 Thank you so much, Haskin, and thank you again for organizing this one more time. Everybody having a good time? Back from lunch? Got a little break? Good. Good. All right, guys. So, talking to Justin, I thought that this year, instead of getting you with more data like we did last year, we're going to try to wrap up a bit of what we've been up to in the last three years, try to get a high level of why we're bothering doing all this and what's the state of affairs and where we're going to go next. So, we've been hearing a lot about float and flow and the event is an event on the brain, so I'm afraid that I'm going to start with sort of a pessimistic kind of slight, but I think it's an important one. So this is sort of the landscape of mental health care right now, which is obviously something that I care a great deal about, and so does Justin. And this is just, you know, picking up a few disorders that, you know, like brain trauma, schizophrenia, depression, Alzheimer's. And you can see very rapidly how many people this affects and what are both the societal and the financial costs of this disease. And this is growing in a rampant way, and that's due to a lot of things from increased longevity, which is great. We all get to lift into our hundred, but you know, then you have a biological system that needs to keep up with it. And also, you know, the current lifestyle that we do, all the stress factors were sort of on call every day with our smartphones, with everything connected. So there's great things about it, but then there's a cost and a toll that we pay with it, too. So some of you guys probably know this, like Ashken I said from previous years, but for someone who doesn't, my background is in neuroscience, is neurophysiology. I was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health at the Mental Health and then at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, La Jolla, and then we created neuroverse about five years ago. And so obviously I'm interested in the brain, how does it work and what we can do with it and how we can, you know, try to at least put the dent on these, you know, problems that we're seeing. And I think that most researchers on the brain and most physicians, mental health care professionals would agree that we sort of three tips that they would like to make a difference on the brain. One is understanding it. And we know quite a bit about the brain, but there's still a lot that we need to know more and we need to have large-scaled deployment populations, both at molecular level studies and full level studies to get a better understanding. With a better understanding, there's a possibility to improve. And this is one of the things we've been discussing with a float, is how can we improve certain conditions, being mental fitness, being some pathologies, which takes us to curing on the case. So everyone will tell you, I think, that works on neuroscience to say, hey, I'll be really happy if I can create a little bit of the dent in any of these three things, right? If you can do it in two of them, well, that's fantastic, really. And if by some reason you can actually do something that affects the three, then is when I think that you have something truly disruptive for mental health care and from just mental health at large. So, well, when you start thinking about that, how would you go about to do something like that? Well, first you need to think that you have a longevity curve. So, you know, the brain and any other things start decaying through life. So we can't just have something that is going to happen at one time of your life. This needs to be whatever disruptive approach that you need to do it. You need to do it throughout the life cycle to try to, for instance, improve mental performance. To some extent, we've seen that if we do that, we can delay decline. So there are studies, for instance, showing that even though we're not curing Alzheimer's, but with some cognitive interventions, you can actually delay the onset of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's for a few years. And I can tell you, you know, if you talk to any of the patients, how much that actually matters. It might, it's not a cure, but in any of these disorders, just, you know, pushing it back two, three, five years is actually a really big deal. And then, of course, you know, hopefully also find new ways, you know, from interventions like floating for pharmacology, for whatever it might be, to really treat, you know, some of those neurological conditions. All right, so if we want to do all that, you need to start thinking about, you know, a method, a technology, a treatment, whatever, you know, is the landscape that you're working on, that needs to be able to attach to both things. One is dealing with mental pathologies, so things like detection and treatment, but also with brain wellness. You also need to bring this into performance and prevention. So it's not enough to just address the problems when they are actually already there. You actually need to start to figuring out ways to integrate things in real life and into everyday life across a variety of occupations, so we can start preventing some of it. And it does really need to be both sides of the coin. All right, so how can we start doing something like this? Well, we know quite a bit about the brain and about, you know, brain research using all sort of methodology from EEG, that you can see the big cap with the electrodes coming out on the left, to MRI or PET, where you can see these functional maps of brain activity. But all of that, as important as it is, and will always be, it stays within the constrained environment of, you know, a researcher of medical center, right? So if you want to impact