VELCO DAR
The Brain‑Computer Interface Keynote
FROM CLICKS TO COGNITION - HOW BCI WILL REWRITE REVENUE AND REGULATION.
Why this topic now
Brain‑Computer Interfaces by the Numbers
14 × faster time‑to‑intent than voice, gesture, or typing
US $25 Billion projected neuro‑commerce market by 2030 (WEF)
3 new neuro‑rights bills filed globally in the past 18 months
Velco Dar is a marketing strategist and entrepreneur with more than twenty years experience of turning human behaviour into revenue for tier‑one brands in FMCG and luxury. As co‑founder of experiential agency DE Advertising, he has steered high‑impact campaigns across Australia, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
Velco is the author of the forthcoming NEURALEAP, a playbook that shows how brain‑computer interfaces will pull power away from platforms and place it squarely inside the human mind.
His mission is direct: help C‑suite leaders seize the upside of neural technology while safeguarding the public trust that makes commerce possible.
A global nomad with a unique perspective, Velco blends engaging and pragmatic storytelling with actionable frameworks that leave audiences ready to build a future where thought itself is the new bandwidth - and where ethics and profit move in the same direction.
“The last interface leap shrank the physical world. the bci leap dissolves it.”
— Velco Dar
KEYNOTE TOPICS
ANTHROPOLOGICAL KEYNOTE
from firelight to synapse
We gathered around the fire to share stories. We etched symbols onto stone to record thought. We printed books to share knowledge and spread ideas. We built networks to connect across oceans. The story of civilization is the story of communication.
Now, with brain-computer interfaces emerging, we face an era where language might become optional. Where thought itself could become the message. Where emotion can be triggered not via the senses - but by raw signal.
To understand where we’re going, we need to understand how we got here.
This is the universal story of signals, senses, and the tools that shape the human experience.
STRATEGIC KEYNOTE
neuro commerce &
the future consumer
What happens when thoughts and emotions become data? When experiences can be downloaded? When value lives not in products, but in the patterns they create in our minds?
In this session we explore how desire, purchase and loyalty will be sculpted in an age of commercialised BCIs. You’ll see why tomorrow’s most valuable products are intangible emotional states and how early movers are pricing them.
We explore the ethical guardrails leaders must install before cortisol spikes in the amygdala become a line item on a company’s balance sheet.
Attendees will be faced with questions that many companies are now afraid to ask, but very soon won’t be able to avoid.
LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE
governanCe in the age of bci
When communication moves from spoken word to shared thought, from expression to transmission - the rules of social conduct will need to be re-written.
If memories and intent can be subpoenaed and neural nudges can reach entire electorates, the old vocabulary of rights and borders falters.
This keynote examines emerging neurorights laws, state‑level brain tech programs, and the delicate choreography required between governments, platforms, and the individual mind.
Attendees leave with a framework for steering innovation without surrendering cognitive liberty - a blueprint for a constitutional update for the neural era.