What’s normal? When it comes to the brain, it’s hard to say, and that’s why we need to study global neurodiversity

By Tan Le | February 12, 2020

In a small vil­lage in India—a place so remote it has no elec­tric­i­ty, no telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion sys­tem, and no cars or buses—a research work­er pre­pares to place an EEG head­set on a female villager’s head. The woman, who earns $3.75 a day labor­ing in a near­by rice pad­dy and who has nev­er ven­tured out­side her vil­lage, eyes…

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Top Brainnovations harnessing Big Data: WEKIT, Sapien Labs, MyndYou

By SharpBrains | February 16, 2018

? Top Brain­no­va­tion har­ness­ing Big Data (full record­ing requires reg­is­tra­tion; view slid­edeck above or Here). The three Final­ists were: WEKIT — Wear­able Expe­ri­ence for Knowl­edge Inten­sive Train­ing – pitch by Paul Lefrere, Inno­va­tion Lead Sapi­en Labs (WINNER) – pitch by Tara Thi­a­gara­jan, Founder & Chief Sci­en­tist Myn­dY­ou – pitch by Shi­ra Yama Nir, Project Man­ag­er Judged by: Bill Tuck­er, Senior Advi­sor to the K12 Edu­ca­tion Pro­gram at the Bill & Melin­da Gates Foun­da­tion; Eduar­do Briceño, CEO and Co-founder…

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Tara Thiagarajan, Founder of Brainnovations Winner Sapien Labs, on building a global platform for brain research that truly captures the diversity of humanity

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 8, 2018

___ What sur­prised you the most from the Judges’ ques­tions and feed­back dur­ing the Brain­no­va­tions Pitch Con­test? I was pleas­ant­ly sur­prised to see the sig­nif­i­cant range and depth of knowl­edge shown by the judg­ing pan­el, lead­ing to very spe­cif­ic and use­ful ques­tions around the key chal­lenges to build our glob­al research plat­form. In a nutshell,…

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WEKIT, Sapien Labs, MyndYou: Top Brainnovations harnessing Big Data

By SharpBrains | January 3, 2018

Top Brain­no­va­tion har­ness­ing Big Data (record­ing requires reg­is­tra­tion; view slid­edeck above or Here). The three Final­ists were: WEKIT — Wear­able Expe­ri­ence for Knowl­edge Inten­sive Train­ing – pitch by Paul Lefrere, Inno­va­tion Lead Sapi­en Labs (WINNER) – pitch by Tara Thi­a­gara­jan, Founder & Chief Sci­en­tist Myn­dY­ou – pitch by Shi­ra Yama Nir, Project Man­ag­er Judged by: Bill Tuck­er, Senior Advi­sor to the K12 Edu­ca­tion Pro­gram at the Bill & Melin­da Gates Foun­da­tion; Eduar­do Briceño, CEO and Co-founder of Mind­set Works; John…

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Congrats Brainnovations Winners: NeuraMetrix, AUGMENTx, Sapien Labs, and The Touchpoint Solution

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 7, 2017

Proud to announce the Win­ners of the Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test that took place yes­ter­day dur­ing the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit. But first of all, thank you very much to every one of the 12 Final­ists and the 16 Judges and every­one in the audi­ence — what a fas­ci­nat­ing dis­cus­sion and learn­ing expe­ri­ence for every­one involved! And…

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Harnessing Big Data to improve Brain Health & Performance @ 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (December 5–7th)

By Alvaro Fernandez | November 29, 2017

_____ Quick heads-up:  The 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit next week (Decem­ber 5–7th) will host a Brainnova­tions Pitch Con­test to dis­cuss the lat­est tech­nolo­gies for Brain Health & Enhance­ment, and 12 select­ed star­tups will get to pitch their inno­v­a­tive approach and solu­tions to our dis­tin­guished Judges –our very own “Sharp Tank”– and to all Sum­mit participants.

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