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Lessons learned in bringing innovative brain fitness solutions to market

January 11, 2016 by SharpBrains

Lessons learned in bring­ing inno­v­a­tive brain fit­ness solu­tions to mar­ket from Sharp­Brains

Suc­cess­ful inno­va­tors dis­sected key mar­ket & tech­nol­ogy trends and mod­els to val­i­date and com­mer­cial­ize inno­va­tion, with a par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on how to cre­ate a loy­al user base and gain main­stream dis­tri­b­u­tion via a diver­sity of chan­nels. [Read more…] about Lessons learned in bring­ing inno­v­a­tive brain fit­ness solu­tions to market

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Brain-Fitness, brain-fitness-solutions, Builders Collaborative, fit-brains, innovative, market, market trends, OpenBCI, Peak, Potomac Insti­tute, Rosetta Stone, technology trends

The Future of Brain Health, as seen by MapMyGenome, the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation, and FitBrains

January 2, 2016 by SharpBrains

The Future of Brain Health from Sharp­Brains

Dur­ing Expo Day select­ed Sum­mit Spon­sors show­cased their lat­est ini­tia­tives and solutions:

  • Pre­view the Future of Brain Health with Anu Acharya, Founder and CEO of MapMyGenome
  • The Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion (ARPF): Dis­cuss new sci­ence and pre­ven­tion ini­tia­tives with Pres­i­dent Dr. Dhar­ma Singh Khalsa.
  • Fit­Brains (a Roset­ta Stone com­pany): Explore ongo­ing big data research with Con­ny Lin, Data Research Sci­en­tist & Pol­icy Analyst.

–> This pre­sen­ta­tion took place @ The 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (full record­ings are avail­able for purchase)

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion, brain, Brain-health, Fit­Brains, future, health, innovation, MapMyGenome, Rosetta Stone

Thank you, Summit Speakers, Participants and Sponsors!

November 25, 2015 by Alvaro Fernandez

What a fan­tas­tic, diverse, stim­u­lat­ing, for­ward-look­ing Sum­mit we enjoyed last week. Thank you so much, every­one, for your par­tic­i­pa­tion and contributions!!

Spe­cial thanks go to the orga­ni­za­tions at the lead­ing edge who sup­port­ed this unique event as Sponsors:

Gold Sponsors

arpf

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.

FitBrains_webFit Brains is a cut­ting-edge, brain-train­ing pro­gram brought to you by Roset­ta Stone, a pre­mier learn­ing com­pa­ny with lead­ing prod­ucts used by schools, busi­ness and gov­ern­ment orga­ni­za­tions, and mil­lions of indi­vid­u­als around the world.

Silver Sponsors

AAAFoundation

The AAA Foun­da­tion for Traf­fic Safe­ty was found­ed in 1947 by AAA to iden­ti­fy traf­fic safe­ty prob­lems, fos­ter research that seeks solu­tions and dis­sem­i­nate infor­ma­tion and edu­ca­tion­al materials.

Arrowsmith ProgramThe 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 that are most com­mon­ly involved in learning.

CC-ABHI_BaycrestBay­crest, ful­ly affil­i­at­ed with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, is one of the world’s pre­mier aca­d­e­m­ic health sci­ences cen­ters focused on aging, and will host the new $100m+ Cana­di­an Cen­tre for Aging and Brain Health Inno­va­tion.

Brain­Base­line is the first iPad appli­ca­tion for mea­sur­ing how well your brain works. Devel­oped by Dig­i­tal Arte­facts, it helps users world­wide under­stand how demo­graph­ic fac­tors and leisure activ­i­ties impact over­all brain health.

Lumosity

Lumos­i­ty is a lead­ing brain train­ing com­pa­ny with more than 70 mil­lion mem­bers from 180 coun­tries. Found­ed in 2005 and launched in 2007, Lumos­i­ty offers more than 40 games that are designed to chal­lenge core cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties. Lumosity’s games are based on neu­ro­science, with con­tin­u­ing inde­pen­dent third-par­ty stud­ies being con­duct­ed by researchers at aca­d­e­m­ic insti­tu­tions around the world.

Bronze Sponsors

brainHQ

brain­HQ is a brain train­ing sys­tem built by Posit Sci­ence to help peo­ple be at their best through­out their lives. Their team of experts designs, tests, and refines online exer­cis­es that effec­tive­ly address cog­ni­tive issues relat­ed to healthy aging and oth­er conditions.

Cog­niFit is a health­care com­pa­ny spe­cial­ized in brain fit­ness soft­ware. Since 1999, the firm has designed and devel­oped com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive assess­ments and online brain train­ing applications.

