BR41N.IO Designers' Hackathon is a brainstorming and collaborative marathon designed to be a learning experience for developers, technologists, engineers, students, artists, and scientists who cram and build brain-computer interface (BCI) applications together in teams.
Who can participate?
Anyone can participate who has interests in BMI, BCI, robotics, AR, VR, machine learning, computing, sensors, human-machine interface systems, control, signal processing, big data, haptics, rehabilitation, and similar areas. Even better: it is for FREE. Participants do not have to be a BMI expert to participate on a team! Interdisciplinary teams with a combination of BMI and non-BMI skills are often successful in building solutions and producing working prototypes.
What's in there for me?
Be creative, think outside the box. The BR41N.IO Designers' Hackathon is fun and gets you to network and collaborate with other Geeks. The best projects will be awarded cash prizes:
BCI GAMING PROJECT PRIZES:
1st BR41N.IO Prize: $ 1000
2nd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 600
3rd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 400
BCI DATA ANALYSIS PROJECT PRIZES:
1st BR41N.IO Prize: $ 1000
2nd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 600
3rd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 400
BCI PROGRAMMING & ARTS PROJECT PRIZES:
1st BR41N.IO Prize: $ 1000
2nd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 600
3rd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 400
More details can be found here
The International BCI Award, endowed with a USD$6,000 prize, is one of the top accolades in BCI research. The BCI Award was created to recognize outstanding and innovative research in the field of Brain-Computer Interfaces.
Twelve projects are nominated before the winner is announced at the BCI Award Ceremony. Make sure to submit your BCI project to the BCI Award 2025. You just need a 2-page description of your work and a short video showing your BCI research and projects. Submission deadline is 1st of September 2025. Further information can be found here: www.bci-award.com.
The BCI Awards Ceremony will be broadcast at the BMI Workshop on October 7th from 14:00-17:00 (local time) and will be accessible online. More details on how to register can be found here.
This special event will feature a combination of talks and hands-on experiences, organized by the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy.
Technical Talks:
'Introduction to BCI devices and EEG signals' (20 min)
Prof. Fedelucio Narducci (Full Professor, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
'Emotion Recognition with low-cost sparse electrode devices' (20 min)
Prof. Angela Lombardi (Assistant Professor, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
'Critical ethical and privacy considerations that arise from using sensitive biometric information' (20 min)
Prof. Domenico Lofù (Assistant Professor, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
Hands-on demonstrations with audience participation:
'Brain Computer Interfaces for Neural Games' (30 min)
Paolo Sorino, Ph.D. (Research Assistant, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy)
'EEG Scope: a tool for EEG Signal/BCI Signal analysis' (30 min)
Tommaso Colafiglio (Ph.D. Candidate, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
Are you a PhD student interested in showcasing your ongoing doctoral research to BMI/neurotech experts to obtain invaluable feedback and advice? If you answered yes, then the BMI Workshop PhD Forum is the place for you! The Forum is open exclusively to currently enrolled PhD students working on a wide spectrum of topics covering BMIs, neurotechnology, and neuroscience in general.
To have your presentation considered for the Forum, you will need to submit a 1-page abstract (+ 1 page with only references, totalling 2 pages) describing your research project, current progress, and future work. **Abstracts will not appear on IEEEXplore.**
You can find a template for the PhD Forum abstract here.
Please submit your abstract PDF by email to phd.at.bmi@gmail.com by August 22, 2025. Decisions will be announced by September 1st.
Please note that in-person attendance is required for all participants in the PhD Forum; remote participation is not available for this event. The PhD Forum is open to all paid registrants of the BMI Workshop / SMC 2025 conference.