Mon., October 5 – Wed., October 7, 2026
We bring together expert perspectives from human cognitive neuroscience, animal neuroscience and artificial intelligence from academia and industry in the US, Europe, and Asia. We hope to have fruitful discussions about how we can understand intelligence and the brain, whether neuroscience can lead to better AI, whether neuroscience should keep using AI models that stray from biology, and related further topics.
Hybrid Event: In-Person and Online
Venue: Conference Room, CiNet Bldg., 1-4 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Program: (Subject to change) Download（PDF）
Abstracts: (Subject to change) Download（PDF）
Speakers: (Listed in alphabetical order)
Kentaro Abe, Tohoku University
Kai Arulkumaran, Sakana AI
Wilma Bainbridge, University of Chicago
Katharina Dobs, University of Giessen
Kenji Doya, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
John Duncan, University of Cambridge
Tatsuya Haga, CiNet, NICT
Benjamin Hayden, Baylor College of Medicine
Llion Jones, Sakana AI
Lis Kanashiro Pereira, CiNet, NICT
Takuto Kinoshita‐Yamamoto, The University of Osaka, Osaka Neurological Institute
Andrew Lampinen, Anthropic
Robert Mok, CiNet, NICT
Ida Momennejad, Microsoft
Shinji Nishimoto, The University of Osaka
Martin Schrimpf, Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne
Katherine Storrs, University of Auckland
Taro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Takufumi Yanagisawa, The University of Osaka
◆Registration:
The Dinner Reception on Monday, October 5 has reached full capacity and registration is now closed. Registration for the conference remains open.
◆Poster presentation:
Poster presentation submissions have closed.
Thank you for your great interest and the many submissions received.
Organizer: Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet),
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Co-organizer: The University of Osaka
Conference Chair: Robert Mok, CiNet, NICT
Vice-Chair: Shinji Nishimoto, The University of Osaka
Conference Director: Shigeru Kitazawa, CiNet, NICT
Language: English (Machine translation available)
Capacity: In-person 150, on-line 500 ＊Registration will close once capacity is reached.
Inquires: cinet-conf at ml.nict.go.jp (Please replace “at” with “@”.)