Adam Gazzaley

Dr. Adam Gazzaley explores how artificial intelligence and neuroscience are coming together to expand the boundaries of human potential. From AI-powered video games that boost memory and attention in seniors, to smart wearables that detect depression from a person’s voice, discover how cutting-edge technology is enhancing our minds and mental well-being. Drawing on his groundbreaking work in experiential medicine and closed-loop neurotechnology, Dr. Gazzaley reveals a future where personalized, adaptive brain therapies could help us learn faster, focus deeper, and overcome mental health challenges. Attendees will hear inspiring case studies – notably, his advancement of the first FDA-approved video game. Importantly, this talk doesn’t shy away from the big questions: What are the ethical and societal implications when brains and AI intertwine? How do we safeguard privacy and humanity in this high-tech revolution? This is a journey into the next frontier of human innovation, where AI and the brain unite to improve lives. You’ll come away with a fresh understanding of emerging neurotechnologies, a glimpse of tomorrow’s brain-enhancing tools, and an appreciation for how scientists like Dr. Gazzaley are ensuring this new frontier benefits everyone in a responsible, human-centered way.

In this captivating keynote, neuroscientist and futurist Dr. Adam Gazzaley explores the extraordinary convergence of artificial intelligence and the human brain. From neural networks inspired by biology to AI-driven tools decoding our thoughts, this talk unpacks how brain science and machine learning are transforming each other. Learn how AI is advancing mental health, enhancing cognition, powering brain- computer interfaces, and even reshaping what it means to be human. With equal parts scientific insight and visionary foresight, this talk invites audiences to grapple with the thrilling — and sometimes unsettling — possibilities of a world where minds and machines merge.

Audiences: technologists, engineers, medical professionals, pharma, investors, companies

When it comes to enhancing our cognition we are tragically lacking. And we are paying a great price: Half a billion people around the world suffer debilitating effects of anxiety & depression; and attention & memory deficits. And the burden is rising; notably, dementia in our seniors; and attention and emotional control deficits in our youth.

Dr. Adam Gazzaley presents a unique perspective on experience as medicine. Starting with framing in ancient experiential approaches like meditation, and then moving to the opportunities with modern technologies, like therapeutic video games, and powerful molecules that induce transformative experiences, like psychedelics.

Key Takeaways:

Dr. Gazzaley shares his views on the future of medicine for the mind; an approach based on experience-induced neuroplasticity, with broad implications across the fields of neurology, psychiatry and psychology.

Audiences: technologists, engineers, medical professionals, educators, pharma, investors, companies

A fundamental challenge of modern society is the development of effective approaches to enhance brain function and cognition in both the healthy and impaired. For the healthy, this should be a core mission of our educational system and for the cognitively impaired this is should be a primary goal of our medical system. Unfortunately, neither of these systems have effectively met this challenge.

Dr. Adam Gazzaley presents a novel approach he developed at UCSF Neuroscape that uses custom-designed video games to achieve meaningful and sustainable cognitive enhancement via personalized closed-loop systems.

Key Takeaways:

Dr. Gazzaley also shares the next stage of his research program, which integrates closed-loop video games with the latest technological innovations in software (e.g., brain computer interfaces, AI) and hardware (e.g., virtual reality, mobile EEG, motion capture, physiological recording devices, brain stimulation) to enhance our brain’s information processing systems with the ultimate aim of improving our brain function.

Audiences: technologists, teachers, educators, companies

Our increasingly information-saturated world, coupled with growing expectations of constant availability and immediate responsiveness, place excessive demands on our brains. The consequences are detrimental effects on our safety, health, education, workplace, and relationships with family and friends.

Dr. Adam Gazzaley takes us on a journey into how and why we struggle with interruptions and distractions that emerge from both our inner and outer worlds. He will present a unique evolutionary perspective that the very essence of what has evolved in our brains to make us most human collides headfirst with our brain’s limitations in cognitive control.

Key Takeaways:

Dr. Gazzaley concludes by offering practical strategies for modifying our behavior, as well as the latest innovations from his research in enhancing our brain's function, so that we can better survive and thrive in the information age.