Since the first World Happiness Summit® in 2017, our agenda has included dedicated sessions on how technology influences happiness and wellbeing. With the pace of innovation quickly accelerating and the age of AI upon us, it’s time for this vital conversation to have its own stage. Introducing the Tech for Good™, powered by WOHASU!
As AI and emerging technologies reshape our world at unprecedented speeds, a critical question stands before us: How can innovation best serve humanity?
Hosted at H-FARM, a one-of-a-kind 126-acre innovation campus just outside Venice, Italy. This event is where the science of wellbeing meets the frontier of technology. Join us for this important gathering at H-FARM, a visionary hub where innovation, entrepreneurship, education, and sustainability converge. This is a call to action for business leaders, technologists, entrepreneurs, ethicists, social scientists, educators, policymakers, and creatives to come together and build a human-centered digital future.
Explore how AI and technology can be harnessed to enhance our personal, professional, corporate, environmental, and societal wellbeing. Through inspiring sessions, we will examine how to use technology for good where human flourishing becomes the ultimate innovation.
Fred Luskin serves as Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on a variety of populations. The forgiveness project has successfully explored forgiveness therapy with people who suffered from the violence in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone as well as the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11.
In addition, Fred’s work has been successfully applied and researched in corporate, medical, legal and religious settings. He currently serves as a Senior Consultant in Health Promotion at Stanford University and is a Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He presents lectures, workshops, seminars and trainings on the importance, health benefits and training of forgiveness, stress management and emotional competence throughout the United States. He offers presentations and classes that range from one hour to ongoing weekly trainings.
Global Senior Brand Manager for Dove Masterbrand and lead for Ethical AI at Dove. She has driven the brand’s commitment to inclusivity and digital responsibility, most notably through the launch of The Code—a pioneering campaign that empowers creators to generate inclusive AI content using Dove’s Real Beauty Prompt Playbook—that earned a Cannes Lions Grand Prix in 2025.
Victoria’s work is driven by a deep understanding of how narrow and stereotypical beauty standards—especially those amplified by emerging technologies—impact women globally. In partnership with the Dove Self-Esteem Project, the world’s largest provider of body confidence education, she collaborates with leading experts to shape industry standards and drive transformative education.
Originally from South Africa, now living in London, Victoria brings strategic vision, empathy and purpose-led innovation to her role, helping Dove advance its mission to ensure women and girls everywhere feel confident in their own skin.
Laura Marciano is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University, Media School, in Bloomington and an associate at the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She leads research on digital media and teen well-being, including the HappyB projects and the Health and Happiness Study, using methods like Ecological Momentary Assessments, trace data, and digital biomarkers. She also directs a science communication project combining research with arts-based activities and serves on the board of the IBSA Foundation in Switzerland. Laura has authored over 45 publications, including the book Smartphone: Ally or Enemy?, and her work has been featured in the New York Times.
Tamara Lechner is a “people person” in the AI world—a leading expert in applying flourishing science to drive individual and cultural change that makes life and work measurably better. As Chair of the AI for Human Flourishing think tank within Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program and Head of Learning at the World Flourishing Organization, she’s on a mission to help 1 billion people flourish by 2035.
Tamara co-leads the IEEE team expanding global AI standards from well-being to flourishing, believing that compliance and policy can be be tools for advancing human potential. Her work helps organizations build data-driven, emotionally intelligent workplaces where humans and AI work in harmony to create extraordinary outcomes.
Tamara’s work signals a new era—one where AI is built to serve our highest human values and flourishing becomes the metric that matters most.
Sandro Formica, Ph.D., is the lead professor of the Hospitality Leadership major and the principal executive education trainer at Florida International University, specializing in Positive Organizational Behavior and Human Capital Development. He has designed, tested, and implemented Positive Organizational Interventions (POIs) to help companies in the U.S. and internationally enhance performance, trust, engagement, belonging, and teamwork in a sustainable way.
He is also the creator of the H+AI FLOW™ methodology, a practical framework that helps organizations thrive by aligning human potential and emotional agility with the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence.
Sandro has trained executives and entrepreneurs across a wide range of industries—including logistics, energy, manufacturing, hospitality, and human resources—for companies such as DHL, Philip Morris, Accor, Manpower Group, and LVMH. As a keynote speaker, he has delivered talks to leading organizations including PwC, Illy Caffè, Forbes, and Expedia.
Karen Guggenheim is a pioneer in the global happiness movement and a leading voice in promoting the science and practice of wellbeing. She is the founder and CEO of WOHASU®, and the visionary behind the World Happiness Summit®—recognized by Forbes as one of the “Top 5 Leadership Summits in the World.” Since its launch in 2016, WOHASU has grown into a global movement uniting thought leaders, expanding transformational ideas, providing training, and increasing social connection across cultures and industries.
After experiencing a profound personal loss, Karen made the life-changing decision to dedicate her work to creating a legacy rooted in wellbeing and purpose. That choice led her to become an unexpected entrepreneur, founding WOHASU in 2016 to launch the first World Happiness Summit. Today, WOHASU’s in-person events have reached thousands of attendees from over 80 countries.
Karen creates transformative experiences that blend evidence-based science, storytelling, and community building. She works with multinational corporations, nonprofits, and school systems to embed wellbeing into leadership, culture, and education.
In 20225, Karen created the Tech for Good™ Human Flourishing in the AI Era to add to WOHASU’s Summit Collection and expand on its mission to expand the ripples of the science wellbeing.
She spearheaded the WOHASU® Wellbeing Leadership Certification, a groundbreaking initiative launched in the third-largest public school district in the U.S., reaching over 400,000 students and 34,000 employees. The program equips leaders with practical tools to reduce burnout, increase engagement, and build happier, more resilient schools.
Karen is also the founder of the WOHASU Wellbeing Foundation, a nonprofit focused on systemic change. Through the foundation, she created the World Wellbeing Policy Forum, an international platform to elevate the conversation on the economics and public policy of wellbeing in business, education, and government.
She is the author of Cultivating Happiness: Overcome Trauma and Positively Transform Your Life, a TEDx speaker, a board member of the World Wellbeing Movement, and an advisory board member of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA).
Karen holds an MBA from Georgetown University. Her work has been featured in CNN, CNN en español, The Financial Times, The Telegraph, BBC, Univision, Forbes, Fast Company, and other global media. She lives in Miami and speaks internationally in both English and Spanish.
H-FARM
Host Partner
The Big Hall
Main Stage
La Serra
VIP Dinning
H-FARM, was founded in 2005 with a generational purpose: to empower young minds and foster their potential, connecting people and ideas in ecosystems that nurture creativity, cultivate talent, and spark ripple effects.
Their founder, Riccardo Donadon, is one of the most renowned Italian digital entrepreneurs. He created Italy’s first e-commerce platform, Mall Italy Lab, and its first web agency, E-TREE. From its cutting-edge facilities like the Big Hall designed by Pritzker award winning architect Lord Richard Rogers to its mission-driven culture, H-FARM is an ideal setting for this launch.
Located just 10 minutes from the Venice Airport, H-FARM is the only campus in Europe where education, innovation, and startups converge; it is an ecosystem of progress, built by humans for humans.
Move Hotels Venezia Nord (4 Star Hotel)
voco Venice Mestre – the Quid, an IHG Hotel (4 Star Hotel)
Hotel NH Venezia Laguna Palace (4 Star Hotel)
We look forward to seeing you! Please contact us if you have any questions at contact@wohasu.com
**All tickets are non-refundable. Tickets can be transferred to another attendee a week before the Event.
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***** Event will have multi-colored moving projections with lights and sounds.
****** Agenda subject to change.