WHY ATTEND?
Women’s health today is under-served from innovation and clinical science standpoints with outdated practices and lack of much-needed attention from key players (incl. investors and insurers). It is imperative to develop the eco-system, shift mindsets and embrace a holistic, women-centered approach.
As part of our leading Women’s Health Innovation Series, The Fertility Innovation Summit is the second instalment of our 1-day themed events throughout 2021. Take a deep-dive into the verticals that are driving change in women’s health to improve the quality and access to healthcare for women globally.
Reproductive-health-supporting technologies and research advances are on the rise. The Fertility Innovation Summit will focus on how to harness such innovation’s through partnerships, investment, and collaborations to empower women’s understanding and control over their own reproductive health. The breadth of advancements in fertility will be explored from clinical research, to mental health challenges, to the role of technology and digitization to determine next steps for the continued growth of this industry.
Join our leading network of biotech, medical device companies, start-ups, insurers, investors, pharma, researchers, and HCPs to drive innovation at the convergence of healthcare and technology.
WHIS Steering Committee 2021
Maryjane Lacoste
Maryjane Lacoste joined The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in May 2014, working with the Family Planning Team as the Senior Program Officer for Family Planning Service Delivery and Quality. As such, she led the implementation of the Implant Access Program and currently leads and manages the DMPA-SC introduction/scale portfolio, ensuring that the strategy focuses on expanding access to method choice and strengthens quality of care including counseling, interpersonal communications, clinical training, service delivery and performance monitoring. She also oversees the family planning portfolio in Indonesia and guides on postpartum and postabortion FP strategies. Prior to joining the Foundation, Maryjane worked with Jhpiego for over 20 years, spending the last 15 years in the field as country/regional director in Tanzania, Indonesia and Malawi. She has worked with Ministries of Health, donors and other stakeholders to develop and manage implementation of large reproductive health, maternal, newborn and child health and HIV projects in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in Indonesia. Maryjane holds a Master of Arts degree from University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Loyola University.
Alice Zheng, MD, MBA, MPH
Susan C. Nicholson, MD, FIDSA
Dr. Stephen Gerrard Ph.D.
Jarrad Aguirre
Jarrad Aguirre, MD, MBA, is Head of Corporate Strategy and Advocacy at Myovant Sciences, a healthcare company focused on women's health and prostate cancer. In this role, he oversees corporate communications, patient advocacy, and digital strategy, and serves on the Executive Committee.
Prior to joining Myovant, Jarrad worked as a physician, researcher, and consultant across the spectrum of health and healthcare, including at Brigham and Women's Hospital (a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School), The Colorado Health Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Collective Health.
He graduated with honors from Yale University and University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He completed the MD/MBA at Stanford University, supported by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship.
Partners
Associate Partner
Prima Temp
Website: https://www.kindara.com/
Prima-Temp empowers women to make informed healthcare decisions by identifying real-time and personal predictive biometric patterns. Utilizing the power of digital platforms, women find support and community on Prima-Temp's comprehensive platform, Kindara, that engages and educates through an interactive community. Our first personal sensor, Priya, utilizes the gold standard in circadian science, continuous core body temperature (CCBT). CCBT is the most powerful circadian biomarker, an accurate predictor for multiple biophysical phenomena, and impactful to a wide range of health applications. Priya’s patented technology is the first of its kind to achieve the transmission of health data directly out of the body via Bluetooth. Priya uses AI to process that data into a predictive alert and diagnostic reports that are communicated through the phone. The combination of Priya’s objective predictions and Kindara’s symptom tracker provides a whole product approach that is applicable to women trying to conceive and will also be applied to menopause, metabolic conditions, sleep and chronotherapies.
Sagentia Innovation
Website: www.sagentiainnovation.com
Sagentia Innovation provides independent advisory and leading-edge product development services focused on science and technology initiatives. Working across the medical, industrial, chemicals and energy, food and beverage, and consumer sectors, Sagentia Innovation works with a broad range of companies from some of the world’s leading and best-known brands, to start-up disruptors, new to the market. It is part of Science Group (AIM:SAG), which has more than ten offices globally, two UK-based dedicated R&D innovation centres and more than 400 employees. Other Science Group companies include Leatherhead Food Research, TSG Consulting and Frontier Smart Technologies.
Essity Ventures
Website: www.essityventuresilab.com
Essity Ventures is a strategic initiative of Essity, a global, leading, health and hygiene company with a mission to break barriers to well-being. As a global leader, we leverage our expertise and resources to help start-ups build credibility and accelerate their growth towards commercial success. We seek for Innovative start-ups and entrepreneurs who share our mission to partner with us in connecting the dots between innovation and expertise to revolutionize the future of health and hygiene.
Our particular focus will be on Feminine Care and Women’s health, tapping into areas such as Femtech, Period pain and Menopause. We also have a high interest in startups tapping into the Sustainability, Incontinence, Consumer tissue, Professional Hygiene, Personal Care and Baby care area.
Granata Bio
Website: https://www.granata.bio/
Granata Bio is a biopharma company focused on women's health and infertility. Founded in 2018, Granata Bio’s model is to identify and in-license strategic products for development and commercialization in North America. The company recently announced a partnership with IBSA Group (Lugano, CH) to co-develop a novel subcutaneous progesterone solution in the United States.
For more information, please visit www.granata.bio. Follow on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Event Partner
Celanese
Website: https://bit.ly/3a0JriQ
Celanese works closely with you to develop innovative sustained-release dosage forms to help you deliver patient-centric therapies, improved medicine and better healthcare economics. Our VitalDose® EVA copolymer drug-delivery platform is an enabling technology for drug-eluting implants and inserts, with flexibility to address a variety of formulation challenges and tailoring the release rate of your drug.
