Event Description:
Health | Tech | Food is a space and time to innovate around the
core health issues of New York through the lens of social technology.
While social technology most frequently addresses the upper half
of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, we will explore how these same
technologies can also serve greater societal needs, namely, our
health. Following short, grounding presentations from renown
thought leaders, participants will engage in one of four ideation
workshops: open source health, food
systems, the quantified self or
mobile health. All ideation inputs and outputs
will be publicly published so that anyone can adopt and implement the solutions.
Speakers:
Steven G. Dean. As a design consultant rooted in the
wellness industry, Steven Dean provides creative insight to corporate
teams developing wellness services and products. Steven is also
an active participant in the quantified self and health 2.0
communities, and the NY Event Organizer for the The Quantified Self.
Marc Koska is the inventor of the the K1 syringe --
it locks down after a single injection, preventing reuse. His
organization takes an open source approach to health products,
publishing the plans to allow anyone to produce the better medical
instrument. Watch Marc’s Ted Talk
Jane Sarasohn-Kahn is a health economist and management
consultant who has worked with health stakeholders in the U.S. and
Europe for over two decades. She focuses on the intersection of
people, health and technology, and thinks about the future of health
and how to expand access, improve quality, and reduce costs. More
about Jane can be found on the THINK-Health website and on the Health Populi blog.
Jerusha Klemperer is the Associate Director of National
Programs Slow Food USA. Through her work with Slow Food she is
also a founding board member of a new Americorps service
project in development, called FoodCorps. She is a writer of all kinds of
things including book reviews, blog posts, and tweets, and is a
contributor to the Huffington Post, CivilEats.com,
WellandGoodNYC.com, and her personal blog Eat Here 2.
Coffee & Breakfast snacks will be provide by Whole Foods
