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FemTech insights from a return to Stanford

Kaylie Mings, MSc
Product Development Engineer

๐ŸŒž If only all work trips could be in sunny California!

Kicked things off with a meeting by the Marina, where I had the pleasure of chatting with Sara Naseri about Qvin and the immense untapped potential of menstrual effluent research. Itโ€™s inspiring to witness just how much has been accomplished in the past decade and the promising future ahead. ๐Ÿฉธ

Visiting the The Stanford d.school brought back memories (and maybe a few flashbacks!) from countless hours in the PRL. It was inspiring to catch up with former teachers, David Kelley and Brett Newman, whoโ€™ve been guiding so much evolution there. Connecting with current students like Yaayaa Pajibo who shares a strong interest in womenโ€™s health, was a great reminder of how passionate the next generation is.

At the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, I joined the #FemTech club mixer with my former colleague Priyanka Seegobin and was thrilled by the growing interest in this field among both entrepreneurs and investors.

And as a bonus, I caught up with my hashtag#fieldhockey friends at the annual Stanford Alumni game. It was awesome to see the next generation of collegiate hockey players from The Kinkaid School and St. John’s School! ๐Ÿ‘

Returning to Stanford was a refreshing blend of reconnecting, reflecting, and recharging. Grateful for the inspiration and fresh perspectives gained. ๐Ÿ˜Š

๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ–ฅ์ƒ์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฟ ํ‚ค๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹น์‚ฌ๋Š” ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ์ด ์˜ฌ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„๋˜๋„๋ก ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋ณด์•ˆ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด์„œ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์ฟ ํ‚ค๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฟ ํ‚ค๋ฅผ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋„๋ก ์„ค์ •ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€œ์ฟ ํ‚ค ์ˆ˜๋ฝโ€์„ ํด๋ฆญํ•˜๋ฉด ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ํƒ์ƒ‰์„ ๊ฐœ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์›น์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ์ด์šฉ์„ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€์›ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๊ธฐ๊ธฐ์— ์ฟ ํ‚ค๋ฅผ ์ €์žฅํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋™์˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ž์„ธํ•œ ๋‚ด์šฉ์€ ๊ฐœ์ธ ์ •๋ณด ๋ณด์•ˆ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์ฐธ์กฐํ•˜์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค.