Brainbox Initiative Conference 2020
The Brainbox Initiative Conference is moving online for 2020. We’ll be returning on September 22-25 for four days filled with research and talks from early-career researchers working with non-invasive brain stimulation and imaging methods; inspiring keynote sessions with world-leading neuroscientists; online poster exhibitions and live pitches to all conference attendees; the presentation of our annual Research Challenge and Young Investigator Awards and much more.
Established in 2016, the Brainbox Initiative works closely with world-leading academics to help support, develop, and promote the work of early-career neuroscientists.
Ever since our first conference in 2017, we have remained committed to bringing together exciting programmes packed with the most rigorous and exciting field-leading work in non-invasive brain stimulation and brain imaging research. The Brainbox Initiative Conference is unique in encouraging the presentation of groundbreaking research from neuroscientists at all stages of their careers: from graduate students and postdoctoral researchers just starting their careers in academia, to those whose decades of cutting-edge research have helped to define the field.
Through our commitment to bring together such a wide range of speakers and experiences, the Brainbox Initiative Conference provides one of the most supportive environments for early-career neuroscientists, and keeps a strong focus on stimulating exciting new avenues for networking, discovery, and collaboration in the field.
We are working closely with the conference panel and our scientific committee to construct a programme that covers a broad range of topics across non-invasive brain stimulation techniques. Our conference panel are committed to ensuring that we support the most inclusive conference programme possible, bringing together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences.
The Brainbox Initiative Conference 2020 will feature talks across four days, with each of these days adopting its own unique focus: transcranial electrical stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation, and neuroimaging. We are working hard with alongside our scientific committee and conference panel to put the finishing touches to our 2020 event and will be announcing the confirmed timings soon. In the meantime, you can view programmes from our previous in-person conferences below.
Each year, the Brainbox Initiative Conference offers early-career researchers the opportunity not only to share their research in the form of a poster, but also to supplement this display with a three-minute, on-stage pitch to help them reach as many attendees as possible. In moving the conference online for 2020, we are reaffirming our commitment to this core component of our conference and are delighted to announce that we will be running extended poster presentation and poster pitch sessions for this year.
We invite any early-career researchers who would like to present their work (or planned work) at the 2020 conference to submit an abstract. Call for entries is open now, and we will be accepting submissions until September 14, 2020. For full details of poster presentations and instructions on how to submit your research, please visit our dedicated poster page.
Where can I view the programme for the conference?
We’re in the final stages of confirming speakers for the conference, at which point we’ll share the finished conference programme. With regards to timings, the conference will run between 13:00-17:00 BST from September 22-25.
How much is the registration fee?
We want to make sure that the Brainbox Initiative Conference is easily accessible for everyone. As the event is taking place virtually this year we are able to offer registrations at the reduced cost of £30. This fee will be used to help towards costs associated with running the event, such as the purchase of the virtual platform that we will be using. In our ongoing mission to helping promote the work of early-career researchers, we promise to contribute any additional funds raised by the conference to funding travel grants and subsidies for attendees of the Brainbox Initiative Conference 2021 in London.
How will I attend the conference?
The conference will be taking place online, and all attendees will be sent a direct link to enter the virtual room ahead of the event. There is no need to download any proprietary software as you will be able to join the event via your internet browser.
Will I be able to ask questions during the conference?
Yes, there will be the option to ask questions in a Q&A chat throughout the event. For questions about poster presentations, dedicated forum threads will be available for delegates to interact with all of our presenters.
I would like to attend but I can’t make the timings: will the event be available online afterwards?
While we would like to make the conference available for as many people as possible, we only intend – at the moment – for the Brainbox Initiative Conference to be viewed live. Our YouTube channel, however, is regularly updated with recordings of our Brainbox Initiative Webinars to watch on demand. Should we determine that we are able to make the conference available to view at a later date, we will announce this on our social media channels and our newsletter.
If you have any additional questions about the Brainbox Initiative Conference, please contact us at info@brainbox-initiative.com