IJCNN 2011 will feature invited plenary talks by the following speakers:
| Neuroscience and Cognitive Science | |
| Michael Arbib | University of Southern California |
| Challenges for Computational Vision: From Random Dots to the Wagon Wheel Illusion | |
| Leon Glass | McGill University |
| Cognitive Computing: Neuroscience, Supercomputing, Nanotechnology | |
| Dharmendra Modha | IBM Almaden Research Center |
| Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning | |
| Andrew Ng | Stanford University |
| Learning Motor Skills in Humans and Humanoids | |
| Stefan Schaal | University of Southern California |
| Neural Network ReNNaissance | |
| Juergen Schmidhuber | IDSIA, Switzerland |
| David Rumelhart Memorial Session |
| On Wednesday, August 3, IJCNN 2011 will feature a special plenary session honoring the life and work of the Late David Rumelhart, one of the true pioneers in the field of neural networks and a major contributor to the field's modern renaissance. |
| Speaker: Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley) |
| Featured Plenary Session: The Emergence of Mind |
| On Thursday, August 4, IJCNN 2011 will feature a special plenary session focusing on how higher mental functions such as perception, cognition and consciousness emerge from the neural substrate of the brain. |
| Speakers: Stephen Grossberg (Boston University) Walter J. Freeman (University of California, Berkeley) Bernard J. Baars (The Neuroscience Institute) |
