Why Partner With Us?
The Women's Health Innovation Summit is the global growth engine of the industry. We bring together the who's who of women's health giving you the opportunity to do months' worth of meetings in just a few days and get deals done quicker.
With a solution to hit every objective, our high-level programmes, tailored introductions, bespoke networking and content-driven marketing offer multiple ways to engage your target market both at the event and in the run up.
By partnering with WHIS you will:
- Be recognized as an industry leader
- Get the eyes of hundreds of decision makers on your brand
- Create space for the most important conversations, and the ones you never knew were out there
- Network with C-Suite from the most influential players
- Amplify your latest announcements, research and expertise
We still have opportunities for you to partner with us across the event, whether you're looking to increase your brand visibility, generate leads, establish your position as an industry leader, or announce your latest news.
Cloud Services Partner
Hewlett Packard Enterprise - Alpha3 Cloud
Website: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/about/diversity/startups.html
HPE is the global edge-to-cloud company built to transform your business. How? By helping you connect, protect, analyze, and act on all your data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so you can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. The HPE purpose to advance the way people live and work is exemplified through our HPE Diversity Startup program. This HPE force for good program provides complementary cloud services vouchers and technical consulting to qualified women and minority founded startups with our trusted HPE GreenLake service provider partner, Alpha3 Cloud. Together, HPE and Alpha3 Cloud want to make a positive impact in Women’s Health.
Knowledge Partner
McKinsey and Company
Website: https://www.mckinsey.com/
There was a time when economic growth, sustainability, and inclusion were seen as trade-offs, but leaders today need to achieve all three. This new paradigm of growth will be more sustainable, driving innovation while reducing environmental impact. It will also be more inclusive, creating access to opportunities for people worldwide.
This is not an easy task, but McKinsey & Company's ambition is to help organizations and their leaders make it a reality. They combine bold strategies and transformative technologies to help organizations innovate more sustainably, achieve lasting gains in performance, and build workforces that will thrive for this generation and the next.
Gold Partners
Organon
Website: https://www.organon.com/
Organon (NYSE: OGN) is a global healthcare company formed through a spinoff from Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, to focus on improving the health of women throughout their lives. Here for her health, the company has a portfolio of more than 60 medicines and products across a range of therapeutic areas. Led by the reproductive health portfolio coupled with an expanding biosimilars business and stable franchise of established medicines, Organon’s products produce strong cash flows that will support investments in future growth opportunities in women’s health, including business development. In addition, Organon is pursuing opportunities to collaborate with biopharmaceutical innovators looking to commercialize their products by leveraging its scale and presence in fast growing international markets. Organon has a global footprint with significant scale and geographic reach, world-class commercial capabilities, and approximately 9,000 employees with headquarters located in Jersey City, N.J.
Premier Research
Website: https://premier-research.com/womenshealth
Premier Research is a clinical research, product development, and consulting company dedicated to helping biotech, specialty pharma, and device innovators transform life-changing ideas and breakthrough science into new medical treatments. With more than 100 women’s health projects conducted in the last five years, Premier Research understands the complexities of developing novel therapeutics and diagnostics for conditions that exclusively or disproportionately affect women. We are supported by a network of thousands of highly experienced women’s health sites and offer end-to-end solutions for wherever you may be in your product development journey, from concept to commercialization.
Venable LLP
Website: https://www.venable.com/
Venable LLP is an American Lawyer Global 100 law firm headquartered in Washington, DC that serves as primary counsel to a worldwide clientele of large and mid-sized organizations, nonprofits, and high-net-worth entrepreneurs and individuals. With more than 850 professionals across the country, including California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Virginia, and Washington, DC, the firm strategically advances its clients' objectives in the U.S. and around the globe. Venable advises clients on a broad range of business and regulatory law, legislative affairs, complex litigation, and the full range of intellectual property disciplines. For more information, please visit www.Venable.com.
Perrigo
Website: www.perrigo.com
About Perrigo: Perrigo Company plc is a leading provider of Consumer Self-Care Products and over-the-counter (OTC) health and wellness solutions that enhance individual well-being by empowering consumers to proactively prevent or treat conditions that can be self-managed. Visit Perrigo online at www.perrigo.com.
