Wearables & Healthcare: Female Founders Stories
We brought together five female founders to discuss the latest innovations and trends in this space, and share their business stories. During this webinar, we will cover a range of topics including:
Innovative next-generation solutions and products disrupting this space;
Building hardware (and software) products - do’s and dont’s;
Fundraising and getting investment for hardware products;
R&D, product development, prototyping, and manufacturing;
Product-market fit and how to find your niche;
What kind of support is available for businesses in this space?
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.
This event is organised by Women of Wearables in partnership with RS Components.
ABOUT OUR PARTNERS:
For over 80 years, RS Components has been providing products and solutions to engineers, making it easy for our customers to do business and saving them time and money. Today, they are a global omnichannel solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers who are involved in designing, building, or maintaining industrial equipment and facilities. They aim to offer our customers an unrivaled choice of product technologies, solve problems with innovative solutions, and deliver a world-class customer experience. They stock more than 500,000 industrial and electronic products, sourced from over 2,500 leading suppliers, and provide a wide range of value-added solutions to over one million customers. With operations in 32 countries, they trade through multiple channels and ship over 50,000 parcels a day.
Grass Roots is the dedicated Engineering & Technology Youth Empowerment Team at RS Components, which aims to develop and support students across the globe to help bridge the gap between University & the workplace.
AGENDA
6:30 - Webinar starts
6.30 - 6.35 - Women of Wearables - 5-minute presentation
6.35 - 6.45 - RS Components - 10-minute presentation
6.45 - 8.00 - Panel discussion + Q&A
8.00 - Webinar finishes
Meet our panelists:
Abi Barnes, Co-Founder & CEO of Allergy Amulet
Abi Barnes is the co-founder & CEO of Allergy Amulet. Abi is an attorney, author, and lifelong food allergy, sufferer. She was named to Business Insider’s 2019 Top 100 Coolest People in Food & Drink. Her work has been published in several well-known periodicals and journals, including Forbes and The Atlantic, and her research has been featured in The Economist. Abi authored two guidebooks on corporate social responsibility, published by Patagonia & Yale. She holds advanced degrees from Vermont Law School and Yale University and is the co-inventor of one issued patent. Abi is committed to making the world a safer place for the food allergy community and using business as a force for good.
Elizabeth Gazda, CEO of Embr Labs
Elizabeth is the CEO of Embr Labs, a Boston-based wearables company that developed the Embr Wave – a wrist-worn, personal thermostat that improves sleep, relieves anxiety, and helps with hot flashes. Prior to Embr Labs, Liz was a member of several founding teams including Doni, a fintech company, and Noteflight, a music technology company and has also worked at a number of Boston’s fastest-growing companies, including m-Qube (acq. Verisign) and unicorn Art Technology Group (acq. Oracle). Liz began her career with Philips Consumer Electronics in the Netherlands Elizabeth received her undergraduate degree in Anthropology and International relations from UC Berkeley where she was also a member of the Women’s Varsity Soccer team. She also holds an International MBA from Nijenrode University in the Netherlands and an Executive Coaching degree from William James College. Elizabeth serves as a board member and advisor to several Boston-based startups in IoT, hardware, and software.
Glenise Kinard-Moore, founder and Creator of Skii Moo Tech
Glenise Kinard-Moore is a Founder and Creator of Skii Moo Tech. She’s a wife, a daughter, a sister (youngest of three), a tech nerd, an idealist, and a visionary. Using her advanced tech skills and knowledge Glenise chose to challenge herself by finding a solution to the annoying world of limited and ineffective products. In mid-2019, Kinard-Moore founded SkiiMoo Tech LLC, a tech-based consumer product firm and the parent company of VDOM LLC. VDOM LLC specializes in the creation of prosthetic genital devices to enhance intimate adult experiences, with an emphasis on the LGBTQIA+ community. The VDOM, her first invention, is a patent-pending app-connected wearable device that can go from flaccid to erect at the push of a button or via a swipe on a smartphone or smartwatch using The VDOM Mobile app.
Colleen Wong, founder and CEO of Techsixtyfour
Colleen Wong is the founder and CEO of Techsixtyfour. Colleen started Techsixtyfour in her kitchen in 2014 when her children were 18 months and 4 months old. Her first product, My Gator Watch, is now the UK's highest-rated children's wearable phone and tracker. Colleen and her team are now working on a wearable for the aging and dementia market which empowers them to live independently whilst giving their family peace of mind. Colleen has a team made up of entirely flexible working mums and dads. She is a Sky Women in Tech Scholar and Techsixtyfour has been selected by the Mayor of London's Techinvest programme as one of the top 10 5G & IoT companies in London in 2020.
Sara Dickhaus de Zarraga, co-founder of Flare
Sara Dickhaus de Zarraga is the co-founder of Flare. Pursuing a passion for women’s rights, adventure, and safety, Sara Dickhaus de Zarraga co-founded Flare in 2016. Sara is a solo traveler and paragliding pilot who loves the feeling of freedom she gets from visiting the far corners of the world. Through her travels and work at the World Bank, she has seen the impact that safety has had on women’s quality of life all around the globe. Sara is a champion for women’s empowerment. She attended Wellesley College, wherein a powerful community of strong women, and she found herself becoming a trusted confidant to her friends and classmates on how to navigate sex and relationships. Her passion is to help women everywhere live the lives that they want free of threats of violence or harassment - where women can explore the world around them, and pursue their interests, and their sexuality safely. While attending Harvard Business School, she met Flare co-founder, Quinn Fitzgerald, and they immediately bonded over their own experiences with sexual assault which led to the creation of the business today. She currently resides in Boston.
Moderated by Marija Butkovic, CEO of Women of Wearables
Marija Butkovic is the founder and CEO of Women of Wearables. She is a blogger and Forbes contributor and regularly writes about diversity, startups, emerging technologies, and female-led entrepreneurship. Marija has been featured in major tech and business publications such as TechCrunch, The Next Web, Huffington Post, and many more, and regularly appears as a public speaker and panelist at conferences, meetups, and corporate events. In 2018, 2019, and 2020, Marija was selected as one of the Top 50 Most Influential Women in UK tech by Computer Weekly and was among the Top 25 HealthTech influencers to follow on Twitter by Sifted. She is a digital marketing and business consultant, startup mentor, and STEM ambassador.
ABOUT WOMEN OF WEARABLES
Women of Wearables (WoW) is a leading global organisation supporting women and diversity in wearable tech, fashion tech, and IoT. With headquarters in London (UK) and more than 20,000 members located around the globe, WoW has become a global movement that supports women in emerging technologies through events, mentorship, educational programs, and collaboration with its network of local ambassadors and partners. Become a WoW member via the official website!