BCI Samara 2020

BCI Samara 2020 was very unusual — the first (and hopefully the last) once completely virtual. It was also the first time she was a part of Samara NeuroWeek, a series of exciting events dedicated to neuroscience and neurotechnology. It was a very difficult time, but it also brought a lot of opportunities — and in the end everything went very well.

We had a great team of almost 50 speakers, among them:

• Slimane Bensmaya (University of Chicago, USA)
• Peter Brunner (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA)
• Christoph Guger (gtec, Austria)
• Alexander Kaplan (Moscow State University, Russia)
• Mikhail Lebedev (HSE, Russia)
• Sang-wan Lee (Korea University)
• Lee Miller (Northwestern University, USA)
• Vadim Nikulin (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
• Alexey Osadchy (HSE, Russia)
• Sergey Shishkin (MGPPU MEG Center, Russia),
• Junichi Ushiba (Keio University, Yokohama)
• Jonathan Walpow (NCAN, USA)

More than 30 oral reports were presented at three symposiums. There were 8 workshops, a panel discussion and open lectures.

But that wasn't all: Samara NeuroWeek 2021 included a virtual exhibition and such large-scale events as a conference on cognitive health, the final of NeutotechCup 2020, and a hackathon. BR41N.IO , Olympiad in Neurophysiology, documentary film festival …

Thus, despite all the circumstances, BCI Samara 2020 has become even more significant and even better.