BioNTech
Website: https://www.biontech.com/int/en/home.html
BioNTech is committed to improving the health of people worldwide with their fundamental research and their work in the area of development of immunotherapies utilizing the full potential of the immune system to fight cancer, infectious diseases and other serious diseases. They believe in scientific rigor, innovation and passion as driving forces. BioNTech was founded by scientists and physicians to translate science into survival by combining fundamental research and operational excellence.
Naya Bioscience
Website: https://www.nayabiosciences.com/
With unprecedented rates of medical innovation, many biopharma companies and academic institutions are struggling to bring their products to market fast enough to realize their value.
NAYA Biosciences aims to address this challenge through an agile and synergistic platform, backed by access to capital and public markets & driven by experienced, entrepreneurial leadership.
Their unique business model is based on a portfolio approach, optimizing the risk-return investment profile through steady, scalable, profitable revenues augmented by the partnering upside of disruptive clinical-stage therapeutics.
Fueled by this value creation approach, they aim to continue their strategic acquisition of undervalued specialty assets, accelerate their clinical development and commercialization, and capitalize on their potential to transform patients’ lives.
Event Partners
Restful Pump
Website: https://restfulpump.com/
Founded by a mom for moms, Restful Pump® has engineered the world’s first to market premier forward leaning lactation systems for at home, at work or on the go.
Postpartum women are fatigued, sleep deprived, managing breast pumping positioning, milk supply issues, pain and/or breast tissue complications, and some addressing return to employment. Using a breast pump every 4-5 hours, 24 hours a day doesn’t have to be such an uncomfortable chore.
Now women can rest, sleep, or multitask in a supportive hands-free position, using any type of breast pump. While providing comfort, convenience, productivity, possibly reducing breast tissue complications and increasing pumping durations, our devices may even negate the need for baby formula.
Restful Pump® is solving a global problem with novel Class 1 medical devices. With an MD’s prescription, and possible US reimbursement via health insurance, Restful Pump® products aim to be as medically necessary as a breast pump in the postpartum period.
With over 12 patents filed for over 10 products in 30 countries there is massive potential for safe, high-yield investments with durable medical equipment annual recurring revenue.
Pump While You Sleep®
Sheppard Mullin
Website: https://www.sheppardmullin.com/whlc
Sheppard Mullin’s Women in Healthcare Leadership Collaborative (WHLC) is an exclusive national leadership initiative committed to supporting women professionals in or advancing into leadership positions within the healthcare and life sciences industries.
WHLC was established in response to significant and persistent systemic gender disparities in institutional leadership positions in the healthcare and life sciences industries. Despite constituting a vast majority of the workforce, women continue to hold a small minority of these positions.
Drawing upon Sheppard Mullin’s nationally-ranked healthcare practice, and the law firm’s leadership in diversity and inclusion, WHLC aims to reverse this trend by providing women professionals access to critical resources and networking opportunities designed to support them as they progress in their careers. WHLC hosts regular roundtable discussions focusing on complex legal and business issues and cutting-edge innovation and developments in the healthcare industry, as well as professional skills training and development, and quality networking events connecting these professionals to other leaders in the industry. Sheppard Mullin hosts WHLC events virtually and in various locations across the country.
Watkins-Conti Products Inc
Website: http://www.watkinscontiproducts.com/
Watkins Conti Products, Inc. is a Female founded and owned, Platform Women’s Healthcare company and product design firm that is focused on the creation of innovative and affordable consumer medical devices.
The company’s flagship product is a non-invasive solution for stress incontinence in women. The problem impacts and estimated ONE in THREE women globally. The disruptive, patented product offers multiple recurring revenue streams. Watkins-Conti has additional products in the pipeline to improve the consumer experience, specifically for health related issues that women face that are often seen as shameful or taboo.
Deloitte
Website: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/financial-services/topics/climate-risk-management.html
About Deloitte:
Delivering a higher bottom line
How do you meet the evolving expectations of customers while improving profitability and balancing regulatory change? Deloitte’s specialists across risk management, strategy, operations, technology, tax, and audit can help you navigate the shifting landscape of a human-centered economy.
