Agenda

BrainMind Science Collective 2025

Menlo Park + Mountain View

Thursday, March 20th, 2025 | Mountain View (precise location in calendar invitation)

BrainMind Startup Salon

(please note that registration is now closed for this pre-event)

2:00 PM Arrivals

3:00 PM NeuroAI Panel hosted by Protocol Labs and the Foresight Institute

• Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute

• Sean Escola, Protocol Labs

• Patrick Mineault, Amaranth Foundation

• Ann Kennedy, Scripps

• Dave Markowitz, STR

• Chris Rozell, Georgia Tech

5:00 PM Rapidfire Pitches

• Casey Halpern, SynchNeuro

• Divya Chander, Lucidify

• Omer Burak Ericek, Medicana Health Group

• Deblina Sarkar, Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek Lab, MIT

• Steve Gullans, Thynk Inc

• Zach Lomis, Vantage

• Gabriel Kreiman, Kreiman Lab, Harvard, Memorious

• Ramses Alcaide, Neurable

• Ryota Kanai, Japan Moonshot R&D Program

6:00 PM Dinner is Served

7:00 PM Five “Fire Pit” Discussions

• Neurotech Funding: Transforming the Art of the Possible: John Ngai (moderator), Jacques Carolan, Amy Kruse, Justin Sanchez, David Markowitz

• Foundation Models of the Brain, Digital Twins, and NeuroAI: Andreas Tolias, Gabriel Kreiman, Talmo Pereira

• Wandering Minds to AI Creativity: Arnaud Delorme, Jonathan Schooler

• Epigenetics, Parenting, and AI: Bianca Jones Marlin, Sará King, Jennifer Gentile

• Psychedelics: What’s Now and What’s Next?: Khaliya, Michael Brotherton

9:00 PM Soft close

Friday, March 21st, 2025

BrainMind Science Collective Pre-Events (optional) | Michael’s Home, 2505 Alpine Road, Menlo Park

9:30 AM Group Mind Training Session and Bonus Breakout

• Metacognition Workshop: Dustin Diperna

• Frontiers of BCI and Neuromodulation: Jay Sanguinetti et al

12:00 PM Lunch

12:30 PM Special Topic Deep Dives

• Is Physicalism Adequate to Explain Consciousness?: Heather Berlin and Christof Koch

• Music, Brain and Health: The Science of Emotional Experiences in Three Acts: Daniel Levitin and Indre Viskontas

2:15 PM Musical Interlude, Arsha Kaviani

2:30 PM Special Topic Deep Dives + First Shuttle to the Ameswell Hotel

• Perspectives on Contemplative Science: Promise, Perils, and Shared Commitments: Jud Brewer and Clifford Saron

• The Future of Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Disease Prevention: Richard Isaacson and Psyche Loui

• Neuroscience through the Lens of Evolution: Paul Cisek, Tony Zador, Max Bennett

4:30 PM Shuttles to the Ameswell Hotel

BrainMind Science Collective Opening Reception (must attend!) | Ameswell Hotel, 800 Moffett Blvd, Mountain View

5:00 PM Welcome

5:30 PM Musical Immersion, Keynotes from Dacher Keltner and Ed Boyden

6:45 PM BrainMind Science Collective Round Robin Kick-off

7:15 PM Dinner + Collective Schedule Creation