How are health & fitness being gamified? Does it work?

There are three aspects of gamifying health & fitness that are particularly powerful at the moment:

1. Personal Dashboards for individuals, i.e. fitness trackers like FitBit, JawBone, Apple Watch and Nike+ feedback on your fitness activities & health which enables you to make more accurate decisions about your lifestyle.

2. Corporate gamified health solutions, such as Keas, impacting thousands of employees beneficially at once:

3. Games with beneficial health effects such as Zombies, Run! and Superbetter (Jane McGonigal: www.superbetter.com)

We have an action packed agenda for you:

1830 – 1840 Arrival and drink

1840 – 1845 Introduction by Pete Jenkins (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jenkinspete), Chair of GamFed (http://gamfed.com) & Founder of GAMIFICATION+ LTD (http://gamificationplus.uk).

1845 – 1900 Dr Peter Watt (https://www.meetup.com/Brighton-Gamification-Meetup/pages/Speaker%3A_Dr_Peter_Watt%2C_Reader_at_SESAME), SESAME (Centre for Sport & Exercise Science & Medicine)

Talk: Losing the weight or the weighing

1900 – 1910 Khody Damestani (https://www.meetup.com/Brighton-Gamification-Meetup/pages/Speaker%3A_Khody_Damestani%2C_Founder_of_MyMaxMe), Head of Product Development at mymaxme.net & Lecturer in behaviour change and peak performance at Surrey University

Talk: Building Mental Strength

1910 – 1935 Paul Nuki (https://www.meetup.com/Brighton-Gamification-Meetup/pages/Speaker%3A_Paul_Nuki%2C_CEO_of_StepJockey), CEO of StepJockey

Talk: Gamification in health: how to engage and motivate

1935 – 2005 Toby Beresford (https://www.meetup.com/Brighton-Gamification-Meetup/pages/Speaker%3A_Toby_Beresford%2C_CEO_of_Rise_Global), CEO of Rise Global

Talk: Personal Dashboards

2005 – 2015 Kelvin Newman (https://www.meetup.com/Brighton-Gamification-Meetup/pages/Speaker%3A_Kelvin_Newman%2C_organiser_of_Brighton_SEO), Organiser of Brighton SEO / Rough Agenda

Talk: Love/Hate/Gamify

To Be Confirmed: Naomi Alderman (https://www.meetup.com/Brighton-Gamification-Meetup/pages/TBC_Speaker%3A_Naomi_Alderman) author & story writer for Zombies, Run!

2015 – 2030 Mingle and finish off the free drinks

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We're really pleased to say that Posture People (http://www.posturepeople.co.uk/) are our lead sponsor for this event (thank them for the drinks when you see them) and that 68 Middle Street (http://68middle.st/) have sponsored the venue (thank them for having somewhere to have your drink).

Come along and learn from our great speakers. Bring your fitness wearable and share tips with each other about how to make the most of using them too.