Keynote Lecture I
Gerald M. Edelman
Director, The Neurosciences Institute, USA
1972 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Keynote Lecture II
Zang-Hee Cho
Director, Neuroscience Research Institute, Gachon Univ. of Medicine and Science, Korea
Developed world’s first PET-MRI fusion molecular imaging system for the Human In-Vivo Brain Imaging
Special Lecture
Ron Reagan
Son of late U.S. President Ronald Reagan
Session A : Learning - Making Smart Brains
Shun-ichi Amari
Director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan
Richard Restak
Clinical Professor of Neurology, George Washington Univ. Hospital, USA
Joe Z. Tsien
Professor and Co-director, Brain Discovery Institute, Medical College of Georgia, USA
Sebastian Seung
Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences Dept. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Session B : Intelligence! Learned or Hereditary?
Bong-Kiun Kaang
Professor of Neurobiology, Seoul National University, Korea
Hee-Sup Shin
Director, Center for Neural Science, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Eran Katz
Guinness Record Holder, Israel
Min Zhuo
Professor of Physiology, University of Toronto, Canada
Session C : Vision of Hope for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases
Yoshikuni Mizuno
Director, Research Institute for Diseases of the Old Age, Japan
Yoo-Hun Suh
Director, The National Creative Research Initiative Centre for Alzheimer's Dementia and Neuroscience Research Institute, Seoul National Univ., Korea
Dennis W. Choi
Professor of Neurology, Emory University, USA
Jongkyeong Chung
Professor of Biological Sciences, KAIST, Korea
Session D : Artificial Intelligence – Connecting Brain and Machine
Philip Kennedy
Founder and Chief Scientist, Neural Signals Inc., USA
Klaus-Robert Müller
Professor of Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Miguel Nicolelis
Professor of Neurobiology, Duke University, USA
Soo-Young Lee
Director, Brain Science Research Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Session E : The Science of the Mind, Consciousness
Lee, Sang-Hun
Professor of Psychology, Seoul National University, Korea
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Director, SAGE Center for the Study of Mind, Univ. of California Santa Barbara, USA
Anil K. Seth
Lecturer in Informatics, University of Sussex, UK
Special Session I : Bernard Werber on the “Ultimate Secret”
Bernard Werber
Writer of World Best Sellers such as “Le Papillon Des Etoiles,” “(Le) Jour de Fourmis, France
Special Session II : Neuroscience Meets Humanities
In-Sik Lee
Head, Science Culture Research Center, Korea
Special Session III : Neuroscience becomes a Social Science: Neuroeconomics & Neuro-Marketing
Daeyeol Lee
Professor of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, USA