NeuroTechSF Hacknight

Join us every week for online Hacknight! Newcomers always welcome. Come in anytime between 6 and 9PM PDT and let’s stay connected while we have to stay apart.

We will be available to answer questions about neurotechnology and discuss recent research. Please check out NeuroTechX’s github for current projects (https://github.com/NeuroTechX/) but feel free to just drop in, learn more about what people are doing and be a part of the community. And don't forget to join our Slack channel (https://bit.ly/ntx-slack) to stay in touch and lots more.

Agenda

18:00 Introductions, updates and news of the week.

Check out Active Inference Lab and the step by step tutorial with SPM
Ref: https://www.activeinference.org/
Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5AolqFl2Nw
Ref: https://psyarxiv.com/b4jm6/

NeuroTechX Buzz in Review Global Meetups
Ref: https://neurotechx.com/ntxbir2021/

Neurotech Labs & Companies
Ref: https://neurotechx.com/neurotech-ecosystem/

18:30 John Griffiths with updates on the OpenBCI data challenge and the latest GitHub activity. We will also get updates on the MOABB development progress.

Ref: https://github.com/neurotechx/eeg-notebooks

Ref: https://github.com/NeuroTechX/moabb
Ref: https://gitter.im/moabb_dev/community

18:45 Morgan Hough will update us on the NeuroTechX Hardware Hub initiative.

Ref: https://neurotechx-hardware-hub.myshopify.com/password

18:55 Morgan Hough will update us on the Diversity Committee work.

19:00 Garrett Flynn will join us to talk about brains@play and their upcoming Brains and Games Brainstorming Workshop Feb 1, 2021

Ref: https://brainsatplay.com
Ref: https://brainsatplay.com/competition/
Ref: https://github.com/brainsatplay
Ref: http://smartvr.usc.edu/events/

On a related note, Gamebridge Unityversity, is one of the Virtual locations hosting Global Game Jam 2021.

Ref: https://www.meetup.com/noisebridge/events/274916233/
Ref: https://globalgamejam.org/

Starts this Wednesday, and goes to Sunday. Our own Ryan Sternlich will be streaming via Noisebridge YouTube and Twitch

19:30 Sean Markin from NeuroTechX Los Angeles will come and talk to us about their recent event and planning for a future hackathon.

Brainwaves to Consciousness: EEGs, Altered States, Injury & Consciousness
Ref: https://www.meetup.com/NeuroTechLA/events/275753359

20:00 SIG meetings and journal clubs

Neurorobotics Meeting - no meeting this week

MOABB Developers Meeting - same time as NeuroTechX Paris BiR 2021

20:20 Workshops, conferences and symposia of the week

Virtual fNIRS Training Course with NIRx
Ref: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-fnirs-training-course-nirx-tickets-115770930971

BrainExPo Seminar: Intracortical brain-computer interfaces
Ref: https://events.brown.edu/brain-science/view/event/event_id/201543

Expanding Minds - The Allen Institute Conference on Human Brain Evolution
Ref: https://alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/frontiers-group/events/expanding-minds-virtual/

What’s in a Breath? Interoception as a Mechanism of Mindfulness Training with Dr. Norman Farb
Ref: https://mindfulscience.usc.edu/event/whats-in-a-breath-interoception-as-a-mechanism-of-mindfulness-training/

Open Science In Conversation: The Future Is Open - Designing Communities That Work
Ref: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-science-in-conversation-webinar-tickets-136980202473

Design and Innovation: The Next Wave of Wearables
Ref: https://www.runtheworld.today/app/invitation/16199

20:40 Looking ahead to tomorrow and next week

Dr. Juan Helen Zhou will be speaking at the Brain Space Initiative
Ref: https://brainspaceinitiative.github.io/

Ronin Public Seminar: Open Science, Culture Change, and You
Ref: http://ronininstitute.org/ronin-public-seminar-open-science-culture-change-and-you/4352/

Society for Social Neuroscience meeting
Ref: https://www.s4sn.org/register

The first Winter School of the Helmholtz International BigBrain Analytics and Learning Laboratory (HIBALL)
Ref: https://hifis-events.hzdr.de/event/37/
see you there