20 August 20-21, 2017
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel
Thank you to all the participants, speakers & sponsors See you in Montréal 2018!

Program

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Day 1Aug 20

09:00 AM

Welcome

Opening session by the Program committee chairs  

09:20 AM

Session 1 – Data standards and reproducibility

09:20 AM

Keynote: Variance is the spice of reproducible research

Speaker: Satrajit S Ghosh

09:50 AM

Investigator presentation

Speaker: Hugo Leroux

10:10 AM

Keynote: Title TBA

Speaker: Ferath Kherif

10:40 AM

Coffee break

11:10 AM

Session 2 – Science gateways and reproducible computing

11:10 AM

Keynote: Towards open and reproducible neuroscience in the age of big data

Speaker: Chris Gorgolewski

11:40 AM

Investigator presentation

Speaker: Lalet Scaria

12:00 PM

Investigator presentation

Speaker: Alejandro de la Vega

12:20 PM

Roundtable discussion with speakers from session 1 and 2

01:00 PM

Lunch

02:00 PM

Session 3 – Informatics for brain modeling

02:00 PM

Keynote: Bridging clinical and cognitive neuroscience with large-scale computational modeling

Speaker: Randy McIntosh

02:30 PM

Investigator presentation

Speaker: Devin Bayly

02:50 PM

Keynote: Open source tools and resources for collaborative modeling of brain function

Speaker: Angus Silver

03:20 PM

Roundtable discussion with speakers from session 3

04:00 PM

Coffee break

04:30 PM

Session 4 – Novel analytics for clinical data

04:30 PM

Keynote: The upside and downside of being highly connected in the brain

Speaker: Alex Fornito

05:00 PM

Investigator presentation

Speaker: Liew Boon Seng

05:20 PM

Investigator presentation

Speaker: Xinli You

05:40 PM

Roundtable discussion with speakers from session 4

06:20 PM

Poster session and reception

Day 2Aug 21

09:00 AM

Malaysian node presentation

09:20 AM

Session 5 – Large-scale databasing and mega-analyses

09:20 AM

Keynote: Title TBA

Speaker: Jessica Turner

09:50 AM

Investigator presentation

Speaker: Federico Raimondo

10:10 AM

Keynote: Automated reconstruction of synaptic-resolution neural wiring diagrams using very large scale computation and machine learning

Speaker: Viren Jain

10:40 AM

Coffee break

11:10 AM

Session 6 – Machine learning and data mining

11:10 AM

Keynote: Mapping the neural substrates of behavior using computer vision

Speaker: Kristin Branson

11:40 AM

Investigator presentation

Speaker: Ahmed Rauf Subhani

12:00 PM

Investigator presentation

Speaker: Sheng Hung Chung

12:20 PM

Roundtable discussion with speakers from session 5 and 6

01:00 PM

Lunch

02:00 PM

Session 7 – Collaborative neuroscience knowledge building tools

02:00 PM

Keynote: Making neuroscience FAIR

Speaker: Maryann Martone

02:30 PM

Investigator presentation

Speaker: Markus Butz-Ostendorf

02:50 PM

Keynote: Delivery open data, tools and knowledge on a timeline

Speaker: Lydia Ng

03:20 PM

Coffee break

03:50 PM

Keynote: FAIR digital research assets: beyond the acronym

Speaker: Susanna Sansone

04:20 PM

Investigator presentation

Speaker: Anita Bandrowski

04:40 PM

Roundtable discussion with speakers from session 7

05:20 PM

Congress 2018 presentation

05:35 PM

Closing remarks

05:50 PM

Cultural Malaysian performance

06:20 PM

Poster session and reception