The future of
BCI, in one room

To provide an opportunity for students across America. We're working with invited companies and labs to find and filter people they want in the room. These include software, hardware, ML and bioengineers, researchers, founders and more.

To bring academia and industry closer together. The Utah array went from a university lab project in the 1990s to the foundation of Blackrock Neurotech, whose implantable array is used by hundreds of research institutions across the world. PRIMA went from two decades in Stanford's Palanker Lab to being the first commercially approved BCI to restore form vision for the blind. The foundations of neurotech have been built in academia, and scaled by companies. We want to bring both groups together so they can co-evolve and collaborate to accelerate progress in BCI.

To discuss long-term safety for BCI. AI systems can potentially infer information from neural activity, translate neural signals into actions, and eventually participate in closed-loop interactions with human cognition. In efforts to be proactive rather than reactive, we are bringing together leaders across industry and research to discuss how they are designing their systems to mitigate AI risk.