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Program Schedule
7:30 – 18:00
Registration & Information Desk Open
(KC 100 Galleria Central)
8:30 – 15:00
Satellite Event
From Innovation to Application: Advancing BCI Research & Development with g.tec
Speakers
Johannes Grünwald, g.tec
Micah Ching, g.tec
Christoph Guger, g.tec
(KC 303)
15:45 – 16:45
Master Class 1
(KC 210, 301, 302, 303, 305, 306, 308, 310)
16:45 – 17:45
Master Class 2
(KC 210, 301, 302, 303, 305, 306, 308, 310)
18:00 – 19:00
Funding & Investment Panel
Moderator
Marc Slutzky, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Speakers
Hannah Payette Peterson, Apollo Health Ventures
Jacques Carolan, University College London
Nick Langhals, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Tyler Best, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Jenny Belzberg Theatre
19:00 – 20:00
Dinner
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:15 – 21:15
Welcome, Town Hall & Tribute
Speaker
Mariska Vansteensel, President
(KC 101, 103, 105)
21:15 – 23:00
Bonfire Party
Sponsored by:
(KC Patio)
7:30 – 8:30
Breakfast
(Vistas Dining Room)
8:00 – 17:00
Registration & Information Desk Open
(KC 100 Galleria Central)
8:30 – 9:30
Plenary #1:
Adding the End-User to the Design, Development and Evaluation of Communication BCIs
Moderator
Eli Kinney-Lang, University of Calgary
Speaker
Melanie Fried-Oken, Oregon Health & Science University
Jenny Belzberg Theatre
Sponsored by:
9:45 – 12:45
Workshop Session 1
View detailed workshop information here
(KC 210, 301, 302, 303, 305, 306, 308, 310)
12:45 – 13:45
Lunch / Lunch with Leaders
(Vistas Dining Room)
14:00 – 15:30
Research Session 1 (Oral Presentations)
Moderator
Gernot Müller-Putz, Graz University of Technology
Presentations
- Navigating the clinical trial pathway for implantable brain-computer interfaces: the COMMAND study
Thomas Oxley, Synchron - The first BCI clinical trial for stroke neurorehabilitation in Latin America: The ReHand-BCI trial
Jessica Cantillo-Negrete, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitacion/National Institute of Rehabilitation - Integrating BCI, FES, and social media for Rehabilitation of Upper Extremity Motor Function in Youth
Anna Bourgeois, University of Calgary - From ECoG signals to cervical epidural electrical stimulation: restoring arm and hand movements after a spinal cord injury
Thibault Collin, NeuroRestore - Adaptive Closed-Loop Neurofeedback Brain-Computer Interface for Treatment of Laryngeal Dystonia
Jimmy Petit, Harvard Medical School - Advancing speech BCIs towards conversational speeds in people with paralysis
Kamran Hussain, Stanford University
(KC 101, 103, 105)
15:30 – 15:45
Flash Talks
Moderator
Reinhold Sherer, University of Essex
Presentations
- μECoG Array with 3,072 Electrodes for High-Density and Large-Area Cortical Recordings Based on Scalable Thin-Film Electronics
Paoline Coulson, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Mitigating EEG Non-Stationarity in Multi-Session MI BCI with Autoencoder Denoisers
Yoav Noah, Ben-Gurion University - Closed-loop error damping in human BCI using endogenous modifications in motor cortex activity
Nicolas Kunigk, University of Pittsburgh - Decoding of Lower-Limb Movement Intent from Scalp Electroencephalography (EEG) in Children
Ayman Alamir, University of Houston
(KC 101, 103, 105)
15:45 – 17:45
Posters & Exhibitor Demonstrations – Session 1
(KC 201, 203, 205)
17:45 – 18:45
Global BCI Session
Moderator
Victoria Peterson, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Presentations
- Translational research in BCI for rehabilitation: experiences from Argentina
Lucía Carolina Carrere, National University of Entre Rios - A decade of brain-computer interface research at the National Institute of Rehabilitation in Mexico: Progress, challenges, and future directions
Jessica Cantillo-Negrete, Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitacion/National Institute of Rehabilitation - Advancing Neurotechnology in Egypt: From Constraints to Contributions
Seif Eldawlatly, The American University in Cairo
(KC 101, 103, 105)
19:00 – 23:00
Al-Fresco Dinner
Sponsored by:
7:30 – 8:30
Breakfast
(Vistas Dining Room)
8:30 – 9:30
Neuroethics Session
Introduction
Robert Gaunt, University of Pittsburgh
Moderator
Jutta Treviranus, OCAD University
Speakers
Judy Illes, University of British Columbia
Jennifer French, Neurotech Network
James Weiland, University of Michigan
Jenny Belzberg Theatre
Sponsored by:
9:45 – 12:45
Workshop Session 2
View detailed workshop information here
(KC 210, 301, 302, 303, 305, 306, 308, 310)
12:45 – 13:45
Industry Insight Session:
Connexus® Brain-Computer Interface – From Design to Clinic
Join Paradromics for lunch and a deep dive into the design rationale, pre-clinical data, and clinical study plans for the Connexus Brain-Computer Interface (BCI). Building on 30 years of BCI research, this session explores the design, manufacture, and material choices behind this intracortical BCI, engineered for durability and high performance. Pre-clinical data, demonstrating longevity and record-breaking information capture rates, will be shared, as well as adverse events, challenges, and key learnings. The planned clinical trial will also be discussed, including an overview of the protocol, surgical technique, and timeline.
