Top 10 Reasons To Join the 2013 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (September 19–20th)

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2013 SharpBrains SummitWe’d like to bring your atten­tion to the upcom­ing event that is like­ly to become a land­mark event for any­one inter­est­ed in health and well­ness appli­ca­tions of brain science.

Top 10 Rea­sons to Join the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Sep­tem­ber 19–20th):

  1. Watch Patrick Aebis­cher, Pres­i­dent of the Swiss Fed­eral Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy-Lau­sanne (EPFL), present the new bil­lion-euro Human Brain Project
  2. Ask Alexan­dra More­house, VP Brand Man­age­ment at Kaiser Per­ma­nente, her views on on the future of per­son­al brain health
  3. Learn from Tan Le, CEO of Emo­tiv Life­sciences, how they raised over $1 mil­lion via a crowd­fund­ing cam­paign for a new EEG-headset
  4. Talk with San­dra Bond Chap­man, Founder of the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at the Uni­ver­sity of Texas at Dal­las, about the new Brain Per­for­mance Institute
  5. Dis­cuss with Dan Fox, Senior VP Cor­po­rate Devel­op­ment at Dis­cov­ery Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, why Dis­cov­ery invest­ed in Lumosity
  6. Learn from Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO of Sharp­Brains, key dig­i­tal brain health trends
  7. Explore with Hyong Un, Head of Employ­ee Assis­tance Pro­grams at Aet­na, new brain-based cor­po­rate well­ness initiatives
  8. Dis­cov­er how Bruce Wexler, NIH Direc­tor’s Award Win­ner and Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try at Yale Uni­ver­si­ty, is help­ing inte­grate cog­ni­tive train­ing with phys­i­cal therapy
  9. Watch Jeff Zim­man, Chair­man of Posit Sci­ence, dis­cuss their strate­gic part­ner­ships with AAA and AARP
  10. Ask Misha Pavel, Pro­gram Direc­tor at the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion, about oppor­tu­ni­ties relat­ed to the Smart and Con­nect­ed Health portfolio

Now, if you still need more reasons…remember that the Sum­mit will gath­er over 30 Speak­ers of this cal­iber.

Since this is a vir­tu­al event, it requires no trav­el. Par­tic­i­pants use their com­put­ers to watch the pre­sen­ta­tions, to ask ques­tions to the speak­ers, and to inter­act with each oth­er. A pri­vate LinkedIn Group will start next week, allow­ing for ear­ly con­nec­tions and discussions.

We encour­age you to learn more about the Sum­mit, and to join it if it sounds inter­est­ing to you. You can learn more about the excel­lent Sum­mit Agen­da, and REGISTER HERE to par­tic­i­pate. (25%-off dis­count code: sharpsummit)

                                   Sincerely,

The Steer­ing Group of the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Summit

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO & Co-Founder, SharpBrains

Andrew Lee, Vice Pres­i­dent at Aetna

Corin­na Lath­an, Founder and CEO of AnthroTronix

Hilal Lashuel, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at the Swiss Fed­eral Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy-Lau­sanne (EPFL)

Jayne Plun­kett, Head of Casu­al­ty Rein­sur­ance at Swiss Re

Matthew Bish­op, New York Bureau Chief of The Economist

Olivi­er Oul­li­er, Pro­fes­sor of Behav­ioral and Brain Sci­ences at Aix-Mar­seille University

Tan Le, CEO of Emo­tiv Lifesciences

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