Public Speaking

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

“Job well done! I want to thank you for your keynote din­ner pre­sen­ta­tion at our recent meet­ing of the Coun­cil of HR Exec­u­tives. You pro­vid­ed key insights into the link­ages between brain health, resilien­cy and cre­ativ­i­ty., and mem­bers appre­ci­at­ed your knowl­edge, the exam­ples you pro­vid­ed, and your sense of humour! –Judith L. MacBride-King, Net­work Exec­u­tive for The Con­fer­ence Board of Canada

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Sharp­Brains’  CEO & Edi­tor-in-Chief, speaks reg­u­lar­ly to a wide range of audi­ences. Named a Young Glob­al Leader by the World Eco­nom­ic Forum, Alvaro has been quot­ed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Jour­nal, BBC, AP, CNN, and more. He co-authored the book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age, and is the Edi­tor-In-Chief for sem­i­nal mar­ket reports on Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and Dig­i­tal Brain Health. Alvaro enjoys serv­ing in the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Coun­cil on the Future of Human Enhance­ment, and in the Glob­al Teacher Prize Acad­e­my run by the Varkey Foun­da­tion, and holds an MBA and MA in Edu­ca­tion from Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty and a BA in Eco­nom­ics from Uni­ver­si­dad de Deusto, in his native Spain.. To check out his LinkedIn pro­file: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez. 

UPCOMING TALKS

Octo­ber 12th: The Future of Brain Health, at the Brain­Mind Sum­mit in Stan­ford, CA.

Novem­ber 4th: The Future of Dig­i­tal Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, at the Annu­al Meet­ing of the World Eco­nom­ic Forum’s Glob­al Future Coun­cils in Dubai, UAE.

Novem­ber 11th: El Cere­bro Que Cura at Libr­ería Lé in Madrid, Spain.

Novem­ber 13–14th: The Future of Applied Neu­ro at Future Trends Forum in Madrid, Spain.

 

RECENT TALKS

How Inno­va­tion Leads to New Health­care Real­i­ties, at the Hora­sis Glob­al Meet­ing in Cas­cais, Portugal.

Brain Health — What Works, What Doesn’t?, at the Milken Insti­tute’s Future of Health Sum­mit in Wash­ing­ton, DC.

Cómo preparar la mente de nue­stros alum­nos para el siglo XXI…comenzando por el cere­bro de sus pro­fe­sores y padres, for teach­ers in the Fed­eración de Coop­er­a­ti­vas de Enseñan­za Mul­ti­l­ingüe in Bizka­ia, Gipuzkoa and Ara­ba, Spain.

Oppor­tu­ni­ties and Risks in pub­lic-pri­vate part­ner­ships to advance Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, at the Glob­al Neu­roethics Sum­mit in Seoul, South Korea (vir­tu­al keynote).

The Future of Men­tal Health, at the YGL Sum­mit in San Fran­cis­co, CA.

 

SPEAKING TOPICS

(For a gen­er­al audi­ence) How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age

Just like the rest of our body, the brain requires care, atten­tion and prop­er exer­cise. Yet, we often ignore this most vital organ because we don’t know know where to begin. Based on the acclaimed-book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness –named a Best Book by AARP — Alvaro Fer­nan­dez will dis­cuss exact­ly how to “use it or lose it,” offer­ing a com­pre­hen­sive and fresh approach to improv­ing brain health and per­for­mance at any age — from chil­dren to younger and old­er adults. With prac­ti­cal insights and thought-pro­vok­ing exer­cis­es, this talk com­bines a user-friend­ly tuto­r­i­al on how the brain works with advice on how to choose and inte­grate lifestyle habits to improve men­tal focus, build emo­tion­al resilience, and enhance mem­o­ry, and to ward off Alzheimer’s disease.

(For a cor­po­rate audi­ence) Train Your Brain to Become More Inno­v­a­tive and Resilient 

How can we enhance our core men­tal capac­i­ties to inno­vate and to thrive in today’s com­plex and rapid­ly-chang­ing work­place? What can we do to invest in our most pre­cious resource –our human brain– and boost indi­vid­ual and col­lec­tive resilience? Dis­cov­er the prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tions of emerg­ing research on brain func­tion­ing and neu­ro­plas­tic­ity, based on the book The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age, and learn how to become a life­long “men­tal ath­lete” ready to face pro­fes­sion­al and per­son­al chal­lenges in the Dig­i­tal Age.

(For a tech and indus­try audi­ence) When Dig­i­tal Health Meets Applied Neuroscience

Brain Health and Men­tal Health are rapid­ly-evolv­ing mar­ket­places, and exec­u­tives and pio­neers should be aware of the far-reach­ing impact this trans­for­ma­tion will have in the near future. Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, the CEO of the lead­ing inde­pen­dent mar­ket research firm Sharp­Brains — track­ing health and well­ness appli­ca­tions of brain sci­ence — will dis­cuss the lat­est mar­ket data and fore­casts on how dig­i­tal plat­forms will rev­o­lu­tion­ize brain health by 2020. Par­tic­i­pants will dis­cov­er and brain­storm how the grow­ing main­stream demand for “brain fit­ness” is cre­at­ing a sig­nif­i­cant demand and oppor­tu­ni­ty for web-based, mobile and bio­met­rics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain functioning.

 

A FEW CLIPS

> Lar­ry King inter­view on the present and future of brain fit­ness: click Here in the US and Here else­where (28 minutes)

> Post-keynote inter­view at the Dig­i­tal Health Sum­mit (9 minutes).

> Pre­sen­ta­tion of Prac­ti­cal Advice to Keep Your Brain Sharp at New York Pub­lic Library (87 minutes)

 

OTHER PAST TALKS

 

> Impe­r­i­al Col­lege, Lon­don: Why the Future of Brain Enhance­ment & Men­tal Health is Dig­i­tal & Per­va­sive.

> New York  City: How Can We Invest in Our Brains to Boost Inno­va­tion and Resilience, at New York Pub­lic Library.

> San Fran­cis­co, CA: Cor­ti­cal Plas­tic­i­ty: Where Brain Health Meets Dig­i­tal Health, at the Neu­rotech Lead­ers Summit

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

> San Diego: I’ll Take Brain Health for $6 Bil­lion, at the Dig­i­tal Health Sum­mer Summit

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

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

> Toron­to, Cana­da: The Web as a Gym for the Brain, at mesh

> 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

> Coral Gables, FL: Cómo inver­tir en su cere­bro, at Books & Books

> Toron­to, Cana­da, Cana­da: Break­ing the Silos and Boost­ing Our Brains, at McMas­ter University

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

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

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

> San Fran­cis­co, CA: Trans­lat­ing Neu­ro­science Into Mar­ketable Ther­a­peu­tic Inter­ven­tions, at ESCoNS.

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

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

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

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

> San Fran­cis­co: Teach­ing Brain Fit­ness in Your Schools and Com­mu­ni­ties, at the Learn­ing & the Brain Conference.

> Ontario, Cana­da: Main­tain­ing Auton­o­my — the Brain Fit­ness Move­ment, dur­ing the Ontario Inno­va­tion Summit.

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

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

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

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

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

> 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.

 

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