The Power of Technology to Transform Lives - Fireside Chat with Leigh Hochberg, MD, PhD

This is a rare opportunity to hear from a world leader who is using technology to restore the communication, mobility, and independence of people with neurologic disease, injury, or limb loss.

Leigh R. Hochberg, MD, PhD is a vascular and critical care neurologist and neuroscientist. He is responsible for developing BrainGate—an advanced brain-computer interface (BCI) that allowed an almost completely paralysed woman to serve herself a drink of coffee for the first time in 15 years. It might sound like science fiction but the collaborative, diverse BrainGate team creates cutting-edge devices that are ushering in a new era of transformative neurotechnologies. 

BrainGate uses an array of micro-electrodes implanted into the brain, and their pioneering research has shown that the neural signals associated with the intent to move a limb can be “decoded” by a computer in real-time and used to operate external devices.

This is technology that is transforming lives!

Agenda

• 6.00pm Registration opens (Pizzas and drinks)
• 6.30pm Fireside Chat commences
• 6.55pm Q&A
• 7.10pm Networking 
• 7.30pm Depart

Leigh Hochberg, MD, PhD is Director, Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Neurocritical Care and Acute Stroke Services, Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Engineering at Brown University; Director, VA RR&D Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Rehabilitation R&D Service at Providence VA Medical Center; Senior Lecturer on Neurology at Harvard Medical School. 

As IDE Sponsor-Investigator, Principal Investigator and lead Clinical Investigator of the pilot clinical trials of the BrainGate2 Neural Interface System, he has been honored with the Joseph Martin Prize in Basic Research, the Herbert Pardes Prize for Excellence in Clinical Research, and the Derek Denny-Brown Young Neurological Scholar Award. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Neurological Association, and has received grant awards from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the VA, and the National Institutes of Health (NIDCD and NINDS).

Big thanks to Fishburners for providing the space! Fishburners is Australia's largest and oldest coworking space for tech startups with 600 members in Sydney alone + another 200 in Brisbane. Their sponsors are Google for Startups, UTS, Jobs for NSW, Optus and Chartered Accountants ANZ, and they run regular events with tens of thousands of people in the Sydney startup ecosystem coming through their doors each year.

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