Participants

This is a cross-disciplinary group drawn from across academia, startups, big tech, philanthropy, and policy. Their expertise spans neural interfaces, AI, cognitive science, neuroscience, and systems design. Together, they represent the institutions and ideas shaping the future of neurotechnology and intelligence science.


Michael Andregg

Founder, Eon

Abbey Becker

Senior Research Manager,  Medtronic

Juan Benet

Founder and CEO, Protocol Labs

Katja Brose

Senior Science Program Office, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 

Edward Chang

Neurosurgeon, UC San Francisco

Jacques Carolan

Founding Program Director, ARIA

Milan Cvitkovic

CEO, Integral

Laura Deming

CEO, Cradle Healthcare

Eli Dourado

Head of Strategic Investments, Astera Institute

Allison Duettmann

CEO, Foresight Institute

Eva Dyer

Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Sean Escola

Neuro Lead, Protocol Labs

Quintin Frerichs

Co-Founder, Nudge

Surya Ganguli

Associate Professor, Stanford University

Stephen Geer

CEO, GEER

Tom Griffiths

Professor of Psychology and Computer Science, Princeton

Adam Hantman

Dr, UNC-CH/Raynor Cerebellar Project

Max Hodak

CEO, Science

Patrick House

Writer in Residence, Princeton

Katherine Jones

Head of Neurotech and Health Investments, Hummingbird VC

Patrick Kaifosh

Director, Meta Realty Labs

Saul Kato

Professor, UC San Francisco

Amir Khosrowshahi

Co-Founder and CTO, Topos Bio

Konrad Koerding

Professor, University of Pennsylvania

John Krakauer

Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, John Hopkins University

Guillaume Lajoie

Professor, Mila & UdeM

Anselm Levskaya

Research Engineer, Google

Grace Lindsay

Assistant Professor, New York University

Matthew MacDougall

Neurosurgeon, Neuralink

Molly Mackinlay

Head of Engineering and Research, Protocol Labs

Viraj Manwadkar

Ph.D. Student in Physics, Stanford University

Adam Marblestone

Co-Founder and CEO, Convergent Research

David Markowitz

Chief Scientist at STR

Mackenzie Mathis

Professor, EPFL

Josh Merel

CTO and Co-Founder, Fauna Robotics
Special Faculty Research Associate, Carnegie Mellon University

Paul Middlebrooks

Patrick Mineault

NeuroAI Lead, Amaranth Foundation

Melanie Mitchell

Professor, Santa Fe Institute

Dylan Morris

Managing Director, Insight Partners

Sumner Norman

CEO, Forest Neurotech

Bence Olveczky

Professor, Harvard University

Chethan Pandarinath

Associate Professor, Emory University and GA Tech

Joe Paton

Principal Investigator and Director, Champalimaud Foundation

Andrew Payne

CEO, E11 Bio

Joanne Peng

Research Director, Amaranth

Megan Peters

Associate Professor/President, UC Irvine/Neuromatch

David Pfau

Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Alyssa Picchini Schaffer

VP and Sr. Scientist, Simons Foundation

Xaq Pitkow

Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Thomas Reardon

Vice President of Research, Meta Realty Labs

Blake Richards

Professor, Mila

Bradley Roberts

CEO, Neuromatch

Jacob Robinson

CEO, Motif Neurotech

Chris Rozell

Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Philip Sabes

Co-Founder and CSO, Integral

Daniel Salzman

Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Columbia University

Evan Schaffer

Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine

Maryam Shanechi

Sawchuk Endowed Chair and Professor, University of Southern California

Francis Song

Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI

Andreas Tolias

Professor, Stanford University

Eric Trautmann

Research Scientist, Meta Reality Labs

Doris Tsao

Professor of Neuroscience and HHMI Investigator, UC Berkeley

Greg Wayne

Scientist, Google DeepMind

Risa Wechsler

Professor of Physics, Stanford University

Dan Wetmore

Research Scientist, Meta Realty Labs

Andrew Woo

Head of Network Programs, Protocol Labs

Anthony Zador

Professor of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Emma Zhou

Co-Founder, Science