Sponsors and Partners

Gold Sponsor

The Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion (ARPF), estab­lished in 1993, is ded­i­cat­ed to reduc­ing the inci­dence of Alzheimer’s dis­ease by con­duct­ing clin­i­cal research and pro­vid­ing edu­ca­tion­al out­reach. Its mis­sion is to make avail­able infor­ma­tion, from con­ven­tion­al and com­ple­men­tary med­i­cine, that will empow­er peo­ple to build healthy brains.

Silver Sponsors

The Arrow­smith Pro­gram, avail­able in pub­lic and pri­vate schools in the U.S., Cana­da, Aus­tralia and New Zealand is a com­pre­hen­sive suite of cog­ni­tive pro­grams for stu­dents with learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties that tar­gets 19 areas of the brain that are most com­mon­ly involved in learn­ing. The pro­gram iden­ti­fies and strength­ens the weak cog­ni­tive areas, and each stu­dent works on cog­ni­tive pro­grams that are indi­vid­u­al­ly designed for his or her areas of learn­ing difficulty.
Dig­i­tal Arte­facts is a team of high­ly skilled com­put­er sci­en­tists, artists, and engi­neers who are pas­sion­ate about cre­at­ing state of the art visu­al­iza­tion and inter­ac­tive expe­ri­ences for edu­ca­tion and research com­mu­ni­ties. Their design approach, as exem­pli­fied by Brain­Base­line –iPad appli­ca­tion for cog­ni­tive self-mon­i­tor­ing– is guid­ed by a com­mit­ment to user-cen­tered design and to a deep under­stand­ing of human fac­tors in key sub­ject domains.
Inter­ac­tive Metronome (IM) devel­ops ther­a­py tools that help assess and improve the brain’s abil­i­ty to motor plan and sequence., espe­cial­ly rel­e­vant in patients with learn­ing and devel­op­men­tal dis­or­ders as well as acquired neu­ro­log­i­cal ill­ness or injuries. There are more than 20,000 cer­ti­fied IM providers in over 5,000 clin­ics, hos­pi­tals and uni­ver­si­ties through­out the Unit­ed States and Cana­da. Inter­ac­tive Metronome is approved by ASHA, AOTA, and BOC to offer con­tin­u­ing edu­ca­tion cred­its for its curriculum.

Partners

We invite pro­fes­sion­al asso­ci­a­tions, research labs, and media out­lets, to become part­ners of future Sharp­Brains Sum­mits. Please see details below. If inter­ested, please Con­tact Us.
Aging2.0 is a glob­al net­work of inno­va­tors who use tech­nol­o­gy and design to improve the lives of old­er adults around the world. Togeth­er with key part­ners, they are build­ing a plat­form for inno­va­tion, based on events, con­tent and community.
The Beren­son-Allen Cen­ter for Non­in­va­sive Brain Stim­u­la­tion (CNBS) at Beth Israel Dea­coness Med­ical Cen­ter and Har­vard Med­ical School inte­grates three dis­tinct mis­sions: Research, Edu­ca­tion, and Patient Care, in order to opti­mize and apply non­in­va­sive brain stim­u­la­tion to health care and research.
The Brain Sci­ence Pod­cast fea­tures the lat­est books about neu­ro­science as well as inter­views with lead­ing sci­en­tists from around the world. It has been one of the top-rank­ing pod­casts in Med­i­cine on iTunes. Free tran­scripts are avail­able for all 100+ episodes.
The Cen­ter for Brain Health at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Dal­las was cre­at­ed in 1999 to search for ways to pro­mote brain health fit­ness across the entire human lifes­pan, encom­pass­ing every age, eth­nic­i­ty, gen­der, and socioe­co­nom­ic group. Life-improv­ing stud­ies empha­size both inno­v­a­tive brain research and prac­ti­cal clin­i­cal applications.
The new Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Aging at USC Davis School of Geron­tol­ogy will help track and shape the aging-relat­ed busi­ness, research and entre­pre­neur­ial oppor­tu­ni­ties enabled by the Internet.
inno­va­tion­lab is an inter­na­tion­al knowl­edge cen­tre for new tech­nol­o­gy based in Den­mark. It oper­ates as an “anten­na asso­ci­a­tion” pro­vid­ing a broad per­spec­tive of the scope of emerg­ing tech­nolo­gies, of their poten­tial, and of who has advanced the fur­thest and with what, with cus­tomers such as Sony Eric­s­son, Sam­sung, Microsoft, HP, Mars LEGO, and more.
MaRS Dis­cov­ery Dis­trict is a large scale, mis­sion dri­ven inno­va­tion cen­tre locat­ed in Toron­to and net­worked across Ontario, focused on build­ing Canada’s next gen­er­a­tion of tech­nol­o­gy com­pa­nies in life sci­ences and health care, dig­i­tal media, clean-tech, as well as inno­v­a­tive social pur­pose business.
The UCSF Gaz­za­ley Lab is a cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science research lab at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San Fran­cis­co focused on study­ing the neur­al mech­a­nisms of mem­o­ry and atten­tion, changes due to nor­mal aging and demen­tia, and ther­a­peu­tic interventions.

Becoming a Partner

Sum­mit Part­ners help pro­mote the Sum­mit through on their web­site, eNewslet­ter, pub­li­ca­tions, media out­reach. As a gen­er­al rule, we are look­ing for rec­og­nized orga­ni­za­tions with a sig­nif­i­cant and active com­mu­ni­ty of members/ subscribers/ readers.

In appre­ci­a­tion, we will:

• dis­play your logo & descrip­tion in the con­fer­ence web­site all materials,
• men­tion your orga­ni­za­tion in press materials,
• offer 1 com­pli­men­ta­ry pass for your staff,
• offer a 15% dis­count to mem­bers of your community/ network,