I had the pleasure talk to Nichi Hodgson a television journalist at Sky, a BBC presenter, author of books “Bound To You”, and “The Curious History of Dating”. Nichi will host the stage during Sx Tech conference and first German…
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Agenda
The only one conference where deep tech connects with the Internet of (Sex!) Things!
8:00 - 9:00
Doors open, registration, pick up your badge
9:00 - 9:15
Welcome by Sx Tech
9:15 - 9:30
Welcome by special guest*
Dinorah Hernandez (BaDoinkVR) + Nicolas Clairembault (ArConk) + Paolo Davide Griffo (SenseMax)
VR or AI Online Dating - What will online dating be like in 2030? (Black Mirror scenario)
Emma Sayle (Founder of Killing Kittens, Safedate, SISTR & The Sisterhood) + Pia Poppenreiter (Ohlala) + Maxine Lynn (Sex-Tech Attorney & Journalist)
The best practice for the community around your sex tech brand - online and offline sex communities
10:55 - 11:25
PANEL: Efficient selling - Sex tech commerce
Virginia Cerrone (Pureeros) + Luka Matutinović (LELO)
Sex Tech marketing channels in times of the censorship regime. Efficient selling of sex tech products.
11:25 - 11:55
COFFEE BREAK
11:55 - 12:20
PANEL: Dawn of Intelligent Contraception
Dr. Maria Fernanda Peraza Godoy (Healthy Pleasure Collective)+ Ida Tin (Clue) + Moderator: Dr. Maike Henningsen
Chips, remote command and full digitalization of birth control for males and females. The advantages and disadvantages of digitalization of birth control, what are the possibilities?
12:20 - 12:45
LIVE STREAM DISCUSSION: Are We Ready for Sex Robots?
Guile Lindroth (Realbotix)
12:45 - 13:15
CASE STUDY: Pleasure toy sprint design
Venus Ohara
Pleasure toy sprint design - stories of remarkable fuck up, means how not to design a toy
Evren Inangiray (Pureeros) + Lina Wenner (firstminute capital) + Emma Sayle (Killing Kittens, Safedate, SISTR & The Sisterhood)
crowfunding / VC / Angel practise
Dominnique Karetsos (Healthy Pleasure Collective) + Dr. Maria Fernanda Peraza Godoy (Healthy Pleasure Collective)
The things we would do again and those we would not. From broken prototypes, 3 min competition pitches, turning down $ half million investment and bad leaving partners these are the mistakes and triumphs you NEVER see on IG, phantom investment funds or narrow media focus. We will share what resilience looks like and the innovation rises in it.
14:10 - 14:40
SESSION: Ask me anything
Giulia Tomasello (Future Flora) + Madeleine Shaw (Lunapads) + Moderator: Danielle Keiser (sustainability specialist)
Nicolàs Boldt (WOW Tech Group) + Johanna Rief (Womanizer Group Management)
Maxine Lynn (Sex-Tech Attorney & Journalist)
17:30 - 18:10
PITCHING of the hackathon projects + Q&A
18:10 - 18:25
Announcement of the winners
10:30 - 11:15
COMMUNITY
How to create and support the community around pleasure product/service in sex tech brand?
Dominnique Karetsos (Healthy Pleasure Collective) + Dr. Maria Fernanda Peraza Godoy (Healthy Pleasure Collective)
The future of SexTech brands is their responsibility to deliver solutions, not descriptions.
As brands, we must care enough to educate and nurture our heartbeats (customers/users) so they have the tools to explore their sexuality in a consensual (cyber) safe space, judgment-free. with the promise of tools and solutions that communicate and identify with a language that bests resonates with the core of who they are not labels that society dictates they wear.
12:00 - 12:45
Coffee break
Lina Wenner (firstminute capital)
Are VC really ashamed to talk about sex products in their portfolios? How to fund your sex tech startup? How to prepare pitch deck of pleasure product?
Marie Kochsiek (Bloody Health)
We want to be secure when we go online shopping or when we discuss our sexual health with the gynecologist. But what about the collected data of our digital intimate lives? Dating and period tracking apps are extremely popular, for good reason. However, these apps handle highly sensitive information about us(ers) and collect intimate data. Let's have a look at the most popular apps by discussing potential benefits and risks for us(ers).
