Neurotechnology, data and law - Jean Monnet Chair dig_INFLow Conference, 17.06.2025, AMU Poznań, PL

Digital Single Market and Free Flow of Information
International Conference of Jean Monnet Chair dig_INFlow

June 16-17, 2025

Adam Mickiewicz University
Faculty of Law and Administration
Poznań, Poland

Co-funded by the European Union.

Speech:
INTRODUCTION TO NEUROTECHNOLOGY

Speakers:
• Hannah Thornton– PhD, specialist in law of brain-computer interfaces, legal scholar in intellectual property and digital law; lawyer at Noerr PartGmbB
• Marcin Naranowicz – Assistant Professor, Institute of English Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań; member of the AMU Cognitive Neuroscience Center; specialist in mood effects on language comprehension, bilingual processing and neural mechanisms; expert in neurotechnologies

Panel I – debate:
RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION: NEUROTECHNOLOGY FOR MEDICAL AND RESEARCH PURPOSES
Moderator: Łukasz Szoszkiewicz

Participants:
• Tade M. Spranger– Adjunct Professor of public and biotechnology law at the Faculty of Law, University of Bonn, Germany, Head of the Centre for the Law of Life Sciences
• Peter Yu – University Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law & Intellectual Property at Texas  A&M University School of Law
• Representative of the industry

Panel II – debate:
NEURORIGHTS IN THE EU: REGULATING CONSUMER NEUROTECHNOLOGY
Moderator: Hannah Thornton

Participants:
• Stephen Damianos – Executive Director, The NeuroRights Foundation; research affiliate at the Neurotechnology Center, Columbia University; PhD in International Development, University of Oxford
• Mikołaj Buchwald – PhD; cognitive neuroscience and machine-learning researcher at the Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Polish Academy of Sciences