Un Panel: The Technological Future of Awakening | Awakened Futures Summit 2019

Un-Panel: The Technological Future of Awakening - Featuring Mendel Kaelen, Ph.D, Ariel Garten, Robin Arnott, Bashar Badran, Ph.D, and Sarah Hashkes. Moderated by Mikey Siegel.
Awakened Futures Summit | May 19th, 2019 | UCSF Mission Bay
Mendel Kaelen is a neuroscientist, creative and entrepreneur and is passionate about understanding mental health and well-being. He researches life-transforming experiences and works to develop accessible psychotherapeutic tools. He is the founder and CEO of Wavepaths, a venture that unifies immersive art, intelligent technologies and psychedelic science into a new model of care. He also offers workshops and consultancy on the use of music and setting design, for therapists and researchers working with psychedelics and MDMA. He completed his post-doctoral education in neuroscience at Imperial College London, specializing in the function of music in psychedelic therapy.
Ariel Garten is a neuroscientist, innovator, and entrepreneur whose driving purpose is to empower and help others overcome mental obstacles in order to live healthy, happy lives and reach their maximum potential. Garten is the Founder of Interaxon, the makers of the award-winning wearable meditation technology called MUSE: The Brain Sensing Headband. Garten is trained as a neuroscientist and psychotherapist, and also started her own international clothing line while working in labs researching Parkinson’s disease and hippocampal neurogenesis. It was her unique ability to blend of science with art that was integral to the design of Muse and to Interaxon’s unique approach to brain sensing technology. Her team’s technology has been featured in over 1000 media pieces, as well as was the feature showcase at not only the 2018 G7 Summit, but also at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics where they set up an installation that allowed over 7,000 people control the lights on the CN tower, Canadian parliament buildings, and Niagara Falls with their brains from across the country.
Robin Arnott is the co-founder and CEO of Andromeda Entertainment, a company providing embodied interactive experiences designed to harness the power of mindfulness and video games. He is the creator of SoundSelf, a technodelic ecstatic meditation experience designed for VR. Robin also co-leads the Consciousness Hacking Austin chapter.
Dr. Bashar Badran earned his Ph.D in neuroscience from the Medical University of South Carolina, and is faculty in the Brain Stimulation Division of the MUSC Department of Psychiatry in Charleston, SC. Dr. Badran is an expert in invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation techniques, specifically transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders and vagus nerve stimulation to augment human performance. He is the inventor of E-Meditation, a neurostimulation-enhanced meditative practice. He is also the co-founder of Bodhi NeuroTech, an early stage technology company developing neurostimulation and wearables for meditation, human performance and psychiatric disorders.
Sarah Shashkes combines knowledge from her cognitive neuroscience research (Ms.c) into psychedelics and VR as tools to change perception with her extensive background in movement and martial arts to hack the mind-body link. She is the CEO of Radix Motion, a company using Virtual Realty to enable humans to communicate deeper emotional states by creating a practical telepathy machine that builds on our ability to encode emotions with motions.
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