The Future of the Human Brain: Technologies Crossing the Last Frontier of Knowledge
The Centre for Neurotechnology and Law, with support from the ITG Technology Center, CCS Abogados, the Bar Association of A Coruña, the A Coruña City Council, the Faculty of Law at the University of A Coruña (UDC), and the Royal Academy of Medicine of Galicia, is organizing the most significant international event on the future of the human brain. The goal is to respond to the challenges that advances in neurotechnology present for the future of humanity and the free mental development of individuals.
The event will take place on September 26 at ITG’s headquarters, located at Cantón Grande 9, and will feature participation from members of the State Secretariat for Digital Transformation, the Spanish Data Protection Agency, and the General Secretariat for Innovation at the Ministry of Science. International experts will assess the implications of scientific advances and emerging neurotechnology companies — such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink — from legal, scientific, medical, and business perspectives.
Ángel Judel Pereira, an attorney at CCS Abogados and recently appointed member of the Executive Committee of the London-based Centre for Neurotechnology and Law, succeeded in securing Spain as the international venue for this event. “We are dealing with technologies that allow us to cross the final frontier in understanding the human being. The choice of location is no coincidence. We want Spain and Latin American countries not to fall behind in the research, understanding, and regulation of technologies that will forever change our knowledge of the mind and the brain,” Judel emphasizes.
“The event is free and open to the public. It aims to offer an educational and accessible approach, as it is crucial for professionals, entrepreneurs, and the general public to become familiar with technologies poised to lead the technological revolution of the next decade,” explain organizers from the Centre for Neurotechnology and Law. To underscore this point, they highlight recent figures: “A 2025 report by U.S. consulting firm Morgan and Stanley estimates that investment in this field — including brain-computer interface applications to control computers, video games, or robotic limbs — could surpass $28 billion in the U.S. alone by 2034.”
Program Overview
The conference will be opened by Inés Rey, Mayor of A Coruña; Xulio Ferreiro, former Mayor and current Dean of the Faculty of Law at UDC; Antonio Couceiro, President of ITG; and Dr. Francisco Martelo, President of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Galicia. Also of note is the participation of Eva Ortega-Paino, Secretary General for Innovation at the Ministry of Science, and Lorenzo Cotino, the newly appointed Director of the Spanish Data Protection Agency.
The morning session will feature prominent legal scholars such as Carlos Amunátegui, who led the world’s first constitutional reform in Chile to recognize the protection of the human brain as a fundamental right. Other panelists include former Minister of Justice Francisco Caamaño; Australian researcher Allan McCay, a member of the Australian Human Rights and Neurotechnology Commission; and neurotechnology legal experts Ángel Judel and Harry Lambert, founder of the international neurotech consultancy Cerebralink.
The afternoon session will highlight María López, CEO of Bitbrain, Spain’s most prominent neurotechnology company, who will explain how neurotechnology works and how such a business can emerge within the Spanish entrepreneurial landscape.
Galicia will be represented by Qubiotech, a company specializing in applying AI to neuroimaging techniques. Its CEO, Daniel Fernández Mosquera, will demonstrate how their technology has improved diagnoses of neurological disorders and has even been used in two U.S. capital punishment trials.
Neuroscientists Cristina Nombela and Javier Díaz-Nido will present the latest breakthroughs in neurotechnology, including artificial brain creation, digital brain replicas, interventions in perception and mental states, speech decoding, and digital telepathy.