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#blokeinfemtech at JFK about to fly back to London. It’s been an exciting week with Innovate UK and the GBIP team. It’s not everyday you get to pitch to one of the largest US hospital systems but I was given that chance yesterday. We all pitched to Northwell Health for 3 mins with no slides. Great experience! Icing on the cake for me was I met a breast surgeon from Northwell at the welcome dinner the night before. I told him what I do and he said that he had read my papers and thought preconditioning is a good idea. I almost fell off my chair. Almost. One of the best bits about the trip was connecting with other founders and sharing our successes and war wounds. Thank you Innovate UK Katherine Horner Chris Sawyer Adrianna Gomez! See you again NYC. See. You. Again. 🫡 Thang Vo-Ta Adrianna Gomez Lara Zibners MD MMEd MBA Dr. Dupe Burgess Dr Natalie Getreu Adrian Waller Brenda Sharp Miles Priestman Dr Chen Mao Davies MedTech Innovator Gaele Lalahy #IAmAnInnovator #blokeinfemtech

#blokeinfemtech here. I am thrilled to announce that we have made it into final cohort of companies on this years MedTech Innovator 2024!! The pitch event in Dublin went really well and we were selected as one of 65 medtech companies out of 1400 applications from across the World. I’ve met some amazing people along the way and I can’t wait for the opportunity to be mentored by some very influential people in medtech. I am very proud to be part of an incredible group of companies - you can see them all here: https://lnkd.in/etxsHGjq We kick off the program in Mountainview on 12th June. Can’t wait!!! #IAmAnInnovator MedTech Innovator Gautam Kainth Maxim Owen Jean N. Esther Reynal de St Michel Richardot Dr Michelle Griffin Tatum Getty Pamela Walker Geddes Rahim Nazerali

Just over a week ago we were selected as 1 of 5 companies to present our technology at International Women’s Day at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | RCOG. I was slightly nervous about how Bloom43 would be received since breast surgery remains under the Royal College of Surgeons and is not a core subspecialy of the RCOG. Plus I was the only #blokeinfemtech presenting alongside some amazing female led companies. But, I am happy to report that our story was well received and we had some lovely comments afterwards. We’ve even got some exciting meetings from the event. If you want to hear the event then click on the link below. You can watch my presentation in the link below in session 6 from 18 mins but please watch the whole session as there are some great companies presenting. Thank you to the RCOG for including us! It was a competitive process to get in and I am so glad we were selected. I promise that preconditioning device for Lower C-Sections is coming soon! https://lnkd.in/esk9sw9D Hertility Dr Michelle Griffin

I had a blast at the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme Big Pitch event last night. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do a (slightly nerve racking) 60s pitch! It was so encouraging to hear the other pitches and stories from the CEP’s. There is so much good work going on in the UK at the moment in innovation in healthcare. Last nights event was a testament to the vision of Tony Young and the entire NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme team in supporting all of us nutty CEP’s on our crazy journies! Dr Harry Thirkettle MD Krishan Ramdoo Dr Avi Mehra Ryan Kerstein Ash Kalraiya Christina Sothinathan CW+ charity

Plexāā presents their first product, Bloom43, helping women achieve a complication free experience of breast #surgery. We're inspired by their dedication to pushing boundaries and driving positive change in #healthtech. Thank you for joining us at #GIANT2023 and we hope to see you at #GIANT2024!

