The Latest: Digital Transformation in Sports | A Conversation With Melissa Proctor
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4.4 • 14.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this special episode of The Latest With Loren LoRosa, Loren reflects on her experience at the Hope Global Forums, where conversations centered on community impact, economic empowerment, and the future of digital transformation—especially within the sports industry. She sits down with Melissa Proctor, Chief Marketing Officer of the Atlanta Hawks, for an insightful discussion on the evolving challenges of sports branding and the role of innovation in fan engagement.
Melissa shares her expertise on leveraging technology to create meaningful fan experiences, building authentic connections, and adapting to the shifting expectations of modern audiences. The conversation also explores the balance between personal and professional life, representation in leadership, and the importance of community-driven strategies in shaping the future of sports marketing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm a homeguard that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. |
| 0:10.0 | You know if you're going to lie about that, right? |
| 0:12.2 | Lauren came in hot. |
| 0:14.1 | Back on the ground. |
| 0:16.1 | Hi, y'all. |
| 0:16.8 | What's up? |
| 0:17.4 | It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is the latest with Lauren the Rosa. |
| 0:21.8 | This is your daily dig on all things, pop culture, entertainment news, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. |
| 0:29.6 | Well, I got to recently be a part of another conversation that definitely shook the room. |
| 0:35.1 | I traveled down to Atlanta to be a part of the Hope Global |
| 0:38.5 | Forum, which is an amazing, amazing meetup of so many like-minded people across various |
| 0:45.8 | industries, sports, entertainment, media, business, tech, anything that you could think of, |
| 0:54.1 | people were in the room representing it and not just people. |
| 0:57.2 | I mean, some of the biggest and best minds in it. I got to hear Byron Allen speak about his journey from just being a young kid whose mom would take him to work as she worked in television to turn it into a billionaire TV mogul who |
| 1:13.4 | owns so much of his own everything. I also got to hear from owners of some of the biggest |
| 1:20.7 | sports teams in the world, including the Atlanta Hawks. And hearing them talk about AI and things |
| 1:26.4 | that we should be leaning into |
| 1:27.8 | right now made me rethink because I'm not against AI but I've never been a person I was like |
| 1:35.2 | I want to use AI so much for my businesses if you guys can't tell from all these conversations |
| 1:40.0 | I keep having with the people I'm such a person. Like I like to actually talk to people, |
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