Women Disrupting Tech
von Dirkjan Hupkes
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Building Emotion AI for Better Conferences with Vanessa Williams Saleh
Building Emotion AI for Better Conferences with Vanessa Williams Saleh
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Women Disrupting Tech features female founders, tech leaders, and women in tech building the next generation of technology companies. Each week, host Dirkjan Hupkes talks with a founder about how she's scaling a startup, navigating funding, building resilient teams, and tackling challenges from AI ethics to healthcare innovation to climate tech. Whether you're a female tech entrepreneur, aspiring founder, startup leader, or advocate for more women in technology, this show gives you actionable strategies and proven frameworks from women reshaping tech. New episodes every Thursday.
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- Building Emotion AI for Better Conferences with Vanessa Williams Saleh · 1 Std. 3 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 174Only 20 to 30% of event surveys get filled out. So how do organizers find out what landed with the audience? In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Vanessa…
- Tackling Caregiver Burnout with Dovetail Founder Dr. Ashley Blackington · 1 Std. 12 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 173Caregiver burnout starts building when the care a hospital team shares falls to one family member at home. In this episode, Dr. Ashley Blackington, an occupational therapist and…
- Building Psychological Safety for Better Women’s Health at Work with Veroniek Vermeulen · 1 Std. 6 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 172In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Veroniek Vermeulen, founder of Silatha, about why women's health is still expected to be left at the office door. Veroniek…
- Closing the Safety Gap by Turning Feelings of Unsafety into Data with Anniek van Veldhuizen · 1 Std. 8 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 171Every day, women make safety calculations - which route to take, where to sit - that never show up in the data. What happens once that invisible data gets collected? In this…
- How FLTRD's PureScore Makes Healthy Food Choices Easy with Anke Kuik · 57 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 170More than half of Dutch citizens live with a chronic disease, and over 70% of supermarket products are ultra-processed. In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Anke…
- Building the AI Flower Framework as the Roadmap for AI Transformation with Juliette van der Laarse · 1 Std. 42 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 169Juliette is the creator of the AI Flower Framework and founder of the AI Flower Foundation. She spent a year mapping how AI could impact her job as an engineering manager, and…
- How Female Endurance Athletes Keep Performing During the Hormonal Transition with Karianne Kraaijestein · 1 Std. 17 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 168Karianne Kraaijestein spent years building resilience through sport, from gymnastics to indoor climbing to yoga, before starting triathlons at 47. Now she's the founder of…
- Turning Early Fans Into a Marketing Engine with Elise Mol · 50 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 167Only 3% of people who show up to an event went looking for it. The other 97% came because someone they trust was already going. In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk…
- Using Technology To Bring the Human Side Back To Medicine with Dr. Hannah Allen | Ep. 166 · 53 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 166A third of a GP’s working week goes to admin, and 42% of UK GPs say they want to leave the profession within five years. Dr. Hannah Allen left clinical practice to fix that, and…
- Tackling Menstrual Cup Hygiene and Period Poverty with Sophie Haccou | Ep. 165 · 1 Std. 0 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 165One in eight women in the Netherlands must choose between food and tampons. Sophie Haccou bootstrapped CupHub to close that gap, and is about to launch the crowdfunding campaign…
- Building an Adaptable Pessary To Restore Women's Autonomy with Mirjam Weemhoff & Bart van Diepenbeek | Ep 164 · 1 Std. 8 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 16450% of women over 40 will experience some degree of pelvic organ prolapse. Most still manage it with a device that has barely changed in decades. In this episode of Women…
- Health 4.0: Transforming Healthcare For Real Health Equity with Robin Blackstone, MD | Ep. 163 · 1 Std. 29 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 163Our healthcare system wasn't designed for the 21st century. It is a century-old model built in an era without AI, designed to rescue sick people instead of keeping people healthy…
- Rethinking Incontinence: Building the Certain Valve with Leonie van de Kamer | Ep. 162 · 1 Std. 21 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 162One in three women will experience incontinence in her life, yet the options have stayed stuck at pads or surgery. Leonie van de Kamer is building the option in between. In this…
- Why FemTech Needs to Move Beyond Wellness Apps with Karen Berg | Ep. 161 · 1 Std. 5 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 161Meditation and sleep apps are not fixing women’s health. Karen Berg explains why femtech needs real clinical answers instead. In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk…
- Why the Funding Gap Starts Before Female Founders Ever Pitch with Nithya Ruff | Ep. 160 · 1 Std. 21 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 160Only 2% of VC funding reaches female founders. Nithya Ruff argues the problem doesn’t start at the pitch table. It starts with how girls are raised and who gets to make…
- From Fragmentation to Collaboration in FemTech with Maaike Steinebach and Sophie van Dijk | Ep. 159 · 1 Std. 22 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 159More than 90 FemTech companies in the Netherlands are working to close the gender health gap. Most didn’t know the others existed. In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I…
- How She Turned Fitness App Frustration into an AI Fitness Coach with Zoe Pineau | Ep. 158 · 53 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 158Most fitness apps are built to track everything. That's exactly why people stop using them. In this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, I talk with Zoe Pineau, co-founder of Fitly…
- How Female Founders Build Financial Independence Before the Exit With Ana Herrero-Wallace | Ep. 157 · 1 Std. 13 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 157Most founders build their financial position in the wrong order. By the time the exit arrives, the decisions that mattered most have already been made under pressure. In this…
- How Female Founders Build a Brand AI Will Recommend with Rachel Gilley | Ep. 156 · 42 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 156Most brands are optimizing for search engines that fewer people are using. Rachel Gilley, CEO of Clarity Global, is tracking what happens when your customers stop Googling and…
- How Female Founders Can Pitch FemTech to Male Investors with Beata Wandachowicz-Krason | Ep. 155 · 1 Std. 25 Min. · Staffel 7 Folge 155FemTech represents a trillion-dollar opportunity. So why do all-female teams receive just 2% of early-stage venture capital? Beata Wandachowicz-Krason has spent years researching…