something that really, you know, is going to go into everyday life, you need to come up with something kind of different. So it needs to be integrative, it needs to be something that can become part of your fabric of everyday life. It needs to be reliable, it can't be a toy, because if not, you're not going to get to the problems and the markers and the measures that you need to have. It needs to be affordable. If you actually want to be disruptive, this should not be something that you come up for, the 1% that can afford it. It needs to be something that people can really at large, you know, get into it or buy. It needs to be easy to use. You need to have, you know, not your doctor using it, but, you know, your 70-year-old, you know, sitting on their couch and be able to intuitively use it. It needs to be readily available throughout the country and ideally throughout the world. And then very, very importantly, and we'll bring this up on the context of float again, but it needs to be personalized. The more that we do research on mental health and more that we'll research on brain functioning, we realize that, of course, there's a lot of common patterns, but there's no one size fits all. A lot of the things, and this is gonna be true for treatments, medicine is really evolving in that way, prevention, it needs to be personalized. You need to know what's happened with that person at that time. So with all of those things and methods, you know, for us, we focus as Ashken, you know, alluded to and we presented in previous years on EEG and let me say phylography, right? So in other words, you know, every time that your brain cells fire in euros fire, they create electrical energy that goes through your scalp and we have this passive sensors that measure those brain waves at the level of your scalp and that is tied up to functioning of different brain neural networks and we have all that correlation. The great thing about something like EEG is that it's been around for over 50 years. So there's a wide range of brain markers, brain modulations from anything from attentioning, memory, language, that we know that are well correlated to it. So then the question is, how can we really translate it into something that, you know, we can use all these level of markers and knowledge in general society? And obviously, if you wanna do something with it, this is not exactly an easy to sport look, right? And bring this together with, you know, big amplifier, a bunch of cables, computers, and a specialized team to help you record this thing. Another aspect of specialized team to analyze this data, well, now you're seeing what I'm getting with this, you know, in neuroscience, we like to talk about EEG as the portable one, which comparable to a big MRI magnet that costs a million dollars and takes up an entire room. This is quite portable, but portable doesn't mean that, you know, it's ready for inclusion in society. So we need to sort of clean it up in many ways. So that looks much better, I think. So that's, you know, part of words spent the last five years developing. Something that we call the brain station, and it's an EEG system is wireless, but it's, importantly, is more than a device. It's connected to sort of the three-pronged approach where we have a wide range of advanced analytics on the server, on the cloud, and we have a series of apps, of applications that run on your smartphone to track everything on every lay life from, you know, assessment of mental function. So scoring, you know, neurocognitive markers of attention, or language, or memory, or, you know, mindfulness, for that matter. A source of neurocognitive training games, neurofeedback control, sleep tracking. So we really want it to be something that will be truly sort of your brain interface for everyday life, sort of one-stop shop that will be holistic enough that we can really get all those things, and not just because we're greedy, but because we really want it to be able to integrate this data. There's a lot of stuff that you can be learned for your sleep patterns about how your brain is doing. There's a lot that can be learned by doing specific types of neurocognitive assessment. There's a lot that can be learned by doing neurofeedback. But if they're all detached, you only get one side of the picture. But if you can be in a situation where everything is being embodied into the same environment, then you can really start understanding what's going on with this individual, and also altogether as a group. So, flow, right? So we're floating, flow is definitely, you know, the big keyword for this conference. And you've been hearing about it quite a bit. You'll hear quite more on the next few speakers. But people have described it as, you know, fully experiencing the present, or living in the moment, or the present moment of awareness, timeless being, synchronicity. And in a way, it's all of the things, and probably much more. But it's a very hard thing to define and to characterize, and it's something we wanted to do. We know that, you know, from obviously meditators, but also musicians will tell you that during the flow, when they're playing a certain piece, professional athletes, surfers included, and I will say that when they're out there riding the waves at a certain point, they can get into this zone of being in this state of flow. So we're very interested on it, because one, we want to understand what it means, but also because of the benefits that that seems to bring to the person experiencing them. So we start thinking about in ways of, if we really want to understand this better, we need to find a way to characterize it. So we need to find a way to, you know, go beyond the subjective mental experience and look at the brain