WHY ATTEND?
Over the past five years, WHIS has become the #1 annual eventvthat connects the industry-leading stakeholders in women’s health.vWe unitevpharmaceutical companies, investors, medical devicesvcompanies, biotechs, startups, femtech, payers, researchers,HCPs, consultants, and beyond, looking to drive innovation atvthe convergence of healthcare and technology. As the industry collectively continues to work towards improving health outcomes for women, we’re expanding our focus to include more government representatives, policy makers and NPOS as we steer the conversation towards advocacy, access, and action in line with industry needs. With more opportunities than ever before, we’re delighted to welcome you.
Be part of moving the needle. View the 2022 agenda here for more information.
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2023 SERIES ADVISORY BOARD
Alice Zheng
Elizabeth Garner
Author:
Jamie White
Jamie White
Author:
Kalahn Taylor-Clark, PhD, MPH
Kalahn Taylor-Clark, PhD, MPH
Valerie Palmieri
Sandy Milligan
Lucy is a Senior Partner in McKinsey’s Boston office. Lucy has 15+ years of experience advising CEOs and top teams at leading pharma, biotech and life sciences companies globally on growth strategy, innovation, sustainability, and organizational transformation.
Lucy co-leads McKinsey’s ESG domain and McKinsey’s All-In DEI efforts in North America. She also sponsors the Hispanic Latino Network at McKinsey and leads our research efforts on health equity.
Lucy Perez, PhD
Lucy is a Senior Partner in McKinsey’s Boston office. Lucy has 15+ years of experience advising CEOs and top teams at leading pharma, biotech and life sciences companies globally on growth strategy, innovation, sustainability, and organizational transformation.
Lucy co-leads McKinsey’s ESG domain and McKinsey’s All-In DEI efforts in North America. She also sponsors the Hispanic Latino Network at McKinsey and leads our research efforts on health equity.
Dr. Neel Shah
Raymon uit de Bulten
Rachel Braun Scherl
Bethany Corbin
2023 Innovation Showcase
The Innovation Showcase is a unique opportunity for emerging companies with a disruptive technology, product, or service to present in front of the industry’s most influential partners, investors, and decision makers.
Split across two days and focused on early-stage funding and later-stage funding, 24 start-up finalists, hand-picked by our Selection Committee, will spotlight their innovation, highlight their achievements, and gain industry exposure.
This year, we’re introducing prize bundles for the two winners, as well as an intimate drinks reception for all applicants who attend the summit.
Applications close July 7
PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU ARE A SUCCESSFUL FINALIST, A TICKET MUST BE PURCHASED TO ATTEND THE SUMMIT
Academic Poster Session: Verticals that Differently or Predominantly Affect Women
Apply to showcase your innovative research that focus on verticals that differently or predominantly affect women’s health. During this session, 5 academic posters will be displayed to our audience of potential partners, funders, and accelerators.
2022 Testimonials & Success Stories
2023 Partners
Innovation Partner
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.
Oncology Partner
GSK
Website: https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/
GSK is focused on maximising patient survival through transformational medicines. Our oncology pipeline is focused on immuno-oncology, cell therapy, tumour cell targeting therapies and synthetic lethality. Our goal is to achieve a sustainable flow of new treatments based on a diversified portfolio of investigational medicines.
Gynaecologic cancers are among the most common cancers affecting women. Nearly 1.4 million people were diagnosed with cervical, endometrial, ovarian, vaginal or vulvar cancer in 2020; however, awareness of these cancers and their symptoms remains low. At GSK, we are committed to supporting continued innovation in gynaecologic cancers, keeping the patient’s voice at the heart of our mission, and building a pipeline of novel programmes to meet their needs. For more information about our work in oncology, please visit: https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/
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.
Platinum Partner
Myovant
Website: https://www.myovant.com/
We aspire to redefine care for women and for men through purpose-driven science, empowering medicines, and transformative advocacy.
Our purpose is resolute and fueled by the opportunity to improve the lives of millions of women and men, many impacted by diseases during their most productive years of life. Despite the significant burden of common diseases like uterine fibroids, endometriosis, and prostate cancer, many women and men do not have the options they deserve and need.
Gold Partner
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.