Dr. Maria Fernanda Peraza Godoy (Healthy Pleasure Collective)
How to Avoid biased writing, without sounding you pissed off with everybody? Sex positive and gender respect content.
Maxine Lynn (Sex-Tech Attorney & Journalist)
Protecting intellectual property for SexTech start-ups.
8:00 - 8:45
Door open, registration, pick up your badge
8:45 - 9:00
Welcome by Sx Tech + introduction to mentors
- who are you?
- what are you working on?
- what do you need?
- what do you want to achieve?
09:45 - 13:00
Group work
13:00 - 13:45
LUNCH BREAK
15:30 - 17:30
Pitch training (according to morning enrollment)
17:30 - 18:10
Pitching of the hackaton projects + Q&A Jury
3 min pitching per team, 5 min Q&A after each pitch
18:10 - 18:25
Announcement of the winners
Tickets
Hackathon
Apply now! Limited number of participants
€0
STANDARD EARLY BIRDS
Basic offer
€198
VISION EARLY BIRDS
Full access
€289
INVESTOR TICKET
€250
STUDENT SX
€80
Our Speakers
Meet our extraordinary speakers, hackathon and masterclass mentors and moderators!
Maxine Lynn - speaker and masterclass mentor
Sex- Tech Attorney, JournalistMaxine is an intellectual property (IP) attorney with the law firm of Keohane & D’Alessandro, PLLC, having offices in Albany, New York. She focuses her practice on prosecution of patents for technology, trademarks for business brands, and copyrights for creative materials.
Through her company, Unzipped Media, Inc., Maxine publishes the Unzipped: Sex, Tech & the Law® blog at www.SexTechLaw.com and the Unzipped.
Maxine Lynn - speaker and masterclass mentor
Sex- Tech Attorney, Journalist
Maria Fernanda Peraza Godoy- speaker
Co Founder of Healthy Pleasure CollectiveUrologist-andrologist and sexual medicine expert, who firmly believes that individual action generates collective change. Working to innovate and disrupt every area of women sexual experience and frame it into Health.
Maria Fernanda Peraza Godoy- speaker
Co Founder of Healthy Pleasure Collective
Ola Miedzynska - hackathon jury member
CEO Sx TechOla is CEO and founder of Sx Tech conference. Sex/ Fem Tech specialist and business supporter.
Ola Miedzynska - hackathon jury member
CEO Sx Tech
Dinorah Hernandez - speaker
Head Director BaDoinkVR NetworkDinorah has been producing videos in the adult industry for
over five years. Since BaDoinkVR’s site launch, Dinorah has added VRCosplayX, 18VR, BabeVR, RealVR and KinkVR to the network.
Dinorah Hernandez - speaker
Head Director BaDoinkVR Network
Dominnique Karetsos - speaker & jury member hackathon
Co-Founder of Healthy Pleasure CollectiveDominnique sits on several advisory boards for the likes of luxury female pleasure brand, Pureeros.com and Vibeweek.com andgetluwi.com, Chief marketing Officer of MysteryVibe.com and Co-Founder of sexual health innovation device company GetMine Healthy Pleasure.
Dominnique Karetsos - speaker & jury member hackathon
Co-Founder of Healthy Pleasure Collective
Luka Matutinović - speaker
Global Marketing Director at LELOLuka Matutinović - Global Marketing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the Beauty-tech and luxury industry. Before joining LELO, Luka made a name for himself as the Product Manager in L'Oréal Professionnel, and before that as the International Brand Manager for another beauty industry player, Henkel.
Luka Matutinović - speaker
Global Marketing Director at LELO
Virginia Cerrone - speaker
Co-founder&CMO of pureerosCo-founder&CMO of pureeros, e-boutique for women's pleasure and intimacy and Editor in Chief of VibesWeek, the first online magazine on sexuality.
Founder of The Italian woman of SexTech.
Virginia Cerrone - speaker
Co-founder&CMO of pureeros
Evren Inangiray - masterclass mentor
Co- founder&CEO of pureerosCo- founder&CEO of pureeros,10 years in finance and banking across 3 countries and big firms like Unicredit and Nomura.
Supporting gender equality and women's rights.
