John Werner

Athlete, Change Agent, Connector, Entrepreneur, Idea generator, Parent, Photographer, Public servant, Social entrepreneur, Technologist

This will be his 20th TED. John Werner has created a career out of bringing ideas, networks and people together to generate powerful results. John serves as Managing Director and Partner at Link Ventures, we are invest in late seed and early A consumer internet technology companies. We leverage big data to help them differentiate, scale, and become successful. Before Link, John was at a Y-Combinator augmented reality startup based in Silicon Valley. John also served as the Head of Innovation and New Ventures at the MIT's Camera Culture Group, and the Managing Director of Emerging Worlds SIG, where he led the launch of collaborative innovation centers in Mumbai, Nashik, and Hyderabad. John is the Founder Imagiantioninaction.co, TEDxBeaconStreet & TEDxMIT (whose talks have accumulated 100s of millions of views), of ARIA (community focused on the potential of augmented reality). John was also a founding member Citizen Schools, an advisor for Everquote, Vestigo Ventures, a Board member of Fort Ticondaroga, the Concussion Legacy Foundation, and The Unmasked Cancer board to benefit Dana Farber. He is a MIT Connection Science Fellow part of the MIT School of Engineering, a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a graduate of Hamilton College. John was recognized by Harvard Business Review for his leadership; by BostonInno in 2014 as a top 50 on Fire in Boston; Boston Chamber with a TOYL (Ten Outstanding Young Leaders) Award in 2006. John is a passionate photographer johnwernerphotography.com and an accomplished triathlete (qualified for the worlds and 4x nationals). John and his family live in Boston area.

Family. Biking. Venture. Photogrpahy.

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