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Gold Spon­sors

Intel Spon­sors of Tomor­row™ believes that tech­nol­ogy makes life more excit­ing and can help improve the lives of peo­ple around the world. In health­care, Intel con­sults with indus­try influ­encers and gov­ern­ment pol­icy mak­ers to ensure wide­spread adop­tion of the open stan­dards, inter­op­er­a­ble sys­tems, and people-centered poli­cies that are crit­i­cal for shift­ing the health­care model and enabling a wide range of inno­v­a­tive prod­ucts, each designed to improve the way patients and clin­i­cians use infor­ma­tion to improve health.

Lumos Labs is a cog­ni­tive neu­ro­science research and devel­op­ment com­pany that builds soft­ware tools for improv­ing brain health and per­for­mance. Lumosity.com is the first gen­eral brain fit­ness pro­gram from Lumos Labs. Spe­cial­ized in cre­at­ing inno­v­a­tive appli­ca­tions of the lat­est devel­op­ments in brain sci­ence in order to help peo­ple lead bet­ter lives, Lumos Labs has been con­sis­tently focused on research­ing and devel­op­ing effec­tive cog­ni­tive train­ing appli­ca­tions, includ­ing work­ing closely with a Sci­en­tific Advi­sory Board of lead­ing researchers from insti­tu­tions such as Stan­ford and UCSF.

Sil­ver Sponsors

Arrowsmith ProgramThe Arrow­smith Pro­gram,  avail­able in pub­lic and pri­vate schools in  the U.S. and Canada, is a com­pre­hen­sive suite of cog­ni­tive pro­grams for stu­dents with learn­ing dis­abil­i­ties that tar­gets 19 areas of the brain that are most com­monly involved in learn­ing. The Arrow­smith Pro­gram iden­ti­fies and strength­ens the weak cog­ni­tive areas that affect learn­ing and each stu­dent works on cog­ni­tive pro­grams that are indi­vid­u­ally designed for his or her areas of learn­ing difficulty.

Bay­crest, fully affil­i­ated with the Uni­ver­sity of Toronto, is one of the world’s pre­mier aca­d­e­mic health sci­ences cen­ters focused on aging. Through its strengths in research and edu­ca­tion, Bay­crest is using the power of inquiry and dis­cov­ery to improve the health of tomorrow’s elderly while at the same time care for and enhance the qual­ity of life of the elderly today. Bay­crest runs a Geri­atric Health Care Sys­tem, a Research Cen­tre for Aging and the Brain, and a Cen­tre for Edu­ca­tion on Aging.

Brain Resource brings new insights and new effi­cien­cies to man­ag­ing brain health. Its pro­pri­etary plat­forms are used to pre­dict who will best respond to what drug, and develop new drugs, to pro­vide objec­tive reports from on-line assess­ments of brain health across the lifes­pan (includ­ing ADHD, Depres­sion, Anx­i­ety and Schiz­o­phre­nia), and to match indi­vid­u­al­ized pro­files with brain train­ing exer­cises & inter­ac­tive videos to opti­mize well­ness & brain function.

Cogmed is a leader in the emerg­ing field of evidence-based cog­ni­tive train­ing.  Cogmed is a Pear­son com­pany founded in Stock­holm, Swe­den, in 2001, as a col­lab­o­ra­tion between neu­ro­sci­en­tists at the Karolin­ska Insti­tute and game devel­op­ers. Cogmed cre­ates, val­i­dates, and mar­kets prod­ucts which are dis­trib­uted and sup­ported by over a hun­dred clin­i­cal prac­tices world­wide and that can lead to sub­stan­tial and last­ing improve­ments in atten­tion for peo­ple with poor work­ing mem­ory – in all age groups.

Cog­niFit offers per­son­al­ized brain fit­ness pro­grams grounded on an ini­tial base­line assess­ment of the cog­ni­tive abil­i­ties that are most affected by aging. Its patented Indi­vid­u­al­ized Train­ing Sys­tem ™ then cre­ates a train­ing pro­gram that con­tin­u­ously adapts to the user’s cur­rent cog­ni­tive level. The com­pany offers its prod­uct via mul­ti­ple part­ner­ships in North Amer­ica, Europe, Israel and Asia Pacific.

Posit Sci­ence is a leader in deliv­er­ing clin­i­cally proven brain fit­ness soft­ware that brings brain sci­ence from the lab to the peo­ple, improv­ing every­day lives. The com­pany com­bines break­through research and a focus on great cus­tomer expe­ri­ences to cre­ate prod­ucts that are engag­ing and help users think faster, focus bet­ter and remem­ber more. Posit Sci­ence prod­ucts are avail­able online and through health, long-term care and auto insur­ers. Posit Sci­ence is also fea­tured in the PBS doc­u­men­tary “The Brain Fit­ness Program.”

UCLA Cen­ter on Aging’s mis­sion is to enhance and extend pro­duc­tive and healthy life through com­mu­nity out­reach, pre­em­i­nent research and edu­ca­tion on aging. With inter­dis­ci­pli­nary sup­port from fore­most spe­cial­ists, the Cen­ter builds on UCLA’s rec­og­nized excel­lence in care of older adults: U.S. News and World Report has named UCLA’s geri­atrics pro­gram one of the top in Amer­ica for 20 years.

Becom­ing a Sponsor

We offer two Spon­sor­ship Pack­ages, out­lined in this 2011 Sum­mit Spon­sor­ship brochure (opens PDF) and sum­ma­rized below. If inter­ested, please Con­tact Us.

Sil­ver Spon­sor Pack­age…….….….….….….….….….….….….… $5,000
• Logo, descrip­tion and link in con­fer­ence web­site
• 30-minute prod­uct demo dur­ing Expo Day, Fri­day, April 1st
• 3 staff mem­bers get com­pli­men­tary Sum­mit Passes and 2011 Mem­ber­ship in Sharp­Brains Coun­cil for Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion
• Offi­cial list­ing in all con­fer­ence mate­ri­als
• Sharp­Brains press, mar­ket­ing, and pub­lic rela­tions outreach

Gold Spon­sor Pack­age….….….….….….….….….….……….…. $10,000
• Promi­nent logo, descrip­tion and link in con­fer­ence web­site, and logo with link in SharpBrains.com’s main web­site (with over 85,000 unique monthly vis­i­tors on aver­age)
• Promi­nent spon­sored mes­sage in main Sharp­Brains’ eNewslet­ter (sent to 28,000 active sub­scribers)
• Thank you men­tion at the open­ing of the con­fer­ence
• 30-minute Prod­uct demo/ spon­sored pre­sen­ta­tion dur­ing con­fer­ence itself (before Expo Day)
• Full-page color ad in the Sum­mit Pro­gram Book
• 5 staff mem­bers get com­pli­men­tary com­pli­men­tary Sum­mit passes and 2011 Mem­ber­ship in Sharp­Brains Coun­cil for Brain Fit­ness Inno­va­tion
• Offi­cial list­ing in all con­fer­ence mate­ri­als
• Sharp­Brains press, mar­ket­ing, and pub­lic rela­tions out­reach

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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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