Thanks to the speakers Markus Diesmann, Ole Jensen, Sennay Ghebreab, Nick Ramsey, Marcel van Gerven and Thomas Wachtler for making the symposium into a truly memorable event (see program). The goal of the meeting has been to jump start the creation of a vibrant neuroinformatics community in The Netherlands. Many ideas for concrete steps towards this goal have reached us during the steering group meeting preceding the workshop and the panel discussion afterwards; we will culminate them into an action plan. Further feedback is welcome.