Breakout Conversations, Show&Tell Talks, Posters

The conference sessions are defined by attendees in advance of the conference, like a curated unconference. There will be breakout sessions, show&tell talks, and posters. We will keep posting them here as the date approaches.

Show&Tell Talks

Data Doesn’t Lie: Orgasm vs. Performance (Dave Asprey)
My 28-Hour Day Experiments (Joe Betts-LaCroix)
Accounting for Taste: Creating a Highly Reliable Palate (Toli Galanis)
Stress relief with a biofeedback game (Olivier Janin)
Quantified Awesome: Tracking Time, Clothes, Stuff, and Other Little Things (Sacha Chua)
To Sleep, Perchance to REM (Ariel Berwaldt)
QS+1 Lessons learned from assisting in trading FOREX currencies (Ewart de Visser)
World class performance through sleep quantification (Sky Christopherson)
Patterns of My Achy Breaky HRV Heart (Jo Beth Dow)
Tailored meals to keep me healthy (Jason Langheier)
Fitting mental models to a self-tracking life (Joost Plattel)
Debugging Life with Personal Analytics (Stefan Heeke)
Sleep and consciousness (Marcin Kowrygo)
Open.sen.se platform (Rafi Haladjian)
Using Sensor Patterns to Predict Depression or Addiction Relapse (Jan Peter Larsen)
Sleeping Together (Lisa and Joe Betts-LaCroix)

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Breakout Conversations

Heart Rate Variability 101 (Ronda Collier)
The brain and self-quantification, a bidirectional relationship (Matt Keener)
10^100: Making sense of all that data (David Ewing Duncan)
Biometric Yoga (Stuart Landsee)
Best Practices in Dataviz (Lee Lukehart)
Breath tracking – how and why (Danielle Roberts)
Using Kickstarter for QS projects (Jun Axup)
How to separate user feedback signal from noise and incorporate into product development (Nick Gammell)
Health Graph Hacking 101 (Bill Day)
Sleep and consciousness (Marcin Kowrygo)
QS Destroying the Hospital? (Maarten den Braber)
Using smartphone and behavioral data with ginger.io (Michael Nagle)
Cognitive Measurement (Jakob Larsen)
Medical data: Public resource, personal asset… or is there a third way? (Esther Dyson, John Wilbanks)
Manly Dieting (John LaPuma)
Building an open source, universal tracking platform (Erik Haukebo)
How to start and run a QS Show&Tell meetup group (Adam Butterfield)
Habit Design (Michael Kim)
Psychological and social-cultural consequences of QS going forward (Yuri van Geest)
Sleep Tracking (John Fass)
Using software to exercise your brain and grow focus (Dave Asprey)
Quantifying at Work (David Reeves)
pH tracking for learning about inflammation, sleep, and mental performance (Steve Fowkes)
What business models work for QS? (Erik Svenson)
Time management design (Michael Kotas)
Calming Technologies (Neema Moraveji and Steph Habif)

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If you have a personal self-tracking story to share or would like to lead a breakout discussion, please let us know.

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With thanks to our volunteers and supporters

Adam ButterfieldAlex Carmichael
Andreas StadlerApneet Jolly
Bill SchullerBo Adler
Bob KryczkoBrian Gallegos
Brie BungeBryan Campen
Ciaran LyonsDaniel Gartenberg
Denis HarscoatEri Gentry
Eric BoydErnesto Ramirez
Florian SchumacherFrank Chen
Gary WolfHind Hobeika
Hugo CamposIan Li
Ian StanczykIoan Mitrea
Jakob LarsenJohn Amschler
Joost PlattelJun Axup
Karen HerzogKevin Kelly
Loren RiskerMaarten den Braber
Marc HeldMarcia Seidler
Marcin KowrygoMaren Connary
Mark FrickMartin Suba
Michael NaglePaul Grasshoff
Rajiv MehtaPierre-Alexandre Fournier
Robin BarooahSimon Frid
Steven DeanYuri van Geest

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