Thought leadership:
Climate Change and Financial Risk Digest | Deloitte US
Financial services opportunities from climate change | Deloitte Insights
Embedding climate risk into banks’ credit risk management | Deloitte Insights
Mira
Website: https://www.miracare.com/
Mira is a San Francisco-based hormonal health company providing integrative care and hormonal testing for over 92,000 customers. In 2023, they were recognized by Inc. 5000 as America's fastest-growing femtech company.
Mira’s most important breakthrough was inventing the market's only FDA-compliant at-home fertility monitor with quantitative technology. Since the beginning, they have been on a mission to develop data-driven hormonal health solutions to help women make confident health decisions during every stage of their lives—from the menstrual stage to menopause.
Mira offers solutions to test, boost, and navigate fertility—starting from comprehensive hormone testing and supplements to fertility coaching and online courses. Unlike conventional at-home test kits, the Mira Hormone Monitor offers AI-powered personalized cycle insights by continuously monitoring four key hormone concentrations in urine samples. Mira’s certified lab test equips these insights with additional biomarkers, by offering personalized, one-on-one medical care and coaching to support every stage of their patients’ journeys with actionable steps. This type of test reveals a considerable amount of data, including a 6-day fertile window and ovulation day, and helps detect useful insights for people with hormone imbalances or signs of menopause. For those on a fertility journey, the Mira Hormone Monitor helped 84% of patients conceive during the first 6 cycles.
Plus, OB/GYNs, REIs, and Integrative and Functional medicine practitioners widely rely on Mira for continuous hormone data in addition to incorporating other standard-of-care measures, revolutionizing diagnostic decisions while lowering costs and improving outcomes. Mira leverages 11 million anonymous hormonal data points and 850,000 menstrual cycles to fill gaps in women’s healthcare and reveal how sex hormones affect broader health conditions to be ****better studied, diagnosed, and understood.
Orrick
Orrick is a global law firm focused on serving the life sciences & healthtech, technology & innovation, energy & infrastructure and finance sectors. Clients worldwide call on our teams for forward-looking commercial advice on transactions, litigation and compliance matters. We bring distinctive quality, teamwork and value to the table – and innovate in everything we do.
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.
Cambridge Design Partnership
Website: http://www.cambridge-design.com/femtech
Cambridge Design Partnership is an end-to-end innovation partner, propelling global brands and ambitious start-ups to success. We build breakthrough products and services – from insight to ideas, prototypes to production – bringing innovation to life.
We help partners realize the potential of innovation in women’s health by helping accelerate their innovation, and we maintain a laser-sharp focus on user-centered design throughout. We focus on building strategic partnerships that leverage our expert understanding of the landscape and complexities created by years of under-representation.
The result? By putting people and context at the center of our thinking, and applying consumer and healthcare knowledge gathered globally by our multidisciplinary team, we empower partners to create meaningful incremental and transformational innovations that improve lives.
One partner. No barriers. Extraordinary results
Rejuvenation
Website: https://gbrmedical.com/
GBR Medical Services was established in 2016 with the aim of offering premium quality healthcare products & services in both the domestic and international markets.
GBR Medical Services serves the healthcare segment in the US and the surrounding countries and it is one of the leading medical supplies companies.
With a primary objective of offering quality deliverables, GBR Medical Services is involved in services like supply, sourcing, import & export of medical devices, laboratory tools including dental products. Throughout the entire operational period of the company, we have acquired extensive product expertise, conducted many surveys, and gathered market trends to offer a quality one-stop solution to customer requirements. We offer the optimum service and best options to our customers in the entire healthcare industry, while striving to introduce and continue with the new trends.
One of our company's priorities is focusing on women's healthcare and we do that by developing red light therapy medical devices and solutions.
