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 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, FERTI·LILY, Prosoma, 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 July event - Mental Health - Beyond Anxiety and Depression

According to WHO, in 2019, 1 in every 8 people, or 970 million people around the world were living with a mental disorder (anxiety and depressive disorders being the most common). In 2020, the number of people living with anxiety and depressive disorders rose significantly because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Initial estimates show a 26% and 28% increase respectively for anxiety and major depressive disorders in just one year.

Although the conversation around anxiety and depression has started, it is still not enough. Mental health goes beyond anxiety and depression. Stigmatizing bipolar disorder, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, schizophrenia, eating disorders, disruptive behaviour and dissocial disorders, burnout and neurodevelopmental disorders, prevent those in need to seek support and help.

Join us to learn more about mental health beyond anxiety and depression, and hear from our brilliant speakers and the amazing work they’re doing in order to improve mental health care and research worldwide.

SPEAKERS

Emanuela Kufel, co-founder of Prosoma

Emanuela Kufel is a co-founder of Prosoma. She is passionate about digital healthcare and improving standards and solutions for mental health care worldwide. She is also an experienced communications leader, with a history of working with the NHS and the NIHR. Seeing the challenges of providing good coverage for mental health she is now an advocate for change. At Prosoma, she's leading business development for the UK market.

Prosoma is an interdisciplinary team of entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, and psychologists. They develop applications that provide cancer patients with comprehensive solutions fully tailored to their specific needs. They use the latest developments in AI and new opportunities offered by mobile technologies. Their first application, Living Well, was developed to help support the mental health of female cancer patients. It is here to see them through the difficult time post-diagnosis and fill the gap in the often failing system of mental health care. Prosoma aims to help patients manage their emotions, create healthy habits, and improve their overall recovery process.

Jacqueline Brassey (PhD, MAfN), McKinsey’s Chief Scientist, Director of Research Science People & Organization Performance and a Senior Expert at the McKinsey Health Institute

Jacqueline Brassey (PhD, MAfN) is McKinsey’s Chief Scientist and Director of Research Science in the area of People & Organizational Performance and an affiliated leader of the McKinsey Health Institute. Furthermore, she is a researcher at VU Amsterdam, founder and leader of the Lab for Sustainable Human Development and Performance and an Adjunct Professor at IE University in Spain. She serves as a supervisory board member of Save the Children and as an advisory board member of the Master in L&D in Organisations at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

Jacqui has more than twenty years of experience in business and academia and spent most of her career before joining McKinsey & Company at Unilever, both in the Netherlands and in the United Kingdom. Jacqui holds degrees in both organisation and business sciences, as well as in medical sciences. She has a bachelor’s in international business and languages from Avans University of Applied Sciences, a cum laude bachelor’s and master’s in policy and organisation sciences from Tilburg University, a PhD in economics and business from Groningen University and a joint master’s in affective neuroscience from Maastricht University and the University of Florence. She has (co-)authored and presented more than fifty articles, books, podcasts, and scientific papers.

She has worked and lived in five different countries, loves running, hiking, and a good glass of wine, and currently lives with her South African/Dutch family in Luxembourg.

Lauren Sumrell, Vice President Clinical Operations at Sesh

Lauren Sumrell is a Vice President Clinical Operations at Sesh. Lauren is a healthcare executive with experience spanning the IT, insurance and operations verticals. She worked in the telehealth space at Teladoc Health for the last 5 years with accountabilities for urgent care, dermatology, mental health, nutrition, and now group support service lines at Sesh. Sesh is on a mission to bring group support to everyone and Lauren's unique capabilities will help Sesh reach new heights.

Lauren’s ability to simultaneously lead large teams and organize the nuances of virtual care can be observed via the multi-million dollar cost-saving projects implemented by her teams to increase efficiency, improve member satisfaction and grow provider engagement. Lauren describes herself as a problem-solver and finds energy working with diverse teams to be innovative and thoughtful in providing the best care to those in need.

Dr Rob Baskind, Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Rob Baskind has been a consultant psychiatrist since 2008. He has a wealth of experience working in community mental health, acute day hospitals, and prison mental health. In 2011 he developed and became clinically lead of the Leeds NHS Adult ADHD service, which he continued until June 2022.

Rob has provided training and education nationally about ADHD to health professionals and criminal justice staff particularly, and also contributed to several mainstream media articles and interviews about ADHD, He has also been involved in multicentre research.

Rob continued to be very passionate about raising awareness, educating, and exploring new and innovative interventions and ways of working with ADHD.

AGENDA

(*All time slots are BST)

4 pm - Opening words by organising team

4:10 pm - Company introduction - presentation delivered by Emanuela Kufel, co-founder of Prosoma

4:20 pm - Company introduction - presentation delivered by Jacqueline Brassey (PhD, MAfN), McKinsey’s Chief Scientist, Director of Research Science People & Organization Performance and a Senior Expert at the McKinsey Health Institute

4:30 pm - Company introduction - presentation delivered by Lauren Sumrell, Vice President Clinical Operations at Sesh

4:40 pm - Company introduction - presentation delivered by Dr Rob Baskind, Consultant Psychiatrist

4:50 pm - Panel discussion

5:30 pm - Q&As

6:00 pm - Closing words by the organising team

Book ticket

About our partners and sponsors

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.

Webinar partner

Prosoma

Prosoma is an interdisciplinary team of entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, and psychologists. They develop applications that provide cancer patients with comprehensive solutions fully tailored to their specific needs. They use the latest developments in AI and new opportunities offered by mobile technologies. Their first application, Living Well, was developed to help support the mental health of female cancer patients. It is here to see them through the difficult time post-diagnosis and fill the gap in the often failing system of mental health care. Prosoma aims to help patients manage their emotions, create healthy habits, and improve their overall recovery process.

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!