BLUE SKIES RESEARCH CHALLENGE
Big ideas. Live pitches. $150,000 in research funding.
For the first time, the doors are open. Blue Skies is now a separately ticketed experience available to NEEC attendees.
The Blue Skies Research Challenge
RESEARCH TAKES THE STAGE.
Blue Skies brings researchers, clinicians, entrepreneurs and innovators together for a live competition built around one goal: advancing bold ideas that could change epilepsy care.
Finalists take the stage at NEEC to pitch their work live, competing for two major research awards and the opportunity to move promising ideas forward.
Total Research Funding
Awarded across two winning projects
Your Friday Night at NEEC
NOT ANOTHER CONFERENCE SESSION.
When the day's sessions end, Blue Skies begins.
Step into an evening built around ambitious ideas, live competition and the people working to move epilepsy care forward.
It's a chance to connect, celebrate innovation and experience promising research in a completely different setting.
Live Pitches
Hear finalists make the case for bold ideas with the potential to change epilepsy care.
Cocktails + Connection
Spend the evening alongside researchers, clinicians, advocates, industry partners and members of the epilepsy community.
A Front-Row Seat to Innovation
Get an inside look at promising ideas while they're still fighting for the funding that could help move them forward.
A Celebration of Big Ideas
Blue Skies brings the community together around possibility, progress and the people willing to pursue what's next.