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There are 98 women speakers out of 246 speakers at THE conference for INNOVATION & BUSINESS FOR BETTER HEALTHCARE = health.tech conference, on June 5th in Munich! Our Urška Bux, MBA, the FHH initiative champion and Senior Programme manager at WorkInHealth Foundation and EIT Health is among them! We are so proud! She truly is passionate about creating change in Healthcare with present and future women leaders in Healthcare sharing their voices publicly - which is why the FHH exists! Now, help us choose which of our FHH slogan should Urška wear on stage? 1. Dreamer & doer. 2. Catalyst for health innovation. 3. I can. 4. People are the key. 5. I walk my talk. 6. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. 7. Health worldchanger. Which is your top pick? Let us know in the comments! Oh, by the way - look at these impressive numbers: 2500+ attendees 2000+ executives 400+ investors 60+ countries 1500+ startups You can still join at the www.health.tech! See you there next week - we will have around 40 free epic T-shirts and jumpers for you to pick from (for free). If you aren't gonna be in Munich, well, if you become one of our ambassadors, you get a T-shirt or jumper with any of these slogans for free ;) Join here: www.futurehealthhero.eu Yours, FHH TEAM

Next week I will be in New Jersey for the Femtech & Consumer Innovation Summit by Kisaco Research to present K'ept Health. It's the work of early women's health champions and recent research, such as McKinsey & Company's reports "Closing the women’s health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies" & "Closing the data gaps in women’s health" that makes it that much easier for myself and other Femtech founders to get their solutions in the hands of women who desperately need them and to share their work at leading conferences and in various industry publications. Here are a few things I'll highlight in our pitch: 💡 Reimagining the women's health data value chain 💡 Addressing the real-life consequences of data gaps 💡 Implementing new, but not so new, methods for early diagnosing 💡 Understanding the benefits of patient engagement, real-world data, and clinical data working together 👋🏾 👌🏾 If you're there come and say hi, if not, shoot me a DM or drop a comment to say "hi" and let me know what you think about the two McKinsey reports. Links in the comment section.

𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝟰𝗘𝘃𝗮 𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 👩💼   SICPA in partnership with Tech4Eva - The global Femtech accelerator, organised a roadshow during the Women’s Day last month with 15 start-ups from the incubator showcasing their innovations and experts sharing their insights around the theme: Supporting Women’s Health in the Workplace. 🔗 If you missed the conference, discover a summary of the insights and innovations shared here: https://hubs.li/Q02Y189c0

On Tuesday I was at Wired Health and my head is so bursting with inspiration on the future of health, especially inclusion in health. Favourite snippets include: 💡Women were routinely excluded from clinical trials until 1993 and are still underrepresented in them today. One of the impacts I hadn’t considered, but that was neatly raised by Valentina Milanova 🇺🇦 of Daye, is that as a result femtech innovations have a greater cost of market entry than other products, as they’re pulling from little to no evidence base and have to commission trials just to get to the starting blocks with the same baseline evidence as other products. 💡80% of healthcare VCs have yet to invest in women’s healthcare products. Typically decision-makers in VCs are male, as indeed are those in other funding institutions, investors, educators, etc etc, as pointed out by Eileen Burbidge of Fertifa. Coincidence? 💡 How the better design of cities and urban spaces can improve health in countless ways, from encouraging a sense of community to making active travel easier. (Good learnings from Thomas Heatherwick himself for West Yorkshire’s Tracy Brabin ). Looking forward to digesting and sharing more when my head stops spinning with all the ideas and inspiration 🙃