patterns. And first, identify it and say, okay, what is a state of flow? Can we identify it? Can we really know when it's happening? Then if we know that, we can start characterizing it. We can start figuring out what is the neural pattern that defines a state of flow. And then if we have those two things, well, now we're in business, now we can really start to figuring out ways to modulate it in a way that you can get you to experience the state of flow more easily, more frequently, sort of ideally get to the point of training where you can experience it on demand and take the advantage that it comes from it. So one of the early things that we did when we start looking into this and thinking about different people and different communities that experience this sense of flow and after all we are in California. So we thought, okay, let's start with surfing. So we ran a pilot preliminary study just looking at a couple of things and one of the things that's really interesting to you and you guys will see a couple of the videos of Denim, which is a guy working with us surfing. And then you can see on the lower two videos left and right is doing the same activity, which is basically paddling, looking for a wave. But the left side is on the early stage of surfing when it's just getting to the water. The one on the right side is after about 35, 45 minutes of surfing. And you can see that the patterns are really changing. And they're changing not just because we're doing a different activity in this case is paddling in both circumstances, is really how his mental state has been changing with the experience. And of course for us it's really important to go to research flow where it happens, not just do it in a completely artificial situation and try to find, like we said, identify sets of flow. Talk to people on the meditation community, on athletes, musicians and let us kind of find where can we find the states of flow and then start digging into it. Which of course led us here and led us to Justin. Which as Ashken said, literally dragged me into the float business. I think I said this a couple years ago, but I worked with Justin for about three years now with it, all sorts of things. But in the beginning I was very skeptical and it was really not something I had experience with and Justin was really sort of my surpa I guess to this things. So it's really important for us to have those two sides. One, you want it to sort of being able to go in a wild and figure out where these things is happening. But as importantly, you want to be able to have a controlled environment where we can elicit the states of flow almost on demand as I was saying. So that's what the work at Libra has been fascinating who are just in giving you a lot of evidence and now amazingly great new papers being published on this. We really wanted to see how does your brain look when you're doing this thing? How does the neural patterns look like? And the first thing was just getting something that would work, right? So you'll see here two examples of time-lapse videos of brain activity throughout floating. If you actually will spend some time with this, you'll see there's definitely a communality on it. So there's changes that seem to be constant of a decrease of power overall, a shift from high frequencies into low frequencies. They're common, but also see that there's differences to them. So again, each person, each experience is not gonna be exactly the same. So you need to have a way like this to categorize each one of them. And we're very excited about the very focused mental health first evidence that we're starting to see. So Justin mentioned this earlier today about the study, look at anxiety and serenity changes after a pool when compared to watching a video. We're now actually writing a paper that we're gonna be submitting shortly and then we'll be on the same website that Justin mentioned the neural changes associated with this. And we're definitely seeing very characteristicly brain changes that go with this, which can help us identify states of anxiety and also then figure out how to move away from them. So it's very important to do this and have this mental health focus things. Actually, just being here yesterday out of a conversation with Tom Fine that I think you're gonna be hearing for tomorrow, we're really excited about bringing something else that we've been working on. It depends on the flows, which is migraine that we're able to detect an upcoming migraine episode about 24 hours before the onset of symptoms. But combine that with floating and then trying to start seeing if we can actually reduce migraine incidents and activity by combining floating and use these kind of devices to track it. So there's a lot of opportunities we're excited about it, but as I mentioned on the beginning we don't wanna stop there. We wanna be able to actually bring this out to everyday life and if we do it on the rest we also want it to be able to do it on floating. So like I said, we've been doing this for five years but on the last two even some of the things that you guys have seen with the original studies with Justin we're using what we call our gen two. There was still a lot of, it was great, it was not a big cap, but there's still a lot of things that we feel that was not really ready for general use for it. So actually the floating experience that we're working with Justin also helps us really advance the technology itself. So this is the new thing. So we're very excited about it because in this case it's something that you have this and your cell phone and you're done and you can do it anywhere. Which again opens all the possibilities to really do this research but more importantly do implementation of translational