This year's meeting explores how learners, educators, clinicians, researchers, technologies, and environments become connected through shared neural, cognitive, physiological, and social signals. The programme brings together cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, learning sciences, mental health, ageing, human development, and cognitive engineering, with a particular focus on hyperscanning, portable imaging, fNIRS/EEG, and multimodal approaches to studying real-world learning and interaction.

BrainConnects 2026 will also take place alongside the NIRx and Artinis fNIRS workshop, creating opportunities for scientific exchange, methodological discussion, and hands-on engagement with emerging neuroimaging tools. Programme details will be updated by day as they are confirmed.