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Happy Monday everyone! 🙂
After years of keeping data in an ugly spreadsheet, the time has come for us at WoW to launch a new Member Directory. Yes, you heard it correctly - now you can find our WoW members by location, industry, interests, etc. and connect with them on LinkedIn or Twitter! 🎉
If you’re already a member, then you’ve received the link to access the full Directory, if you wish to add yourself to it, you can do so by adding your details via the link below.
Thank you for tuning in this Monday, happy reading! 💌
Upcoming WoW monthly webinars & meetups 🌎 📆 👇
👗⌚️ WoW members monthly gathering - Wearables, Fashion and Fashion Tech, October 14 (for premium members only ➡️ become a premium member)
🍆 WEBINAR - SexTech, Sexual Health and Wellbeing - What's Next?, October 15 (FREE webinar, in partnership with LELO)
🚺 WEBINAR - Menstrual Health - Facts, Stats and What’s Next?, October 20 (FREE webinar, in partnership with INTIMINA)
💊🧬 WoW members monthly gathering - HealthTech and FemTech, October 21 (for premium members only ➡️ become a premium member)
🚻 Sex, Fertility and Contraception - What’s Next? (FREE webinar, in partnership with OCON Healthcare), October 28
Community webinars & virtual events 💻 🌎 📆
HAPPENING NEXT WEEK👇
WIRED Smarter conference will premiere as a six-part conference broadcast series across October 13-15. If you’re a female founder or a fellow future enthusiast, don’t miss this three-day virtual event!
Some of the programme highlights include the panel, The next generation of women entrepreneurs, with Cherie Blair CBE QC, Peanut founder Michelle Kennedy and brand strategist Elizabeth Uviebinené; the session unravelling unconscious bias with Pragya Agarwal; and the talk from Shelly Bell, the founder of Black Girl Ventures, which is building a venture ecosystem to support Black and Brown woman-identifying founders, funders, and veterans. You can check out the full speakers’ list here!
One-day tickets start at only £27 + VAT with the offer. However, if you'd like the full series, WIRED has a special All Access 3-Day Pass for only £90 + VAT which includes a one-year subscription to the WIRED UK 🎉, plus an exclusive luxury Beauty Pie box 💄 and your choice of book from one of the 2020 WIRED speakers 📕. What’s not to like here?! 😊
AND MORE 👇
We are proud to partner with The Virtual Personalised Beauty Global Series: The Destination for Beauty Technology Innovation (18-19 November).
Join L’Oreal, Google, Beiersdorf, Philips, ULTA, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Estee Lauder, Shiseido and more to learn how to implement beauty tech, stimulate business growth and increase customer loyalty! View the agenda here!
Women of Wearables members get 15% off all ticket rates with the code WOW15!
Community news & updates 🆕 💡 🔖
📌 Applications for Angel Academe's November pitch event close on Friday, October 16th. Angel Academe is interested in hearing from female founders looking to fund early-stage technology companies in a variety of verticals, including finance, health, education, and business services. You can find details on their investment criteria and the application form here.
Industry news and updates 💻🌎📆
Google teams up with Samsonite to launch a Jacquard smart fabric-enabled backpack / via TechCrunch
The future of agtech: wearables for cows, vertical farming & AI / via EU Startups
Penn State researchers get $3 million grant for wearable tech to prevent kidney stones / via PhillyVoice
Masimo releases continuous temperature monitoring wearable / via Mobi Health News
Healthtech startup Your.MD raises €25m from FTSE 100 company / via Sifted
Digital health passports roll out for air travelers tracking COVID status, vaccination proof / via Life Site News
Digital Health Startup Raises $12 Million To Provide Virtual OCD Treatment / via Forbes
Q3 2020: A new annual record for digital health (already) / via Rock Health
With more than $4.6B in fundings, Q3 2020 was an unprecedented showing from digital health investors / via Mobi Health News
Elvie adds a non-electric breast pump and cups to its growing femtech portfolio / via TechCrunch
Is Femtech the future? Emjoy attracts US$3 million investment / via Global Cosmetics News
‘GUYnecology’: Why men’s reproductive health matters / via Yale News
Circularity Gets New Infusions: Evrnu Selected for Accelerator, Evrythng Snags $10M / via WWD
Half of young women will leave their tech job by age 35, study finds / via CNN
Eight top European accelerators for female founders to know / via Sifted
Why so many women in tech get told they're "not strategic" / via Fast Company
Diversity in AI: The Invisible Men and Women / via MIT
2020 Top Companies for Women Technologists / via AnitaB.org
For Female Founders, Women In Tech & Allies 👩🏾⚕️👩🏼🏫👩🔬
Become a WoW member to learn from and connect with our community of entrepreneurs, designers, and technologists, leverage valuable resources and discover career opportunities!
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