After two years of digital events, we are pleased to confirm that the Brainbox Initiative Conference will at last be returning as a hybrid event for 2022.

Join us between September 22-23, 2022 at the prestigious Wellcome Collection in central London - a world-renowned venue exploring science, medicine, life, and art - for two days filled with some of the very best non-invasive brain stimulation and imaging research being carried out around the world. For the first time, researchers will also have the option to join us virtually to provide extra flexibility for travel considerations.

This year, our programme will explore four distinct areas across the two days of talks, including:

• Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) techniques;
• Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES/tDCS/tACS/tRNS) techniques;
• Transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS) techniques;
• And neuroimaging and methodologies.

Since its inception in 2017, the Brainbox Initiative Conference has sought to highlight and promote the groundbreaking work being carried out by early and mid-career neuroscientists at the forefront of non-invasive brain stimulation research.

We offer our early-career speakers the opportunity to share their work, research, and insights on stage side-by-side with world-renowned keynote speakers whose distinguished careers have helped to shape the field, as well as providing a supportive, welcoming, and inclusive environment to develop new connections and explore exciting new avenues for research projects.

As well as a range of stimulating talks, the Brainbox Initiative Conference programme is supported by a range of interactive demonstrations and exhibitions of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques in action, giving attendees the opportunity to see some of the latest technologies up close and personal and gain expert technical insights into the development of exciting new systems.

The Brainbox Initiative Conference 2022 will also be followed by a half-day workshop on Saturday, September 24 where attendees will be given the opportunity to join us once again for an in-depth exploration of some of the techniques used throughout the talks at the conference. Space for this workshop is strictly limited, so we encourage interested researchers to register early to avoid disappointment.

We also encourage all interested attendees to submit their own research to present a poster at the conference. Each year, we invite our cohort of poster presenters to join us on stage at the conference to share their research with everyone in attendance of the event - all presenters have the opportunity to support their research with a quickfire, three-minute live pitch to draw attention to the key takeaway messages of their research and spark interest in the conversations that take place in our evening poster hall gatherings. For 2022, the call for posters will remain open until September 1, 2022. Please bear in mind, however, that spaces are limited and call for posters may close early. We recommend interested delegates submit an abstract early to avoid disappointment.

The call for entries for the Brainbox Initiative's range of awards is now open for 2022, with all submissions due by July 1, 2022. Please click the links below to find further information on and apply for:

• Research Challenge 2022
• Young Investigator Award 2022
• John Rothwell Award 2022

The team at the Brainbox Initiative is working hard alongside our esteemed Scientific Committee, made up of leading non-invasive brain stimulation researchers working across an array of modalities, to construct the 2022 programme and hope to announce our first set of speakers in the near future.