We hosted our first annual conference on the 10th November in London, which nearly 200 people attended  in person and 100 people online.  This whole-day event was full of inspiring talks from network members and guest speakers from multiple disciplines and perspectives. We were honoured to have Professor Steven Williams as our Keynote speaker, whose work focuses on improving access and application of MRI for global health studies using recent developments in Ultralow Field Neuroimaging in the Young.  A short summary of this event can be seen on our news tab.

 

A great thank you to all those who attended, spoke and helped organise this event.

Below are the recordings and slides from the event.

 

Due to the confidentiality of some of the work not all slides are available.

Video recordings have been edited and not all aspects were recorded e.g the Keynote speaker.

 

Recordings

 

Morning Sessions Recording

 

Afternoon Sessions Recording

 

Full Programme

 

Slides

• Welcome speech- Prof Eva Loth, King’s College London

 

Session 1: Keynote Speaker

• Ultralow Field Neuroimaging in the Young. Professor Steven Williams

 

Rapid Fire Poster Presentations:

• MRI Support Kit.  Autistic led & co-creative research & design. Eleonora Tilkin-Franssens (KULeuven)

 

• Developing and Testing Inclusive Wearable Enhancement Technologies. Lucy Dowdall (Cambridge / Durham Universities

 

• Sensory-Motor Integration in Children. Ross Vanderwert (Cardiff University)

 

• Enhancing Knowledge Co-production Between Neurodivergent Young People and Academic Researchers to Enrich Experimental Neuroscience. Eloise Funnell (King’s College London)

 

• Using Multi-Modal Neuroimaging to Characterise Social Brain Specialistation in Infants. Maheen Saddiqui (Birkbeck, University of London)

 

• Taking Neuroimaging into the Home: Brain and Behaviour Associations in Neonates by Dianna Ilyka (Cambridge University)

 

Session 2: The 4 Pillars of Respect Neurodevelopment​

• Responsible Neurotechnology,                                          ​
  Prof Eva Loth, King’s College London​
  SÍofra Heraty, Birkbeck, University of London​

 

• Reliable Neurotechnology ​
  Prof Ilias Tachtsidis, University College London​

 

• Scalable Neurotechnology
  Dr Tomoki Arichi, King’s College London​

 

• Personalised Neurotechnology, ​
  Prof Emily Jones, Birkbeck, University of London​ [not currently available]

 

Session 4: Pump-prime feasibility study awards 2023​

• Developing low-cost wearables to track early home environments in neurodivergent children​
• Prof Sam Wass, University of the East of London​

 

• Comfortable Conformal Coils for Children​
  Dr Tobias Wood, King’s College London​

 

• Combining wearable diffuse optical tomography  and immersive virtual reality to reliably study neurodevelopmental conditions​
  Dr Chiara Bulgarelli, Birkbeck​

 

• Immersive Virtual Reality for MRI scanning of awake young children with neurodevelopmental conditions​. Prof Jo Hajnal, King’s College London​ [not currently available]

 

Session 5: Perspectives across the network​

• Ethical Considerations for Responsible Child-specific Neurotechnologies​
  Prof Paul Appelbaum, Columbia University​

 

• Participatory Research perspective​
  Heta Pukki, European Council of Autistic People​

 

• Early Career Researcher Network​
  Dr Rianne Haartsen, Sanjana Gandhi, King’s College London​

 

• Industry perspective​
  Jorit Dekker, Noldus Information Technology, The Netherlands​