Summit Agenda

• Chair: Hilal Lashuel, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at the Swiss Fed­er­al Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy-Lau­sanne (EPFL), YGL Class of 2012
• Sean Hill, co-Direc­tor of the Blue Brain Project and co-Direc­tor of Neu­roin­for­mat­ics in the Human Brain Project (HBP) at the Swiss Fed­er­al Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy-Lau­sanne (EPFL)

Watch Record­ing: 9:15–10:00am. Brain Health meets Dig­i­tal Health (Record­ing starts at minute 41). We will dis­cuss the key high­lights and fore­casts from Sharp­Brains’ lat­est mar­ket report “The Dig­i­tal Brain Health Mar­ket 2012–2020: Web-based, mobile and bio­met­rics-based tech­nol­ogy to assess, mon­i­tor and enhance cog­ni­tion and brain functioning.”

• Chair: Hilal Lashuel, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor at the Swiss Fed­er­al Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy-Lau­sanne (EPFL), YGL Class of 2012
• Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO of Sharp­Brains, YGL Class of 2012

Watch Record­ing: 10:15–11:45am. How can orga­ni­za­tions max­i­mize the resilience and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of their human resources? His­tor­i­cal­ly, human resource depart­ments have not had the toolk­it to devel­op the most human resource of all – our brains. What are some large employ­ers and insur­ers doing to apply emerg­ing sci­ence and best prac­tices in this domain, via well­ness and train­ing ini­tia­tives, and HR benefits?

• Chair: Andrew Lee, Vice Pres­i­dent at Aet­na, YGL Class of 2011
• Hyong Un, Head of Employ­ee Assis­tance Pro­grams at Aetna
• Evian Gor­don, Exec­u­tive Chair­man of Brain Resource
• David Nill, Chief Med­ical Offi­cer at Cern­er Corporation

Watch Record­ing: 12:45–2:15pm. What is the future of per­son­al brain health? Accel­er­at­ing inno­va­tion is poised to enable sys­tem­at­ic brain health self-mon­i­tor­ing and self-care, which in turn can trans­form what it means to live healthy and ful­fill­ing lives. What con­crete steps can indi­vid­u­als take to man­age and enhance brain health and heal ill­ness through­out the var­i­ous stages of life?

• Chair: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO of Sharp­Brains, YGL Class of 2012
• Bar­bara Arrow­smith Young, author of The Woman Who Changed Her Brain
• Alexan­dra More­house, VP Brand Man­age­ment at Kaiser Permanente

2:15–3:00pm. Water­cool­er Chats. We’ll spend some time con­nect­ing with oth­er par­tic­i­pants, dis­cussing high­lights, exchang­ing ideas and con­tact information.

Watch Record­ing: 3:00–4:30pm. How can Big Data help upgrade brain care? Cur­rent stan­dards of brain and men­tal care often rely on tri­als of insuf­fi­cient scale, which not only lim­its our abil­i­ty to diag­nose, pre­vent, treat and per­son­al­ize care but often leads to incor­rect con­clu­sions and unde­sir­able results. What tools and data are becom­ing avail­able via large-scale web-based and mobile appli­ca­tions, and how can researchers, inno­va­tors and prac­ti­tion­ers con­nect with these initiatives?

• Chair: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO of Sharp­Brains, YGL Class of 2012
• 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

• Chair: Jayne Plun­kett, Head of Casu­al­ty Rein­sur­ance at Swiss Re, YGL Class of 2010
• Misha Pavel, Pro­gram Direc­tor of Smart and Con­nect­ed Health at the Nation­al Sci­ence Foundation
• Dhar­ma Singh Khal­sa, Pres­i­dent of the Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foundation
• Josh Wright, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of ideas42

Watch Record­ing: 10:15–10:45am. Build­ing Up the Apol­lo Brain Data Exchange Por­tal. We will dis­cuss oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges aris­ing from this core ini­tia­tive, spear­head­ed by One Mind for Research, to pro­vide open access to vast amounts of data and help close the gap between basic research and health outcomes.

• Chair: Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, CEO of SharpBrains
• Pete Chiarel­li, CEO of One Mind for Research, U.S. Army Gen­er­al (Ret)

Watch Record­ing: 10:45–11:45am. How can prac­ti­tion­ers inte­grate emerg­ing neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty-based inter­ven­tions with exist­ing stan­dards of care? A promis­ing fron­tier of applied neu­ro­science lies in tech­nolo­gies that stim­u­late our brains in order to har­ness neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty and achieve pos­i­tive out­comes. What are the prac­ti­cal Pros and Cons of dif­fer­ent method­olo­gies such as cog­ni­tive train­ing, EEG/ QEEG biofeed­back, vir­tu­al real­i­ty, tDCS, and what are appro­pri­ate ways to inte­grate them with tra­di­tion­al interventions?

• Chair: Olivi­er Oul­li­er, Pro­fes­sor of Behav­ioral and Brain Sci­ences at Aix-Mar­seille University
• Bruce Wexler, NIH Direc­tor’s Award Win­ner and Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try at Yale University
• Kate Sul­li­van, Direc­tor of the Brain Fit­ness Cen­ter at Wal­ter Reed Nation­al Mil­i­tary Med­ical Center

Watch Record­ing: 12:45–2:15pm. What are future con­sumer appli­ca­tions of bio-sens­ing neu­rotech­nol­o­gy? Biosens­ing tech­nol­o­gy is becom­ing increas­ing­ly amenable for con­sumer appli­ca­tions. What are exist­ing R&D and dis­tri­b­u­tion lim­i­ta­tions and how may these be addressed over the next few years? How do we see future appli­ca­tions being adopt­ed by con­sumers in mul­ti­ple contexts?

• Chair: Corin­na E. Lath­an, Founder and CEO of Anthro­Tron­ix, YGL Class of 2006
• Stan­ley Yang, CEO of NeuroSky
• Deb­o­rah Roz­man, CEO of HeartMath
• Ariel Garten, CEO of InteraXon

2:15–3:00pm. Water­cool­er Chats. We’ll spend some time con­nect­ing with oth­er par­tic­i­pants, dis­cussing high­lights, exchang­ing ideas and con­tact information.

Watch Record­ing: 3:00–4:30pm. How can inno­va­tors lever­age crowd­fund­ing and strate­gic invest­ments to gain dis­tri­b­u­tion reach? With dis­tri­b­u­tion as a com­mon bot­tle­neck to the sus­tain­able com­mer­cial­iza­tion of inno­va­tion, val­ue-added cap­i­tal is often crit­i­cal to enable steady progress in the trans­la­tion of brain sci­ence from lab to life. This is espe­cial­ly true in non-med­ical areas, which lack appro­pri­ate infra­struc­ture to com­mer­cial­ize and dis­trib­ute inno­v­a­tive solu­tions. What can inno­va­tors learn from Dis­cov­ery’s invest­ment in Lumos­i­ty, AAA’s part­ner­ship with Posit Sci­ence, and Emo­tiv’s Kick­starter crowd­fund­ing campaign?

• Chair: Matthew Bish­op, US Busi­ness Edi­tor and New York Bureau Chief of The Econ­o­mist, YGL Class of 2005
• Dan Fox, Senior VP Cor­po­rate Devel­op­ment at Dis­cov­ery Communications
• Jeff Zim­man, Chair­man of Posit Science
• Tan Le, CEO of Emo­tiv Life­sciences, YGL Class of 2009