Preliminary agenda for the 2013 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

Reg­is­ter now to par­tic­i­pate in the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th, 2013) and see what these impres­sive speak­ers have to say about these key open ques­tions — How can neu­ro­science-based inno­va­tion enhance behav­ioral and brain health?

We are proud to bring to the table  25+ inno­va­tors at the inter­sec­tion of brain, health and tech­nol­o­gy, includ­ing sci­en­tists involved in the Human Brain Project, pio­neers at large insur­ance and tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies, and a vari­ety of thought-lead­ers and prac­ti­tion­ers. By order of appear­ance in the pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da, they are:

• Hilal Lashuel, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at the Swiss Fed­eral Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy-Lau­sanne (EPFL)
• Patrick Aebis­cher, Pres­i­dent of École Poly­tech­nique Fédérale de Lau­sanne (EPFL)
• Andrew Lee, Vice Pres­i­dent at Aetna
• Louise Mur­phy, Head of Aet­na Behav­ioral Health
• Evian Gor­don, Exec­u­tive Chair­man of Brain Resource
• Hyong Un, Chief Psy­chi­atric Offi­cer and Head of Employ­ee Assis­tance Pro­grams at Aetna
• Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO of SharpBrains
• San­dra Bond Chap­man, Founder and Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at the Uni­ver­sity of Texas at Dallas
• Bar­bara Arrow­smith Young, author of The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
• Dhar­ma Singh Khal­sa, Pres­i­dent of the Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foundation
• Tan Le, CEO of Emo­tiv Lifesciences
• Daniel Stern­berg, Data Sci­en­tist at Lumosity
• Joan Sev­er­son, Pres­i­dent of Dig­i­tal Artefacts
• Robert Bilder, Chief of Med­ical Psy­chol­o­gy-Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy at UCLA Semel Insti­tute for Neuroscience
• Jayne Plun­kett, Head of Casu­alty Rein­sur­ance at Swiss Re
• Misha Pavel, Pro­gram Direc­tor of Smart and Con­nected Health at the Nation­al Sci­ence Foundation
• Josh Wright, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of ideas42
• Ruth Frances Keir, CEO of Cam­bridge Cognition
• Olivi­er Oul­lier, Pro­fes­sor of Behav­ioral and Brain Sci­ences at Aix-Mar­seille University
• Alvaro Pas­cual-Leone, Asso­ciate Dean for Clin­i­cal and Trans­la­tional Research at Har­vard Med­ical School
• Bruce Wexler, NIH Director’s Award Win­ner and Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try at Yale University
• Corin­na E. Lath­an, Founder and CEO of AnthroTronix
• Stan­ley Yang, CEO of NeuroSky
• Todd Cole­man, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at UCSD Bioengineering
• Matthew Bish­op, US Busi­ness Edi­tor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist
• Ariel Garten, CEO of InteraXon

Ear­ly-bird reg­is­tra­tion expires this Sun­day, July 28th. Friends of Sharp­Brains can gain an addi­tion­al 10% dis­count by using pro­mo­tion­al code: sharp2013

Also, in two weeks we will invite Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants to join a new pri­vate LinkedIn group to start mak­ing con­nec­tions and to help final­ize the agen­da. We hope to e‑meet many of you at the Summit!