How to Access the full Recordings (40+ Speakers, 12+ Hours)

Reg­is­tered Par­tic­i­pants: Sim­ply click on any ses­sion in the Sum­mit Agen­da below to open the cor­re­spond­ing record­ing, using the cre­den­tials we sent you by email. All slid­edecks are freely avail­able via links below.

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The 2019 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (May 7–9th, 2019), pro­duced and curat­ed by our CEO & Edi­tor-in-Chief Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, fea­tured over forty of the world’s top experts and inno­va­tors work­ing to improve brain health for all in light of grow­ing neu­ro­science and dig­i­tal tech. You can read some of the main high­lights here.

Dur­ing Expo Day select­ed Sum­mit Spon­sors and Part­ners show­cased their most promis­ing brain health & well­ness ini­tia­tives and solutions.

8.30am. Dr. Hag­it Alon, VP Sci­en­tif­ic Affairs of Joy Ven­tures, will present their “Neu­ro-Well­ness” phi­los­o­phy and approach to invest in sci­en­tif­ic research and in entre­pre­neurs. (View slid­edeck here)

9.15am. Mar­cel Legrand, Chief Rev­enue Offi­cer of Total Brain, will pro­vide an overview of their new plat­form to bet­ter assess, under­stand and improve brain capac­i­ties. (View slid­edeck here)

10am. Dr. Lew Lim, Founder & CEO of Vielight, will explore the lat­est on pho­to­bio­mod­u­la­tion and brain stim­u­la­tion. (View slid­edeck here)

10.30–11am. Water­cool­er Chats. Final ses­sion to con­nect with oth­er par­tic­i­pants, dis­cuss high­lights, and exchange ideas and con­tact information.

11am. Deb­bie Gilmore, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of The Arrow­smith Pro­gram, will dis­cuss plans to bet­ter equip 100+ schools help­ing stu­dents with spe­cial needs. (View slid­edeck here)

11.45am. Xavier Louis, CEO of Peak, will dis­cuss their plans to bring to mar­ket engag­ing, self-serve and evi­dence-based dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tics. (View slid­edeck here)

12.30pm. Mel Barsky, Direc­tor at Cen­tre for Aging + Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CABHI), will intro­duce a new call for inno­va­tion where CABHI will be fund­ing nov­el ideas from point-of-care work­ers that can help to improve brain health in old­er adults. (View slid­edeck here)

1.15pm. Syd­ney Swaine-Simon, Co-Founder of Neu­rotechX, will intro­duce their new learn­ing resources and grow­ing com­mu­ni­ty of neu­rotech experts, entre­pre­neurs, and enthu­si­asts. (View slid­edeck here)

FAQs

Where will the Sum­mit take place? Online, over the Inter­net. Speak­ers and Par­tic­i­pants can access the vir­tu­al meet­ing room from any loca­tion — all that is required is a com­put­er with Inter­net con­nec­tion. No one needs to travel.

What is a vir­tu­al con­fer­ence? The Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit is just like a phys­i­cal con­fer­ence — reg­is­tered par­tic­i­pants were able to access all pre­sen­ta­tions, ask press­ing ques­tions, and con­nect with speak­ers and fel­low par­tic­i­pants. The main dif­fer­ence is, no one needs to travel.

What is the typ­i­cal pro­file of Sum­mit par­tic­i­pants? By design, the Sum­mit is cross-sec­tor and mul­ti-dis­ci­pli­nary, so there’s not just one “typ­i­cal pro­file” — par­tic­i­pants come from acad­e­mia, indus­try and prac­tice. Any­one look­ing to explore and dis­cuss the lat­est in brain health and per­for­mance will find val­ue in this conference.

Over 1,000 pro­fes­sion­als in 20+ coun­tries have par­tic­i­pat­ed in Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mits since 2010. For the 2017 Sum­mit alone, 250+ pio­neers reg­is­tered (rep­re­sent­ed by the dots in the image to the right), in 23 countries.

Who should attend? Inno­va­tors, deci­sion-mak­ers, researchers, and prac­ti­tion­ers inter­est­ed in tech­nol­o­gy, consumer/ behavioral/ occupational/ men­tal health, gam­ing, insur­ance, human resources, dig­i­tal health­care, senior ser­vices, cog­ni­tive and affec­tive neuroscience.

Summit Sponsors and Partners

Sponsors

The Arrow­smith Pro­gram, avail­able in 80+ schools in the US, Cana­da, Aus­tralia and New Zealand, is a com­pre­hen­sive suite of cog­ni­tive pro­grams for stu­dents with learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties to train key brain func­tions involved in learning.   Ban­ner Health is one of the largest non­prof­it health sys­tems in the USA, employ­ing more than 50,000 staff mem­bers in 29 hos­pi­tals and oth­er set­tings rang­ing from home care and long-term care, to lab­o­ra­to­ries and reha­bil­i­ta­tion services.   The Cen­tre for Aging + Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CABHI), led by Bay­crest, helps inno­va­tors devel­op, dis­sem­i­nate, scale, and pro­mote adop­tion of promis­ing inno­va­tions in the aging and brain health sector.

