Andreas Forsland
Designer-turned-neurotech entrepreneur whose career spanned brand management at Citrix, creative direction at Progressive Insurance and Hanson Dodge, and senior design roles at Philips. He co-founded Cognixion (originally Smartstones) in 2013 with Leonard Zerman after his mother's 2012 hospitalisation — in which she could not communicate while intubated — galvanised him to build better augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) technology. His Cognixion ONE BCI headset received FDA Breakthrough Device designation. He chairs the California Communications Access Foundation.