We are pleased to announce the new annual Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards, designed to fos­ter inno­va­tion and best prac­tice shar­ing by cel­e­brat­ing out­stand­ing pio­neers who apply neuroplasticity-based research and tools in the “real world”. The awards will rec­og­nize orga­ni­za­tions that are devis­ing and imple­ment­ing results-oriented and scal­able ini­tia­tives that demon­strate their com­mit­ment to the brain fit­ness of their clients, mem­bers, patients, stu­dents or employ­ees, and show­case inno­v­a­tive uses of non-invasive tools to improve cog­ni­tive and emo­tional func­tions and “real-world” outcomes.

Prizes

1 Grand Prize Win­ner will receive: $2,500 check, con­sult­ing ses­sion with Sharp­Brains staff, 2 tick­ets for each Sharp­Brains Sum­mit in 2011; 10 signed copies of The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fitness.

2 Sil­ver Prize Win­ners will each receive: $1,000 check, con­sult­ing ses­sion with Sharp­Brains staff, 2 tick­ets for each Sharp­Brains Sum­mit in 2011, 10 signed copies of The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fitness.

7 Final­ists will each receive: $250 check, 1 ticket for each Sharp­Brains Sum­mit in 2011, 10 signed copies of The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fitness.

How to Enter

Orga­ni­za­tions can use this Entry Form to sub­mit entries by end of Thurs­day, April 15th, 2010.

The 2010 Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards will rec­og­nize unique ini­tia­tives that not only bring mea­sur­able ben­e­fits to end users but also are closely con­nected to fur­ther­ing the objec­tives of the orga­ni­za­tion in which they oper­ate, via (for exam­ple) increased customer/ patient sat­is­fac­tion, employee engage­ment, brand­ing ben­e­fits, pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment gains, and oth­ers. All eli­gi­ble sub­mis­sions will be eval­u­ated based on the fol­low­ing criteria:

• 20%: Mea­sur­able Ben­e­fits for end users
• 20%: Mea­sur­able Ben­e­fits for organization
• 20%: Cre­ativ­ity and Inno­va­tion of approach
• 20%: Scal­a­bil­ity of initiative
• 20%: Value of Lessons Learned

Process

March 10th: Awards announced
By April 15th: All entries col­lected
By April 30th: Sharp­Brains staff selects 10 final­ists
By May 15th: judges score final­ists and select 1 Grand Prize Win­ner and 2 Sil­ver Prize Win­ners
May 24th: Win­ners will be announced on Mon­day, May 24th, at the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit — The State of the Brain Fit­ness Market

Con­firmed Judges

• Alvaro Fer­nan­dez, Co-Founder of SharpBrains
• Baba Shiv, Pro­fes­sor at Stan­ford Busi­ness School
• Bill Tucker, Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Edu­ca­tion Sector
• Brian Mur­phy, Pres­i­dent of De Anza College
• Charles Jen­nings, Direc­tor of the McGov­ern Insti­tute Neu­rotech­nol­ogy Pro­gram, MIT
• Chuck House, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of Stan­ford Media X
• Colin Mil­ner, CEO of the Inter­na­tional Coun­cil on Active Aging
• Eliz­a­beth Edgerly, National Spokesper­son for Alzheimer’s Asso­ci­a­tion “Main­tain Your Brain”
• Glo­ria Cavanaugh, For­mer Pres­i­dent of the Amer­i­can Soci­ety on Aging
• Ken­neth Kosik, Co-Director of UC-Santa Bar­bara Neu­ro­science Research Institute
• Mar­garet Mor­ris, Senior Researcher at Intel’s Dig­i­tal Health Group
• Nigel Smith, AARP Strat­egy and Plan­ning Director
• P Murali Doraiswamy, Head of Bio­log­i­cal Psy­chi­a­try at Duke University
• Rod Fal­con, Direc­tor of Health Hori­zons Pro­gram at the Insti­tute For The Future
• Stephen Mack­nik, Lab Direc­tor at Bar­row Neu­ro­log­i­cal Institute
• Susan Hoff­man, Direc­tor of OLLI @ Berkeley

