Mindful Makers Hack #8 - Personalization for Mindfulness & AI: Developing our DataVault
🧘♀️ Mindful Makers Hack #8 - Personalization for Mindfulness & AI: Developing our DataVault
This Saturday, March 14th, Mindful Makers is hosting an AI Personalization Hack 🧘♂️🤖
We're joined by Andy Russell, founder of QEDHealth.AI, who's spent decades at the intersection of behavioral science, data, and human psychology — and has pivoted that expertise toward something more meaningful: AI that genuinely serves your wellbeing.
The theme is AI that knows you — building personalized experiences for mindfulness and wellbeing that put you in control of your own data and how it's used.
We'll open the day with meditation together, then explore and build around:
How can we share our data with mindfulness-oriented tools without giving up broad access?
How can we store our data somewhere secure and trusted?
How can we build an open-source, community-driven solution that puts trust first?
Our goal is to build together the open-source system for trustable personalization of AI.
We'll spend the day designing and building apps, websites, and tools that promote mindfulness in everyday life. Our belief is simple: technology can deepen presence, connection, and well-being.
To test our creations, we'll use them ourselves in the days that follow — and see if they truly cultivate ease, warmth, spaciousness, generosity, and connection.
💡 Who Should Join
Meditators: Some experience with meditation is encouraged (occasional dabblers are welcome!).
Non-coders welcome: You don't need to be a programmer — we'll keep a balanced ratio of coders to non-coders (~1:1) so everyone can contribute meaningfully (laptop required)
🌐 See: mindfulmakers.xyz for more details.
🗓️ Schedule
9:45 AM — Breakfast
10:00 – 10:30 AM — Welcome + Overview.
10:30 – 10:45 AM — Group meditation
10:45 – 11:15 AM — Idea brainstorming
11:15 AM – 1:30 PM — Make!
1:30 PM — Lunch & Check-in
1:30 – 6:30 PM — Keep making!
6:30 PM — Wind-down exercise
6:35 PM – 7:30 PM — Group presentations
📍 MIT, Location announced closer to date