SexTech and Sexual Wellness - What’s Next?
Join us for our webinar in October where we will discuss SexTech, Sexual Health and Wellbeing, and the rise of new products in this space!
Sex. Everybody does it. It cannot be a taboo. It is time to put aside the prejudice, normalize the conversations happening around sexual wellness and pleasure, and learn how some technology-driven solutions can disrupt the areas of human sexuality, experience, and self-care. Sexual wellness market is an industry expected to grow to $122.96 billion by 2026, according to the market research company Stratistics, and we’re excited to witness this growth and watch what is yet to come.
Join us for this free webinar in partnership with LELO, in which we will cover a wide range of topics, including:
What can we all do to break the stigma and drive conversations that normalize sexual wellness and pleasure?
Sex toys as a part of self-care
What it’s like to run a sexual wellness company and how do you reach your consumer and tailor your marketing strategy while facing ad bans?
Sexual wellness in venture capital - is it still a taboo?
The importance of sex education
The rise of innovative companies in this space and the key trends we’re about to witness
Join us virtually and make sure to prepare your questions for our panelists! Those who have registered for the webinar will receive a link for a video call two days prior to the event.
AGENDA
6:30 - Webinar starts
6.30 - 6.35 - Women of Wearables - 5-minute presentation
6.35 - 6.45 - LELO - 5-minute presentation
6.45 - 8.00 - Panel discussion + Q&A
8.00 - Webinar finishes
Meet our panelists:
Farah Kabir, co-founder of HANX
Farah Kabir is the co-founder of HANX and registered chartered accountant. She began her career in investment banking before focusing her talents on building a considered sexual wellness brand that puts people first. She is passionate about smashing taboos around sex, pleasure and intimate health, while empowering people to own their sexuality. HANX is the UK’s leading female sexual health brand, created for women by women. Founded in 2017 by Farah Kabir and Sarah Welsh, HANX’s mission is to smash the ongoing stigmas surrounding female sexuality and encourage women to take ownership of their sexual wellness.
Frances Tang, founder of Awkward Essentials
Frances is the founder/Captain Awkward/CEO of Awkward Essentials, a company that makes products that address the unspoken parts of hygiene. She is also the inventor of come&gone - an after-sex cleanup sponge. With a background ranging from hula dancing to baking to wedding photography, she never intended to build a company around post-sex cleanup. However, after accidentally launching in the UK a month before she got married, Frances built one anyway. She’s also a super cheerleader for fearlessness, trying new hobbies, and ice cream.
Sara Kranjcec Jukic, Global Brand Manager at LELO
Sara Kranjcec Jukic is the Global Brand Manager in charge of campaigns at LELO. She started her journey in 2015, in a small PR agency working with high-end fashion brands, then made the shift into digital marketing in 2017 which turned out to be one of the best decisions of her professional life, even though it didn’t seem that way in the beginning. Sara suffers from the unfortunate juxtaposition of being an idealist and a cynic which made her career path much harder, but also a lot more fun. With degrees in Journalism, Public Relations, and Ancient Latin, Sara never expected to land at LELO, even though, funnily enough, she once applied for an open position in their then-Communications Department in 2016 out of sheer curiosity. Three years later, she started as LELO’s Global PR Manager as a part of their newly formed global headquarters. Sara is passionate about womxn empowerment and the destigmatization of sexual pleasure, the two things that are, in her opinion, intertwined, and it’s her ambition (and pleasure) to turn LELO into the brand that once again leads those conversations.
Melanie Cristol, founder and CEO of Lorals
Melanie Cristol is an entrepreneur and lawyer based in Los Angeles, California. Melanie is the founder and CEO of Brazen Goods Inc., a company that launches unique technologies to improve health, happiness, and personal relationships. As the founder of Brazen Goods and creator of the company’s product Lorals, Melanie has been interviewed by The New York Times, Fast Company, Cosmopolitan, and The American Lawyer, and she has been featured in various media outlets speaking about tech, manufacturing, and sexual health. Melanie founded Brazen Goods after spending five years as an attorney at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, an international law firm.
Bryony Cole, host of ‘Future of Sex’ podcast and founder of Sextech School
As the world’s leading authority on sextech, Bryony Cole is fascinated by the way technology permeates every corner of our lives, even the most intimate ones. Since launching the top-rated podcast Future of Sex, Bryony has been on stages across the world forecasting trends in the sextech industry for governments, tech titans and entertainment companies.+ Her global sextech ‘Hackathons’ and recently launched Sextech School are the only industry programs of their kind designed to help entrepreneurs accelerate careers in the sextech industry.
*This event is organised by Women of Wearables in partnership with LELO.
About our partners:
LELO strives to grow out of the confines of a sex toy brand and into a self-care movement aimed at those who know that satisfaction transcends gender, sexual orientation, race, and age. LELO is offering the experience of ecstasy without shame, the pleasure of discovering all the wonders of one’s body, thus facilitating their customers with confidence, that leads to a fulfilled intimate life. LELOi AB is the Swedish company behind LELO, where offices extend from Stockholm to San Jose, from Sydney to Shanghai.
ABOUT Women of Wearables:
Women of Wearables (WoW) is a leading global organisation aiming to inspire, connect and support women and diverse founders and technologists in wearable tech, fashion tech, smart textiles, IoT, health tech and VR/AR. 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. Become a member and join our community!