May 24th Summit

2010 Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Award Win­ners will be announced dur­ing the Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit on the State of the Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket, to be held on Mon­day, May 24th, 2010, from 8am to 4pm US Pacific Time. Reg­is­tered atten­dees will receive an elec­tronic copy of Sharp­Brains’ annual report The State of the Brain Fit­ness Soft­ware Mar­ket 2010, the most com­pre­hen­sive report on the cat­e­gory, to be released and dis­cussed dur­ing the Summit.

Sum­mit Agenda

8am. Bird’s-Eye View: Top Events, Indi­ca­tors, Trends

8.30am. Mar­ket Sur­vey on Beliefs, Atti­tudes, Pur­chase Habits
9am. Com­pet­i­tive Land­scape: Lead­ing Assess­ments and Train­ing Tools
9.30am. State-of-the-Art Research and Devel­op­ment
10am. Water­cooler Chat

10.30am. Con­sumer Data and Trends
11am. Health­care, Insur­ance, Senior Liv­ing Data and Trends
11.30am. Lunch Break

12.30pm. K12 Data and Trends
1pm. Mil­i­tary, Cor­po­rate, Sports Data and Trends
1.30pm. Future Direc­tions — Pro­jec­tions, Themes and Risks
2pm. Water­cooler Chat

2.30pm. 2010 Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion Awards
3.30-4pm. Water­cooler Chat and Wrap-Up

Past Sum­mit attendees/annual report buy­ers include:  AARP, Aber­dare Ven­tures, Abing­ton Memo­r­ial Hos­pi­tal, Agility Group, Ale­gent Health, Applied Cog­ni­tive Engi­neer­ing, Aspyr Media, Bay­crest, BCM Tech­nolo­gies, Bel­mont Vil­lage, Bin­na­cle Cap­i­tal, BKIN Tech­nolo­gies, Bon Sec­ours New York Health Sys­tem, Brain Resource, Brook­dale Senior Liv­ing, Camp­bell Soup Com­pany, Care One, Chor­at­ech, Clin­ton Global Ini­tia­tive, Club One, CNS Vital Signs, Cogmed, Cog­ni­tive Media, CogState, CORE Health, Credit Suisse, Dakim, Easter Seals, EDGE Inno­va­tion Net­work, Eric­s­son, Ernst & Young, FDA, First Cur­rency R &D, Fit­Brains, Fonterra, Hap­pyNeu­ron, Insti­tute for Behav­ioral Health Infor­mat­ics, Intel Cor­po­ra­tion, Inter­na­tional Mas­ters Pub­lish­ers, Inver­ness Med­ical Inno­va­tions, John­son & John­son, John­son & John­son Devel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion, Kaiser Per­ma­nente, LEAF, Learn­ingRx, Lumos Labs, Medi­s­olve, Merit Enter­tain­ment, Neu­ro­Care Net­work, Mind­ware Lab, Neu­roim­age, NovaV­i­sion, One Lap­top Per Child, Ontario Long Term Care Asso­ci­a­tion, OptumHealth Behav­ioral Solu­tions, Ore­gon Health & Sci­ence Uni­ver­sity, Osher Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tutes, Osmium Part­ners, Pfizer, Pied­mont Gar­dens, Posit Sci­ence, Proac­tive Aging, Proc­ter & Gam­ble, Sci­en­tific Learn­ing, Sov­er­eign Health, Sun Microsys­tems, Sun­rise Senior Liv­ing, Sut­ter Health, The Well­ness Alliance, Unilever, USAA, US Army Research Lab, Tech­nol­ogy Part­ners, vibrant­Brains, Vis­it­ing Angels, West­min­ster Communities.

You can Learn More about Inno­va­tion Awards and May 24th Sum­mit Here.