Tonight I attended an inspiring panel discussion during SF #TechWeek on The Future of Women’s Health: Opportunities & Challenges. 🙌 It was so reassuring and inspiring to hear from industry leaders driving innovation in women’s health. Here are a few key takeaways: • Dorothy Kilroy (she/her) CCO at ŌURA: Oura started with a male focus over 10 years ago in Finland but has since transitioned to serving a majority of women, especially those under 25. It’s amazing to see how the next generation embraces technology to better understand their health. Women's bodies are incredible, and we, as women, are the CEOs of our own bodies! • Alice Zheng, Partner at Foreground Capital: There’s growing energy and momentum in women’s health from a VC perspective! We’re living in exciting times, and it’s worth celebrating the VC sector's progress, especially compared to five years ago. • Sylvia Kang, CEO at Mira: her journey as a founder began when “women’s health” wasn’t even considered a sector. She’s seen so many changes in the industry but highlighted that resilience and finding the right path are key. We’re still early in closing the data gap in women’s health, and more needs to be done. The need for male allies in the space is also critical! • Laura Mason, Growth Investor at Composition Capital: Advancing the women’s health industry requires a collective effort. It truly takes a village to accelerate progress! However, it’s a positive sign that growth investors are now looking at the women’s health sector! • Tara Viswanathan, CEO at Rupa Health: It’s essential to study the industry and think about the right capital and timelines to create sustainable models for innovation. AI has the potential to disrupt the women’s health industry and must be a leverage for the founders! We need tech and creativity to find new solutions.💡 Special thanks to Dasha Shunina, founder of Women Tech Meetup, for being a perfect moderator! The future of women’s health is bright. Understanding our health is empowering, and the conversation is just beginning. I'm excited to see where this energy will take us! #WomensHealth #Femtech #TechWeek #Innovation #VentureCapital #HealthTech

🚀 Health Tech's Missing Piece: The 51% Solution 👩💼💉 Did you know? Women make 80% of healthcare decisions but remain underrepresented in health tech leadership. It's time to change that! Join us for a masterclass on investing in women-led health tech innovations with industry leaders: 🌟 Aahuti Rai (Four Points Consulting Ltd) 🌟 Bridget Gorham (NHS Confederation) 🔗 Register now: https://lnkd.in/evnWpFn5 We'll explore: ✅ Redesigning investment strategies for women-led ventures ✅ Unique innovations in femtech and personalized medicine ✅ Impact of inclusive digital health solutions Question: What women-led health tech innovation excites you most? Share below! #WomenInHealthTech #FemTech #HealthcareInnovation #HLTH

Keeping up with health? 🩺 Last week, I attended #LeadersInHealth by WellFounded & Havas with 150 doctors and innovators. Being in a room filled with so many PhDs was a rapid reminder of how crucial it is to stay educated and up-to-date in health tech. Even if the industry moves slowly, the innovation certainly does not. I’ve gathered some of the best resources I’ve used whilst with Aisel Health —perhaps LinkedIn magic can help add to the list of what or who to follow? 👨⚕️People - Paula Petcu - Cofounder of Interhuman AI - AI for human connections - Dr. Zhong Wei Khor - Expert in health tech communication & NHS - Steve Duke - Founder of The Hemingway Group for mental health news 🗞️Funds (and their newsletters) - Masawa - German seed-stage focused on mental health & nurture capital - Calm/Storm - Austrian pre-seed stage focused on digital health - Newfund - French seed fund, with brain tech-focused subfund #Heka 👯Communities - Health Tech Hub Copenhagen - Innovation Hub for health founders - Nordic Women's Health Hub - NGO for founders in women's health - Nordic Health Lab - Bridge for public health care & start-ups 🎫 Events for 2025 - Copenhagen Health Tech Summit #CHTS2025 - For trailblazers in health - Bits & Pretzels Health in Munich for the broader health ecosystem - Hopefully, #LeadersinHealth2026 ...because where else do you get a barre class during work hours (concentration pictured)?

[#innaxe4eu] 🇩🇰 🔎 Zoom on co-creation in Denmark! 🛠️ From a roundtable organized in Copenhagen to individual meetings with Key Opinion Leaders, the Danish Life Science Cluster brought INNAXE’s major topics to the attention of key health and life science stakeholders. A couple of insights from those interviews and cocreation session: 📌Approval for an international cluster2cluster collaboration for joint actions in the 9 major topics like MedTech, digital health, public procurement but also and importantly for equity in health; 📌Cascade funding calls as a tool for investment in the field of public procurement with hospitals pitching their needs to ignite innovation power before the calls; 📌Equity in health: there is a huge geopolitical driver in Europe to lift the quality healthcare in all countries to the same level. Lack of equity can be used as a powerhouse to generate new generation technologies with more adequate pricing models. Inputs from the Danish ecosystem in feeding INNAXE’s topics were invaluable for our joint action plan. 🙏Many thanks to all of our Danish participants and to Danish Life Science Cluster. #innaxe4eu #Denmark #innovation #health #clusters #lifescience Karen Lindegaard

