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 UniversityPaul 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