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  • Opening Remarks FemTechnology Summit

    A very warm welcome to the 2nd Edition of the FemTechnology Summit!

    Get a program overview of the day's topics

    Learn About How to make maximum use of the networking features on the platform

    Learn about our sponsors: BioInnovation Institute and WomenAtTheTable and how you can get involved

    And Get Excited !

    Stage

    Jun 01 01:00PM–01:15PM UTC

  • The Future of Fertility

    The fertility journey is notoriously opaque and difficult to navigate. Medicine as a whole, however, is entering an era of personalization. In this roundtable we will explore in what ways personalized medicine holds the promise of revolutionize female fertility and gynecological diagnoses (31% of women will suffer from a reproductive health issue at some point in their lives). 


    Featuring:

    Kindbody: a leading fertility and family-building benefits provider for employers offering comprehensive virtual and in-person care.

    Parla: a digital health platform putting data and knowledge in women’s hands, aiming to revolutionize and reframe the conversations around fertility and miscarriage. 

    Hertility: At-home hormone and fertility testing that provides data-driven and advanced insights into reproductive health, fertility decline and the onset of menopause.


    With moderation focusing on how ovarian ageing can help us decipher long-term health by

    Staša Stanković.

    Stage

    Jun 01 01:15PM–02:45PM UTC

  • Speed-Dating / Mingling With Other Attendees

    Break

    Jun 01 02:45PM–03:15PM UTC

  • The Economic Case For Investing In Women's Health Research

    Investing 300 million in women's health research across 3 diseases, returns 13 billion to the US economy. Investing 26 million in women's health adds back nearly 40 000 years of full-time employment for both women and men.


    "Breakthroughs in science are going to happen by studying the populations that we haven’t studied. Shockingly that means studying the majority group: women. Modern medicine is a house on stilts. There are a few foundational pieces that we’re right on but beyond that we don’t know. And the problem is not that medicine is a house on stilts but that it’s a house on stilts pretending it’s not a house on stilts. Which means we never do the hard work of evaluating what we actually know objectively and what we don’t.

    Medicine still routinely treats females as smaller males - treating the organs in a women’s body as if they’re just plug and play."

    Listen to the Keynote to learn why - for the sake of advancing medicine - this needs to change. Today.

    Stage

    Jun 01 03:15PM–03:30PM UTC

  • The Gender Data Gap

    The Gender Data Gap persists at every echelon of healthcare from trials to treatment. Some examples? 70% of the people affected by chronic pain conditions are women – but 80% of research into pain is conducted on male humans or rodents. The vaginal microbiome is another example. It is associated with the risk for STIs, Pelvic inflammatory disease, Fertility issues or failed IVF cycles, Pregnancy complications such as miscarriage, preterm birth, neonatal problems, and preeclampsia and much more. And yet, though lots of resources have been invested in understanding other human microbiomes like gut or skin, when it comes to the vagina, the microbiome has been overlooked.


    In this session we will discover the innovative ways FemTech Startups are collecting gender specific medical data to close the gap and better understand female specific metrics through the vaginal microbiome, remote neonatal monitoring, orgasm analysis etc. 


    Featuring:

    Evvy: at home vaginal microbiome testing to help get to the root of recurrent vaginal infections and other symptoms, linked to infertility and cancer amongst other things. 

    Lioness: a sexual wellness company dedicated to championing female sexual pleasure and health. Aka the first smart vibrator that helps improve pleasure and orgasms through biofeedback data. 

    BloomLife: remote personalised maternal and fetal healthcare. 

    Stage

    Jun 01 03:30PM–04:30PM UTC

  • How Male-Centric Medicine Endangers Women's Health

    Women’s bodies are different from men’s bodies on a cellular level - yet the same treatments are usually prescribed for both sexes, even though women metabolise drugs differently so certain drugs remain in the system for longer or drop to dangerously low levels at certain points of the menstrual cycle. The impact of medication on women's QT (the resting time between heartbeats) is another example of differences between men and women. A woman’s QT is longer than a man’s and many prescription drugs –antidepressants, antihistamines, painkillers, antibiotics – cause incremental QT increases as a side-effect. For women taking multiple medications simultaneously (statistically women are more likely to be on multiple medications at the time), the risk of these combined increases can range from simple arrhythmia to sudden cardiac death.

    Stage

    Jun 01 04:30PM–04:45PM UTC

  • Closing Remarks Day 1 FemTechnology Summit

    A Recap of What We Talked About On The Day & Explanation of How The Speed-Dating Will Work

    Stage

    Jun 01 04:45PM–05:00PM UTC

  • Speed-Dating / Mingling With Other Attendees

    Break

    Jun 01 05:00PM–06:00PM UTC

Silver Sponsor

Speakers

Mette Dyhrberg

Mette Dyhrberg

CEO & Founder, Mymee

Dr Alyson McGregor

Dr Alyson McGregor

Co-Founder and Director for the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine, Brown University

Dr. Marjorie Jenkins

Dr. Marjorie Jenkins

Dean of USC School Medicine Greenville, Chief Academic Officer for Prisma Health-Upstate

Jill Goldstein

Jill Goldstein

Founder & Executive Director, ICON, Mass General + Harvard Medical School

Lina Chan

Lina Chan

Founder + CEO, Parla

Dr. Helen O'Neill

Dr. Helen O'Neill

CEO + Founder, Hertility Health

Dr. Manuel Nothelfer

Dr. Manuel Nothelfer

Co-Founder + CEO, Wellster

Leon Boston

Leon Boston

CEO, MobileODT

Valentina Milanova

Valentina Milanova

Founder + CEO, Daye

Helene Guillaume

Helene Guillaume

Founder + CEO, Wild.ai

Eric Dy

Eric Dy

Co-Founder + CEO, Bloomlife

Dr. Neel Shah

Dr. Neel Shah

Chief Medical Officer, Maven Clinic

Anna Lee

Anna Lee

Co-Founder + Head of Engineering, Lioness

Priyanka Jain

Priyanka Jain

CEO + Co-Founder, Evvy

Chloe Bird

Chloe Bird

Senior Sociologist at RAND

Dr. Lynn Marie Westphal

Dr. Lynn Marie Westphal

Chief Medical Officer, Kindbody