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Each year, Inc. honors 100 outstanding women running outstanding companies. Inc.'s third annual Female Founders 100 celebrates the success stories and best business advice of the game-changing women of 2020.
We are excited to see some of the businesses we have in our community on this list! ๐ฅฐ ๐ ๐ Check the full list via the link below!
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๐ฐ Women Investing In Women, November 12 ๐ฐ
Join Women of Wearables on November 12 for an evening of learning, connecting, and discussion on the importance of investing in female-led businesses!
During this webinar we will discuss:
What are angel investors looking for when investing in startups, particularly female-led businesses;
What's the best approach to finding investors and pitching them;
How can female-led businesses and underrepresented founders get more money they deserve from both angel and VC investors;
How the angel investment landscape looks in the pandemic and post-pandemic world;
How to become an angel investor.
Join Women of Wearables on November 17 for an evening of learning, sharing, connecting, and discussing all things fashion tech and sustainability!
During this webinar we will discuss:
The present and the future of the Fashion Tech industry and the upcoming trends in the space;
Fashion and digitisation: from digital showrooms, e-commerce, to digital collections and platforms;
Fashion and sustainability - according to theย UN Environment, the fashion industry produces 20% of global wastewater and 10% of global carbon emissions - more than all international flights and maritime shipping.
Whatโs next for retail and how it will affect the fashion industry.
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Community webinars & virtual events ๐ป ๐ ๐
โก๏ธ The Womenโs Health Gold Rush: 3 CEOs Leading the Charge in Wearables, October 21
โก๏ธย 2nd International Conference on the Challenges, Opportunities, Innovations and Applications in Electronic Textiles, November 3-4 (FREE virtual conference)
โก๏ธ Silicon Valley Forumโs annual Women in Tech Festival, November 13-14 (Get 10% off tickets with code WOW10)
โก๏ธ The Virtual Personalised Beauty Global Series: The Destination for Beauty Technology Innovation, November 18-19 (WoW members get 15% off all ticket rates with the code WOW15)
โก๏ธย Sx Tech 2020, November 20 (WoW members get 15% off their tickets usingย this link)
Industry news and updates ๐ป๐๐
Engineers print wearable sensors directly on skin without heat / via TechXplore
Paramedics test jetpack for daring mountain rescues / via Futurism
How Data From Wearables Will Revolutionize Healthcare / via Forbes
How much more would you pay for a sustainable T-shirt? / via Vogue Business
Hyundai just released a sustainable fashion collection (yes, you read that right) / via Fast Company
30 Healthcare IT Influencers Worth a Follow in 2020 / via Health Tech Magazine
With an anthropologistโs eye, Duke pioneers a new approach to medical AI / via Stat News
Mayoโs Chief Digital Officer: The hospital of the future isnโt just about technology / via MedCity News
Digital 'health passport' trials underway to aid reopening of borders / via The Guardian
Smart sock maker Siren adds $9M to this summer's Series B / via MobiHealth News
AI system detects loneliness in natural speech patterns / via New Atlas
Weโre not ready for AI, says the winner of a new $1m AI prize / via Technology Review
Why the rest of the supply chain needs to catch up with smart manufacturing / via IoT Tech News
9 Must-Read Internet of Things Books / via IoT For All
30 women in robotics you need to know about โ 2020 / via Robohub
Funding for female founders falls to 2017 levels as pandemic shakes up the VC market / via TechCrunch
How women VCs are working to fund Black and female founders / via Fortune
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