ATTENTION: This session requires advance signup to attend. For Online Schedule: Please utilize the RSVP link below the description to reserve your seat. For SXSW GO App: Use the RSVP 'Find a Timeslot' link. You must have a SXSW Interactive, Gold, or Platinum badge to attend, and, you must have an activated SXsocial account (social.sxsw.com) to reserve a seat. If you have any issues with signing up, please email support@sxsw.com. VERY IMPORTANT: Because of the limited space, we recommend you arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the published start time of this session. If you have not checked in at the room you RSVPed for at least five minutes prior to the session start time, you may lose your seat to an attendee in the waiting list line.

The ramifications of big data are often regarded as menacing, an invasion of privacy and loss of security from mega-corporations and government; however, that data is nothing less than a superpower waiting to be harnessed.

Martine Rothblatt founder United Therapeutics; Rick Smith founder TASER/Evidence.com; Daniel Faber CEO Deep Space Industries and Jeff Garzik CEO Dunvegan Space Systems and Sr. Software Engineer of BitPay are the pioneers and mavericks who are: creating human brain simulation software, developing on-body cameras for law enforcement and managing that data in the cloud; deploying a constellation of satellites to process bitcoin transactions; designing the first orbital resources refinery and microgravity foundry.

Join these innovators as we explore the potential benefits/threats of big data to individual privacy and security, personal freedom, collaborative law enforcement, and economic growth.