Executive Director
Neurotech Network, Florida, United States
As a result of a snowboarding accident, Jennifer French lives with tetraplegia due to a spinal cord injury. She is an early user of an experimental implanted neural prosthesis for paralysis. French serves as the leadership team for the Implantable Brain Computer Interface Collaborative Community.
She is also the Founder and Executive Director of Neurotech Network, a nonprofit organization that focuses on education and advocacy of neurotechnologies. Jennifer has been featured in several media outlets and is an accomplished writer and speaker addressing organizations such as the National Academy of Sciences, the World Science Festival, and TEDx Talks. French has helped launch successful divisions is such organizations as Bombardier Capital and Connection, as well as several nonprofit organizations and patient/community engagement programs. French holds a Bachelor’s degree in Aviation Science and an MBA. She serves on several advisory boards including the IEEE Neuroethics Initiative, Institute of Neuroethics, OpenMinds platform, BRAIN Initiative Multi-Council Working Group, and the American Bionics Project. She is the current Chair of the CDMRP Spinal Cord Injury Research Program programmatic committee. She is the author of several peer-reviewed publications as well as two books, On My Feet Again (Neurotech Press, 2013) and is co-author of Bionic Pioneers (Neurotech Press, 2014).
Her latest TED talk is available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkspAQW_2sQ
Disclosure(s): ANEUVO: Advisor (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing); Axoft: Advisor (Terminated, May 29, 2023), Consultant (Terminated, May 29, 2023); EG427: Advisor (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing); Motif Neurotech: Advisor (Terminated, September 1, 2022), Consultant (Terminated, September 1, 2022); Neuralink: Advisor (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing); Precision Neuroscience Corporation: Advisor (Terminated, September 7, 2023), Consultant (Terminated, September 7, 2023); Sella Therapies: Advisor (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing); SPINEX: Advisor (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing)
The Implantable BCI Collaborative Community
Monday, May 6, 2024
7:11 AM – 7:31 AM CT