Come discover FemTech at Sanidays!
TECH4FEM ADVANCE
MAY 7, 2025
CASA DELLE TECNOLOGIE EMERGENTI
ROMA – TIBURTINA STATION
On the occasion of the Sanidays event, we are organizing a large event dedicated to FemTech and women’s health, involving startups, companies, investors, banks, medical professionists, data and artificial intelligence experts in medicine, and many others.
It will be a time of discussion and enrichment, exchange, networking, and practice.
During the event we will preview the results of the first survey of Tech4Fem’s FemTech Observatory, with support from Minerva Lab – Laboratory on Diversity and Gender Inequality at Sapienza University of Rome.
The FemTech Observatory aims to map and tell the story of the sector in Italy, give it visibility and identify critical issues and opportunities for growth.
So many moments designed for you
Discover the Agenda
The Tech4Fem Advance event is designed both for FemTech startups and companies, dedicating various activities to them, and for all the public who would like to come and meet us and connect with women’s health businesses and professionals.
✴ 10:30 – 13:00
Focus Group Tables
1) FemTech and Gender Equality: Welfare and Certification
2) Women’s Health Between Investment, Growth, and Leadership
3) AI and Women’s Health
4) Data, Censorship, Sexual-Affective Education, and Women’s Health
This time is by invitation only and dedicated to FemTech startups and companies/professionals from various fields.
✴ 14:00
Welcome to Tech4Fem Advance
We open to the public and immerse ourselves in an afternoon of networking, talks, workshops, match-making, immersive experiences and more!
Register and attend the event and all our activities for free!
✴ 14:00 – 18:00
Networking
You can come and meet FemTech startups and companies, talk to them, find out more about their products and services.
We dedicate this time to the practice of caring through information, discussion, and exchange.
Let’s care for women’s health through connections.
✴ 14:30
Talk – PMA for all
with Francesca Re
Luca Coscioni Association
Article 5 Law 40/2004 prohibits access to medically assisted procreation techniques for single people and same-sex couples.
This ban is unfair and discriminatory and contrary to constitutional principles.
FemTech helps women take care of their reproductive health, as well as motherhood and parenting.
How does FemTech join with women’s rights advocacy?
✴ 15:15
Talk – Epigenetics and gender-based violence
with Simona Gaudi
Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Violence leaves ‘scars’ on the DNA of the women who experience it, and understanding the extent to which these changes extend within the victims’ genome, and how long their effects last over time could be the key to implementing ‘precision’ prevention.
The EpiWE (Epigenetics for Women) project is the multi-center study sponsored by ISS to measure the public health impacts of gender-based violence and ensure that all women and girls can live a life free of violence and its health consequences.
✴ 15:45 – 16:45
Workshop – The art of pitch-telling
with Alice Siracusano
CEO of LUZ and head of the project “Ensemble: together to change spaces and narratives”
A good pitch can make all the difference in FemTech startups’ growth and investment raising. How to be truly effective? With LUZ’s expert guidance, we explore the characteristics of the “perfect” pitch and techniques for constructing it.
We will also learn about the project “Ensemble: together to change spaces and narratives” to communicate women’s health and rights, promoted by LUZ, an agency specializing in storytelling and projects with a strong social impact.
This time is reserved for FemTech startups and companies.
✴ 16:00
Talk – Women’s bodies between science, power and self-determination
With Nicole Miglio, Silvia Buffo and Dr. Vittoria Lombardo
A journey through three books that unmask dominant narratives about the female body, motherhood, and health. From denouncing suffering imposed on mothers as an inevitable fate, to deconstructing ultrasound as a political and symbolic tool, to a new way of communicating prevention through art and science. A talk that weaves together stories of violence, manipulation, and resistance to rethink the way we look at, live with, and narrate women’s bodies.
✴ 17:00
Talk Tech4Fem Advance
With Valeria Leuti, professor Marcella Corsi and councillor Monica Lucarelli
The final moment of the day’s storytelling and presentation of the Tech4Fem project!
– We recount the insights that emerged from the focus group tables;
– We preview the results of the first FemTech Observatory survey, with Prof. Marcella Corsi – Minerva Lab Sapienza University of Rome;
– We discuss with Councillor Monica Lucarelli the role of FemTech in the country’s economic growth and the importance of gender equality in health.
