High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference goal is to provide a forum to discuss the increasing role of analytics in the sports industry. Founded in 2006, the conference is co-chaired by Daryl Morey (General Manager & Managing Director of Basketball Operations for the Houston Rockets) and Jessica Gelman (Vice President of Customer Marketing & Strategy for the Kraft Sports Group) who oversee MIT Sloan students (from the EMS Club) in the planning and operating of the yearly conference. It is open to anyone interested in sports and has been attended by students from over 150 different schools and representatives from over 50 professional sports teams in the MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, MLS, and EPL. The conference is held in the Boston area and while its location has moved from the MIT campus to higher capacity convention centers, it has always occurred during February or March. One of the largest student run conferences in the country, it has been sold out every year and has become the premier venue for sports analytics discussion. ESPN has been the presenting sponsor since 2010 and the conference has garnered national attention through media outlets such as Sports Illustrated, BusinessWeek, NBC Sports, Fox Sports, ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, and Forbes. ESPN columnist Bill Simmons has nicknamed the conference Dorkapalooza.