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Jen van der Meer

I like to measure the impact of everything: financial, environmental, and social.

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8 Principals for Designing for Dignity in Health Tech

Thanks all for the great discussion, in real time at StrataRx and on the Twittersphere.
Here are the slides:

Designing Data for Dignity StrataRx from Jen van der Meer

Disrupting the Self : The Mindfulness Continuum

At Startupfest Montreal at the invitation of curator extraordinaire Alistair Croll and his amazing sister Rebecca Croll. Tomorrow’s discussion: Disrupting the Self: Lifelogging, Wearable Computing and Society. I promise a deep, context setting and likely provocative discussion with Dulcie Madden, one of the founders of Rest Devices - who provide “human centered devices that make [...]

The Best of Strata Santa Clara 2013: Data is Not a Business Model Moving Knowledge to Action

Didn’t get to Strata this year?
Update July 2, 2013: My talk is now available on YouTube:

My talk is being broadcast at an upcoming Webinar brought to you by O’Reilly:
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
5 AM San Francisco | 1pm - London | 8am - New York | 10pm - Sydney | 9pm [...]

Lean Launchpad Educators Program

I’m at the Lean LaunchPad Educators Program - Steve Blank’s entrepreneurship curriculum delivered to 90+ educators around the world. I’m here thanks to the efforts of NYU to cultivate entrepreneurship across the school, with ITP as a potentially ideal place to adopt the methods.
We are all entrepreneurship-leaning educators at the grad and undergrad level, and [...]

Bodies and Buildings: April 15

The power to transcend paradigms: don’t forget to keep yourself unattached in the arena of paradigms.
Preparation for concept development:
Now that you  have identified a problem, how will you solve it?
Who will your solution address?
What levers do you need to pull?

Bodies and Buildings: April 8

The mindset or paradigm out of which the system – its goals, power structure, rules, its culture-arises.
Reading for next week:
Pick any of these architectural “facsicles” - they are delicious.
Assignment for next week to prepare for final concept presentation:
Concept source and exploration:
What part of the system of how we care for bodies, or how we make [...]

Bodies and Buildings: March 25

Most of the technological interventions in the global environment have focused on the supply side:
The availability of land (conservation)
The availability of fuel (gas crises, investment in clean tech)
The availability of greener products with greener materials (green product development/greenwashing)
In this class we focus on the demand side – making buildings so that they demand [...]

Bodies and Buildings Class 5: March 4

Midterm.
March 11: Guest Lecturer Sara Holoubek
March 18: Spring Break
March 25: Clean Tech Failures, Clean Tech Long Term View
For March 25th:
Reading: Why the Clean Tech Boom Went Bust by Juliet Eilperin, Wired
Assignment: In the same way we reviewed health apps for our first assignment, find an app, website, or some other technology service that gives an [...]

Data is Not a Business Model: Moving Knowledge to Action

Slides from the Strata talk. Thanks all for the lively twitter conversation.

Data is not a business model moving knowledge to action presentation from Jen van der Meer

Data is Not a Business Model

See you tomorrow at Strata SC:
Jen van der Meer (Luminary Labs)
9:35am Tuesday, 02/26/2013
Location: Ballroom CD
Big data does not necessarily lead to big business outcomes. It is a rare business leader who even asks the biggest questions of what big data can do.
Everyone is looking for ways to define data as an asset that can [...]

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