WORKSHOPS
Asilomar for the BrainMind and is a workshop-driven, interactive gathering. All participants are expected to contribute substantively in the co-creation of practical ethical decision-making tools across the innovation lifecycle. Workshops will run concurrently, and participants will be pre-assigned and notified of their selected workshop and any prep work needed ahead of time. Learn more about each workshop below:
Toolkit for Neuro-entrepreneurs: Partner Rubric
Leads
Satori Neuro
Lead
Motif Neurotech
IDUN Technologies
Unified Privacy Policy
Lead
The Neurorights Foundation
World Economic Forum: Neurotrust Index
Leads
Uniform Law Commission, Duke
Investor Ethics & Governance Tools
Workshop 1: Diligence Questions, Investor-Founder Agreement
Leads
Neurotech Network, iBCI-CC
Leads
Ningen Neurotethics Co-lab
Excel Venture Management
Leads
rpv
Jumpspace Ventures
This half-day interactive session will help participants develop practical ways to develop their own ethical stance on the use of neural data, translate these values into company policy, and operationalize them through company actions. Participants will grapple with data ownership and autonomy challenges through collaborative scenario exercises and leave with the tools to develop policies and processes that help ensure their values are maintained in the actions of their organization.
XEIA Ventures
Partners
Masashi Kiyomine, Kicker Ventures
Frank Stegert, Global Asset Capital
Workshop 2: Ethics and Reputation Risk Matrix
This session will focus on a board-level neuroethics risk matrix created to guide ongoing oversight once an investment has been made. The matrix is designed to help board members identify emerging risks, track company alignment with ethical commitments, and support proactive governance across the lifecycle of neurotechnology development. Participants will review the draft matrix, explore how it can be integrated into regular board discussions, and provide input to ensure it becomes a practical, actionable framework for long-term stewardship of neurotechnologies.
Partners
Matthew Dworman, GFI Partners
Esther Dyson, Braingels
Tom Gruber, Braingels
Lived Experience Engagement
In this Workshop, ABC will explore the tools being developed for industry and research organizations. Participants will be introduced to this project to put readily available resources into the hands of product developers and research teams to launch, execute, and manage their lived experience engagement programs. This interactive half-day workshop will include testing the new (beta) Industry/Developer Resource Hub and providing feedback to shape the peer-support network of industry and developer professionals to learn from each other about engagement programs for people with lived experience and to integrate this feedback into your business model.
Motif Neurotech
Values to Actions: Ethical use of Neural Data within Neurotechnology Companies
American Brain Coalition
Facilitated by Dr. Stephen Damianos, Executive Director of the Neurorights Foundation, this workshop will explore prototypes of tools designed to strengthen trust and safety in the fast-growing consumer neurotechnology industry. These solutions are designed to benefit both users and companies, empowering consumers with informed choice while enabling industry leaders to differentiate themselves through responsible innovation. Bringing together end users, developers, executives, neuroethicists, and experts in responsible innovation, the session will focus on co-creating practical tools and discussing pathways toward industry-wide adoption. Through structured feedback and collaborative exercises, participants will help shape approaches that can be implemented across diverse product types and business models, advancing a trustworthy and thriving neurotechnology ecosystem.
This workshop, led by the Global Future Council on Neurotechnology, will garner feedback on the NeuroTrust Index, a pioneering initiative to benchmark trust, ethics and governance in neurotechnology. Participants from across the ecosystem—including device developers, clinicians, policy-makers and patient advocates—will work collaboratively to define the criteria, metrics and thresholds that matter. Together we’ll establish a shared, transparent index to guide investment, regulation and innovation in brain-computer interfaces and neural data use. The outcome will be a publicly-available framework to elevate trust and accountability across the neuro-innovation landscape.
In this workshop, we will introduce a structured set of pre-investment due diligence questions designed to help investors evaluate neuroethical, reputational, and governance risks early in the decision process. Participants will walk through draft question sets that surface issues related to data use, agency, safety, reversibility, business-model alignment, and downstream societal impact. We will test these questions against real-world scenarios, gather feedback on usability, and refine them into a practical tool to support clearer, more responsible investment decisions in neurotechnology
Synchron
In this workshop facilitated by CEO Dr. Karen Rommelfanger of Ningen Neuroethics Co-Lab ( a Neuroethics-by-Design Firm) and CTO Dr. Moritz Thielen of IDUN Technologies (A Smart-Watch for your Brain), we’ll test drive a neuroethics triage tool to help determine which steps to take when opportunities arise around potential uses of your company's neurotechnology. This exercise will also help show when specific neuroethics tools (featured on the BrainMind website) are useful; how to use them; and who should use them. In addition, we’ll design upgrades and improvements through structured feedback discussions. By the end of the workshop, participants will have a sense of which tools might be fit for purpose for their scenarios and which anticipatory approaches they can use in their own work to ensure regulatory readiness in an evolving neuropolicy landscape.