Celanese
Website: https://bit.ly/3a0JriQ
Celanese works closely with you as a strategic partner to create innovative controlled-release dosage forms for biologics and small molecules to meet the goals of patient-centric therapies, improved medicine and better healthcare economics. Our VitalDose® EVA copolymer drug-delivery platform is an enabling technology for drug-eluting implants, inserts and transdermal films. The platform is flexible and customizable to address a variety of formulation challenges when it comes to tailoring the release rate of your drug.
- Compatible with biologics and small molecules
- 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 and 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 there from concept to commercialization, providing development services, material supply aligned with GMP principles and regulatory support.
PRIA Healthcare
Website: https://priahealthcare.com/who-we-help/medical-device-manufacturers/
PRIA Healthcare provides patient solutions for medical device reimbursement. We believe patients deserve to have access to—and insurance coverage for—the most innovative and scientifically proven medical devices, treatments, and procedures so they can receive the care their health and well-being depend on.
At the Reproductive Health Innovation Summit, industry veterans and experts from PRIA Healthcare will discuss the importance of early consultative involvement for innovative treatments and navigation in the strategic reimbursement landscape, as well as market and patient access solutions. Join us for an enlightening discussion around how to drive maximum adoption of your therapy from conception to patient access to ensure progressive treatments in the reproductive health arena are accelerated to their full potential.
Event Partners
Sheppard Mullin
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.
Bowdoin Group
Website: 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.
Event & Media Partner
Boston Globe Media
Website: https://www.bostonglobe.com/
Boston Globe Media is a multimedia organization that provides news, entertainment, and commentary across multiple brands and platforms.
Through in-depth reporting and coverage coming straight from the world’s hub of innovation in health, science, and medicine, Boston Globe Media gives brands the opportunity to create meaningful content, align themselves with award-winning journalism, and reach a robust audience of readers keenly focused on advancements in healthcare and beyond. With powerful storytelling, in-depth filmmaking, great advice, interactive local and global events, immersive branded content, and the largest social media following in New England, we go beyond advertising and help brands forge a meaningful connection with the audiences they want to reach. If you want to educate, entertain, or simply introduce your brand to the world, then allow us to reintroduce ourselves. We are Boston Globe Media.
Read, listen and discover more at Globe.com, Boston.com, STAT, Globe Events, and our in-house creative agency, Studio/B.
Media Partners
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.
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.
World Pharma Today
Website: https://www.worldpharmatoday.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Pharma News HQ
Website: http://pharmanewshq.com/
Pharma News HQ, the journal dedicated to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical contract services. With regular sections on contract manufacturing, contract research, contract packaging, formulation/development services, contract analytical testing, APIs, stability testing, clinical research and other areas, we bring the most complete coverage of trends and issues in the industry. Pharmanewshq.com is the only website focusing specifically on issues relevant to pharmaceutical professionals working with technology, be it development, engineering, IT or production
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.
Pregnolia
Website: www.pregnolia.com
Pregnolia AG is a Swiss medical technology company in the field of preterm birth detection. The company has developed a CE-marked measurement system to accurately determine the stiffness of the cervix. This parameter is an important indicator for assessing the risk of preterm birth. Early diagnosis of preterm birth enables preventive interventions to prolong pregnancy and improve the health of newborns.
2022 Speakers
Kevin Ali
Carolee Lee
Carolee Lee is an innovator, entrepreneur and thought leader dedicated to improving women’s health and wellbeing, and their opportunities to succeed. She was founder and CEO of Carolee Designs, one of the world’s leading accessories brands. Carolee launched WHAM (Women’s Health Access Matters), a nonprofit organization working to bring awareness and funding to women’s health research to transform women’s lives. Carolee forged a research partnership with the RAND Corporation to create The WHAM Report, the first study to analyze the economic costs, benefits and social impacts of health research that focuses specifically on women. The WHAM Report is changing the conversation around women’s health research, proving women’s health research is an economic issue we cannot afford to ignore. Through partnerships with leading advocacy groups, business leaders, researchers and economists, WHAM is using this data drive change.