I focused in on the investment thesis of "femtech" during the Business Angels Supernovas programme with the EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology and it met with tremendous enthusiasm. It is a relatively new category with a short history, has an interesting positioning within "female health" which is also underserved and underinvested. The definition of Femtech is rapidly changing as new business models enter the market - from healthtech to medtech and as traditional biotech/drug development begins to re-focus on female/female biased diseases. The ecosystem is still small, but growing - so now is a great time to get on top of the topic! Femtech Insider is the go-to platform and globally leading media outlet for all things femtech and women's health innovation - they are hosting a 101 on the topic next Monday! Thank you Kathrin F. for turning your side-topic into a main topic - SO GET INVOLVED IN THEIR 101 SEMINAR NEXT MONDAY - link below! You can also follow Ida Tin - who coined the term ‘femtech’, launched one of the first start-ups - Clue, and is writing a book on the topic. The market is further supported by a growing number of dedicated regional accelerators, databases, conferences, not for profits, and few female health thesis VCs - outlined below! Please flag misses! Databases/Data/News Femtech Across Borders (Femtech and Female Health/database) FemTech Focus (podcast) Femtech Insider (Media) FemHealth Insights (database) Femtech World PitchBook (Femtech category/tracks m/f founders) Foundations/Not for Profits in Female Health Artemis Women's Health Foundation (therapeutics database/biotech startup support) Society for Women's Health Research (SWHR) (education/grants) Women's Brain Foundation Women's Health Access Matters (grants/research/investment) Dedicated/thematic VCs FemHealth Ventures (femtech and female health) Foreground Capital Goddess Gaia Ventures Kidron Capital Assets LP (female health) Rhia Ventures Conferences FemTechnology Summit MedFemTech Congress Women's Health Innovation Series Associations/Accelerators/Groups FemHealth Founders Femovate by Guidea Femtech Across Borders FemTech Association Asia Femtech Canada Femtech Community Japan Femtech France FemTech Germany FemTech India Femtech Ireland FemTech Israel - Technology & Innovation for Women FemTech Lab Women's Health & FemTech Ukraine Flat6Labs impact.51 Tech4Eva - The global Femtech accelerator Women of Wearables (wearables, health tech & femtech) #femtech #femalehealth #data #femalecategories #teachin101

Yesterday marked the beginning of an exciting journey for the World Health Organization's Strategic Partners' Initiative for Data and Digital Health (SPI-DDH). As CEO of Doctomatic, I am thrilled to witness and be part of this transformative initiative. The power of diverse communities coming together to tackle critical issues in healthcare is truly inspiring. Access to care and the adoption of new technologies are pivotal challenges we face today. By leveraging the unique perspectives and expertise within our global community, we can drive innovation and create more inclusive health solutions for all. Together, we can ensure that no one is left behind in this digital health revolution. Here's to a future where technology bridges gaps and empowers every individual, regardless of their location or background. With gratitude to our hosts Helen Caton-Peters MSN, RN, HCISPP David Novillo Ortiz, PhD Clayton Hamilton Natasha Azzopardi Muscat and the entire team for making this initiative happen. It was a great start 😊 And to my business partners Jorge Huerta Preciado & Fernando Ot Ruiz and our Doctomatic team for the privilege of representing the work we deliver. Marta Laura Cecilia Rafael Jesús Beñat And our investors for supporting our journey of impacting patient's lives Encomenda Capital Partners SGEIC Ship2B Ventures Col·legi d'Economistes de Catalunya Tech Barcelona EIT Health Spain EJE&CON Asociación Española de Ejecutiv@s y Consejer@s ITINERARIO PROMOCIONA Google for Startups UnLimited Spain MASORANGE #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #DiverseCommunities #communitydriven #communitypower #AccessToCare #WHO #techforgood #socialimpact