Evren Inangiray - masterclass mentor
Co- founder&CEO of pureeros
Maike Henningsen Dr. PhD - speaker
Digital Health and Future MedicineDr. med. Maike Henningsen- founder in the medical space industry, with a successful 20-year career in healthcare. In 2016 Maike selected to the “Global Solution Program” at Singularity University in Mountain View California. Maike is a mentor to several startups and is consulting companies in her areas of expertise.
Maike Henningsen Dr. PhD - speaker
Digital Health and Future Medicine
Emma Sayle
Founder of Killing Kittens, Safedate, SISTR & The SisterhoodFounder & CEO of Killing Kittens, Safedate, SISTR & The Sisterhood | Business Leader 2019 Top 30 inspirational entrepreneurs
One of the UK’s leading female entrepreneurs’. She made her name launching the global female empowerment brand Killing Kittens in 2005, now incorporated into the KK Group with over 120,000 members.
The first adult brand to achieve a public crowd raise in 2018 raising £600k with a series A raise starting in July 2019.
Emma Sayle
Founder of Killing Kittens, Safedate, SISTR & The Sisterhood
Nicolàs Boldt: - speaker
Director of Growth at WOW Tech GroupNicolàs Boldt loves building things. WOW Tech's Director of Growth especially loves to build an exciting company - for the people working in it, but especially for the consumers using WOW Tech's products. His responsibilities include scouting growth opportunities and driving the company's innovation process. He especially loves to headhunt, and grow a diverse team that is excited about creating the future of sex tech.
Nicolàs Boldt: - speaker
Director of Growth at WOW Tech Group
Giulia Tomasello - speaker
Founder Future FloraGiulia Tomasello is an Interaction designer and researcher specialized in women’s healthcare combining biotechnology, interactive wearable and innovation. The winner of the STARTS Grand Prize 2018 awarded from the European Commission with her project Future Flora.
Giulia Tomasello - speaker
Founder Future Flora
Xavi Clos - hackhathon mentor
Product Director for the BaDoinkVR Network,Xavi is Product Director for the BaDoinkVR Network, the world’s
the leading production company for virtual reality adult entertainment.
He has over 7 years experience in product design and user experience.
Xavi Clos - hackhathon mentor
Product Director for the BaDoinkVR Network,
Nicolas Clairembault - speaker
Marketing Manager ArConkRepresentative of AR Conk the most innovative and advanced adult entertainment app using augmented reality and Vrconk, adult entertainment virtual reality company, a pathfinder in creating 3d virtual environments, combined with real actors.
Nicolas Clairembault - speaker
Marketing Manager ArConk
Madeleine Shaw - speaker
Co-Founder/ LunapadsA Feminist, serial social entrepreneur and changemaker. A graduate of Queen's University, she started Lunapads in 1993 after experiencing health challenges brought on by tampon use. Her relationship with her period was transformed, and Lunapads became a source of period innovation and menstrual justice.
Madeleine Shaw - speaker
Co-Founder/ Lunapads
Paolo Davide Griffo - spekaer
Country Manager Europe -SenseMaxPaolo Davide Griffo has gained almost 10 years of experience in the sales and marketing sector, with a deep focus on tech products and international trading. Currently is the European Sales Country Manager for SenseMax and is responsible for the company's business in the region.
Paolo Davide Griffo - spekaer
Country Manager Europe -SenseMax
Pia Poppenreiter - speaker
CEO OhlalaRecently called 'the Goddess of Creative Rebellion``, it's true: As the daughter of an entrepreneur and an artist, the sister of a rebel, she has been inspired to be a lionhearted fighter, who challenges the status quo with a purpose. Her most prominent adventure: Ohlala - an attempt to transform the paid dating industry.
Pia Poppenreiter - speaker
CEO Ohlala
Marie Kochsiek - mentorclass
Masterclass mentorMarie Kochsiek is a social scientist and software engineer with an interest in the intersections between technologies and societies, especially with respect to sexual health and digital rights. She co-founded the Bloody Health Collective who is building drip an open source period tracking app.
Marie Kochsiek - mentorclass
Masterclass mentor
Lina Wenner - speaker
Principal at firstminute capitalLina is a Principal at firstminute capital, a London-based $100M seed fund backed by 30 unicorn founders and Tencent. She joined firstminute from the Boston Consulting Group in 2017, as the first member of the investment team. At firstminute, Lina leads on sourcing for the Nordic and German speaking regions and has a strong interest in digital health (particularly femtech and sextech) and robotics .