We dusted off the conference boards and we’re at Women’s Health Professional Care at Kensington Olympia. The is the first face-2-face conference and we’ve had loads of interest. We’re right next to one of the lecture theatres so when people are queuing up to enter it has provided a captive and trapped audience to tell them about Bloom⁴³! 😁

*Click* In digital health, the sound of "click" is usually a mouse. But for us, it's the sound of Bloom⁴³ coming together! We're thrilled to have received sight of our first manufactured version this week. It's an incredibly special moment for us and we couldn't have done it without the incredible team at Plexāā. Kudos to them for making this happen. And the best part? It's only January! #hardware #manufacturing #teamwork *Click*

It was a huge honour to be invited to showcase Bloom⁴³ at the launch of the Women’s Health Strategy at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | RCOG. I was there with our fantastic Patient Champion - Carly Moosah. The launch was presented by Dame Lesley Reagan, Maria Caulfield and the Health Secretary Victoria Atkins. For a bloke in Femtech it’s great to be part of the future of Women’s Health! #womenshealthsummit

Yesterday marked a milestone as we celebrated the culmination of our inaugural #AcceleratingFemTech programme! The day featured a packed agenda with insights and reflections from key opinion leaders in #WomensHealth, as well as valuable networking opportunities. Kicking off with a warm welcome from our Commercial Director, Anna King, attendees also heard a special speech from Viscount Camrose Jonathan Berry, the Minister for Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Our 12 #FemTech innovators then took on a competitive pitching session, evaluated by our esteemed panel of judges: DigitalHealth.London's Programme Director Sara Nelson, Candesic's FemTech Expert Suzanne Coles, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | RCOG's CEO Kate Lancaster, and NHS England's National #Digital Midwife Lead for Maternity Jules Gudgeon. A massive congratulations to Bloomful, Plexāā, and IBEX Innovations for winning 'Most Engaging Pitch,' 'Biggest Potential to be the Most Revolutionary for Women's Health in the UK,' and 'Greatest Potential Benefit to the #NHS/Industry' respectively! The second panel of the day featured Innovate UK's Head of Health Technologies Samana Brannigan, SmartCo Consulting's Women's Health Lead Katherine Church, Mills & Reeve's Principal Associate Commercial Health Charlotte Lewis, and London & Partners' Board Member Jo Pisani, who shared their insights in the exciting developments within the FemTech space. The session was skillfully chaired by our Operations Director, Mark Edginton. The last panel delved into bringing women's #health #innovation to life. Chaired by our Medical Director Natasha Curran, the session featured valuable sharing from South West London Integrated Care System's Chair Michael Bell and Deputy Director of Innovation and Transformation Jayne Thorpe, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's Consultant Urogynaecologist and Uro-neurologist Sohier Elneil, and #DHLAccelerator alumnus getUBetter's Founder and CEO Carey McClellan. The event concluded with a closing keynote from Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists | RCOG's Vice President for Academia and Strategy Asma Khalil, who shared her work on HaMPton, an app enabling pregnant women to monitor blood pressure at home. A big shoutout to all 12 of our Accelerating FemTech companies for completing this ten-week journey of innovation, learning, and growth. Adora Digital Health, BirthGlide, Bloomful, Bloume Health, Ellescope, IBEX Innovations, Joii, LBN Innovations, P.Happi, Platinum Medica ltd, Plexāā, Ru Medical - we are incredibly proud of your achievements! 🎉

The big question put to Samana Brannigan, Katherine Church, Charlotte Lewis, and Jo Pisani by Mark Edginton on yesterday’s panel: What’s exciting you in FemTech at the moment? The answer – The 12 startups presenting their products at the showcase for the Health Innovation Network’s accelerating FemTech programme of course! The pictured panel discussion was a personal highlight from the showcase event for me. I was pleased to hear that despite the excitement, there must be focus on how to manage the data that startups are generating, and how to navigate the regulatory hurdles in product development. These points, along with the importance of user-centred design were hopefully some of the key takeaways from the session I gave, back at the start of the programme too. Thanks again to the Health Innovation Network South London for asking me to come and speak on this important topic, and involving me through the programme. A huge congratulations to Bloomful, Plexāā, and IBEX Innovations for picking up awards too! I’m really looking forward to seeing what progress all the startups make over the next few months. Please reach out or check out eg technology Ltd if you’re starting a product development journey in this space and want to learn more about some of the key considerations.