The home of business and action for the health of women, WHIS is your ticket to accelerating your development needs and commercial model.
We advance the industry by sharing tangible solutions that enable transformation of the healthcare continuum and speed up deployment of solutions.
What You Can Expect
- Funding Opportunities: Build connections with investors actively seeking opportunities in women’s health. Scale your business by networking with decision-makers in pharma, biotech, and healthcare.
- Examples & Case Studies: Upgrade your business strategy with access to keynote sessions, panel discussions, and roundtables led by pioneers in women’s health. Supercharge your business strategies with insights into market trends, clinical outcomes, and collaborations.
- Market Adoption: Roadmap the next stages of your growth by hearing directly from government, providers, and payers, whilst understanding care models, regulation, and reimbursement in the context of women’s health.
Innovation Showcase: The Beating Heart of WHIS
Got a game-changing solution that's shaking up the future of women's health?
This is your sign to apply for our 2025 Innovation Showcase at WHIS!
The Innovation Showcase is your chance to gain visibility, connect with active investors and industry leaders, and take your business to the next level!
For over six years, we’ve been the launchpad for hundreds of startups making waves in women’s health. Be one of 20 trailblazers pitching your disruptive solution to our audience of 900+ movers, shakers and decision makers.
This isn't just a pitch - it's your chance to land partnerships, findings and the connections to propel your business. With previous finalists going on to secure investment and partnerships, why wait?
This year, the showcase is split into two exciting categories: Digital Health & FemTech and Therapeutics & Med Devices
Apply today and be part of the movement of bringing women up, closing the healthcare gap and building a healthier, more equitable future!
Innovation Showcase Categories
Digital Health & Femtech
Highlighting innovative start ups leveraging digital health solutions and femtech to empower women with accessible, personalized healthcare tools. From AI-driven fertility insights and telehealth integration to sexual health education and menopause wearables, understand the commercial potential of breakout biometric startups.
Therapeutics & Med Devices
Identify the next generation of medical products set to address critical areas of unmet need in women’s healthcare breaking into uncontested markets. From the diagnosis of endometriosis to breast cancer detection tools, understand the benefit to patients and the connected healthcare ecosystem. Discover new clinical data and an evidenced proof of concept backing the impending transformation of women’s health opportunities.
New for 2025
WHIS Innovators Academy
From concept to market adoption, the Innovators Academy provides you with all the brand development and scaling tools to put your business vision into practice. Kicking off in 2025, you can expect digital deep-dives and a full day of exclusive roundtables a day before the main event kicks off.
Key Topics Include:
- IP Protection & Legal Acumen
- Pitching & Value Proposition across Company Stage
- Brand Development & Marketing Skills
- Reimbursement Models in Women’s Health
- Understanding Care Models & Provider Opportunity
- Commercialization & Strategic Partnerships
- Fast-Tracking Regulatory Approval
- Appealing to Private Equity & Considerations for Acquisition
- Your place on the Shelf in Consumer Models
- Speeding Up Recruitment in Trials for Pharmaceuticals
With three designated tracks including Consumer & Digital Health, Reproductive & Maternal Health, and Women's Health Across the Life Span, we'll ensure you received tailored content for your specific sector and enable you to form partnerships like nowhere else!