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Happy Tuesday everyone! 🙂
From October, all our PREMIUM MEMBERS will be able to participate in our weekly sessions dedicated to either fashion / fashion tech / wearable fashion aficionados or health tech / fem tech ones.
There are so many of you joining us for our regular monthly member’s sessions, so we decided it was about time to make more tailored focus groups for our most faithful members!
Join WoW premium membership to learn from and connect with our community of entrepreneurs, designers, and technologists, leverage valuable resources and discover career opportunities!
This means that you will be able to virtually meet, network, exchange experiences, share fundraising stories and get some peer-to-peer mentoring from like-minded people from the same industry as yours.
We will announce our first thematic meetups for premium members next week!
Thank you for tuning in this Monday, happy reading! 💌
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Upcoming WoW monthly webinars 📆👇
For our October webinar, we brought together five experts to discuss what’s next for Sex, Fertility & Contraception. We will cover a wide range of topics, including:
1) The importance of opening a conversation about Sex, Fertility & Contraception and breaking taboos;
2) Fundraising and getting investment in sextech and femtech space;
3) Innovative products and solutions that are disrupting female health tech space;
4) How to tailor your marketing strategy when promoting sextech and female health products and services;
5) How to launch a product in a highly regulated environment such as medtech;
6) How to include more men in conversations around sex, fertility and contraception and more.
This webinar is #FREE and organised in partnership with OCON Healthcare. OCON Healthcare’s mission is to introduce innovative medical solutions that allow women healthier choices while improving their well-being and quality of life.
Other WoW webinars and meetups
Webinar - The Future of Health Tech, 26 August / 6:30pm BST / 1:30pm ET / 10:30am PT (ONLY FEW TICKETS LEFT!)
WoW members monthly gathering (free for all our members), 2 September / 6pm BST / 1pm ET / 10am PT (SOLD OUT!)
WoW members monthly gathering (free for all our members), 7 October / 6pm BST / 1pm ET / 10am PT
Community webinars & virtual events 💻🌎📆
WIRED Smarter – WIRED’s annual business conference – explores the trends, technology, and innovation changing the way we work, and investigates how senior executives can use this disruption as part of their growth strategy.
Curated by WIRED’s award-winning editorial team, the program addresses talent, economics, design, diversity, and artificial intelligence – and drills into industry-specific challenges and opportunities within the retail and money sectors.
2020 confirmed speakers include:
Barbara Martin Coppola, Chief Digital Officer, IKEA
Mark Read, CEO, WPP
Kate Raworth, Senior Visiting Research Associate at ECI, Doughnut
Nina Schick, Political Broadcaster & Author, Deepfakes and the Infocalypse
Anne Boden, Co-founder, Starling Bank
Women of Wearables readers receive 10% off with discount code WOW10!
And more 👇
➡️ The State of FEMTECH, August 27 (FREE webinar)
➡️ Telehealth Online Virtual Summit, September 8-10 (WoW members an additional 10% discount to attend with code WOW10 at checkout. Book here!)
➡️ Women’s Health Innovation Summit, September 14-15 and 21-22 (WoW members can use code WOW10 for 10% off tickets)
➡️ Women in Business Expo Virtual, October 14-15 (FREE event)
➡️ Sx Tech 2020, November 20 (WoW members get 15% off their tickets using this link)
Industry news and updates 💻🌎📆
Fitbit posts early findings showing its trackers can identify cases of COVID-19 before symptoms take hold / via Fierce Biotech
This wearable device tests food for allergens / via Mashable UK
The Bathroom of Tomorrow / via Allure
Store innovations: Which store tech makes business sense now? / via Fashion United
Four founders on why sustainable fashion must include racial equality / via Vogue Business
Researchers aim to use machine learning to improve diagnosis, treatment of mental illness / via Folio
Cities After Covid: More Tech, Health and Open Spaces / via WSJ
Pandemic driving adoption of health tech for the elderly / via The Straits Times
How big data is solving future health challenges / via Computer Weekly
For Female Founders, Women In Tech & Allies 👩🏾⚕️👩🏼🏫👩🔬
Join WoW premium membership to learn from and connect with our community of entrepreneurs, designers, and technologists, leverage valuable resources and discover career opportunities!
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