Women's Health Innovation Summit USA 2023 | Kisaco Research | 13 September 2023 | The Westin Copley Place, Boston, 10 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02116, USA

This event 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. 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.

Why Attend?

• Meet the who’s who in women’s health innovation. Our sector specific audience enables perfectly aligned networking with like-minded leaders to boost partnership opportunities.
• Our investor network is unmatched. With the biggest investment players in the women’s health and healthtech, this is where you need to be if you’re looking for funding.
• Our three-tracked agenda approach enables you to tailor your 3 days to meet your specific business needs. With the inclusion of our pre-day and multiple roundtables – every session will give you tangible, solution-led takeaways for you to implement into your strategy.
• 5 years of bringing the industry together to facilitate partnerships, investment and innovation . That’s 15 events, 3,500 delegates and over 15,000 meetings. We know what we’re delivering. Our credibility is unmatched in the space.
• Time for networking? We can’t get enough. From pre-event access to our networking app, over 10 hours of dedicated meeting time and follow up check-ins, we understand the importance of year-round communication.

2023 Speakers

Kevin Ali
CEO, Organon

Carolee Lee
Founder & CEO, WHAM (Women's Health Access Matters)

Jen Radin
Founding Partner, Deloitte Health Equity Institute

Elizabeth Garner
Chief Scientific Officer, Ferring Pharmaceuticals U.S.

Alice Zheng, MD, MBA, MPH
Principal, RH Capital

Mimi Ghosh
Financial Sponsors Coverage, Bank of America

Allison Watkins
Founder/CEO, Watkins-Conti

Dora Hughes
Chief Medical Officer, The CMS Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Tami L Wahl
Government Affairs, Public Policy, Modern Advocates

Sandy Milligan, MD, JD
Head of Research & Development, Organon

Lucy Perez, PhD
Senior Principal, McKinsey & Company

Rachel Robinson
Chief Operating Officer, MassMedic

Katie Schubert
Society of Women's Health Research

Diana Contreras
Chief Healthcare Officer, Planned Parenthood

Libby Greer
Partner, Forbes Tate Partners

Anna Daily
Founder, Namida Lab

Brian Wilson
New Business Development Partner, Pharma and Medical Businesses, Celanese

Audrey Sheppard
President, Audrey Sheppard Women's Health Consulting

Suzanne Steinbaum
CEO & Founder, Heart-tech Health

Michael Annichine
CEO, Magee-Womens Research Institute

Ru-fong Cheng, MD, FACOG
Director, Women’s Health Innovations, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Candace Tingen
Program Officer, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Bethany Corbin
Founder & CEO, FemInnovation

Linda Goler Blount
Chief Executive Officer, Black Women’s Health Imperative

Liz Powell
Founder & President, G2G Consulting

Primavera Spagnolo, MD, PhD
Scientific Director, Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Elizabeth Cherot, MD, MBA
Chief Medical Officer, March of Dimes

Bethany Young Holt
Executive Director & Founder, CAMI Health

Abigail Sirus
Investor, Special Situations Fund

Traci Keen
CEO, Mate Fertility

Rachel Braun Scherl
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, SPARK Solutions for Growth

Kerry Rupp
General Partner, True Wealth Ventures

Golnoush Golshirazi
CEO & Co-Founder, ScreenMe

Oriana Papin-Zoghbi
CEO & Co-Founder, AOA Dx

Lisa Tate
Director of Partnerships & Strategic Development, American Medical Women’s Association

Bilikis Oladimeji, MD, MMCi, CPHIMS
Senior Director of Health Informatics, Optum

Nicole St. Jean
Executive Director, External Business Strategy Head for Precision Medicine, Oncology Experimental Medicine Unit, GSK

Crystal Tyler, PHD, MPH
Chief Health Officer, Rhia Ventures

Elizabeth Bailey
Managing Director, RH Capital

Lisa Rohan, PhD
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the department of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh

