“Alvaro Fer­nan­dez syn­the­sizes and trans­lates the lat­est neu­ro­science into provoca­tive, com­pelling, and enter­tain­ing sto­ries of men­tal fit­ness and the future of the brain.” –David Pescovitz, Research Direc­tor, Insti­tute for the Future.

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Sharp­Brains’  CEO & Co-Founder, speaks reg­u­larly to a wide range of audi­ences in both small, infor­mal groups and large, for­mal ones. Named a Young Global Leader by the World Eco­nomic Forum, Alvaro has been quoted by The New York Times, The Wall Street Jour­nal, AP, CNN, and more. He co-authored the book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness, named a Best Book by AARP, and is the Chief Ana­lyst for the mar­ket report The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020. His LinkedIn pro­file, includ­ing dozens of endorse­ments as an inno­va­tor, edu­ca­tor and pub­lic speaker: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez. 

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Recent and Upcom­ing Talks

> March 15–17, Los Ange­les: Mar­riage of Sci­ence & Indus­try — How to cre­ate a sus­tain­able busi­ness model that proves end-user value, at ESCoNS2 (Enter­tain­ment Soft­ware and Cog­ni­tive Neu­rother­a­peu­tics Society)

> April 1st, Boston: Health from the Neck Up, a guest lec­ture at Har­vard exten­sion course Mind, Brain, Health, and Edu­ca­tion (MBHE): The Sci­ences of Devel­op­ment, Learn­ing, and Well-being

> April 23–25, Lima, Peru: Upgrad­ing edu­ca­tion and health with the brain in mind, at the World Eco­nomic Forum on Latin Amer­ica 2013

> May 1–2, San Fran­cisco: Think, Think, Think: Cog­ni­tive Gam­ing Plat­forms, at Neu­rogam­ing

> May 15–16, Toronto:  The Web as a Gym for the Brain, at mesh13

> May 20, Wash­ing­ton, DC: Inno­vat­ing for the 50+, at Aging 2.0

> June 12, Vic­to­ria, BC, Canada: How Can We Invest In Our Brains To Boost Inno­va­tion and Resilience, at the Con­fer­ence Board’s Coun­cil of Human Resource Executives

Selected Past Talks

> Novem­ber 8th, San Fran­cisco, CA: Brain Fit­ness for Adap­tive Orga­ni­za­tions, at the Neu­roLead­er­ship Summit.

> Octo­ber 29th, Los Ange­les: Brain Fit­ness Today and Tomor­row, at the UCLA Tech­nol­ogy & Aging Conference.

> Octo­ber 17th, San Fran­cisco, CA: The Con­sumer Mar­ket for Neu­rotech­nol­ogy, at 2011 Neu­rotech Lead­ers Forum.

> Sep­tem­ber 19-20th, San Fran­cisco, CA: Trans­lat­ing Neu­ro­science Into Mar­ketable Ther­a­peu­tic Inter­ven­tions, at ESCoNS.

> Sep­tem­ber 14th, Barcelona: How and Why Dig­i­tal Tech­nology Will Trans­form Edu­ca­tion, Train­ing and Brain Health, dur­ing the “Evenings with…” series at Esade.

> June 22nd, Barcelona: La salud en el siglo XXI — Como com­batir el envejec­imiento cere­bral, at Fun­da­cion Edad y Vida.

> April 28th, San Fran­cisco: Har­ness Your Brain Plas­tic­ity for Life­long Brain Fit­ness, dur­ing the series “The Amaz­ing Brain: Anatomy & Func­tion orga­nized by Cal­i­for­nia Pacific Med­ical Center.

> March 10th, San Diego: Brain Fit­ness Offer­ings to Attract and Retain Baby Boomers, dur­ing the Con­ven­tion of the Inter­na­tional Health, Rac­quet & Sports­club Asso­ci­a­tion (IHRSA).

> Feb­ru­ary 17-18th, San Fran­cisco: Teach­ing Brain Fit­ness in Your Schools and Com­mu­nity for Life­long Learn­ing and “Research-Based Evi­dence of Emerg­ing Tech­nolo­gies to Assist and Train Cog­ni­tive and Emo­tional Func­tion”, dur­ing the Learn­ing & the Brain Conference.

> Decem­ber 1-2nd, Ontario: Main­tain­ing Auton­omy — the Brain Fit­ness Move­ment, dur­ing the Ontario Inno­va­tion Summit.

> Novem­ber 20-22nd, Dubai: pro­ceed­ings of the Coun­cil on the Aging Soci­ety dur­ing the Sum­mit of the Global Agenda run by the World Eco­nomic Forum.

> Novem­ber 11-12th, Prince­ton, New Jer­sey: Robert Wood John­son Foun­da­tion Forum on the Future Impact of Neu­ro­science and Behav­ior Change.

> Novem­ber, San Fran­cisco, Cal­i­for­nia: three book talks in Span­ish spon­sored by AARP at Jones Memo­r­ial Church, Mis­sion Neigh­bor­hood Cen­ter, and Bethany Cen­ter Senior Housing.

> Novem­ber 3rd, San Fran­cisco: Brain Fit­ness For Peak Per­for­mance, at the Asso­ci­a­tion for Cor­po­rate Growth (ACG) Speaker Series.

> Octo­ber 14th, Berke­ley, CA: Do’s and Don’ts of Brain Fit­ness for Life, at UC-Berkeley Osher Life­long Learn­ing Institute.

> Octo­ber 6th, Palo Alto, CA: Brain Fit­ness — Fad or Rev­o­lu­tion?, Smart­Sil­vers MIT North­ern Cal­i­for­nia event.

> Sep­tem­ber 25rd, New York Pub­lic Library, Stephen Schwarz­man Build­ing: The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness.

> July 23th, Seat­tle: Well­ness Gam­ing: Games that are Good for You panel, at Casual Connect.

> July 17th, Stevens Point, Wis­con­sin: Brain Fit­ness in Senior Hous­ing, at WAHSA’s 2009 Senior Hous­ing Conference.

> June 11th, Boston: Bird’s Eye View of Cog­ni­tive Health Inno­va­tion, at the Games for Health Conference.

> June 1-2nd, Wash­ing­ton, DC: The Role of Cog­ni­tive Assess­ments and Brain Fit­ness in Care Man­age­ment, at the National Medicare Read­mis­sions Summit.

> April 8th, Uni­ver­sity of North Car­olina Greens­boro: Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness and the Aging Work­force: Oppor­tu­ni­ties and Chal­lenges, at the Sil­ver­ing Work­force Summit.

> April 6th, Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity: How Neu­ro­science Will Impact Edu­ca­tion and Health­care: A 5–10 Year View, at the Stan­ford SELA Summit.

> March 9-12th, San Jose: Emerg­ing Research and Tech­nolo­gies for Life Hack­ing, at ETech 2009.

> March 5th, New York Acad­emy of Med­i­cine: Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware — Con­sumers Guide to dis­tin­guish­ing hope from hype, at the Com­pre­hen­sive Approach to Demen­tia Sym­po­sium spon­sored by Mon­te­fiore Med­ical Center.

> Jan­u­ary 8-9th, Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity: Cog­ni­tive Fit­ness — Emerg­ing Trends and Chal­lenges, at the Co-Adaptive Learn­ing: Adap­tive Tech­nol­ogy for the Aged Sym­po­sium

Some clips

> The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness, at New York Pub­lic Library. 1 hour 27 min.

> The Emerg­ing Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket. 90-minute-long talk and panel dis­cus­sion. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez starts at minute 8.

 

 

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