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-# SpikeInterface Workshop 2024
+# Tools and Methods for Next Generation Electrophysiology
 
-* Do you acquire or analyze extracellular electrophysiology data in your research? 
+**A workshop on tools and methods for analysis of exctracellular electrophysiologiocal recordings.**
+
+> Workshop: 27-28 May 2024
+> Hackathon: 29-31 May 2024
+> Informatics Forum
+> University of Edinburgh
+
+* Do you acquire or analyse extracellular electrophysiology data in your research? 
 
 * Do you develop analysis tools and software for electrophysiology?
 
-* Are you excited about open-source initiatives and electrophysiology community-building?
+* Are you excited about open-source initiatives and electrophysiology community building?
+
+If you answered yes to any of these questions, we inmvite you to attend this event.
+
+This workshop will bring together electrophysiologists and developers of tools for the analysis of extracellular recordings to discuss recent developments and future needs in the field.The event 
+consists of a two-day workshop, followed by three days of hackathon for those interested in contributing to the development of [SpikeInterface](https://spikeinterface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
+
+On the second say, we will offer an in-depth trainuing session on electrophysiology analysis, including advanced pre- and post-processing of data, drift correction, quality control, visualization options, and more. This session will both introduce concepts, and also offer hands-on tutorials using [SpikeInterface](https://spikeinterface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to demonstrate analysis workflows and show successes and failure modes of common methods.
 
-If you answered yes to any of this questions, you are very welcome to participate to the 
-**SpikeInterface Workshop/Developer Hackathon**, held in beautiful Edinburgh, Scotland, at the University of Edinburgh, 
-from May 27th-31st 2024.
+## Programme
 
-The 5-day event will be a unique opportunity to strengthen the extracellular electrophysiology community, 
-from end-users to developers. It will cover relevant topics for electrophysiology analysis, including advanced 
-pre- and post-processing of data, drift correction, quality control, visualization options, and more. 
-In addition to "theoretical" sessions and lectures, there will be hands-on tutorials on [SpikeInterface](https://spikeinterface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to showcase how the various topic can be put in direct action. 
+27 May - talks and posters
+---------------
 
+- Andrew Shelton (Allen Brain) - NP-Ultra
+- tbc: Paninski group (Columbia) - DartSort and Dredge
+- tbc: Luca Berdondini (IIT Genova) - SynAPS
+- Olivier Winter (Champalimaud) - IBL data
+- Pierre Yger /Samuel Garcia (SortingComponents + SC2)
+- Gabe Stine (MIT) - NHP Neuropixels
+- Luiz Tauffer - Cloud deployments
 
-## Program
 
-The event is divided in two sub-sessions:
-* **Workshop (day 1-2)**: the first part of the event is devoted to teaching and training. The first day will have talks on novel technologies and tools for electropysiology data. The second day will be focused on SpikeInterface training, with lectures and hands-on sessions on data processing, suggested analysis workflows and lessons learned, best practices and common pitfalls.
-At the end of Day 1, there will be a reception with booths and poster session.
+28 May: Workshop
+----------------
 
-* **Developer Hackahton (day 3-4-5)**: the remaining of the event is a developer hackathon. Projects will include both core development of SpikeInterface, addition of new features and functionalities, and development of third party software integrated into the SpikeInterface ecosystem. The developer hackathon is targeted for active contributors/developers of tools for electrophysiology data analysis.
+- SpikeInterface training session
+- Researc Softwrae Engineer gathering
+- more tba
+
+29-31 May: Hackathon
+-----------------
+
+The remainder of the event is a developer hackathon. Projects will include both core development of SpikeInterface, addition of new features and functionalities, and development of third party software integrated into the SpikeInterface ecosystem. The developer hackathon is targeted for active contributors/developers of tools for electrophysiology data analysis.
 
 ### Capacity
 
 The two sub-events have limited:
 
-* **Workshop (day 1-2)**: max 120 attendees
-* **Hackathon (day 3-4-5)**: max 25 attendees
 
 
 ## Registration
 
-Registration is open! 
+Attending the workshop is free, but you need to regioster here:
 [Registration link](https://forms.gle/iaBgEuw24wzzhJpF8)
 
 At time of registration you can also express interest for presenting a poster.
 
-
 Registration will close on May 13th 2024.
 
+Please contact Matthias Hennig ([email protected])  if you need an invitation letter for visa purposes.
+
+Maximum capacity:
+* **Workshop (day 1-2)**: 120 attendees
+* **Hackathon (day 3-4-5)**: 25 attendees
 
 ## Code of conduct
 
 Please read the [code of conduct](code-of-conduct/) for the workshop.
 
 ## Organizing Committee
 
-Organizers:
+Organisers:
 * Matthias Hennig - University of Edinburgh
 * Alessio Buccino - Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
-* Samuel Garcia - CNRL
+* Samuel Garcia - CNRS Lyon
 
 
 ## Contacts
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 ## Sponsors
 
-TBD
+TBC