Neurotech Reports Announces First European Leaders Forum
Tim Denison, Ph.D. FREng, co-founder of Amber Therapeutics, will keynote the conference. Denison also holds a joint appointment in engineering science and clinical neurosciences at Oxford University, where he explores the fundamentals of physiologic closed-loop systems. Prior to that, he was a technical fellow at Medtronic plc and vice president of research & core technology for the Restorative Therapies Group, where he helped oversee the design of next generation neural interface and algorithm technologies for the treatment of chronic neurological disease.
At the conference, Neurotech Reports editor James Cavuoto will offer an update on the state of the European neuromodulation industry. Neurotech Reports editors JoJo Platt, Jeremy Koff, and Victor Pikov will moderate sessions devoted to peripheral nerve stimulation, bioelectronic medicine applications, venture capital investment, and regulatory and reimbursement issues affecting neurotech startups and emerging firms. Imec executives Peter Peumans, Paru Deshpande, and Barun Dutta (who conceived of, and led the Neuropixels program at imec since its inception) will also offer updates on technology advances at the European research and innovation center.
Executives from several emerging neurotechnology startups, including Italian firm WISE srl and German firm Precisis, will also present at the conference during multiple entrepreneur panels. In addition to imec, sponsors of the conference include Cirtec Medical, MST, Valtronic, and Osypka.
Neurotech Reports will also produce the 8th Annual Bioelectronic Medicine Forum on April 10, 2025 in New York City, and the 25th Annual Neurotech Leaders Forum San Francisco, on November 5-6, 2025.
https://neurotechreports.com/pages/leadersforum-europe.html.
Image caption: Tim Denison will keynote the first European Neurotech Leaders Forum on June 3-4, 2025 at imec in Leuven, Belgium.
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