Tuesday in Washington, DC: The Neurotechnology Revolution

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The Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Revolution

Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 29, 2015   12–1.30pm

A col­lab­o­ra­tion between

Potomac Insti­tute for Pol­i­cy Stud­ies and SharpBrains

 

Descrip­tion: Rev­o­lu­tions in neu­rotech­nol­ogy will soon influ­ence every aspect of human life. Neu­rotech­nol­ogy can be used to fur­ther under­stand the nat­ural process­es of the brain, study and treat neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­or­ders and injuries, and enhance neur­al capa­bil­i­ties, result­ing in increased human intel­li­gence and effi­ciency. Out­side of the realm of health, it can be used in social con­texts to improve over­all qual­ity of life. Brain Com­put­er Inter­faces (BCIs), imag­ing capa­bil­i­ties, cog­ni­tive load and wear­able tech­nolo­gies have all improved rapid­ly and are being applied in mul­ti­ple fields; thou­sands of relat­ed patents have been filed.

This sem­i­nar will zoom in the main oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges pre­sent­ed by this rapid trans­for­ma­tion, based on The Potomac Institute’s recent pub­li­ca­tion, Trends in Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy, a com­pi­la­tion of infor­ma­tion from lit­er­a­ture review, sem­i­nars, and dis­cus­sions with experts, and Sharp­Brains’ lat­est mar­ket report, Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: A Ground­break­ing Analy­sis of 10,000+ Patent Fil­ings Trans­form­ing Med­i­cine, Health, Enter­tain­ment, and Busi­ness, which pro­vides exten­sive quan­ti­ta­tive evi­dence for the rise in non-inva­sive neu­rotech­nolo­gies both with­in and out­side the realm of medicine.

The sem­i­nar will host dis­tin­guished speak­ers and par­tic­i­pants from the neu­rotech­nol­o­gy indus­try, pol­i­cy mak­ers, researchers and users of neu­rotech­nol­o­gy and neu­ro­science-based inno­va­tion. By bring­ing togeth­er researchers, inno­va­tors and users involved in neu­rotech­nol­o­gy along­side pol­i­cy­mak­ers and leg­is­la­tors, we hope to pro­voke a live­ly dis­cus­sion from which nov­el pol­i­cy ideas for the suc­cess­ful devel­op­ment and imple­men­ta­tion of neu­rotech­nol­o­gy will emerge, help­ing har­ness the tremen­dous poten­tial in ways that active­ly ben­e­fit society.

To RSVP: Cam­eras and media must be reg­is­tered. For reg­is­tra­tion and gen­er­al RSVPs, please send name, title and affil­i­a­tion to Bri­an Bar­nett at bbar­nett at potomacin­sti­tute dot org.

Speakers

Dr. Jen­nifer Buss, Assis­tant Vice Pres­i­dent of Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy at the Potomac Insti­tute for Pol­icy Stud­ies, over­sees the con­tract work and per­son­nel in the S&T Pol­icy Divi­sion at the Potomac Insti­tute, man­ag­ing a vari­ety of OSD pro­grams includ­ing an out­reach effort for the Depart­ment of Defense to the start-up com­mu­nity across the coun­try to find inno­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies to meet the chal­lenges faced by the Ser­vices and Gov­ern­ment agen­cies. She per­forms sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy trends analy­sis and rec­om­mends pol­i­cy. Addi­tion­ally, Dr. Buss is the Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Neu­rotech­nol­ogy Stud­ies (CNS) at the Potomac Insti­tute for Pol­icy Stud­ies, a cen­ter ded­i­cat­ed to ascrib­ing mean­ing­ful pol­i­cy solu­tions to one of the most influ­en­tial sci­ence and tech­nolo­gies of our time. Dr. Buss earned a doc­tor­ate in bio­chem­istry from the Uni­ver­sity of Mary­land Depart­ment of Chem­istry and Bio­chem­istry. Dr. Buss received her BS in bio­chem­istry with a minor in math­e­mat­ics from the Uni­ver­sity of Delaware.

Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, named a Young Glob­al Leader by the World Eco­nomic Forum, runs Sharp­Brains, an inde­pen­dent mar­ket research firm track­ing how neu­ro­science and neu­rotech­nol­ogy can improve health and per­for­mance across the lifes­pan. A fre­quent pub­lic speak­er, he has been quot­ed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Jour­nal, CNN, Reuters, and Asso­ci­ated Press, among oth­ers. Alvaro is the Edi­tor-in-chief of the new report Per­va­sive Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy: A Ground­break­ing Analy­sis of 10,000+ Patent Fil­ings Trans­form­ing Med­i­cine, Health, Enter­tain­ment and Busi­ness, and co-author of “The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness: How to Opti­mize Brain Health and Per­for­mance at Any Age,” avail­able in Eng­lish, Span­ish, Pol­ish and Japan­ese. He holds an MBA and MA in Edu­ca­tion from Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity and a BA in Eco­nom­ics from Uni­ver­si­dad de Deusto, in his native Spain.

John H. Cam­mack is Man­ag­ing Part­ner of Cam­mack Asso­ciates, which spe­cial­izes in ear­ly stage invest­ing in enter­pris­es advanc­ing brain fit­ness and edu­ca­tion­al attain­ment. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive invest­ments include Curios­i­tyville, Moodle­rooms, Cite­lighter, Allovue, Calvert Edu­ca­tion Ser­vices, Unbound­ed­Con­cepts, UClass, MPow­er, Reify­Health, Inter­aX­on, Focus@Will, eMind­ful, Cog­nisens, Pear Ther­a­peu­tics and Hap­pli­fy. From 1991 to 2009, John was a senior exec­u­tive at T. Rowe Price. Cur­rent board assign­ments include CureViolence.org, PersonalGenome.org, ABAG (Asso­ci­a­tion of Bal­ti­more Area Grant­mak­ers), Bal­ti­more Corps, Ven­ture for Amer­i­ca, Beta­more Advi­so­ry Board, Cite­lighter and Calvert Edu­ca­tion Ser­vices. John is a Phi Beta Kap­pa grad­u­ate from Deni­son Uni­ver­si­ty with a BA in His­to­ry and received his MBA from Colum­bia University.

 

Logis­tics: Event was livestreamed and record­ed — the record­ing will be avail­able here by Mon­day, Octo­ber 5th.

Broad­cast live stream­ing video on Ustream

The Potomac Insti­tute for Pol­i­cy Studies

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