First International Competition Imagining Sustainable Fashion; Introducing WoW Corporate Membership; Scientists Engineer Dreams to Understand the Sleeping Brain + more
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Happy Monday everyone! 🙂
I’m starting this newsletter with some Monday inspiration👇.
A professor gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it and throw it in the hallway. The professor then mixed all the balloons. The students were given 5 minutes to find their own balloon. Despite a hectic search, no one found their balloon. At that point, the professor told the students to take the first balloon that they found and hand it to the person whose name was written on it. Within five minutes everyone had their own balloon.
The professor said to the students: “These ballons are like happiness. We will never find it if everyone is looking for their own. But if we care about other people's happiness... we'll find ours too.
Reshared from April Shprintz via LinkedIn
Thank you for tuning in this Monday, happy reading! 💌
Launching WoW corporate membership
You asked we listened! 😊 Almost a year after launching our individual WoW membership, we are now ready to kick off more tailored support for our corporate partners!
If you’re a company or an organization in emerging technologies and you’re looking for ways to connect and reach out to startup founders, investors, designers, technologies from the same industry - then you’re in the right place. Whether you need help with the organization of your event, a pitching competition, awards program, or with the launch of your new product/service, we can help you get your message across.
With WoW corporate membership, you will get:
4 ads per year (1 ad per quarter in our newsletter)
4 posts per year published on our blog (1 blog post per quarter)
FREE access to all our webinars for 10 members of your team
Dedicated social media promotion on all our social media channels
Interview with the member of your team published on our blog
Your logo added on our Partners website page
Upcoming WoW webinars, meetups, and conferences 🌎 📆
Have you booked your ticket for our Health Tech 2.0 all-day conference, happening on January 28? Even if you cannot attend, we will record all the sessions and share them with you the day after. 40+ health tech leaders, innovators, founders, clinicians, influencers, and investors from around the world are joining us to discuss the future of healthcare technology!
Due to high demand, we extended the number and deadline for early birds, which are available only a few more days! 🎫 👇
Many thanks to our partners and sponsors Royal Philips, Mouser Electronics, Garmin, Essity Ventures / Essity, LELO, fermata inc., Intimina, and Fertifa for their support of this event!
And more 👇
👫 WoW members’ monthly gathering, February 3
👶🏼 WEBINAR - Fertility, Pregnancy & Maternal Health, February 4 (FREE for WoW members, become a member here)
⌚️ 👗 WoW members’ monthly gathering - Wearables, Fashion and Fashion Tech, February 10
👩🔬 WEBINAR - Wearables & Healthcare: Female Founders Stories, February 11 (FREE webinar, in partnership with RS Components)
Community events, news, and updates 💻🌎📆
📌 Connecting Cultures, a non-profit research agency located in Milan, in partnership with CLASS, launches the first international competition for innovative models of communication in a sustainable fashion. This open call will be judged by a high-profile jury of international standing and the winning submission will be awarded a cash prize of €3.000. You can send your proposal to info@connectingcultures.info by midnight on 12 January 2021. All other info and submission guidelines can be found here.
📌 Let’s get Money Savvy: Different ways to Fund your Startup, webinar by Startups Magazine, January 26
📌 Contraception Summit, February 23 - an all-day virtual event bringing together a leading network of pharma, biotech, medical device companies, start-ups, investors, researchers, and HCPs to drive innovation at the convergence of healthcare and technology. Book with code WOW10 to save 10% on your conference ticket!
📌 STARTS in MOTION 2021 call is open! Awarded projects will have the chance to participate in workshops on key topics such as business models for creative entrepreneurs, alternative pricing strategies, funding, storytelling, IP, and marketing. Don’t miss the chance, apply until 05/02!
📌 On WoW blog - WoW Woman in FemTech | Rachel Braun Scherl, entrepreneur, book author, keynote speaker and women's health expert
📌 On WoW blog - WoW Woman in EdTech | Dora Palfi, CEO and co-founder of imagiLabs
📌 On WoW blog - WoW Woman in Health Tech | Mariëtte Abrahams PhD MBA RD, CEO & Founder of Qina
📌 On WoW blog - WoW Woman in FemTech | Josephine Kwan, founder of Flow 2 Freedom Apparel
📌 On WoW blog - WoW Woman in FemTech | Bella Trang Ngo, founder of Brarista
Industry news, and updates 💻🌎📆
Scientists Engineer Dreams to Understand the Sleeping Brain
Top 10 Coding Resources for Kids
Bobbie Is The Infant Formula These Founders Wish They Had When Breastfeeding Failed Them
Is vegan leather really more sustainable?
5 major airlines to roll out digital health passport for travelers next month
How to create space for ethics in AI
To boost birth rate, Japan's government considers AI to match spouses
For Female Founders, Women In Tech & Allies 👩🏾⚕️👩🏼🏫👩🔬
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