Schedule
Tues 9th June 2026 (UTC+1)
08:40 Check in and registration
09:40 Conference opening remarks (Dr Ruairidh Battleday and Prof. James Whittington)
Session 1: Neural Data
Chair: Dr Marine Schimel (Meta)
Chair: Dr Kris Jensen (UCL)
10:00 Keynote: Prof. Marius Pachitariu (Janelia)
10:40 Break
11:20 Keynote: Prof. Tatiana Engel (Princeton)
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Dr Kiah Hardcastle (Harvard)
14:20 Dr YoungJu Jo (Stanford)
14:40 Dr Abraham Vollan (NTNU)
15:00 Break and Poster Setup
15:40 Dr Xulu Sun (UCSF)
16:00 Neural Data Spotlights
17:00 Poster Session 1 & Reception
Weds 10th June 2026 (UTC+1)
Session 2: Neural Theory
Chair: Dr Sebastian Musslick (Osnabrück)
Chair: Jesseba Fernando (Northeastern)
09:40 Keynote: Prof. Xiao Jing Wang (NYU)
10:20 Will Dorrell (Harvard)
10:40 Break
11:20 Keynote: Prof. Marcella Noorman (Chicago)
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Keynote: Dr Sophia Sanborn (Stanford)
14:40 Dr Andy Keller (Harvard)
15:00 Break and Poster Setup
15:40 Jin Hwa Lee (UCL)
16:00 Dr Sandra Romero (Columbia)
16:20 Neural Theory Spotlights
16:40 Poster Session 2
Thurs 11th June 2026 (UTC+1)
Session 3: CogSci
Chair: Prof. Bill Thompson (Berkeley)
Chair: Prof .Lucy Lai (UCSF)
09:40 Keynote: Prof. Eric Schulz (Helmholtz Munich)
10:20 Dr Zeb Kurth-Nelson (Stealth)
10:40 Break
11:20 Keynote: Prof. Gyorgy Buzsaki (NYU)
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Keynote: Prof. Noah Goodman (Stanford)
14:40 Dr Felix Sosa (Stealth)
15:00 Break and Poster Setup
15:40 Dr Christian Shewmake (New Theory AI)
16:00 CogSci Spotlights
16:20 Poster Session 3
18:00 Conference Dinner
Fri 12th June 2026 (UTC+1)
Session 4: AI
Chair: Dr Chen Sun (DeepMind)
Chair: Dr Ivana Kajic (DeepMind)
09:40 Keynote: Dr Blaise Agūera y Arcas (Google)
10:20 Dr Clare Lyle (DeepMind)
10:40 Break
11:20 Keynote: Prof. Irina Rish (Mila & Montreal)
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Keynote: Dr Joel Lehman (Lila)
14:40 Dr Asma Ghandeharioun (DeepMind)
15:00 Break and Poster Setup
15:40 Jeremy Dohman (Perceptron AI)
16:00 CogSci Spotlights
16:40 Dr Ed Hughes (Stealth)
17:00 Poster Session 4 & Reception