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Speakers Profile - Peter Shann Ford


Award Winning Innovator, enabler and former broadcaster










Travels From:
Sydney

Fee Range: E


Peter Shann Ford is the Australian founder of Control Bionics, a neural systems technology company, which creates communication and control systems for people with profound disabilities including Locked in Syndrome.

The user's own body's neuroelectric signals are used to control computers, communication options and robots delivering game-changing neural human-computer-robotic control technology.

The latest evolution is NeuroNode - for people with quadriplegia and loss of speech - provides high-performance remote electronic, communication and robotic control. It enables the users to generate text, use computerised voice, emails, internet transactions, personal robotics such as the Obi, and intelligent wheelchairs such as the Control Bionics Drove.

Control Bionics continues to push the envelope of communication with a simple mission:

'To produce the best technology to enable people with the toughest disabilities to regain communication, independence and dignity.'

A compelling and inspiring speaker, Peter’s presentations often include live tech interaction in which audience members control a computer using their own neural signals, offering a powerful insight of human potential.