Nada Hanafi
Chief Strategy Officer, Experien Group

Kathryn Capanna
Assistant Director of CDRH and Strategic Programs, FDA

Sara Tancman
Founder & CEO, Briah Foundation

Cecile Dubois
Co-founder & CEO, Sonio

Natalie Buford-Young
CEO, Springboard Enterprises

Jennifer Fried
Venture Partner / Lead Investor - FemTech, Portfolia

Megann Vaughn Watters
Head of Labcorp Venture Fund, Labcorp

Jenna Jung
VC Investment Associate, Joyance Partners

Aceil Halaby
Founder & COO, Bloomer Tech

Sonya Bhavsar
Director of Product Development, Abiomed

Simmone Taitt
Founder & CEO

Marissa Fayer
CEO & Founder, HERhealthEQ

Jill F Schiaparelli
President & CEO, Avation Medical

Jamie White
Health Science Strategy and Relations Lead in the Office of Research on Women’s Health, The National Institute of Health (NIH)

Vrunda Desai, MD, FACOG
Vice President of Medical Affairs, CooperSurgical

Dr. Neil Parikh
Chief Medical Officer, Thirty Madison

Priyanka Jain
Co-Founder & CEO, Evvy

Lindsey Taylor Wood
Founder & General Partner, The Helm

Laura Yecies
CEO & Founder, Bone Health Technologies

Karolynn Echols, MD, FACOG, FPMRS, FABOIM
Director and Associate Professor Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University

Kalahn Taylor-Clark
Faculty in Executive Education, Business School

Valerie Palmieri
CEO & Founder, MOMENTUM Consulting

Holly Rockweiler
CEO & Co-Founder, Madorra

Melisa Margraves
Healthcare and Life Sciences Sales Leader, Hewlett Packard Enterprises

Lisa Marceau
Co-Founder, Joyuus

Michelle Darian, MS, MPH, RD
Marketing Manager of Science and Product, Inside Tracker

Jin Lee, PhD
Oxford Angel Fund

Michele Van Patten Frank
Partner, Venable

Donna Parr
Managing Partner, Cross-Border Impact Ventures

Michelle Perugini
Co-Founder & CEO, Presagen

Arianne Kidder
Partner, Seae Ventures

Kristine Ball
CEO, Antiva Biosciences

Juan Camilo Arjona Ferreira
Chief Medical Officer, Organon

Delphine O’Rourke
President & CEO, WellCity

Martin Gershon
Managing Partner & CIO, Endeavor Life Sciences Venture Funds

Luba Soskin
Global Clinical Lead, Women’s Healthcare, Bayer Pharmaceuticals

Rachael Beardsley
Partner, Fragomen

Jennifer Berliner, MD, MBA
Director of Physician Well-Being, UPMC

Susan Nicholson, MD, FIDSA
Healthcare Consultant

Claire Labouteiller
Medical Devices Project Manager, 42 Technology

Sarah Knight
Head of Healthcare Technology, 42 Technology

Sanskriti Thakur
Chairwoman, Tower Capital

Elizabeth Kester
Head of Nursing Programs, Pomelo Care

Anna Mason
Managing Partner, Ingeborg Investments

Carli Feinstein
Managing Director, Craft and Commerce

Mark Gannott
Founder, Rogue Innovations

Melinda Thomas
Associate Medical Director and Director of the Women’s Health Initiative, BHCHP

Kaitlyn Hamilton
Senior Director, Population Health, Maven Clinic

Andrew Khair
Director of Business Development, Ferring Pharmaceuticals U.S

Jenny Fernandez
Director of Communications and Leadership, Endeavor

2023 Partners

INNOVATION PARTNER:
• Organon

ONCOLOGY PARTNER:
• GSK

KNOWLEDGE PARTNER:
• McKinsey & Company

PLATINUM PARTNER:
• Myovant Sciences

GOLD PARTNERS:
• Watkin-Conti
• Celanese
• PRIA

EVENT PARTNERS:
• Cedar Health Research
• Sheppard Mullin
• Bowdoin group