Carolee is also a mentor and leader in business, philanthropic and educational organizations. She is a past Chair and Foundation Board Chair of the Committee of 200, a community of the most successful women in business, and has served as director on the board of DSW, Inc. Carolee is a founding board member of The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, where she has served since 1986. She currently sits on the Women’s Leadership Board at The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Janine Clayton
Alice Zheng, MD, MBA, MPH
Allison Watkins-Conti
Chris Pagano
Will Porteous
Kalahn Taylor-Clark, PhD, MPH
Dora Hughes
Tami L Wahl
Jessica Federer
Gail Maderis
Sandy Milligan, MD, JD
Sheena Gill
Lucy Perez, PhD
Lucy is a Senior Partner in McKinsey’s Boston office. Lucy has 15+ years of experience advising CEOs and top teams at leading pharma, biotech and life sciences companies globally on growth strategy, innovation, sustainability, and organizational transformation.
Lucy co-leads McKinsey’s ESG domain and McKinsey’s All-In DEI efforts in North America. She also sponsors the Hispanic Latino Network at McKinsey and leads our research efforts on health equity.
Laura Veroneau
Rachel Robinson
Nadine Vogel
Stasia Obremskey
Before joining, Stasia served in 2018 as the first Fellow of the Tara Health Foundation. She has more than twenty-five years of experience providing financial and strategic planning consulting to organizations in the U.S. and Asia. She has joined management teams as the interim Chief Financial Officer on a short term and extended term basis to provide finance, accounting and strategic planning expertise to startups, fast growing companies and non-profit organizations. Current and past clients include 18Birdies, Posit Science, Circlepoint, West Shore Technologies and We Care Solar. She has lived for over 8 years in Bangkok, Thailand and Hong Kong, China. She began her consulting career as a management consultant with Bain & Company. Previously, she worked in investment banking for Morgan Stanley & Co. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in finance from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. In addition to her consulting work, she has extensive experience as a member of several nonprofit boards where she has held a number of leadership positions.
Katie Schubert
Diana Contreras
Golnoush Golshirazi
Libby Greer,
Shakun Sethi
Chris Pagan
Tania Small
Tania Small, MD is Global Medical Affairs Therapeutic Area Head of Oncology at GSK and Chair of the diversity, equity, and inclusion R&D Council. She has built and leads an organization of approximately 500 professionals focused on patient-driven science, breaking down the barriers to access and driving impactful and innovative solutions to improve the outcome of individuals with cancers. Dr. Small was trained in Hematology/Oncology and bone marrow transplant at Columbia University, New York Presbyterian where she also completed a genetic research fellowship. She subsequently continued her focused on both hematology and stem cell transplant.
She has done research in oncology, hematology, gene therapy and stem cell transplantation, and received grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for her translational research in gene therapy and regenerative medicine.
In previous roles with Novartis Oncology and Ipsen, Dr. Small successfully led the launch programs of multiple oncology therapies while overseeing both clinical development programs as well as medical affairs programs.
She has also led many patient-centered and diversity initiatives in previous roles, working closely with the U.S. FDA, Congress and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) to improve the diversity enrollment into oncology clinical trials and elderly programs.
She is passionate about creating a world class oncology program that will successfully deliver the transformational medicines needed to revolutionize the experience and outcomes of patients.
Anna Daily
Oriana Papin-Zoghbi
Brian Wilson
Gurjeet Singh
Kathryn Capanna
Audrey Sheppard
Suzanne Steinbaum
Michael Annichine
Jamie White
Ru-fong Cheng
Candace Tingen
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Big Pharma and Medical Device
At the forefront of women’s health innovation, Big Pharma and Medical Device companies play an important role at the Women’s Health Innovation Summit.
Startups
At the centre of our summit, we are committed to bringing together emerging
companies in women’s health, at all stages of growth and development who are
looking for partnership opportunities and are at the forefront of shaping the future of women’s health in this ever-changing landscape.
Investors
We look to bring together leading women’s health investors, alongside those
with an interest or focus on specific areas within women’s health. Investors
range from seed, to angel, venture capital firms, private equity, funds, and
advisors.
Servicing
Industry support and service providers include advocacy groups, researchers, knowledge leaders and accelerators such as consultants, lawyers, CROs, non-profits and regulatory experts.
Employers
This year, we’re looking expand the scope of stakeholders and hear more from employers, who play an important role in the women’s care across the world.
Payers/Insurers
Payers and insurance companies provide an important bridge between stakeholders within the women’s health industry, and we are delighted to have more joining us at this years’ summit.
FMCGs
Fast moving consumer goods companies play an important role in the women’s health landscape and include companies such as J&J, P&G.
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