BOSTON -- On stage, the six panelists, including the CEO of a neuroscience startup, a vice president at Intel and an NFL wide receiver, volleyed points back and forth about wearable technology. High-tech gadgets can help track an athlete's workload, health and performance, and hopefully help prevent injury, but who should own that data? The athlete? The team he or she plays for? A tech company? Hearty deliberation ensued.
At the rear of the crammed ballroom, while Andrew Hawkins of the Cleveland Browns expressed concern over biometric information being used against athletes in, say, contract negotiations, Lakers assistant coach and director of basketball strategy Clay Moser took it all in during his first visit to the 10th annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston.