Women's Health Innovation coalition; Diversity isn't just a buzzword; Women in E-textiles; Digital health passports; End of fast fashion? + more
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Happy Monday everyone! 🤚
The world is a diverse place, with people of different gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, cultures, personality types, and sexuality. Unfortunately, this diversity isn’t reflected in the tech workforce. There’s a clear disconnect between the diversity of the population and people who work in our industry. 👩👱🏾♀️👩🏿🦱👩🏽🦰
Diversity isn’t just a buzzword. Combining people with different skills, experiences, and personalities creates fertile ground for innovative thinking, leading to imaginative new ideas and solutions. Diversity brings increased productivity, improved creativity and the addition of new cultural insights.
The outcome of all this isn’t just a warm and fuzzy feeling. According to McKinsey, the most diverse companies are more likely to outperform financially. 💰💰💰
The Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry said it best: “Humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.”
Original article published via Women’s Agenda by Nicole Russo.
Thank you for tuning in this Monday, happy reading! :) 👊
#GIVEAWAY winners announcement
Last week we asked for feedback about our events and webinars from our wonderful community and more than 100 of you sent us your ideas, comments and submitted your answers to our events survey! 🎉
Three lucky winners who participated in our survey and got a free ticket for our FemTech conference in June are:
1) Nathalie Feldman
2) Ioana Fodor and
3) Fariha Alauddin
Congratulations and see you on the 25th of June at the FemTech Forum 2020! 📆
This week we are proud to announce two more companies on our list of sponsors and supporting partners for the conference:
Valley Electronics AG, based in Zurich, Switzerland, is an international research-based medical technology company with a long track record of developing and distributing fertility trackers. With its products Daysy, Lady-Comp, Baby-Comp, and Pearly, the company offers the highest possible reliability, well-engineered technology, and a wealth of 30+ years of experience on the market.
Barclays is on a mission to help make the UK the best place to start and grow innovative businesses by promoting creativity and entrepreneurship. Eagle Labs is building a platform to connect the UK’s entrepreneurial ecosystem to drive digital skills development to help grow the economy through innovation and change.
Our other sponsors include Bayer G4A, INTIMINA, Gemserv, Tide and MAS Holdings.
Early bird tickets are now SOLD OUT 💯💯💯, but there’s plenty more standard ones still available, so book yours today! All those who purchase the ticket will also have access to recorded sessions afterwards + digital goodie bag with special discounts for femtech products and services! 🔝
Upcoming WoW monthly webinars 📆
Join us in July for another monthly webinar where we will discuss e-textiles, smart textiles, wearable fashion and all in between! 📌
We gathered five of our WoW women and e-textiles experts to discuss and share their stories about working in this space, their achievements, trends they see emerging in this sector and more. 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.
HAPPENING THIS WEDNESDAY 👇
WoW members monthly gathering, 3 June / 6pm BST / 1pm ET / 10am PT
Premium WoW members get FREE access to all our paid webinars + recorded sessions and resources lists from previous and future webinars, more info here.
WoW community events, news and updates
We are very excited to announce that Women of Wearables joined Springboard Enterprises and many more leading organisations as a proud partner of the Women’s Health Innovation Coalition. This collaboration of advocacy organisations, innovators, investors, clinicians, and industry leaders launches alongside a new web portal. As a member, we are committed to driving initiatives to promote greater gender-specific health data transparency, to spur investment in women’s health innovation, and to drive better health outcomes for all. The Coalition encompasses seven sectors within women’s health: Autoimmune, Oncology, Bone Health, Gynaecological Health, Reproductive Health, Heart Health, Cognitive and Brain Health. We trust you agree on the importance of raising our collective voice to promote gender-specific health care policy, research, and health care solutions. Check it out and learn more at https://www.womens.health!
WoW Ambassador in Sydney Ima Miri invites you to join her on June 24 for another virtual AMA session on her platform Taikera, where she will discuss Outstaffing and Outsourcing tips and tricks! Register here!
DigitalHealth.London opened applications to their flagship Accelerator programme for the next generation of digital health companies to transform health and care. The deadline for companies to apply is midnight Sunday 5 July 2020. For companies offered a place on the programme, support will begin in November 2020. Apply here!
Join WoW at Biohacking Congress, Virtual Edition on July 17th covering DigitalHealth, BioTech and MedTech topics! Five lucky quickest WoW members can grab a free ticket following this link!
From freelancers to startups, The Hustle Awards by Startups Magazine champions the disruptors, the fire-starters and every entrepreneur who took a leap of faith with their idea. Find out what you can win here or once you are ready, take a look at the categories!
Are you a fashion or luxury tech startup looking for advice or funding? Are you an investor looking for new interesting opportunities? Are you simply interested in fashion entrepreneurship and would like to discover innovative business ideas? Join us for Fashion Tech Pitch Night by The Startup Club on 4th of June!
Are you ready to scale up? Apply for the 7th edition of the EIT Digital Challenge, the pan-European competition for deep tech scale-ups, and become the next European success story! The best 5 companies will receive prizes totalling €350,000 in cash and in kind to boost their international growth. Submit your application by June 7th.
Our friends from Shark.Health have launched their platform that provides curated videos in one place to help you stay healthy while at home. Show them some love and support them on Product Hunt!
Have an interesting event, news or update that you want to share with our community? Drop us a line via email and we’ll do our best to include it in our next newsletter!
Tia co-founders Carolyn Witte and Felicity Yost (photo courtesy: BRIDGET BADORE)
Industry news and updates
FemBeat: Tia Raises A $24 Million Series A To Scale Its Online And Offline Health Services Tailored To Women’s Needs / via Forbes
Narrative change: VCs are finally ready to talk about menopause / via PitchBook
New CB Insights report says Facebook could be digital entry point for health in the future / via MobiHealthNews
‘Digital Health Passport’ Will Provide Health Data on Smartphones, Determine When Citizens Must Be Retested / via National File
Study identifies at least 34 European medtech COVID-19 projects from startups / via MobiHealthNews
Babylon Health leads a $30M Series B in US health kiosk operator, Higi / via TechCrunch
Orbita raises $9 million to develop conversational AI for health care / via Venture Beat
Manufacturers use augmented reality to retool production lines and retrain employees / via TechRepublic
Business Is Booming During Coronavirus Lockdowns For Norwegian Startup Producing One-Button Computers For Old People / via Forbes
Apple Maintains Supremacy in Wearables Market With 21.2 Million Units Shipped in Q1 2020 / via MacRumors
New stretchable, self-healing and illuminating electronic material for wearables and soft robots / via NUSNews
Wearable tech can spot coronavirus symptoms before you even realize you’re sick. Here’s how. / via Seattle Times
Gucci Says Fashion Shows Should Never Be the Same / via The New York Times
The tech behind ‘social-distance selling’ / via Vogue Business
The World’s First Animal Crossing Fashion Show Is Here / via Vogue
Otrium raises $26 million to sell end-of-season fashion items / via TechCrunch
Shopping habits of generation Z could spell end of fast fashion / via The Guardian
Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots / via The Guardian
Breaking Through The Glass Ceiling - A Spring For Women In Artificial Intelligence / via Forbes
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