Past events
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Rejuvenation Biotechnologies
SENS Research Foundation exists to End Aging. Since 2009 they have worked to make the concept of Rejuvenation Biotechnology - the repairing of the damage which occurs to our bodies as we age - into a reality.
The 2016 Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference is focused on taking the Rejuvenation Biotechnology Industry to the next level by addressing the question: what will it take to push emerging breakthroughs in regenerative medicine from proof-of-concept to implementation? This conference will answer this critical query by covering all the stages from securing funding, to production, to navigating regulation, to clinical evaluation and adoption of new treatments. -
FemTech Women's March Meeting
After Donald Trump was sworn in as president, and the night before the Women’s March, the 18 women and one man all worked in some way on women’s health gathered to figure out how her tech company would navigate America's new future. Organized by Flex and Glow, Friday’s dinner brought together women from Silicon Valley and D.C., from college freshmen to seasoned activists.
Some of the players in one of the tech world's fastest-growing spaces wanted to acclimate to the reality of working on women's health under an administration that's trying to gut healthcare and threatens to limit women's reproductive healthcare access.
Women from Glow, Flex, Celmatix, the period tracker Clue, tampon wholesaler Cora and the accelerator Y Combinator, which has invested in Flex, were joined by advocates against the tampon tax and nonprofits like Bedsider, a birth control access project and app by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unwanted Pregnancy. The women present wanted to mobilize their coalition for political use, but at the same time to discuss health tech apart from politics — including getting the business of the 42 percent of women who voted for Trump. -
Women of Wearables Tech Show
The Wearable Tech Show greeted 5,035 visitors, 109 exhibitors from over 20 countries on the show floor and 234 speakers over 100 sessions in the conference programme.
Women of Wearables were proud to exhibit in the Launchpad along with other startups to showcase their organisation that aims to inspire, connect and support women in wearable tech, fashion tech, IoT, AR and VR.
WoW inspires, supports and connects women in wearable tech, IoT and VR/AR by providing visibility, support, mentorship and connections for their community through their events and wearable tech workshops. -
FEMTECH
FEMTECH is a conference that features influential women in technology. The technology aspect is represented in the campaign with block-based illustration, grid-usage, and colors inspired by the default accent colors in code and text editors. The shapes are off-register to remind us that these women are human and also gives a fun and inspirational essence to the campaign. -
FemTechNet Network Gathering
FemTechNet is an activated network of hundreds of scholars, students, and artists who work on, with, and at the borders of technology, science, and feminism in a variety of fields including Science and Technology Studies, Media and Visual Studies, Art, Women’s, Queer, and Ethnic Studies.
In the FemTechNet (Feminist Technology) Network Gathering they will explore how technology perpetuates existing structural inequalities and what can specialists do to make technologies work for us and their diverse communities. They will create a collaborative space for revealing the power relations embedded in technology, such as racial bias in tech design, systemic threats to online safety, and gender imbalances. Their goal is to review existing materials from the FemTechNet archive of videos, syllabi, and/or assignment prompts in order to formulate continued organizing goals. -
Wired Health 2018
The WIRED Health programme is curated by WIRED Features Director Joao Medeiros, and is designed to showcase a smorgasbord of the most fascinating stories in the health industry.
Elvie co-founder and CEO Tania Boler was concerned with pelvic floor disorders. How to get women to make the mind-body connection when it comes to their pelvic floor is the challenge that she and her colleagues wanted to take on. This is where their creation, the Elvie Kegel trainer, comes in. The trainer has two sensors inside: an accelerometer to show women if they're exercising correctly, and a sensor to provide feedback on the mind-body connection.
Another FemTech speaker is Dr. Claire Novorol. She worked as a pediatrician in London before specializing in clinical genetics, but now she's the chief medical officer for Ada, a personalized artificial intelligence (AI) doctor, who works via an app on your phone. Users can have a conversation with Ada, which provides information about what might be going on. Ada is designed by doctors, for both doctors and patients. It works in the same way as a chatbot but is personalized for each patient. They will receive an initial diagnosis and can then take their Ada report to their GP. -
Hacking Female Health
Organizers invite healthcare professionals, scientists, patients, entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, developers, and others interested to team up for a weekend and propel innovation in healthcare. Their vision is to make Hacking Health the largest community for digital healthcare innovation worldwide and tackle the most entrenched problems in healthcare together.
Challenges: Breast Cancer, Infections of the reproductive and urinary tract, Endometriosis, Female Mental Health, Geriatric Medicine. Patron for the 2018 Hacking Female Health Hackathon is Dilek Kolat, Berlin Senator for Health, Nursing and Gender Equality.
Keynote speakers:
Isabelle Vézina, Executive Director of Hacking Health.
Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, “Strategic Chair for Gender in Primary and Transmural Care” at Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Anna Zakrisson, Ph. D. biologist and science communicator with degrees from Cambridge University and Max-Planck Institute, as well as several years of business experience as VP, Head of Content at ZAGENO. -
Reproductive Health Venture Fair
The Reproductive Health Venture Fair is the event made by the Reproductive Health Investors Alliance, bringing entrepreneurs and investors together to drive financing and innovation in women's reproductive health in the US.
The program will feature 10 reproductive health entrepreneurs, panel discussions with experts from the field, and opportunities to connect and network with other investors committed to reproductive health. The event is open to investors and funders.
