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Partners

We invite all type of orga­ni­za­tions with an inter­est in the field, such as asso­ci­a­tions, uni­ver­si­ties, and media orga­ni­za­tions, to become part­ners of the Sharp­Brains Sum­mit. Please see details below. If inter­ested, please Con­tact Us.

Part­ners

aprf_logo1The Alzheimer’s Research and Pre­ven­tion Foun­da­tion (ARPF), estab­lished in 1993, is ded­i­cated to reduc­ing the inci­dence of Alzheimer’s dis­ease by con­duct­ing clin­i­cal research and pro­vid­ing edu­ca­tional out­reach. Its mis­sion is to make avail­able infor­ma­tion, from con­ven­tional and com­ple­men­tary med­i­cine, that will empower peo­ple to build healthy brains.

The Berenson-Allen Cen­ter for Non­in­va­sive Brain Stim­u­la­tion (CNBS) at Beth Israel Dea­coness Med­ical Cen­ter and Har­vard Med­ical School inte­grates three dis­tinct mis­sions: Research, Edu­ca­tion, and Patient Care, in order to opti­mize and apply non­in­va­sive brain stim­u­la­tion to health care and research.

The Brain Injury Asso­ci­a­tion of Canada has a man­date to improve the qual­ity of life for all Cana­di­ans affected by acquired brain injury and pro­mote it’s pre­ven­tion. Addi­tion­ally, BIAC is ded­i­cated to facil­i­tate post-trauma research, edu­ca­tion and advo­cacy in part­ner­ship with national, provincial/territorial and regional asso­ci­a­tions and other stakeholders.

Brain World Mag­a­zine explores cutting-edge sci­ence for the gen­eral reader and how emerg­ing find­ings can affect human health, cul­ture, edu­ca­tion, global issues and more. BRAIN WORLD is pub­lished by the Inter­na­tional Brain Edu­ca­tion Asso­ci­a­tion (IBREA), a non­profit edu­ca­tional organization.

The Cen­ter for Brain Health at the Uni­ver­sity of Texas at Dal­las was cre­ated in 1999 to search for ways to pro­mote brain health fit­ness across the entire human lifes­pan, encom­pass­ing every age, eth­nic­ity, gen­der, and socioe­co­nomic group. Life-improving stud­ies empha­size both inno­v­a­tive brain research and prac­ti­cal clin­i­cal applications.

The Cen­ter for Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­ogy Research in the Inter­est of Soci­ety (CITRIS) cre­ates infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy solu­tions for many of our most press­ing social, envi­ron­men­tal, and health care prob­lems. CITRIS was cre­ated to “shorten the pipeline” between world-class lab­o­ra­tory research and the cre­ation of start-ups, larger com­pa­nies, and whole industries.

The Cen­ter for Tech­nol­ogy and Aging is a non-profit orga­ni­za­tion with a pur­pose to advance the dif­fu­sion of tech­nolo­gies that help older adults lead health­ier lives and main­tain inde­pen­dence. It was founded in 2009 with a grant from The SCAN Foun­da­tion and is affil­i­ated with the Pub­lic Health Institute.

Global Pharma Con­sul­tancy was founded in 1999 in Basel, Switzer­land, as a specialist-solutions firm that offers high-caliber con­sul­tants, train­ing, and ser­vices to local, regional and global healthcare-related busi­nesses through­out the world.

The Inter­na­tional Coun­cil on Active Aging® (ICAA) was founded in the belief that uni­fy­ing the efforts of the orga­ni­za­tions focused on older adults ben­e­fits both the peo­ple they reach and the orga­ni­za­tions them­selves. Today, the vision is shared by over 8,000 orga­ni­za­tions con­nected to the ICAA network.

Leep Com­mu­ni­ca­tions is a bou­tique pub­lic rela­tions agency based in the San Fran­cisco Bay Area offer­ing com­pre­hen­sive com­mu­ni­ca­tion ser­vices to com­pa­nies focused on inno­va­tion, con­sumer solu­tions and health.

MaRS Dis­cov­ery Dis­trict is a large scale, mis­sion dri­ven inno­va­tion cen­tre located in Toronto and net­worked across Ontario, focused on build­ing Canada’s next gen­er­a­tion of tech­nol­ogy com­pa­nies in life sci­ences and health care, dig­i­tal media, clean­tech, as well as inno­v­a­tive social pur­pose business.

