accenture has been named the Official
Technology Innovation Partner for the Warriors and will begin its
relationship this season at Oracle Arena. (Photo: Business
Wire)
Under the agreement, Accenture will collaborate with the
Warriors to design and implement an immersive and engaging
experience for the guests and fans of the arena, restaurants,
retail businesses, offices and plazas that will comprise Chase
Center and the surrounding district. Accenture will also work
closely with the Warriors to define and create the underlying
technical architecture and assemble the ecosystem of partners
required to implement the experience design for Chase Center. As
part of the effort, the Warriors and Accenture will prototype and
test solutions at Oracle Arena for potential use in Chase
Center.
“Recognizing and acquiring talent, on and off the court, is a
key to winning in the NBA,” said Rick Welts, president and chief
operating officer for the Golden State Warriors. “Accenture has the
talent, experience and insight to design and implement innovative
experiences that will excite our fans, our tenants and the public
while defining a new standard for community-centered sports and
entertainment facilities. We are pleased to have Accenture join our
team as we prepare to break ground.”
Leading up to the opening of Chase Center, the Warriors and
Accenture will engage fans and the community in defining the future
experience through “Fannovate,” a fan-involvement effort to capture
input and ideas, the most promising of which could be incubated and
prototyped as part of the Chase Center experience design.
“We are thrilled to partner with the Golden State Warriors – and
the community – to establish Chase Center and the surrounding
district as a destination for unforgettable moments and a center of
innovation in the Bay Area,” said Julie Sweet, Accenture’s group
chief executive – North America. “We will work hand-in-hand
with the Warriors, as well as Fannovate participants, to define and
enable an unparalleled set of experiences.”
To help the Warriors achieve its vision for the new
community-centered complex, Accenture will tap its powerful and
broad network of capabilities, ranging from deep high-tech and
media and entertainment experience to service design from Fjord,
Accenture Interactive’s design and innovation unit, and mobility
and analytics from Accenture Digital. The partnership will also
leverage the Accenture Lab in San Jose and Accenture Liquid Studio
in Redwood City, which work with leading and emerging players in
the Silicon Valley ecosystem to invent, develop and deliver
solutions that help clients like the Warriors engage their
audiences in new and innovative ways.
“We want to enable the Golden State Warriors to delight their
guests, fans and tenants with connected experiences,” said Mike
Sutcliff, group chief executive, Accenture Digital. “To deliver on
this goal, we will tap the full range of Accenture’s digital and
technology capabilities – from driving insight from data and
designing experiences from an outside-in perspective all the way to
using proven and emerging technologies to engage with people when
and where it really matters.”
“We’re pleased to find in Accenture a partner that perfectly
aligns with our culture and our core values to undertake this
unique partnership,” said Welts. “And we’re particularly excited to
deepen our relationship with residents and fans through the
Fannovate program.”
About the Golden State Warriors
The Golden State Warriors organization, currently in its 71st
season, is a charter member of the National Basketball Association.
Founded in 1946, the Warriors called the city of Philadelphia home
for 16 memorable years before moving to the West Coast in 1962 to
become the San Francisco Warriors and ultimately, in 1971, the
Golden State Warriors when the team moved across the Bay to its
current home in Oakland. The team’s storied history includes four
NBA Championships, six of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players and 27
members of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. For more
information on the Golden State Warriors, please visit
warriors.com.
About GSW Arena LLC
GSW Arena LLC, founded in 2010, is privately funding the
construction of a new sports and entertainment venue, Chase Center,
which will be the anchor of an 11-acre mixed use complex on private
property in San Francisco’s Mission Bay neighborhood. For more
information, please visit warriors.com/sf.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately
384,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries,
Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and
lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
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