The Brain Science and the Future Parallel Forum, a sub-forum to the 2019 Zhongguancun Forum, was successfully held at the Zhongguancun Exhibition Center on October 17. Zheng Huanmin, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, and Xuan Hong, general manager of Zhongguancun Development Group, attended and delivered speeches at the opening ceremony.

The forum was sponsored by Zhongguancun Development Group, and undertaken by the Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Zhongguancun Life Science Park and Association of Brain Imaging. Eleven well-known experts and scholars from home and abroad including Cheng Heping, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Gao Jiahong, chairman of The Organization for Human Brain Mapping, and Sylvain Baillet, Canadian Research Chair of Brain System Neurodynamics, shared their opinions and global visions.

Zheng Huanmin, Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission mentioned that brain science, a current hotspot, has been regarded as a strategic focus by China in recent years. Beijing launched a special brain science program five years ago. In 2018, the Chinese Institute for Brain Research was established to better serve the country's layout and benefit cooperation between life scientists and artificial intelligence experts at home and abroad.

Xuan Hong, general manager of Zhongguancun Development Group, said that the group specializes in serving innovation and entrepreneurship. It hopes to build a bridge between basic research and industrialization of results, connect factors well and provide more professional service, so as to become an integrated service provider supporting cutting-edge technologies such as brain science.

In the keynote speech session, Cheng Heping, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor of Peking University, Sylvain Baillet, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of McGill University, Yajun Fang, Research Scientist of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Xu Bo, Director of the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Luming, director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Neuromodulation, and other guests shared the development trends and potential social impact of brain science and brain-like intelligence, touching on hot topics such as brain diseases and human health, development of brain imaging technology, brain-computer interface and brain-like intelligence.

The frontier dialogue session was hosted by Gao Jiahong, chairman of The Organization for Human Brain Mapping and professor of Peking University. He Yong, deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning at Beijing Normal University, Zuo Xinian, director of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the Research Center for Lifespan Development of Mind and Brain, Wang Yuping, director of the Department of Neurology of Xuanwu Hospital, and Hong Bo, professor of Tsinghua BCI Lab, exchanged views on Development and Application of Brain Imaging and Brain-Computer Interface Technology.