The Reproductive Health Investors Alliance is a group of foundations and investors that is collaborating to bring new types of capital and enterprise to the field of reproductive health in the United States. -
Undoing Aging
The annual Undoing Aging conference is focused on the cellular and molecular repair of age-related damage as the basis of therapies to bring aging under full medical control. Undoing Aging 2019 will again focus on bringing together scientists from around the globe in their respective fields, who are leading the charge in maintaining and restoring full health in old age.
Speakers include leading researchers from around the world focused on topics including stem cells, senescent cells, immunotherapies, biomarkers, and drug discovery.
Undoing Aging 2019 is not only open to the scientific community but also welcomes all interested members of the broader rejuvenation movement. The conference will feature a student poster session showing the work of innovative undergraduate and graduate students in the field of damage repair.
Organizers: SENS Research Foundation and Michael Greve’s Forever Healthy Foundation. -
Wearables & Ethics
Wearable technologies have come under substantial scrutiny in the last couple of years due to high-level security and privacy breaches and they have the potential to blur the boundaries between machine and human, as demonstrated by possibilities of ‘upgrading’ human skills and capabilities through RFID tags, data mining, enhanced sight and vision through cameras and hearing devices attached to human bodies and other new computing technologies.
For this May event, organizers decided to focus on ethics to have a conversation about what kind of ethical visions wearables carry for the future, and how their developers engage and represent those ethical visions in their products. By focusing on the ethical visions of developers they hope to start a new discussion in the field of IoT about how wearables can be done ethically and responsibly. They are bringing together founders, researchers and technologists who will share their stories and views on ethics and wearables, IoT, machine learning, AI, blockchain and everything in between. -
Women of Silicon Valley
Women of Silicon Valley enables people and organisations to connect, learn and take action on gender diversity and inclusion. They do not shy away from controversy and they look to open people’s minds to new ideas by pushing boundaries.
Through inspirational keynotes, panel discussions on business strategy, technical classes, and career development workshops, this conference provides all the content and networking opportunities needed to flourish in the tech sector.
Beginning with one small event three years ago, Women of Silicon Valley has grown rapidly and is now the ‘one to watch’ out of a global series. The Women in Tech World Series is an international sensation, changing the game for women in the UK, Australia, mainland Europe and soon Africa, India, China and Canada. -
Women in Tech Festival 2019
Silicon Valley Forum’s Women in Tech Festival celebrates women in tech, STEM, and business careers who work to inspire, engage, and empower other women. Since the inaugural event in 2015, the Women in Tech Festival has encouraged women – and men who support the advancement of women – to join together for two full days of inspiring talks, startup pitches, thought-provoking discussions, and educational workshops.
At the Women in Tech Festival, you’ll create lasting connections and exchange ideas in a welcoming, supportive and fun environment. -
FemTech 2019 What's Next?
Catering to a market that market analysts Frost & Sullivan have forecast will be worth $50bn by 2025, femtech is the subset of apps and gadgets geared at enhancing women’s wellbeing. Currently made up of at least 200 startups worldwide, the companies focus solely on women’s health and are primarily managed by female CEOs and innovators.
Developers in femtech are confident that the industry can help combat the dearth of women in scientific research, as well the social taboos around women’s health, from menstruation to postnatal depression and breastfeeding. But currently just 10% of global investment goes to female-led startups according to Forbes. This is why Portfolia, a US-based venture platform financed nearly exclusively by female investors, created the world’s first femtech fund in June 2018. -
AWE USA 2019
AWE (Augmented World Expo) is the world’s most essential AR+VR conference and expo, with annual dates in the USA, Asia, Israel and Europe, as well as meetup chapters around the world.
AWE brings together a diverse mix of CEOs, CTOs, designers, developers, creative agencies, futurists, analysts, investors, founders and top press in a one-of-a-kind opportunity to learn, inspire, partner, and experience first-hand the most exciting industry of our times.
This year’s event will be their biggest and most experiential conference and expo yet! Hear world-class speakers, groundbreaking ideas, and real-life use cases while experiencing the greatest disruptive technology since the Internet. -
Women of Silicon Roundabout
Women of Silicon Roundabout enables people and organisations to connect, learn and take action on gender diversity and inclusion. They do not shy away from controversy and they look to open people's minds to new ideas by pushing boundaries.
Through inspirational keynotes, panel discussions on business strategy, technical classes, and career development workshops, this conference provides all the content and networking opportunities needed to flourish in the tech sector.
Beginning with one small event four years ago, Women of Silicon Roundabout has grown rapidly and is now the centre piece of a global series. The Women in Tech World Series is an international sensation, changing the game for women in the USA, Australia, mainland Europe and the UK. -
Fertility Conference 2020
The event has become the largest UK educational forum focussing on fertility and reproductive medicine.
The theme for the joint annual conference is ‘Reproduction in a changing world‘ featuring an exciting, cutting edge programme of high profile, scientific international and UK speakers, with a wide range of concurrent sessions focussing on specialist areas in fertility and reproductive biology guaranteed to excite, stimulate and motivate.
The event will also feature over 200 scientific poster presentations, a large trade exhibition and a packed networking programme providing an excellent opportunity to learn, network and exchange ideas.