therapies anywhere you want it. We already started yesterday we had a really interesting panel on research and floating. We discussed IRBs and all the other requirements to actually do serious research on to this and how could implement this in float centers. We already had an IRB in progress. We've been working with people like Just Flow to it Mike and Jim there and this is actually something recorded at Just Flow just one example that you're seeing on your right side. So to summarize in terms of floating okay what is in terms of your floating brain the current effects that we can talk about? Well one is now possible to record and actually characterize. So remember we said first identify and characterize. We're starting to now being able to characterize how the brain looks like when you're floating. How is it to get in this interceptive state? And what we're finding is that it's a really complex temporal dynamics. It's not just a sort of a switch of you move from what people like to call better to TETA or something like that. It's actually a complex pattern which is very interesting and for the first time we'll be able to get some insights on it. The other important thing is they're replicable and what we mean by this is not also that everyone is doing something completely different there's no rhyme to it. You can actually see common patterns between people and that's really important because then we know that is a sustained experience that has a common aspect for everyone. And we also know that modulations of these contributions of high and low frequency bands and you know which brain areas and neural networks are associated with this are actually correlated with the mental subjective experience of the flow state. So again I said this before we'll come back to this is personalized, right? So we have these common trends but it's not gonna be enough to say oh we did this with 30 people we kind of have a notion how it looks like. So now we can do it with 30 million and just have that neural signature, that template. You actually use that as a guidance but then you really have to have a system where you have to be running each one of those persons to get a those personalized experience then in turn will help us produce the translational approaches. The other thing we're excited about is just like with meditation. Training and experience matters, it modulates. It modulates the experience on a float and it modulates the neural changes. We're seeing when we compare patterns for experienced floaters with naive floaters and then track these naive floaters over the course of three, five, 10 floats we see changes on the neural pattern to start getting closer to the guys who have much more experience. So again this is great because then it means that we can train it and if you can train it you can use it in a positive manner to reinforce all sort of solutions. So then again, how do we bring this into everyday life? So we're able to record on the float we're able to use float things but then how do you make it part of everyone to be able to use it and it's not just floating on isolation? Well, we partner and we try to explore other avenues. One of them that I'm very proud of saying is we're starting to work with Deepak Chopra and Punashya you're gonna hear him talking later today about states of float to actually characterize meditation and mindfulness experiences in the light of float as well and bring it all together. And why? Because ultimately what we really wanna do is being able to characterize neural patterns of interest and it can be a mindfulness with a meditation practice it can be pure attentional focus it can be the floating experience. Once you characterize these patterns once you know what they look like and you have a neural analysis sustaining that then you can create which is what we've done brain signals and neural feedback where basically find out how you look like when you're in that state and then I'll give you a meditation training exercise to do at home let's say, okay? And I can track you in real time what your brain is doing. At the end of the exercise I can tell you how close you are or not from your intended goal to being in a certain state. So that allows really, you know one, bring the floats together with everything else that we're doing everything else in an holistic way but also to give you a tool to keep training and make this part of an entire program instead of just an isolated experience. So the idea again to being, you know having an holistic aspect on the same platform mindfulness, floating, sleep all sort of neuro cognitive assessment, neuro feedback tools. In our view it really helps us attach to the two things the mental performance aspect where we can develop integrated mindfulness and training programs at many levels but also the more medical oriented stuff with preventive and therapeutic programs. And this is how we really think that we can have an impact on the three parts of the triangle and go beyond just one simple kind of tool hack into have something that could really hopefully be disruptive throughout a whole sort of applications not just medically but on meditation or sports but with executives, we're working with people at special operations, we're working with sports teams just in alluded to that today with NFL and others. So it's really about creating this platform where you can bring all of the aspects of your mental performance and of your brain performance you can take advantage of information from all of them but also can start creating some translational benefits that you can bring into everyday life. And I think that Panache will tell you more about flow so I'm excited to hear that. Thank you everyone and it's good to be here again.