National Health Char­i­ties Canada is a col­lec­tive of orga­ni­za­tions in Canada that rep­re­sent peo­ple with chronic, often pro­gres­sive, neu­ro­log­i­cal and/or neu­ro­mus­cu­lar dis­eases, dis­or­ders, con­di­tions and injuries, and pro­vide lead­er­ship eval­u­at­ing and advanc­ing new oppor­tu­ni­ties for col­lab­o­ra­tion related to brain health.

The Neu­rolead­er­ship Insti­tute is a net­work of indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions seek­ing to get involved in the neu­ro­science of lead­er­ship field, with a pur­pose to encour­age, gen­er­ate and share neu­ro­science research that trans­forms how peo­ple think, develop and perform.

OLLI @ Berke­ley pro­vides older adults an intel­lec­tual, cul­tural and cre­ative con­nec­tion to Berke­ley as well as a place for UC-Berkeley’s dis­tin­guished fac­ulty to share their research and inter­ests in an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary exchange of ideas.

Pier 2 Mar­ket­ing works with For­tune 500 com­pa­nies, small busi­nesses, and star­tups around the world to expand their busi­nesses, launch new prod­ucts, and enter new markets.

Smart­Sil­vers pro­motes aware­ness, devel­op­ment and deploy­ment of inno­v­a­tive, con­sumer friendly prod­ucts and technology-leveraged ser­vices that pro­vide inde­pen­dence, mobil­ity and qual­ity of life to our expand­ing older adult population.

TrainingCampus.com® is the plat­form for the Inter­na­tional Elec­tronic Edu­ca­tion Net­work®, a global pur­chas­ing group ded­i­cated to low­er­ing costs in health­care and clin­i­cal research where indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions can access sav­ings on tech­nolo­gies, soft­ware, edu­ca­tion, train­ing, prod­ucts, ser­vices and specialties.

The UCSF Gaz­za­ley Lab is a cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science research lab at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, San Fran­cisco focused on study­ing the neural mech­a­nisms of mem­ory and atten­tion, changes due to nor­mal aging and demen­tia, and ther­a­peu­tic interventions.

The UNCG Geron­tol­ogy Research Net­work is a coop­er­a­tive group con­sist­ing of UNCG fac­ulty, research staff, and stu­dents, formed in 2007 to facil­i­tate and sup­port trans­dis­ci­pli­nary aging-related research.

Becom­ing a Partner

We will

  • dis­play your logo & descrip­tion in the con­fer­ence web­site all materials,
  • men­tion your orga­ni­za­tion in press materials,
  • offer 1 com­pli­men­tary pass for your staff,
  • offer a 15% dis­count to mem­bers of your community/ network,
  • be will­ing to dis­cuss dona­tions or refer­ral fees for your organization

In return, you pro­mote the Sum­mit through on your web­site, eNewslet­ter, pub­li­ca­tions, media out­reach. As a gen­eral rule, we are look­ing for part­ners with at least 2,000 members/ subscribers.

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Agenda at-a-glance

Mar­ket Insights — Wednes­day, March 30th

  • Wel­come Remarks
  • The Inno­va­tion Imper­a­tive: Meet­ing Grow­ing Demands at Lower Costs
  • Antic­i­pat­ing Future Demands of Savvy Consumers
  • Pro­tect­ing and Devel­op­ing Young Minds
  • A Work­place Health & Pro­duc­tiv­ity Case Study — From Lab to Rollout
  • Cog­ni­tive Ser­vices for Active Aging: What a Brain Gym Looks Like

R&D Insights — Thurs­day, March 31st:

  • The NIH Tool­box for Assess­ment of Neu­ro­log­i­cal and Behav­ioral Function
  • Past, Present and Future of Applied Neuroplasticity
  • Cog­ni­tive Mon­i­tor­ing Sys­tems: The Miss­ing Link to Drive Bet­ter Life­long Brain Care?
  • The Busi­ness Case — Scal­ing up Cost-efficient Sys­tems to Extend Well­ness and Mod­u­lat­e Risks
  • Beyond the Con­tro­versy — Defin­ing “Brain Train­ing” and its Applications
  • The State of Inno­va­tion and Emerg­ing Marketplace
  • What’s Next — Stan­dard­iz­ing Out­comes to Drive Valu­able Innovation

Expo Day — Fri­day, April 1st

  • From Lab to Mar­ket­place: How Sci­ence Reaches Users
  • Lumos Labs Presentation
  • Brain Resource Presentation
  • Cogmed Pre­sen­ta­tion
  • Bay­crest Presentation
  • Cog­niFit Presentation
  • Posit Sci­ence Presentation

Detailed Agenda: Here

Speaker Bios: Here

Organizations represented in 2010 included

    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

Participants in 2010 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

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