Lina Wenner - speaker
Principal at firstminute capital
Ida Tin - speaker
Founder and CEO of ClueIda Tin is the CEO and Co-Founder of female health app Clue (www.helloclue.com), the free-to-download, free-to-use period tracking app, designed to help women around the world track their periods and better understand their bodies. To date, Clue has more than 11 million active users worldwide and, in 2016, was named the most accurate free period tracking app in an extensive 2016 study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Ida Tin - speaker
Founder and CEO of Clue
Guile Lindroth -speaker, hackathon jury member
Realbotix / Artificial Intelligence Director and AssociateGuile Lindroth is a computer scientist and has been working with AI, chatbots and virtual assistants for the past 15 years. As a system analyst, AI and graphics specialist, he is the one behind Realbotix robot’s dialogues, content, and narratives creating personality and empathy for the proprietary AI framework. Lindroth is pursuing the dream of one day teaching robots “the meaning of love, empathy, respect, and friendship.
Guile Lindroth -speaker, hackathon jury member
Realbotix / Artificial Intelligence Director and Associate
HARMONY - special guest
RealbotixHarmony, the planet’s most advanced Sex-AI Robot made by Realbotix.
Capable of supporting a multitude of personalities in the same hardware and a full sensory body, Harmony is Realbotix’ latest venture into the future, integrating high end silicone companions with robotic components and artificial intelligence.
Taking speed-dating to another level and for the first time in history, SxTech visitors will have an unprecedented chance to sit and talk with the new mind and face of AI.
HARMONY - special guest
Realbotix
Monica Ray Scott - hackathon mentor
Design Strategist at Goodpatch IncFascinated by the intersections between business and design, Monica has worked in a variety of design consultancies across Europe. She’s had a few different titles but essentially the same job: to find ways to make good products great. Monica currently works as a Design Strategist at Goodpatch, a design firm in Berlin with Japanese roots.
Monica Ray Scott - hackathon mentor
Design Strategist at Goodpatch Inc
Venus O'Hara - speaker
Blogger/ Sex Toys ReviewerVenus has collaborated with many international media outlets such as GQ, Playboy, El Pais, The Mirror, The Guardian and more. She also has a YouTube channel where she showcases and reviews sex toys. When she isn't writing or making videos, she can usually be found on her unmade bed testing the latest adult novelties. She has acquired over 500 sex toys and after enjoying thousands of orgasms at work, Venus has discovered that the big O is much more than a sexual release.
Venus O'Hara - speaker
Blogger/ Sex Toys Reviewer
Maciej Jankowski - hackathon mentor
CEO&CMO Netcamp, founder Startup Poland, Startup Weekend Szczecin AI Techstars METRO BerlinCo-founder of Startup Poland – creating better conditions for startups growth. We are community voice representing over four thousand Polish startups
Techstars community leader organizing since 2011 Polish-German Startup Weekend (next edition about AI) and former growth marketing advisor for Techstars METRO accelerator in Berlin. Very well connected with startup ecosystem in Europe. Making ideas worth spreading as TEDxSzczecin community leader.
Maciej Jankowski - hackathon mentor
CEO&CMO Netcamp, founder Startup Poland, Startup Weekend Szczecin AI Techstars METRO Berlin
Johanna Rief - speaker
Head of Communications for WOW Tech GroupJohanna Rief is Head of Marketing for the Womanizer brand, a sex toy that globally gives women awesome orgasms and is one of the most sold toys in the world. She works at WOW Tech because it is fun - and she hates to feel bored. Her main goal for the future is to create global communication campaigns that speak to women of all ages and backgrounds around the world - and, while doing it, change how female sexuality is viewed for the better
Johanna Rief - speaker
Head of Communications for WOW Tech Group
Jan Greuter
Director Marketing at WOW Tech GroupJan Greuter believes in the power of brands. The Director Marketing at WOW Tech Group is passionate about curating brands through thoughtful corporate design and compelling content. He's responsible for a growing number of brands including the established players Womanizer and We-Vibe. Leading a global team of marketing experts and creatives, he's building the strongest house of brands in the sex toy industry.
