Royal Society Neural Interfaces Summit
Hanging out with the wonderful Laura Kreiling from the OECD at the Royal Society Neural Interfaces Summit!
Our panel was on the Governance of neural interface technologies and I presented on the importance of ensuring the human needs are at the heart of neurotech development and not simply technological possibility.
I was astonished by research I did for the European Brain Summit to find that there is almost no consultation with patients with neurological conditions when neurotechnology treatments were being developed. Why that is, is encapsulated by this fascinating article by an academic who’s daughter got the very problem he had spent his life working on, only to find that he had focused too much on technological possibility and not enough on human needs and he couldn’t help her.
A Peer Reviewed Portrait of Suffering.
We had great panel exploring what governance mechanisms are currently in place and what the priorities should be for governing the field in the future with:
Chair: Siobhan O’Sullivan, Executive Director, Royal Irish Academy
Speakers:
Dr Andy Greenfield, Regulatory Horizons Council
Dr Guido Girardi, former President of the Senate of Chile
Hilary Sutcliffe, Director, Society Inside
Dr Laura Kreiling, OECD