Are You Ready To Hear The News? HEALTH TECH 2.0 is here! ๐ฉ๐พโโ๏ธ ๐จโโ๏ธ ๐ ๐งฌ
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Happy Monday everyone! ๐
This Monday we have a very special announcement for you all!
On January 28, 2021, our team is bringing you another virtual global all-day conference - HEALTH TECH 2.0! For a day, this virtual event will bring together health tech leaders, innovators, founders, clinicians, influencers, and investors from around the world to discuss the future of healthcare technology.
Throughout the day, we will be covering topics related to AI in healthcare, beauty tech, wearables, femtech and sextech, mental health, and many more, and our keynotes and panel discussions will bring 40+ speakers on our virtual stage.
Our speakers
Our speakers are coming from all sorts of backgrounds in the healthcare space - they are startup founders, innovators, pharma experts, clinicians, researchers, investors, journalists. Some of them are:
โก๏ธ Raymon uit de Bulten, Director Startup Ventures at Philips Beauty
โก๏ธ Jolawn Victor, Chief International Officer at Headspace
โก๏ธ Aashima Gupta, Director, Global Healthcare Solutions at Google
โก๏ธ Jonathan Machado, Investment Director at Samsung NEXT
โก๏ธ Parm Raeewal, Senior Public Policy Manager at Vodafone
โก๏ธ Ariel Garten, co-founder of Muse
โก๏ธ Heloise Auger, Biomedical Researcher at Hexoskin
โก๏ธ Mika Miyake, Business Development Manager at Garmin Health
โก๏ธ Sara Cinnamon, Design Director at McKinsey
โก๏ธ Halle Tecco, founder and CEO of Natalist
โก๏ธ Rebecca Wray, Associate Director in Digital Health Oncology at AstraZeneca
โก๏ธ Tania Boler, founder and CEO of Elvie
โก๏ธ Marie-Laure Mahรฉ, Vice President for E-Commerce, Marketing, Consumer Goods at Essity
โก๏ธ Maya Baratz Jordan, CEO and Founding Partner of Founders Factory New York
โก๏ธ Danela Zagar, Global Brand Manager at Intimina
โก๏ธ Amina Sugimoto, founder and CEO of fermata Inc.
โก๏ธ and many more!
Our partners and sponsors
This conference wouldnโt be possible without the participation of our sponsors and partners, who are not only very passionate about the innovation in the health tech space but also big supporters of Women of Wearables! ๐ฅฐ
Royal Philipsย is a leading health technology company focused on improving people's health and enabling better outcomes across the health continuum from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment, and home care. Philips leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver integrated solutions. Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a leader in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring, and health informatics, as well as in consumer health and home care.
Mouser Electronics, a TTI and Berkshire Hathaway company, is an award-winning, authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on rapid New Product Introductions from its manufacturing partners for electronic design engineers and buyers. The global distributorโs website, Mouser.com, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than five million products from over 1,100 manufacturer brands. Mouser offers 27 support locations around the world to provide best-in-class customer service and ships globally to over 630,000 customers in more than 223 countries/territories from its 70,000 sq. meters state-of-the-art facility south of Dallas, Texas.
Garminย is a global company that designs, manufactures, and ships products worldwide. As a leading, worldwide provider of navigation, the company is committed to making superior products for automotive, aviation, marine, outdoor, and sports that are an essential part of its customersโ lives. Garmin's user-friendly products are not only sought after for their compelling design, superior quality, and best value, but they also have innovative features that enhance the lives of our customers. Garmin has more than 14,500 associates in 65 offices worldwide.
Essity Venturesย is a strategic initiative ofย Essityย to lead the change towards a more digitally-advanced and sustainable health and hygiene ecosystem in collaboration with startups and entrepreneurs. Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company, improving peopleโs well-being through its products and services with sales in approximately 150 countries under leading brands, such as Bodyform, Libresse, TENA, Lotus, Tempo, and Zewa.
LELOย 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.
fermata inc.ย is a community and start-up support ecosystem aimed to accelerate the access to knowledge and technologies developed for diversifying and liberating women's wellness. fermata's current work ranges from hosting events to build awareness within the Japanese market, providing product import and localisation support to foreign companies, and selling femtech products in both online and in-person stores.
Intiminaย is a Swedish brand that offers the first and only range of products dedicated exclusively to all aspects of womenโs intimate health. Its mission is to provide a comprehensive collection of products and information for women at every stage of life, from the first menstruation to beyond menopause. As a global brand available in major pharmacy chains, medical offices, and online, Intimina's vision is to make it easy for women, regardless of their age or location, to access reliable information and solutions for all their intimate health needs.
Fertifaย is a London-based company named after its mission of providing โFertility For Allโ, and is one of the pioneers in this space in the U.K. (and Europe). Although very young, the company says it already collaborates with a number of partners bringing its services to more than 700,000 U.K. employees, and works directly with a portfolio of corporate clients that have employee bases ranging from a few hundred to over >10,000 each, and has a team of world-class healthcare professionals, employee benefits experts, and fertility specialists.
The organising team
Our WoW team is small but mighty. But, our most valuable asset, as always, is our community and we hope that by looking at our conference agenda, you see that too! And most importantly, we hope you can join us in January! ๐
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