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Will You Join Us @ 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June 7–14th, 2012)

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We are excit­ed to announce the stel­lar and grow­ing ros­ter of speak­ers and mod­er­a­tors @ 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit, includ­ing sev­er­al in-depth edu­ca­tion­al work­shops to address top­ics of high inter­est based on your feed­back. You can now Watch this 3‑minute tuto­r­i­al about the 2012 Sum­mit, and Reg­is­ter at ear­ly-bird rates before April 30th. We hope you can join us!

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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS AND MODERATORS

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Last 33 Hours to Register/ US Asst. Secretary of Adult Education to Open 2011 SharpBrains Summit

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Reg­is­tra­tion to par­tic­i­pate in 2011 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit clos­es tomor­row Tues­day, March 29th, at 1pm US Pacif­ic Time/ 4pm US East­ern Time. If you are plan­ning to attend, please Reg­is­ter Now.

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We are hon­ored to announce that Dr. Bren­da Dann-Messier, US Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion’s Assis­tant Sec­re­tary for Voca­tional and Adult Edu­ca­tion, will open 2011 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit on Wednes­day, March 30th, shar­ing her Wel­come Remarks with 220+ reg­is­tered participants.

Bren­da Dann-Messier was nom­i­nated by Pres­i­dent Oba­ma as assis­tant sec­re­tary for voca­tional and adult edu­ca­tion on July 14, 2009. On Oct. 5, 2009 she was con­firmed by the U.S. Sen­ate and began her offi­cial duties on Oct. 13, 2009. More infor­ma­tion on Dr. Dann-Messier’s bio Here.

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Sum­mit Agen­da: 80% of the 38,000 adults over 50 sur­veyed in the 2010 AARP Mem­ber Opin­ion Sur­vey indi­cated “Stay­ing Men­tally Sharp” as their top ranked inter­est and con­cern. This con­sumer-fueled inter­est, com­bined with grow­ing research on life­long neu­ro­plas­tic­ity and the cog­ni­tive reserve and with a grow­ing mar­ket­place of “brain fit­ness” prod­ucts and ser­vices, con­sti­tutes a call to action to expand the brain health toolk­it to meet grow­ing needs across the lifes­pan. Intel CEO Paul Otelli­ni is quot­ed as say­ing, “You have to start by think­ing about what peo­ple want to do…and work back­ward,” and the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit: Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tury will do so by show­cas­ing the lat­est trends tak­ing place among con­sumers and pro­fes­sion­als, in indus­try, research, tech­nol­ogy, and care, to iden­tify crit­i­cal oppor­tu­ni­ties and chal­lenges to devel­op a valu­able inno­va­tion ecosys­tem which may exceed $2B world­wide in 2015. 

To Learn More About Final Agen­da and Speak­er Ros­ter, click HERE. Please note all times in the agen­da indi­cate US Pacif­ic Time.

You can Learn More and Reg­is­ter HERE, and get a 15% dis­count by enter­ing dis­count code: sharp2011

20 Reasons Why Virtual Conferences Are the Future

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Con­fer­ences have long been a sta­ple of the pro­fes­sion­al cal­en­dar. Now, after a reces­sion that has slashed trav­el expen­di­ture, the land­scape for events is chang­ing. Sophis­ti­cat­ed dig­i­tal plat­forms are enabling vir­tu­al envi­ron­ments that sim­u­late the ben­e­fits of real events, and atten­dees are begin­ning to shift to access­ing sub­ject mat­ter experts and indus­try net­work­ing online.

But can the dig­i­tal envi­ron­ment real­ly dis­place brick and mor­tar events, where eye to eye meet­ings and chance con­nec­tions can jus­ti­fy the often cost­ly reg­is­tra­tion fees and trav­el costs? [Read more…] about 20 Rea­sons Why Vir­tu­al Con­fer­ences Are the Future

Clarification and FAQs regarding 2011 SharpBrains Summit

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We have received a very thought­ful com­plaint about yes­ter­day’s mes­sage, so let me take a few min­utes to address it and to answer oth­er fre­quent­ly asked ques­tions on the 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit.

Com­plaint: “Why do peo­ple who pro­cras­ti­nate and sign up late war­rant a spe­cial “perk” (refer­ring to the “Inte­gra­tive Neu­ro­science and Per­son­al­ized Med­i­cine” ref­er­ence book we offered yes­ter­day)? If that is the kind of busi­ness eth­ic you pro­mote it almost makes me want to can­cel my ear­li­er registration.” 

That is an excel­lent point, which we did take into account but did not com­mu­ni­cate prop­er­ly. The rea­son we felt it was fine to offer such a “perk” was because dis­count­ed ear­ly-bird rates had just expired. Assum­ing [Read more…] about Clar­i­fi­ca­tion and FAQs regard­ing 2011 Sharp­Brains Summit

How to Join 36 World-class Brain Experts from Your Favorite Chair

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What may be the most time and cost-effi­cient way to attend a con­fer­ence, learn from world-class speak­ers and meet old and new colleagues?

Answer: A vir­tu­al con­fer­ence, such as the upcom­ing 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit: Retool­ing Brain Health for the 21st Cen­tu­ry (March 30th — April 1st).

Please watch this 3‑minute clip to learn how the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit works, and why you should con­sid­er join­ing the good com­pa­ny of over 35 lead­ing Speak­ers drawn from indus­try, research and the front lines.

Con­firmed Speak­ers include:

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To Learn More About Sum­mit Fac­ul­ty & Agen­da, click HERE

We’d be delight­ed to count on your par­tic­i­pa­tion in this inno­v­a­tive endeavor,

- The Sharp­Brains Team

PS: Ear­ly-bird reg­is­tra­tion rates end on Feb­ru­ary 18th, with sub­stan­tial sav­ings avail­able both for com­pa­nies and non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tions.  To Learn More and Reg­is­ter: click Here