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 is 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 the 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, to male contraception and 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 and many more.

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

Find out more about the program

Our May event - Redefining sexual healthcare and wellness

Sexual health is fundamental to the overall health and well-being of individuals, couples and families, and to the social and economic development of communities and countries, as stated by WHO.

It is a big business opportunity as well. According to Statista, the size of the sexual wellness market will be 37.2 billion U.S. dollars next year.

In 2022, however, sexual health and wellness are still stigmatized, covered in shame and taboo. Sexual health education, data gap related to female pleasure, and lack of research related to women’s health are some of the main reasons many sexual health and wellness startups exist and build their innovative products around.

Join us for another FemTech Untapped event and meet some of the most innovative companies working tirelessly to give women the help and support they deserve.

Our speakers

Johanna Rief, Global Director of Public Relations & Head of Sexual Empowerment at Lovehoney Group

Johanna Rief is Global Director of Public Relations & Head of Sexual Empowerment at Lovehoney Group. She leads a 20-member team and is responsible for the Group's corporate communications and brand communications in 16 markets and celebrity partnerships.

Lovehoney Group develops and markets premium sexual wellness products, lingerie, and accessories and is the world's leading sexual-wellbeing company with over 800 employees in 10 offices valued at $1.2 billion, created by the Lovehoney and WOW Tech merger in the summer of 2021. Award-winning and innovative brands such as Womanizer, We-Vibe, and Lovehoney have revolutionized the industry and established a new standard for pleasure products. The company's mission is to lead the world's pursuit of sexual happiness and empower people worldwide.

Johanna has been working in the industry for over eight years, five at (now) Lovehoney Group, starting as the fourth full-time employee for Womanizer in 2017. Before that, she built up the communication and social media department for a well-known, Berlin-based retailer for sexual wellness products.

In her role as Head of Sexual Empowerment, Johanna, amongst other things, regularly works with the company’s experts who are therapists, doctors, and coaches from all over the world. She reads and analyzes sexuality trends and studies to help initiate well-founded dialogues with members of the media, product testers, and the general public, reducing resentment and strengthening an enlightened discourse for self-determined sexuality.

Born and raised in Austria, Johanna completed a Bachelor's Degree in Management & Law. During an internship at a PR agency, she discovered her passion for the profession. To end her academic career, Johanna completed a part-time MBA program in 2019 focusing on Communication & Leadership.

Daphne Chen, co-CEO and co-founder of TBD Health

Daphne Chen is co-CEO and co-founder of TBD Health, a sexual healthcare platform that empowers women and people with vaginas with the care that affirms and supports, instead of stigmatizes. Prior to TBD, Daphne was a senior product leader at Amazon, where she built consumer products for Alexa from the ground up. She holds a BA from Princeton and an MBA from Wharton.

TBD Health is an in-person and virtual healthcare platform that is redefining sexual healthcare for the 90 million sexually active women/people with vaginas in the US. For too long, they've faced stigma and a fractured healthcare system where care is often inaccessible, unaffordable, and confusing to navigate. TBD is changing that via validated protocols, seamless tech, and a clinician team that is sex-positive, sensitivity-trained, and trauma-aware. TBD's virtual testing is available in 6 states and launched its first in-person Care Hub in Las Vegas this January. TBD's investors include Tusk Ventures, Human Ventures, and several industry leaders.

Rebecca Sternberg, Co-Founder of Aquafit Intimate

Rebecca Sternberg is co-founder of Aquafit Intimate a sexual wellness self-care early-stage company that develops products and services to support pain-free intimacy for women of all ages.

Rebecca graduated from Harvard University (BA) and Rice University (MArch) and has 25+ years of experience in innovation, strategy, design thinking, usability, media, and architecture. Rebecca is an educator and senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University GMBA impact Entrepreneurship.

AGENDA

(*All time slots are BST)

4 pm - Opening words by organising team

4:10 pm - Company introduction - presentation delivered by Johanna Rief, Global Director of Public Relations & Head of Sexual Empowerment at Lovehoney Group

4:20 pm - Company introduction - presentation delivered by Daphne Chen, co-CEO and co-founder of TBD Health

4:30 pm - Company introduction - presentation delivered by Rebecca Sternberg, Co-Founder of Aquafit Intimate

4:40 pm - Panel discussion

5:30 pm - Q&As

6:00 pm - Closing words by the organising team

Book ticket

About our partners and sponsors

Webinar partner

The Lovehoney Group is one of the world's leading companies in the sexual wellness industry and a provider of premium intimate products for your love life. Its mission is to promote sexual happiness and empowerment through design innovation, research & development, and great customer service. The company houses many award-winning brands including Womanizer, We-Vibe, Fifty Shades of Grey, Arcwave, and Happy Rabbit. The Lovehoney Group was formed in 2021, when Lovehoney, Amorana, and WOW Tech joined forces under the leadership of CEO Johannes Plettenberg. The Group employs more than 780 employees in ten offices all over the world. The estimated revenue for 2021 is over $400 million.

Program partners

FemTec Health

Founded in May 2020 by Dr. Kimon Angelides and publicly launched in October 2021, FemTec Health is the leading Health and Beauty Sciences Company focused on using technology and data to transform the total healthcare experience for women in every stage of their life cycle. Areas of focus include specialty care, wellness and prevention, reproductive care, sexual wellness, mental health, chronic care, and beyond. Angelides has brought together A female-led team with decades of experience across healthcare, wellness, and consumer products in public and private companies. FemTech Health’s mission is to revolutionize women’s healthcare by using state-of-the-art genomics, predictive intelligence, and digital technologies to create an experience that is unified, coordinated, and provides personalized services and products based on every woman's unique needs. FemTec Health currently has offices in Houston, New York, San Diego, London, Barcelona, Athens & Shanghai.

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.

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 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 / Facebook.

➡️ Join our femtech group on LinkedIn.

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