The main goal of The Brain and The Chip 2024 meeting is to provide an all-inclusive forum for extended and focused discussions among leaders in the development of intracortical neural interfaces. We aim to bring together renowned researchers, clinicians and experts in various fields—neural engineering, intracortical brain-computer interfaces, microelectronics, artificial vision, neurosurgery, neurology, materials science, neural-inspired AI, etc.—to foster collaborations, exchange knowledge, and explore advancements in intracortical interfaces.

In addition to the primary participants who will present at this meeting, we will also invite representatives of the blind community, patients with spinal cord injury, and journalists to attend and contribute to the proceedings. Additionally, we will also send letters of invitation to Companies interested in this field to further enrich the discussions and potentially foster partnerships.

We will also try to increase awareness of our mission among those outside of our field, aiming to highlight the potential of these technologies to restore vision in blind patients, recover lost sensory and motor abilities in patients with tetraplegia, or decode attempted speech in people with paralysis.