Commissar, L. and Brookman-Byrne, A. (2017). IMBES Pre-Conference: Using Insight From Research to Improve Education. Mind, Brain, and Education, published by International Mind, Brain, and Education Society and Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

In September 2016, the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) biennial conference took place in Toronto, Canada. The pre-conference (organized by the Wellcome Trust) was designed to share new findings, lessons learned, and inspirational innovation within the field, and to encourage the community to not only identify current challenges, but to start planning potential ways to address them. This article provides a brief summary of the discussions from the day, and suggests steps that members of the community, conference organizers, and funders can take in helping to move the field forward. Finally, it outlines new work Wellcome has commissioned since the conference in response to some of the challenges definedon the day.