Technological innovation can reduce costs and injuries, increase participation opportunities, but can also usurp the challenge of the sport, allow the wealthy to buy victories, and transform sport from a contest among athletes to a championship of engineers.

How can we protect our games from becoming futuristic robotic competitions? How can sports organizations encourage the technology that allows sports to grow while protecting the core challenge and tradition of our games? How can we set limits when we do not know from where the next revolutionary technology will emerge?

This talk will explore how sports organizations can write proactive performance standards to allow manufacturers maximum flexibility in design and materials while protecting those skills critical to the sport.