3. John C. Havens
Current Landscape•Founder,The H(app)athon Project
•Contributing writer for Mashable
• As an expert in emerging/social media, featured in:
• Fast Company, INC, Ad Week, PR Week (partial list)
• Keynote/speaker (partial list):
• SXSW, Web 2.0, WSJ Digital, in Munich, Stockholm, Geneva
• Published Author (Tactical Transparency)
• Former EVP, Social Media at Porter Novelli (PR Firm):
• Created content strategy for clients (Gillette, Monster)
• Created thought leadership content for senior staff
• Provided media training to C-level staff (CFO)
• Brought in new business (Merck, SoyJoy, HP)
• Former VP, Business Development at BlogTalkRadio
• Conducted over 250 interviews with prospects/luminaries
• Brought in business with Walmart, Allstate, Ford
• Former About.com Guide to Podcasting (owned by NYT)
• Created over 100 articles and podcasts
• Established business relevance for new medium in 2006/7
• Former Professional actor in NYC
• Principal performer on/off Broadway, TV and film
• Partial bio at IMDB
• Author of a Book on Acting
• Taught acting for over four years
5. Quantified Self
QS is a term coined by Kevin Kelly and
Gary Wolf of WIRED. It refers to the
practice of measuring behavior in an
effort to better understand one’s
health, sleep, or other traits that can
be tracked.
MoodPanda lets users create a graphical
Mood Diary and compare it to others.
6. Saga tracks and learns your behavior.
Quantified Self Sensors + GPS gauge actions which are
pushed to social networks.
7. The Human Face of Big Data is an app that lets you
personalize information about yourself via a lush
visual format and see others like you in the world.
Quantified Self
8. Ilimivu is a patient-centered software platform
designed to capture rich, multimodal behavioral
streams through user engagement.
Quantified Self
9. Internet of Things / Big Data
The Internet of Things refers to the idea of sensors being embedded in the objects around us.
Big Data refers to the notion of overwhelming amounts of disparate information streams
converging without a common metric of measurement. The two trends are often compared
as IOT sensors provide a unique layer of data to measure in comparison to human action.
10. This diagram by Cisco shows the evolution and
Internet of Things growth of the Internet of things by 2020.
11. Big Data
This graphic created by
Cloud Tweaks gives a
sense of how much
information is
transmitted via big data.
The numbers you see
here were estimates
based on activity during
the 2012 Summer
Olympics in London.
12. Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality is a technology that overlays digital data on a screen. Visual markers cue
images to appear and can be placed anywhere in virtual reality, or what some call the
“Outernet” (as compared to the Internet). Sight is a fictional film showing how Augmented
Reality might be utilized when connected to social networks and predictive technology.
13. Augmented Reality
Viewdle is an existing technology recently purchased by Google that combines facial
recognition technology and Augmented Reality. Hold your phone up to someone’s face,
see their latest post. Combined with Google’s Project Glass (inset), this means people
can put down phones and track others in real time. This tracking could also include
moods and well-being. Crossing this tech with QS apps means you might see people
framed by a color showing their mood, or a visual icon telling you to leave them alone.
15. Gross National Happiness
Gross National Happiness (GNH), an idea generated in the Kingdom of Bhutan, has inspired
the United Nations and multiple other organizations to challenge standard metrics of
success based largely on fiscal wealth. While the metrics around GNH and their
implementation in Bhutan are being challenged, this concept of raising the economic and
holistic value of well-being to global levels has become a lasting trend.
16. Gross National Happiness
Robert Kennedy also believed
the concept of GDP was flawed.
In his speech delivered at the
University of Kansas in 1968 he
said the following:
“Too much and for too long we seemed to have surrendered personal
excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material
things...Yet the Gross National Product does not allow for the health of our
children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It measures
everything, in short, except that which makes living worthwhile.”
17. The Happiness Initiative
People may understandably think
you can’t measure happiness.
The emotional state of
happiness may be fleeting and
subjective but the metrics
around well-being and
“flourishing” have quantitative
and scientific methodologies for
data collection.
The results of a survey
conducted by The Happiness
Initiative demonstrate ten areas
of Happiness measured via
objective survey data.
18. The Happy Planet Index
It’s not all about you.
Happiness and well-being need to be
perceived as economic indicators of
success, especially in regards to our
planet. Not including metrics in
regards to well-being and the
environment means not considering
the best use of resources or planning
effectively for the future.
The Happy Planet Index, created by
Nic Marks for the New Economics
Foundation, ranked 151 countries for
its 2012 report, and “measures...the
extent to which countries deliver
long, happy, sustainable lives for the
people who live in them, and uses
global data on life expectancy,
experienced well being and Ecological
Footprint” for their calculations.
