Rebekah Brown is a narrative research specialist (collector of stories) and the founder of the vibrant midlife community and powdered supplement range, MPowder.

MPowder's ambition is to make midlife a superpower by providing an inclusive space where individuals can evaluate interventions, expert insight, personal stories and emerging research; where the wisdom we carry in our bones about our biology is recognised, where science and traditional medicine are both respected and where we have agency to select our own path to part 2. 

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Valentina Milanova is the founder of Daye, the gynae health company on a mission to close the gender pain gap and overcome historical gender biases in medical research and product innovation. 

After years of research and testing, Daye launched its first consumer product in 2020 - the world‘s first and only tampon to fight menstrual cramps. Daye's central hypothesis is that you can use tampons for a lot more than just soaking up menstrual fluid, which is why they have developed tampons for endometriosis; for the detection of STIs and HPV; and for the treatment of common vaginal infections.

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Alexandra Lunn is the founder of Alexandra Lunn Studio. She runs a team of strategists, copywriters and designers and has built her business from the ground up so she speaks the language of the business owners she supports. She now supports startups who have series A or B rounds of investment, as well as businesses who operate for and within the financial, legal and property industries. All her projects are bespoke and tailored to her client's needs. 

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Vedika Lall is a designer, and an interventionist, and believes in tackling complex problems, be they local or global, not just with solutions but with stories. She founded ⁠BIA⁠, an Imperial College London spin-out, which is a non-invasive at-home uterine contraction monitoring system with the aim of empowering expectant mothers and healthcare providers with objective information to make better decisions. 

Having spent more than 2+ years developing projects at the intersection of human-centred design, emerging technology, and behavioural sciences, she strives to empower people by empathically and ethically designing with and for them to create equitable products, services, and experiences.

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Dupe Burgess is founder and CEO of Bloomful, an angel-backed startup that's raising the standard for women's gynaecological care by building a new digitally-enabled care pathway within women's health.

Prior to Bloomful, Dupe was a management consultant at the global consulting firm Boston Consulting Group, where her job was to turn data into insights and help companies solve their most complex problems. Before this she was a medical doctor for 7 years and saw first hand the inefficiencies and deep-rooted healthcare inequity that gives rise to poor access to care.

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Petra Salaric is a multiple award-winning researcher, designer, an activist, and a founder of pstaboo, the first consultancy in the world that specialises in taboos.

Petra has worked for almost 10 years in different areas of design and art – from graphic design to scenography, and across 3 continents before specialising in the area of taboos. Her framework of working on taboo topics is currently the only existing framework that guides how to deal with taboos in projects. She has collaborated with a number of NGOs, taught in universities, shared her work at conferences, and created a number of projects around the world. She is an activist and runs the only existing online abortion support group in Croatia and is currently finishing her PhD at Loughborough University, UK.

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Elena (CEO) and Paulina (CPO) are the founders of Dama Health, a London-based women's health start-up with a vision to bring precision medicine to women’s health. The Dama Health team has been conducting research to improve healthcare delivery for women starting with contraception prescription.

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Rebecca Jabbar is the Founder of the Brand Champion Bootcamp, an on-demand eLearning media & presentation skills programme. She is passionate that anyone required to represent their business as a spokesperson should feel confident in being engaging, authentic and credible; and believes that only then will the important messages they have to deliver be understood and remembered by those who need to hear them.

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Ellen Kelly is the Co-Founder and CEO of Savvy, a sustainable investment platform.

After studying and working in ESG financial markets in Ireland, Ellen moved to Paris to pursue a Master's in Sustainability and Social Innovation at HEC Paris. It is there she met her co-founder Jérémie. Both passionate about getting more investment into sustainable funds and increasing transparency, they started Savvy. Ellen combines her background in financial services and her expertise in Sustainability to prove sustainability's place as a driver for financial performance. Savvy allows users to create a sustainability profile based on their personal preferences, match to funds that best align with their profile, and track the impact of investments made. Ellen has a strong focus on increasing participation among women in both entrepreneurship and investing.

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Rebekah Hall is the pioneering CEO of FEWE, the female founded menstrual cycle care brand leading the transformation of menstrual cycle product provision in mainstream retail.

Rebekah’s vision was to create a female founded, menstrual wellness brand, based on extensive consumer research, that not only provides the products and services that people so desperately need, but also an educational platform to improve understanding, knowledge and ultimately women’s health outcomes. With over 10 years experience building brands in the wellness industry and a background in investment banking, Rebekah is passionate about breaking taboos and challenging the status quo in a product space that has been stagnant for far too long. She is the driving force behind The Menstrual Revolution, FEWE’s successful and ongoing campaign to drive digital platforms including META and TikTok to change their discriminatory policies concerning censorship of women’s health content.

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