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About the 2012 SharpBrains Summit

The annual Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit, now in its third edi­tion, is a highly curated con­fer­ence designed to …

  1. explore the lat­est sci­ence and mar­ket devel­op­ments that can trans­form brain health,
  2. dis­cuss appli­ca­tions of neu­ro­science in con­sumer, health, work­place and edu­ca­tional settings,
  3. meet with col­leagues who face sim­i­lar pri­or­i­ties and chal­lenges, and
  4. inter­act with a cross-sector group of sharp brains who are chang­ing the way things are done.

Con­firmed Speak­ers and Moderators

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Fre­quently Asked Questions

What: The 2012 Sharp­Brains Sum­mit, to be con­ducted vir­tu­ally, will high­light emerg­ing neu­ro­plas­tic­ity research, data-driven tools and inno­v­a­tive best prac­tices to opti­mize health and per­for­mance across the lifespan.

Who should attend: researchers, inno­va­tors, decision-makers and prac­ti­tion­ers in tech­nol­ogy, consumer/ behavioral/ occupational/ men­tal health, gam­ing, life/ health insur­ance, human resources, dig­i­tal health­care, senior ser­vices, cog­ni­tive and affec­tive neu­ro­science. This is by design a cross-sector, forward-looking con­fer­ence. You can con­sult this Sam­ple of Par­tic­i­pants in 2010/ 2011 Sharp­Brains Sum­mits (opens PDF).

What does the Sum­mit Agenda look like: The 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit includes three sep­a­rate and com­ple­men­tary sections.

  • June 7-8th: Sum­mit, for lead­ing inno­va­tors to address core forward-looking questions
  • June 12-13th: Expo, for spon­sors and exhibitors to show­case their emerg­ing toolk­its and solutions
  • June 14th: Edu­ca­tional Work­shops, for pio­neer­ing prac­ti­tion­ers to share tips on what to do/ what not to do in spe­cific settings
You can view the Pre­lim­i­nary Agenda Here. Please note that all times below reflect US Pacific Time.

What is a “vir­tual con­fer­ence”? The Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit is just like a phys­i­cal con­fer­ence — we will gather in a forum to hear dozens of speak­ers present and dis­cuss lat­est infor­ma­tion, to con­nect with each other, to explore oppor­tu­ni­ties and part­ner­ships, to dis­cover new tools pre­sented by spon­sors and exhibitors. How­ever, rather than hav­ing hun­dreds of peo­ple spend sig­nif­i­cant time and money trav­el­ling to a con­fer­ence, the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit trav­els to you. Thanks to a participant-only web­site, you will access each pre­sen­ta­tion either by join­ing the live web­cast or by access­ing a record­ing after the pre­sen­ta­tion. You will be able to dis­cuss and con­nect with speak­ers and par­tic­i­pants, before, dur­ing, and after, the con­fer­ence. You only need to have a com­puter with an Inter­net con­nec­tion and audio.

CEUs:  We will pro­vide, at no addi­tional charge, a CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE equiv­a­lent to 24 hours of Con­tin­u­ing Edu­ca­tion Units to those inter­ested. Please note that we have not pur­sued exter­nal accreditation.

About Sharp­Brains: Sharp­Brains is an inde­pen­dent mar­ket research firm and inno­va­tion think tank devoted to help­ing orga­ni­za­tions, pro­fes­sion­als and con­sumers nav­i­gate the brain fit­ness and cog­ni­tive health field. In 2010, the firm released its flag­ship report The State of the Brain Fit­ness Mar­ket 2010, for decision-makers, and the con­sumer guide The Sharp­Brains Guide to Brain Fit­ness, named a Best Book by AARP.

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Organizations represented in previous Summits include

    AARP
    Ale­gent Health Immanuel Med­ical Cen­ter
    All­state Insur­ance
    Alzheimer’s Asso­ci­a­tion
    BBC
    Bon Sec­ours New York Health Sys­tem
    Brain Injury Asso­ci­a­tion of Amer­ica
    Camp­bell Soup Com­pany
    Clin­ton Global Ini­tia­tive
    Greenville Hos­pi­tal Sys­tem
    Har­vard Busi­ness Review
    Health­Comm Inc.
    Human Dimen­sion Task­force, US Army
    Insti­tute For The Future
    Intel
    John­son & John­son
    Los Ange­les County Dept of Pub­lic Health
    McGov­ern Insti­tute of Neu­rotech­nol­ogy, MIT
    National Resource Ctr. Osher Life­long Learn­ing Insti­tutes
    Nutri­tion Sci­ence Solu­tions
    One Lap­top Per Child
    OptumHealth Behav­ioral Solu­tions
    Pied­mont Gar­dens
    Psy­chol­o­gy­To­day
    Proc­ter & Gam­ble
    Robert Wood John­son Foun­da­tion
    Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity
    Sun Microsys­tems
    UC Berke­ley
    Unit­ed­Health Group
    Win­ter Park Health Foun­da­tion
    Work­ers’ Com­pen­sa­tion Reg­u­la­tory Author­ity
    UCSF

Previous Summit participants included

Bio­med­ical Engi­neers
CEOs
Dig­i­tal Media pro­fes­sion­als
Entre­pre­neurs
Game pub­lish­ers
Health­care tech­nol­o­gists
Mar­ket­ing Exec­u­tives
Med­ical Stu­dents
Neu­rol­o­gists
Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gists
Non profit board mem­bers
Occu­pa­tional Ther­a­pists
Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Exec­u­tives
Post doc­tor­ate researchers
Pro­fes­sors and Researchers
Psy­chi­a­trists
Psy­chol­o­gists
Psy­chother­a­pists
Sci­en­tific Pub­lish­ers
Social Work­ers
Speech Pathol­o­gists
Tal­ent management/HR
Well­ness professionals

Gold Sponsors

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Partners

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