✴ 14:00 – 17:00
Neuroscience with Bene Essere
Neuroscience and technology to offer an innovative, integrated, and personalized pathway.
An innovative frontier that harnesses the potential of new technologies to transform the approach to brain enhancement and mental well-being.
During the afternoon, it will be possible to experience Bene Essere ‘s approach that integrates virtual reality, neurofeedback, and neuromodulation to effectively and efficiently improve an individual’s well-being.
How did it go
Innovation in women’s health at the center of Sanidays
The Tech4Fem Advance event was a real success!
4 focus group tables (welfare, investment, AI, data and censorship)
40 focus group participants, cross-cutting stakeholders with diverse and complementary expertise
about 80 people came to listen between morning and afternoon
4 talks that you loved
1 engaging and inspiring workshop
1 immersive experience with neuroscience
4 special interviews on mental health
lots of networking , lots of smiles, lots of contacts and new synergies!
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They say about us
Tech4Fem is constantly evolving. The quality of this event confirms Valeria’s and the team’s vision and ability not only to enhance Femtech-related issues, but also to attract and unite a competent and relevant network that has been missing in Italy.
Martina Palmese
Angelini Ventures
Energy-filled event, it was an incredibly valuable recharge!
Simone Edoardo Schiavi
Dimann – YPL
Participating in Tech4Fem Advance was an extremely stimulating as well as necessary experience. I come out inspired, aware and with an immense desire to continue networking, building alliances and sharing ideas and opinions.
Also excellent was the organization, which fostered networking, confrontation and collaboration among those active in the field.
Thank you very much to the whole Tech4Fem team, there is a real and urgent need for spaces like this.
Eleonora La Monica
FLY – Free Like You
The observatory
Want to be part of the event agenda?
If you are a FemTech business, company, association, or professional and would like to participate in the event agenda, please write to us!
You can apply to participate in the morning tables or in the afternoon activities.
You can also choose to support us with a donation to support the event, even if you will not be able to attend in attendance!
The observatory
Do you want press credentials?
If you are a journalist and would like to attend the event, you can apply for our press accreditation!
We will send you the Press Kit and all the info to participate.
Follow us on the Pazzi Fuori Podcast
the Real Talk on Mental Health
PAZZI FUORI is a video podcast dedicated to mental health that gives voice to stories, experts, and issues often little addressed in public debate. Through authentic and accessible language, the podcast aims to normalize the dialogue on mental well-being.
During Sanidays, in collaboration with Tech4Fem, she will produce special podcast episodes with 4 guests to explore the intersection of technology and mental health, offering insights into how FemTech can contribute to women’s psychological well-being (and beyond).
Flavia Tallarico will conduct the interviews to discuss how technology can offer concrete tools to improve women’s psychological well-being by breaking down stigma, taboos and raising awareness.
PAZZI FUORI, as a media partner, will give voice to experts, innovators and practitioners in the field, because being part of this conversation means not only bringing value to the listener, but also building new opportunities for your profession. For us, the time to be heard is now.
Grow your FemTech business with LUZ
Project “Ensemble: together to change spaces and narratives”
ENSEMBLE was first and foremost a two-day event (in Milan) to tell the story of parenting outside the stereotypes of mainstream and gender communication. We involved experts, families of all kinds and professionals in lectures, workshops and cultural activities, through meetings and debates managed in a constructive and respectful way, while posing different and sometimes divergent points of view.
Today ENSEMBLE wants to open up further new spaces for storytelling through a publishing project aimed at advancing reflections on fundamental issues and rights related to women’s health and the rights of underrepresented people.
ENSEMBLE was born within LUZ – Lights on Humans – a communication agency and Benefit Society that investigates and disseminates the values of people and brands. In LUZ’s activities, people are always the beginning and the end point: therefore, it integrates B2C communication and marketing services with activities for internal communication of companies, to help people at all levels, starting from the3 founder, to be better in the workplace and communicate more effectively.
Come see the Victoria’s Cells exhibition.
Science and Art for Oncology Prevention.
To bring the population closer to prevention, Dr. Vittoria Lombardo combined the rational scientific working path with her artistic nature, combining science and art. Hence images of cells that evoke real elements, which come together to interest the viewer and simplify the concept.
During the event, it will be possible to view Dr. Vittoria Lombardo’s work at the House of Emerging Technologies, with a unique exhibition at the intersection of art and innovation for women’s health.
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