Joy Ven­tures is a pri­vate­ly fund­ed invest­ment com­pa­ny found­ed by Corun­dum Open Inno­va­tion and ded­i­cat­ed to spear­head­ing the Neu­ro-Well­ness are­na by sup­port­ing break­through sci­en­tif­ic research through grants and invest­ing in star­tups and entre­pre­neurs which bring inno­v­a­tive prod­ucts to con­sumers in ways that are fun and easy to use.   Total Brain is a ful­ly owned sub­sidiary of Brain Resource Lim­it­ed (ASX:BRC), at the fore­front of apply­ing clin­i­cal­ly val­i­dat­ed brain assess­ment and brain train­ing to improve behav­ioral health out­comes. For­mer­ly called MyBrain­So­lu­tions, Total Brain is the world’s first brain per­for­mance mon­i­tor­ing and train­ing plat­form pow­ered by the largest stan­dard­ized brain database.   VieLight has a mis­sion to engi­neer and com­mer­cial­ize non-inva­sive devices based on pho­to­bio­mod­u­la­tion that are safe and effec­tive, easy to use and afford­able. It focus­es on devel­op­ing new-gen­er­a­tion home-use brain stim­u­la­tion devices that are enjoy­ing a grow­ing rep­u­ta­tion to be help­ful for men­tal acu­ity in var­i­ous presentations.

Partners

If you’re inter­est­ed in becom­ing a Sum­mit Spon­sor or Part­ner, con­tact us to dis­cuss details.

 

What Participants Say

“The Sharp­Brains Sum­mit is unique in its impres­sive abil­i­ty to unite a diverse col­lec­tion of cut­ting-edge thinkers in a “vir­tu­al” con­fer­ence that is shared glob­al­ly with­out a hitch.” — Dr. Adam Gaz­za­ley, Direc­tor of the Neu­ro­science Imag­ing Cen­ter at UCSF

“A per­fect way to keep the pulse of 3 key inno­va­tion themes: con­sumer health, applied neu­ro­science, and apps and wear­ables.” — Jack Young, Head of Qual­comm Life Fund

“I know of no bet­ter resource than Sharp­Brains Sum­mits to explore the lat­est fron­tier in brain health pro­mo­tion.” — Dr. Michael P. O’Donnell, Edi­tor-In-Chief of the Amer­i­can Jour­nal of Health Promotion

“An impres­sive vir­tu­al con­vo­ca­tion of lead­ing sci­en­tists and devel­op­ers and adopters of cog­ni­tive enhance­ment tech­nol­o­gy.” — Dr. Robert Bilder, Chief of Med­ical Psy­chol­o­gy-Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gy, UCLA Semel Insti­tute for Neuroscience

“Con­grat­u­la­tions on con­ven­ing, again, such a com­pelling group of speak­ers and par­tic­i­pants.” — Dr. Eddie Mar­tuc­ci, CEO of Akili Inter­ac­tive Labs

“Win­ning the Sharp­Brains Pitch Con­test had a major impact for us. Our lead flow from phar­ma and device man­u­fac­tur­ers has tripled com­pared to pre-com­pe­ti­tion. Addi­tion­al­ly we are being approached by many oth­er play­ers – investors, aca­d­e­m­ic part­ners, you name it. And all this in just a month!” — Jam Samzelius, CEO and Founder of NeuraMetrix

“Every Sum­mit is a sem­i­nal event, full of won­der­ful insights and remark­able ini­tia­tives, at a time when the brain is going main­stream.”— Dr. Evian Gor­don, Exec­u­tive Chair­man of Brain Resource

“I was impressed by the for­ward-look­ing yet prac­ti­cal dis­cus­sions about enhanc­ing human per­for­mance.” — Dr. Susan Jew­ell, Pres­i­dent of the Inter­na­tional Space Med­i­cine Consortium

“A beau­ti­ful exam­ple of how bring­ing sci­en­tif­ic lead­ers and inno­va­tors togeth­er can spur thought­ful dis­cus­sion about our most vital organ–the brain.” — Dr. San­dra Bond Chap­man, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at The Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Dallas

“Every Sharp­Brains Sum­mit delves into a well-curat­ed vari­ety of top­ics, both on macro and niche lev­els, mak­ing it the per­fect forum for dis­cov­ery and idea exchange “— Stan­ley Yang, CEO, NeuroSky

“Kudos for such a fan­tas­tic con­fer­ence. The dis­cus­sion about human vs. arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and ethics was espe­cial­ly excit­ing.” — Rajiv Pant, for­mer Chief Tech­nol­ogy Offi­cer of The New York Times

“A vir­tu­al sum­mit is the way to go … no trav­el, no wor­ry and no hur­ry. The Sharp­Brains team has again pro­duced the best brain con­fer­ence avail­able today.” — Dr. Dhar­ma Singh Khal­sa, Pres­i­dent of the Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foundation