Psychedelic Symposium 2025: Reset
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November 13 – 14, 2025
Promega Campus, Fitchburg, WI
The 2025 UW-Madison Psychedelic Symposium is a dynamic and transdisciplinary event aimed at expanding awareness, fostering knowledge exchange, and bridging gaps in psychedelic research, education, and policy. The symposium will bring together researchers, graduate students, and key industry stakeholders to share knowledge and facilitate collaboration.
The term “reset” can have many different meanings, depending on the context. Traditionally, it has meant a restart, often with the goal of correcting or improving a thing or action. More broadly, reset has been used to help conceptualize technology — such as restoring a device — back to its original state, while concepts like the “The Great Reset” have described large-scale economic and societal shifts. Psychedelic science and therapy have hypothesized various kinds of resets, relating to how substances and integration might help people break out of rigid thought patterns, alleviating issues like intractable depression, anxiety, or PTSD. In the realm of wellness or psychology, reset has often referred to a mental or emotional refresh and has been associated with reevaluating behavior, changing habits, or taking a break. In 2025, reset is also a useful way to think about the psychedelic field itself.
Presentations and panel discussions will focus on four priority topic areas:
- Industry
- Safety & Regulation
- Neuroscience, Neuropharmacology & Clinical
Visiting guest speakers, panelists and moderators will include:
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- Manish Agrawal, Sunstone Therapies
- Josephine Anderson, UW–Madison
- Matthew Baggott, Tactogen
- Matthew Banks, UW–Madison
- Ashton Barber, UW–Madison
- Mike Davis, Usona
- Zoe Dubus, University of Saskatchewan
- Josh Hardman, Psychedelic Alpha
- Shayla Love, The Atlantic
- Franklin King, Harvard Medical School
- Christine McLeave, University of Alaska
- Katherine Nautiyal, Dartmouth College
- Chris Stauffer, Portland VA
- Bill Linton, Usona
- Steve Paulson, UW–Madison