Workshop on Brain-Machine Interface – February 19th 2025, Gardanne, France

Session 1: Innovation within Brain Implants: pioneering BMIs

Brice Bathellier – Institut Pasteur | HearLight
🔗 Encoding algorithms for sensory rehabilitation implants

Hans Scherberger – DPZ | B-CRATOS
🔗 Cortical hand movement prosthetics

Fabien Sauter-Starace – CEA DTIS | NEMO-BMI
🔗 Design and clinical validation of WIMAGINE®, a BMI wireless ECoG implant

Paul Le Floch – CEO of Axoft
🔗 Novel materials and electronics for soft neural interfaces

Paul Wanda – Blackrock Microsystems Europe | B-CRATOS
🔗 Modern Brain Computer Interface Platforms: The Need for Next-Generation Wireless Technologies

Session 2: Mind Meets Machine: evolutions within communication

Robin Augustine – Uppsala University | B-CRATOS
🔗Fat – Intra Body Communication: A new paradigm for intra-body communication technology enabling reinstatement of lost functionalities in human

Charles Rezaei-Mazinani – Ecole des Mines, Department of Bioelectronics 
🔗HearLight Multi-conductive layer flexible bioelectronic implants for neural recording and stimulation

Ali Khaleghi – NTNU | B-CRATOS
🔗A Battery-Free, High Data-Rate Brain-Machine Interface with RF Backscatter Communication, Wireless Power, and NFC Telemetry

Session 3: Prospects about the Machine-Humans interactions

Marco Controzzi – Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna | B-CRATOS
🔗 Next-Generation Hand Prostheses: What is next?

Guillaume Charvet – CEA DTIS | NEMO-BMI & Reverse-Paralysis
🔗 Implantable chronic Brain Machine Interface for movement compensation: from clinical proof of concept to use in daily life

Henri Lorach – EPFL | NEMO-BMI & Reverse-Paralysis
🔗 Brain-controlled spinal cord stimulation to restore voluntary motor control after paralysis