Organizers from Stanford, Lucca, and Stellenbosch will present brief summaries of their site’s World Café discussions, highlighting under-attended harms, under-realized benefits, research questions, pilot governance ideas, and the tradeoffs that connect them. The conversation will also explore what these cross-regional insights suggest for future work, including opportunities for research, governance innovation, and collaboration across communities.
Reporters
Stanford
- Lea Witkowsky
- Anita Jwa
- Leana King
Lucca
- Guido Cassinadri
Stellenbosch
- Damian Eke
- Tanya De Villiers-Botha
Agenda
- Introduction and framing / 5 minutes
- Site summaries from Stanford, Lucca, Stellenbosch / 15 minutes
- Expert discussion and cross-site comparison / 30 minutes
- Audience Q&A and reflections / 10 minutes
Attend
Thursday, April 16, 2026
8:00-9:00am PDT / Stanford Main Hall
17:00-18:00 / Lucca Guinigi Room
17:00–18:00 / Stellenbosch
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Neuroethics 2026
Building Bridges and Cultivating Community
This session is part of the Neuroethics 2026 conference organized by the INS and hosted by the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. Register for the conference to attend in-person at Stanford University in Stanford, California, U.S., or to participate virtually.
Description
This cross-site session brings conference attendees into a shared, global dialogue to reflect on what emerged from the World Café discussions across the three conference hubs.
Following the local World Café sessions, organizers from Stanford, Lucca, and Stellenbosch will present brief summaries of their discussions, highlighting under-attended harms, under-realized benefits, research questions, pilot governance ideas, and the tradeoffs that connect them.
These summaries will serve as the foundation for a moderated discussion among experts in neurodata governance from each region. Drawing on their perspectives, panelists will reflect on similarities and differences across sites, what themes appeared consistently, what diverged based on local context, and what surprised them in the comparison.
The conversation will also explore what these cross-regional insights suggest for future work, including opportunities for research, governance innovation, and collaboration across communities. Insights from this exchange will contribute to a short report synthesizing outputs from across all three hubs, to be shared with the broader community as a resource for ongoing work.
Join the discussion and help shape what comes next.
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Recording
A recording of this session will be made available to registered attendees.