Over the last two years, we organized and hosted three major global conferences: FemTech Forum, Health Tech 2.0, and Investing & Fundraising in HealthTech and FemTech.

This year, we decided to do something different.

Why FemTech Untapped?

In 2022, we are committed to opening the conversation around the topics in FemTech that are still taboo, areas that are untapped, underresearched, and underfunded.

Over the past few years, the term FemTech has become a buzzword, and women’s health, today more than ever, has been getting the recognition and visibility it deserves. But, this is still not enough for the healthcare industry to be more inclusive, and more innovation, disruption, and funding are still needed in some other areas such as cardiovascular health or mental health. Female health is not just reproductive health, and unless we start treating it as such, especially if we don’t see it as a part of a larger public health discussion, things won’t move at the right speed in the right direction for many more years.

That’s why this year we are bringing you a series of events, educational panels, blogs, and interviews with industry leaders, founders, clinicians, organizations, and investors every month throughout the year, with a focus on some of the most important topics in the femtech space, featuring some of the most innovative companies in this industry.

Join us every month for a series of events and educational content where we will cover topics from diversity and inclusion in the femtech space, to innovations in menstrual, mental, gut, and cardiovascular health, male contraception, baby tech, and everything in between.

This program will be delivered in partnership with our program partners FemTec Health and Goodwin, as well as our webinar partners ByHeart, Biote, Lovehoney Group, Elix Healing, FERTI·LILY, Prosoma, CVS Health, Joylux, Amulet, Kinneir Dufort, and many more.

Together, we can all work towards femtech innovation and support being more accessible and inclusive!

Find out more about the program

Our December event - FemTech 2023 and Beyond - What’s Next?

As the year comes to an end, as well as our FemTech Untapped program, we wanted to celebrate and highlight all the trailblazing leaders in FemTech and HealthTech who are improving the health and lives of so many with their innovative solutions and products.

Join us for a celebratory panel discussion “FemTech in 2023 and beyond - What’s next?” on December 1 to hear and learn from some of those leaders and to get your questions answered!

SPEAKERS

Merle Hall, CEO of Kinneir Dufort

Merle is CEO of Kinneir Dufort (KD), a global innovation, design and development consultancy, creating positive impact products and services, that align with their purpose of designing a better world. Merle is an expert in strategy and innovation and founder of KD’s XXEquals, a team of innovators, designers, engineers, and makers delivering healthcare and wellness products and experiences tuned to women's needs, closing the gap between perception and reality when designing for women. She is also a board member of Kerning the Gap and partners with further STEM and diversity programmes, to create an equitable next generation of innovators, designers, and engineers.

Adonica Shaw, founder and CEO of Wingwomen

As the founder and CEO of Wingwomen, Adonica is a powerful voice for women who are navigating stress and burnout while navigating ups and downs in their health. She created the women's health social network after surviving a "Code Blue" Eclamptic Crisis just 3 days postpartum and went on to create the inaugural and internationally recognized Parental Mental Health Awareness Week, to heighten awareness of the importance of mental health for parents who are also navigating their health journey, be it reproductive health, fertility, pregnancy-related. As a health advocate, she serves as a Mental Health Subject Matter Expert for the Conscious Inclusion Company. And she is known for her work as both a Patient Advocate for the Preeclampsia Foundation and Momma’s Voices.

Gloria Kolb, Co-Founder of Elidah

Gloria Kolb is the Co-Founder of Elidah, maker of ELITONE which is the first non-invasive wearable treatment for millions of US women with incontinence. ELITONE was developed almost entirely on grant funding and launched in 2019 to win Best New Product of the Year by a leading aesthetics industry association. Gloria is a serial entrepreneur and inventor with more than 25 patents, whose designs have led to prestigious awards including Boston’s “40 under 40”, MIT Technology Review’s “World’s Top Innovators under 35”, and Fortune Small Business’ 14 Hot Startups. She earned Engineering degrees from MIT and Stanford University, and an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Babson College. Her engineering and commercialization experience is a successful combination for driving product innovation.

AGENDA

(*All time slots are GMT)

4 pm - Opening words by organising team

4:10 pm - '200 trailblazing leaders in Women's Health and FemTech' list reveal

4:20 pm - Panel discussion

5:00 pm - Q&As

5:30 pm - Closing words by the organising team

Book ticket

About our partners and sponsors

Program partners

Goodwin

Goodwin partners with clients to practice law with integrity, ingenuity, agility, and ambition. Their 1,600 lawyers across the United States, Europe, and Asia excel at complex transactions, high-stakes litigation, and world-class advisory services in the technology, life sciences, healthcare, private equity, real estate, and financial industries. Goodwin’s extensive experience and knowledge of the women’s health and wellness industry coupled with their deep industry contacts helps them to foster relationships between their clients and stakeholders to provide them with full-service legal offerings. From intellectual property to regulatory and from structuring capital raises to IPOs, they advise clients at all stages of the company lifecycle.

Webinar partner

Kinneir Dufort is a user-centered innovation and product development consultancy, collectively driven to Design a Better World by creating impactful change and positive outcomes for clients and the user. Combining creative, technical, and user-experience expertise, Kinneir Dufort works collaboratively, to define, create, develop and deliver high-quality products and experiences across the medical, consumer, and industrial sectors.

About Women of Wearables

Women of Wearables (WoW) is a leading global organization and ecosystem aiming to connect and support women and allies in wearable tech, health tech, and femtech, as well as educate them about the latest innovations in the world of emerging technologies. With headquarters in London (UK) and more than 20,000 members located around the globe, WoW has become a global movement that supports its growing community through events, mentorship, educational programs, and collaboration with its network of local collaborators and partners. Our members are startup founders, designers, technologists, industry experts, researchers, bloggers, journalists, investors, and many more.

Our community is open to anyone who is affiliated with and interested in emerging technologies and is not just for professional women, but for anyone with an interest in wearable technology and providing women with a platform for growth.

HOW TO JOIN US

➡️ Become a WoW member to learn from and connect with our community of entrepreneurs, designers, and technologists, leverage valuable resources, and discover career and business opportunities! By joining, you’ll get the opportunity to promote your company at one of the leading global organizations for women in tech, advertise in our newsletter and collaborate with us for our webinars, conferences, and content.

➡️ Follow us on Twitter / LinkedIn / Instagram.

➡️ Join our femtech group on LinkedIn.

➡️ Get in touch if you’d like to become our partner!