The new home of the Golden State Warriors NBA team in San Francisco, California, is shaping up to be everything one would expect from a stadium on the edge of Silicon Valley. The Warriors franchise has tapped Accenture PLC to help wire the new Chase Center with state-of-the-art technology.

“We’ve been working with them to really design the fan experience — before, during and after the game,” says John Walsh (pictured), senior managing director at Accenture.

It is a fitting collaboration for the Warriors, who have been early adopters of new sports tech, Walsh told John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Accenture Labs 30th Anniversary Celebration in Mountain View, California.

“The way they’ve thought about actually changing the game though technology and embedding it in part of the way they actually build that experience out is one of the reasons why we partner well with them,” Walsh said. 

Re-imagining the fan experience

Accenture Labs will bring all of its technology research and innovation chops to bear on the new stadium’s design. The labs’ practitioners will co-innovate with the Warriors on re-imagining the fan experience for the digital age.

“Hopefully, it’s going to define the state of the industry, and we’re proud to be a partner of the Warriors and part of that design,” Walsh said.

Sports and stadiums are not the only places digital transformation is changing people’s expectations, according to Walsh. Practically across the board, data and the insights it provides can now empower executives, employees and consumers in novel ways.

“Analytics and data is at the core of what will define success in the future for every enterprise in every industry,” Walsh concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Accenture Labs 30th Anniversary Celebration.

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