John Werner
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John Kellogg Werner April 12, 1970 New York City, US |
| Residence | Boston, US |
| Alma mater | Harvard University, Hamilton College, Trinity School (New York City) |
| Occupation | VP of Strategic Partnerships, Meta. Head of Innovations and New Ventures, Camera Culture Group, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA, USA. |
| Board member of | President, Hamilton College Boston Alumni Association. Founder, AR in Action |
| Spouse(s) | Erika Alavarez (m. 2001) |
| Children | Javier Sidney Werner Lucia Dora Werner Mateo Kellogg Werner |
| Website | http://web.media.mit.edu/~jwerner/, http://www.johnwernerphotography.com/ |
John Werner is the founder of Ideas in Action, Inc. (IIA) and the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, Meta, He is also founding managing director for MIT Media Lab's Emerging Worlds Special Interest Group (SIG), and former Head of Innovation and New Ventures for the Camera Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab for Ramesh Raskar, director of the Camera Culture Group at MIT Media Lab. He is one of the founding members of the non-profit organization Citizen Schools (founded in 1995) and the curator of TEDxBeaconStreet, an independent event licensed by TED as part of TEDx. He started first ever 'AR-in-Action Augmented Reality Confernece' at MIT Media Lab in January 2017
Werner was born in 1970 in New York City. His father John F. Werner is the chief clerk and CEO of the Supreme Court in New York County, and his mother Laura A. Werner is the Assistant Attorney General in New York State. His brother, Jeffrey Werner, is the Deputy General Counsel for the New York City Mayor's Office of Management and Budget. His sister, Margaret DeVoe, is a Senior Counsel at New York City Law Department.
Werner attended school at the Trinity School NYC for 13 years where he was a class Senator, and a multi-year Varsity Letter earner for Cross Country, Swimming (Co-Captain) and Lacrosse. He was awarded the Holden Cup, the honor for top athlete in the Senior Class at Trinity.
Werner received a degree from Hamilton College (New York) in 1992. He also co-organized the Hamilton's successful campaign to set a Guinness record for the most people swimming in a 24-hour relay, setting the record at 1:42 AM on April 8, 1989.
In 2008, Werner was recipient of the Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
In 1988, Werner gained notability at Hamilton when, as a first-year student, he organized the first ever successful completion of a class-wide challenge issued yearly by Dan Chambliss, Professor of Sociology: If no one in his course showed up for the final exam, all of them would receive an A on it. But, if even one student took it, anyone who didn’t would receive a zero. A variation on the prisoner's dilemma, Chambliss said. "And I think the only reason that it happened was that [Werner] was totally committed to making it happen." After obtaining a roster for both sections of the course from the Registrar, Werner created a "contract" for students to sign and showed up "ready to tackle anyone who tried to go in." Seven students waited outside the testing room, hedging their bets in case anyone broke ranks, but none did. All students in Sociology 101 received A's on their final exams that year. This was a defining experience for Werner; "After I organized this, I began to believe I could organize anything,". Professor Chambliss did not offer the challenge again.
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