42 Technology
Website: https://42t.com/
At 42 Technology (42T), we are a leading product and technology development consultancy known for our expertise in medical devices and consumer product innovation. Our multidisciplinary team of engineers, scientists and designers excels in delivering high-value solutions through active collaboration and inventive approaches. We support clients from concept to manufacturing, ensuring practical and impactful results. Our extensive experience in healthcare and consumer sectors allows us to transfer proven technologies across industries, reducing risks and enhancing innovation. With a commitment to sustainability and cutting-edge technology, 42T drives meaningful advancements in personal care and medical diagnostics.
Daré Bioscience
Website: https://darebioscience.com/
Daré believe women’s health is an important therapeutic area that deserves dramatically increased attention, investment and innovation.
Some of the most persistent unmet needs in women’s health are not yet solved simply because companies have not taken the time to address them. They are the premier partner in women’s health working to address these problems head on, utilizing a novel innovation acceleration model that they believe enables us to identify and advance product candidates more efficiently than traditional R&D driven organizations.
Innovation does not have to start from scratch. The product candidates we identify, in many cases, already have a successful proof of concept study or an established safety profile for the active ingredient that they can leverage in the development process.
They advance the most promising therapies and look to partner our programs at mid or later-stages of development with companies in women’s health that share our commitment to expand options and improve outcomes for women.
Media Partners
Springboard
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. We are a 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.
FemTech Lab
Website: https://femtechlab.com/
FemTech Lab is an impact venture on a mission to improve the lives of 1 billion women globally. The FemTech Lab Accelerator program has supported 70+ inspiring startups in women's health. A global ecosystem of 20k founders, investors, corporate partners, biotech & research, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, government, and retail leaders innovating across all subsectors of women's health and wellness.
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.
MassMEDIC
Website: http://www.massmedic.com/
Founded in 1996, the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC) is the largest regional medtech association in the United States, with over 300 members representing manufacturers, product developers, suppliers, research institutions and academic health centers.
For more than a quarter of a century, MassMEDIC has been the voice of the groundbreaking medical technology industry in New England, advocating for sound public policy that supports innovation and fostering a community built on a shared purpose.
As a MassMEDIC member, you are part of a community of innovators that believe in collaboration and collective success. Our network and resources help you navigate today’s evolving healthcare ecosystem and strengthen your goals through connection, education, awareness, and advocacy.
Women of Wearables
Website: https://www.womenofwearables.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Femtech World
Website: https://www.femtechworld.co.uk/
We are a global media platform, run by award winning journalists, on a mission to contribute to closing the gender health gap by providing valuable news, insights and analysis on the exciting femtech sector. Produced by specialist health media group Aspect Publishing, Femtech World aims to give the femtech community a voice, breaking down professional borders, spreading opportunities and destigmatising women’s health issues.
Exhibitors
Bowdoin Group
Website: https://www.bowdoingroup.com/
The Bowdoin Group specializes in executive search, focused on placing change-makers and strategic leaders across the innovation economy while supporting additional growth through recruitment process outsourcing (RPO).
Our network covers the Health and Technology industries, placing disruptive leaders who are redefining the landscape of how we live and work.
Within the Health and Technology landscape, the firm’s expertise in Digital Health, Software and Technology, FinTech, Biotech, and Diagnostics inform the service we provide for our clients and partners leading these industries. We continue to build lasting partnerships across the financial sector, building out portfolio companies for top-tier Private Equity and Venture Capital firms.
Evidation
Website: https://evidation.com/
Evidation believe everyday health data is the most compelling force in medicine—because under rigorous study, it’s proving to be a new and exceptionally powerful lens on health. These novel discoveries—emanating from data generated and controlled by individuals—can be turned into tools individuals use to take control of their health.
Start-Up Partners
Ovulio Corp
Website: https://ovul.ai/
In 2022, as busy parents and engineers, we found ourselves facing the same fertility struggles that touch so many families. That's when we realized we needed a better way—a more convenient, clearer way to understand our bodies. So, we created Ovul.
Our little egg-shaped ovulation monitor combines the best of technology with the convenience, reliability, and clarity every family deserves. It's designed to slip easily into your daily routine, offering precise insights with privacy and ease. This is our story of innovation and support, woven into every Ovul ovulation monitor, making sure no one feels alone on their journey to parenthood.