Peak, found­ed by a group of indi­vid­u­als from Google, Ama­zon and EA who believe in rein­vent­ing edu­ca­tion through mobile, games and sci­ence. Lead by neu­ro­sci­en­tists and cog­ni­tive learn­ing experts, Peak devel­ops mobile apps that enables users world­wide to improve their cog­ni­tive skills for a health­i­er, sharp­er life.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AAA-Foundation-for-Traffic-Safety, Alzheimers-Research-and-Prevention-Foundation, Baycrest, BrainBaseline, BrainHQ, Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation, cognifit, Digital Artefacts, fit-brains, Lumosity, Peak, Posit-Science, Rosetta Stone, sharpbrains, SharpBrains Summit, The Arrowsmith Program

Day 3–Expo Day @ 2015 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

November 19, 2015 by SharpBrains

2015SharpBrainsSummit_top(If you did not reg­is­ter, you can track the pro­ceed­ings, and con­tribute too, via Twit­ter: #sharpbrains2015)

Dear Sum­mit participant,

Amaz­ing cou­ple of days…and there’s more 🙂

Here are the instruc­tions to join Day 3–Expo Day today, start­ing at 8.15am US Pacif­ic Time (San Fran­cis­co, CA time)/ 11.15am East­ern Time.

–> Login Instruc­tions for Reg­is­tered Sum­mit Participants

The Agen­da for today: [Read more…] about Day 3–Expo Day @ 2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Summit

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion, Baycrest, BrainBaseline, fitbrains, Lumosity, Map My Genome, Rosetta Stone, sharpbrains, summit

Thank You, Leading Sponsors @ 2015 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

September 14, 2015 by Alvaro Fernandez

Please join us in thank­ing these lead­ing orga­ni­za­tions for sup­port­ing the upcom­ing  2015 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit (Novem­ber 17–19th).

In alpha­bet­i­cal order, our heart­felt appre­ci­a­tion goes to the AAA Foun­da­tion for Traf­fic Safe­ty, the Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion, the Arrow­smith Pro­gram, Bay­crest, Brain­Base­line, Cog­niFit, Peak and Roset­ta Stone (and more to fol­low). Thank you!

Gold Sponsors

 

arpfThe 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.

RosettaStoneRoset­ta Stone Inc. (NYSE:RST) is ded­i­cat­ed to chang­ing the way the world learns. The com­pa­ny’s inno­v­a­tive tech­nol­o­gy-dri­ven lan­guage, read­ing and brain-fit­ness solu­tions are used by thou­sands of schools, busi­ness­es, gov­ern­ment orga­ni­za­tions and mil­lions of indi­vid­u­als around the world.

Silver Sponsors

AAAFoundationThe AAA Foun­da­tion for Traf­fic Safe­ty was found­ed in 1947 by AAA to con­duct research to address grow­ing high­way safe­ty issues. The organization’s mis­sion is to iden­ti­fy traf­fic safe­ty prob­lems, fos­ter research that seeks solu­tions and dis­sem­i­nate infor­ma­tion and edu­ca­tion­al materials.

Arrowsmith ProgramThe 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.

baycrestBay­crest, ful­ly affil­i­at­ed with the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to, is one of the world’s pre­mier aca­d­e­m­ic health sci­ences cen­ters focused on aging, and will host the new $100m+ Cana­di­an Cen­tre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation.

Brain­Base­line is the first iPad appli­ca­tion for mea­sur­ing how well your brain works. Devel­oped by Dig­i­tal Arte­facts, a team of high­ly skilled com­put­er sci­en­tists, artists, and engi­neers, it helps users under­stand how leisure activ­i­ties impact over­all brain health.

Bronze Sponsors

Cog­niFit is a health­care com­pa­ny spe­cial­ized in brain fit­ness soft­ware. We design and devel­op com­put­er­ized cog­ni­tive assess­ments and online brain train­ing applications.

Peak, lead by neu­ro­sci­en­tists and cog­ni­tive learn­ing experts, devel­ops mobile apps that enables users world­wide to improve their cog­ni­tive skills for a health­i­er, sharp­er life.

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AAA-Foundation-for-Traffic-Safety, Alzheimers-Research-and-Prevention-Foundation, Arrowsmith Program, Baycrest, BrainBaseline, cognifit, Peak, Rosetta Stone

Carving Out Future Brain Health Directions + Expo Day (Rosetta Stone, Peak, Cogniciti, Arrowsmith Program)

December 23, 2014 by SharpBrains

Carv­ing out Future Brain Health Direc­tions + Expo Day from Sharp­Brains: Track­ing Brain Health Inno­va­tion

Enjoy these great pre­sen­ta­tions on the future of brain health, deliv­ered at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit and featuring:

  • Dr. Ken Kosik, Co-Direc­tor of the UC San­ta Bar­bara Neu­ro­science Research Institute
  • For Roset­ta Stone/ Fit­Brains: Steve Quan, Head of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment & Strate­gic Partnerships
  • For Peak: Roy Zahut, Lead Scientist
  • For Bay­crest/ Cog­nic­i­ti: Mike Meagher, Pres­i­dent of Cogniciti
  • For The Arrow­smith Pro­gram: Jes­sica Poulin, Man­ag­ing Director

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Arrow­smith Pro­gram, Bay­crest, Brain-health, Cogniciti, Fit­Brains, neuroscience, Peak, Rosetta Stone, UC Santa Bar­bara

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