Speakers:
David Brandman, M.D., Ph.D
Daniel Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.
Matt Angle, Ph.D.
Stephen Ryu, M.D.
Vikash Gilja, Ph.D.
Hosted & sponsored by:
(KC 303)
14:00 – 16:00
Nature Walks
16:00 – 18:00
Posters & Exhibitor Demonstrations – Session 2
(KC 201, 203, 205)
18:00 – 19:00
BCI Users Forum
Introduction
Eli Kinney-Lang, University of Calgary
Moderator
Ian Burkhart, BCI Pioneers
Speakers
Payton Shaw, University of Calgary
Nina & Thomas Nagy
Rennie & Tristan Froma
The User Forum is a cornerstone reflecting the goals of the BCI Society conference. It is instrumental in creating productive interactions and transdisciplinary collaborations essential to continued, meaningful progress in the field of BCI. The User Forum brings current BCI users and persons with lived and living experience together into a focused discussion of topics unique to their experience – from priority user goals and challenges, to caregiver training and reimbursement, to system design and development. This year we have the additional privilege to be joined in the forum by several families whose children are pioneers in the quickly evolving world of pediatric BCIs, who will be sharing their unique experiences and adding to the rich history of the forum.
Sponsored by:
(KC 101, 103, 105)
19:00 – 20:00
Dinner
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:15 – 21:15
Plenary #2: A neural manifold view of BCI decoding
Moderator
Robert Gaunt, University of Pittsburgh
Speaker
Juan Alvargo Gallego, Imperial College London
(KC 101, 103, 105)
Sponsored by:
21:15 – 23:00
Bonfire Party
Sponsored by:
(KC Patio)
7:30 – 8:30
Breakfast
(Vistas Dining Room)
8:30 – 9:30
Plenary #3: Towards the Goal of BCI Control of Upper Limb Prosthetics in the Home Environment
Moderator
Marc Slutzky, Northwestern University
Speaker
Karunesh Ganguly, University of California, San Francisco
Jenny Belzberg Theatre
Sponsored by:
9:45 – 12:45
Workshop Session 3
View detailed workshop information here
(KC 210, 301, 302, 303, 305, 306, 308, 310)
12:45 – 13:45
Lunch / Lunch with Leaders
(Vistas Dining Room)
14:00 – 15:30
Research Session 2 (Oral Presentations)
Moderator
Reinhold Sherer, University of Essex
Presentations
- Speech decoding performance is influenced by perceiving auditory feedback or not: Implications for locked-in individuals
Anouck Schippers, UMC Utrecht Brain Center - Combatting percept adaptation to intracortical microstimulation in humans
Taylor Hobbs, University of Pittsburgh - The variability of EEG spectral measures in MCS: towards a multidimensional characterization of the awareness fluctuations
Ilaria Quattrociocchi, Sapienza University of Rome - Star-Burst paradigm: implementation of an “invisible” dry-EEG reactive BCI
Jules Gomel, Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace - An Evoked Potential of Vection using Passive Brain-Computer Interfaces
Gael Van Der Lee, Université de Lille - Long-term stability and performance of stimulation and recording in a human participant over 2,800 days
David Bjånes, California Institute of Technology
(KC 101, 103, 105)
15:30 – 15:45
Flash Talks (15 Minutes)
Moderator
Gernot Müller-Putz, Graz University of Technology
Presentations
- Decoding of Directional Auditory Attention Shifts in Multi-Talker Environments Using EEG Alpha Power
Gabriel Ivucic, Universität Bremen - Decoding gestures from intracortical neural activity in ventral precentral gyrus
Elizaveta Okorokova, University of California, Davis - A multifunctional speech and movement intracortical brain-computer interface for communication
Samuel Nason-Tomaszewski, Emory University and Georgia Tech - Bimanual BCI: Combining a Brain-Controlled Hand Exoskeleton with the Functional Limb
José Del R. Millán, University of Texas at Austin
15:45 – 17:45
Posters & Exhibitor Demonstrations – Session 3
(KC 201, 203, 205)
18:00 – 19:00
Early Career Awards
Moderator
Theresa Vaughn, Samuel Stratton VA Medical Center
Speakers
Sergey Stavisky, University of California, Davis
Marie-Constance Corsi, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
Sponsored by:
(KC 101, 103, 105)
19:00 – 20:00
Dinner
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 – 23:00
Closing Bonfire Party
Sponsored by:
(KC Patio)