∙ Compatible with biologics, small molecules, and RNA
∙ Provides reliable local or systemic drug administration
∙ High drug loading capacity (≤ 75%)
∙ Engineered long-acting dosage profiles (zero-order or nonlinear profiles)
∙ Ease of formulation, configurable into a variety of geometries
∙ An established regulatory path with long clinical use history
From FEASIBILITY to DEVELOPMENT to COMMERCIALIZATION
Our scientists and engineers are available from concept to commercialization, providing development services, material supply aligned with GMP principles and regulatory support.
Media Partners
FemTech Collective
Website: https://femtechcollective.com/
FemTech Collective is the world’s largest network for entrepreneurs, innovators, and professionals interested in amplifying the women’s health technology ecosystem. Our mission is to catalyze quality innovation by providing a strategic platform for the FemTech ecosystem in order to create and grow better products and services to accelerate female health.
Femtech Insider
Website: https://femtechinsider.com/
Femtech Insider is the go-to platform for all things femtech. We’re the fastest growing portal for innovation in women’s health and address the information needs of founders, investors, researchers and consumers alike.
Fertility Road Magazine
Website: https://fertilityroad.com/
Fertility Road is the leading IVF Magazine and community for anyone trying to start or extend their family. Our fertility experts are on hand to provide advice and support.
Femtech Media
Website: www.femtechmediagroup.com
Femtech Media Group is a production company dedicated to making femtech
mainstream, so that more women around the world have access to safe,
affordable healthcare technologies designed for their unique needs. As part of
this work, FMG provides femtech leaders with valuable business resources so that
they can continue doing the hard work of innovating in women’s healthcare.
Learn more at femtechmediagroup.com .
Springboard Enterprises
Website: https://sb.co/
Springboard’s mission is to accelerate the growth of entrepreneurial companies led by women through access to essential resources and a global community of experts. It is the leading network of influencers, investors and innovators dedicated to building high-growth companies led by women who are transforming industries in technology and life science.
Women's Health Innovation Coalition
Website: https://www.womens.health/
We are a coalition of organizations advocating and promoting greater attention, research, and investment in diseases, conditions, and indications that exclusively or predominantly impact women. Understanding that women are biologically different than their male counterparts, has led to the identification of gaps in women’s health outcomes. This has created new opportunities to fill these gaps through sourcing solutions from innovators. We have made it a priority to prove that women’s health is not a niche market and are driving initiative to promote greater gender-relevant data transparency to spur innovation and better health outcomes for all.
Early Confirmed Attendees include:
Speakers
David Sable
Barbara Collura
Tom Smith
Michelle Perugini
Arielle Spiegal
Arielle is the Founder of CoFertility, a site that aims to un-complicate the fertility journey by answering every fertility question out there. With educational content, resources, and tools, Co provides helpful, digestible information about fertility and reproductive health all in one place—while keeping it real.
Prior to founding Co, Arielle led social media and partnerships at Victoria’s Secret PINK and Coach. She thrives on bolstering brand relevance among key audiences, especially when they involve first-to-market technology and media partnerships.
When she’s not busy changing the conversation about fertility, Arielle enjoys hanging out with her husband, Max, and playing with their dog, Oliver. She also loves listening to podcasts, with favorites including NPR’s How I Built This and Big Fat Negative. After multiple rounds of IVF and several losses, Arielle finally had her rainbow baby in June 2020.
Mylene Yao
Georgie Kovacs
Rachel Scherl
Anate Brauer
Dr Ranjith Ramasamy
Guy Ringler
Anne Morrissey
Jenny Yip
Maria Velissaris
Kamran Adle
Linda Greub
Elizabeth Bailey
Shilpa Patel
Julia Miller
Jake Anderson-Bialis
Lindsey Conon
Michele Taylor-Scott, MS, MBA, CCDM,
Darlene Panzitta
Evan Sussman
Evan is the Chief Executive Officer and a Co-Founder of Granata Bio, a US based biopharma company focused on women’s health and fertility. In his role, Evan is responsible for Granata Bio’s corporate, customer, and commercial strategies.
Before founding Granata Bio, Evan spent nine years at EMD Serono/Merck KgAA. Most recently, he served as the Marketing and Business Unit Head for the US Fertility/Fertility Technologies businesses. During this time, Evan spearheaded the creation of innovative programs aimed at expanding access to care for under-recognized patient groups. He has previously served on the corporate council of RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association and the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.
Evan is a graduate of Brown University and received an MBA in Healthcare Leadership from Yale University. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and daughter.
Ronald F. Feinberg, M.D., PhD
Marissa Nelson LMFT CST CSE
Mikayla Johnson
Fertility Innovation Spotlight
Do you have an innovation in fertility that you would like to share with the Fertility Innovation Summit? Be one of 6 finalists, selected by our prestigious selection committee, showcase their innovations to our audience and get priority access to our meeting platform.
We are looking for solutions such as:
- Therapeutic Technology
- Hormone Testing Product
- Fertility/Ovulation Tracking Technology
- Medical Device
- Fertility – Drug solution
- Telehealth Solution
- IVF Supporting technology
- Lab supporting technology
- Patient support product
- Genetic Screening Technology
What happens if I apply?
All applications will be considered by our selection committee which includes Adjuvent Capital, Avestria, Steel Sky Ventures, Rhia Ventures and Octopus Ventures.
If you are successful and are named on of the 6 finalists, showcase your innovation to the entire Fertility Innovation Summit with a 3 minute video and gain additional exposure on the virtual platform.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 16, 2021
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