Jan Greuter
Director Marketing at WOW Tech Group
Calandra Balfour - stage host
Co-Owner of Lust! Founder and CEO of LoveGivrCalandra Balfour is Founder and CEO of LoveGivr, the world’s first sex-positive combined social media and e-commerce platform that donates to sexual health/sex-positive charities. Two decades of working in the adult retail industry. A recent Channel4 documentary ‘A Very British Sex Shop’ was based on her shops (lust.co.uk and taboo.co.uk) and her family. Calandra is combining an ongoing passion for sex-positivity with a proven track record in business development, whilst striving to give women a sexual voice.
Calandra Balfour - stage host
Co-Owner of Lust! Founder and CEO of LoveGivrExhibit with us!
- Move within a network of decision-makers and leaders of the sex-tech industry!
- Meet exciting new customers and partners!
- Present your products and services
- Reach a global audience and establish international connections
- Expand your global network
- Partake in constructing global change!
BENEFITS from the network
- Free registration badges (limited to your booth category)
- Complimentary Guest Passes to distribute to your clients & business associates (limited to your booth category)
- Non-standard promotion plans of your company!
- Support of real business connections!
- (3m x 2m) – open-space formula (without walls)
- 1 round table
- 4 chairs
- WiFi
- Electricity connection 300W
- 2 exhibitor passes (including catering)
- 4 Guest Passes for clients and associates
- Logo placement on the event registration page: company name & link
- Company name in the printed materials
2 500 euro
Accept the Terms and Conditions – Rules for Exhibitors
- (9m x 9m) – open-space formula (without walls)* special offer
- (9mx6m) – optional – space formula (without walls)
- Three side open formula
- 2 round tables
- 6 chairs
- Electricity connection 1000W
- WIFI
- 6 exhibitor passes (including catering)
- 6 Complimentary Guest Passes to distribute to your clients & business associates
- Logo placement on event registration page
- Company name in the printed materials.
- Speaker slot 20 minutes (keynote)
- Promotional banner for E-mail signature
- Dedicated social media posts kit
7 000 euro
Accept the Terms and Conditions – Rules for Exhibitors
Hackathon
The goal of the Sx Tech hackathon challenge is to coalesce leading deep technology solutions, such as AR, VR; Blockchain, AI, Cybersecurity, Data, Sustainability. Along with numerous specialists and enthusiasts of the sex tech industry, we will play together within an experimental space, which will yield new results, new ideas and innovative solutions.
Our main topics:
- Data & Cybersecurity
- Entertainment and Pleasure
- Education
- Health
- Communities
As in the case of every hackathon, you will be invited to create groups in which you will work together on a product that will later be pitched to the public and the jury.
At the end of the day, we will present and summarize the results of the event and celebrate the winning team at a unique after-party, Berlin style!
You don’t have to code to sign up!
We invite specialists from different fields of expertise, not only persons with developer skills! If you are a project manager, a storyteller, a marketing specialist, a data analyst, a blockchain-/crypto-enthusiast, a sexologist, a counselor, a sociologist, an event organizer or a community manager — please sign up if you have an idea that you would like to share with others, especially if it is related to Data, AR, VR; Blockchain, AI, Cybersecurity
Please read our terms and conditions
We encourage people of color, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people to apply! We believe that technology should aim to unify us all, and should be used for the benefit of a humanity without racial or sexual distinctions and discriminations. We highly encourage female founders to develop their ideas with us! We put special efforts into aquiring the certainty that there will be many outstanding female entrepreneurs and business mentors among us.
We categorically refuse projects that are:
aimed at marginalizing and discriminating women.
non innovative entertainment projects.
Apply
CALLING ALL STARTUPS!
Get a foothold in the Sex-Tech and Fem-Tech industry!
If your Sex-Tech/Fem-Tech startup has a scalable business model and is seeking angel investment or venture capital, we’d love for you to participate in our “Sx Tech Roundtable business session.”
Apply for our Investor round table now!
- Present your pitch deck to sex-tech and fem-tech investors and VCs!
- 1-1 meetings in the open business zone!
- Spotlight attention in sex-tech – fem- tech startups in Europe!
- Free entry into the conference!
Do not miss this chance!
Our team will contact all successful applicants with a private invitation to the session! Places are limited so act now!
Event location
Intelsexual property — an interview with a sex-tech attorney
S x Tech conference will take a place on July 1, 2019 in Berlin. It will be the very first event that connects the deep-tech with the sex tech industry. I had the pleasure to talk to one of the…
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