About PL Neuro Workshops
PL Neuro workshops are a series of small, invite-only meetings whose purpose is to accelerate the development of next generation technologies – like neural augmentation and human-like AI – in a manner that is targeted to benefit humanity. Toward this goal, PL Neuro workshops bring together a deliberately cross-disciplinary group of scientists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and philanthropists with technical expertises across multiple disciplines of neuroscience and AI.
The PL Connectomics Workshop 2026:
Decoding the human brain’s circuitry
Connectomics is approaching an inflection point. Scaling trends suggest a synapse-resolution whole human brain connectome is technically feasible by 2049 — but recent advances in imaging, data processing, and molecular techniques suggest a far more aggressive timeline is now within reach.
This workshop brings together a deliberately cross-disciplinary group of connectomics researchers, AI scientists, engineers, funders, and entrepreneurs to align around a massively ambitious goal: decoding the human brain’s circuitry within the next ten years — and producing a consensus roadmap for how to get there.
The downstream value is concrete: human-like artificial intelligence, 1-to-1 brain emulation, precision treatments for brain disorders, and a rigorous science of biological intelligence and conscious experience. Realizing this future requires moving the field from basic science to an industrial-grade, human-centric initiative.
The workshop is built around four driving questions:
- Why should we build human scale connectomics?
- What is the technical and logistical roadmap for human scale brain maps?
- How do we translate human brain maps to achieve our targeted endpoints?
- How do we structure the field to support accelerated connectomics?
The Connectomics Workshop is part of the PL Neuro series — Protocol Labs’ initiative to accelerate frontier science at the intersection of neuroscience, AI, and human flourishing.
