WAHM Manchester Healthtech Ecosystem Social: From Research to Market
What does it actually take to get a healthtech product to market?
Join Western Advocates for Health and Medtechs (WAHM) on 4 November for an evening of honest insights and new connections across Manchester’s healthtech ecosystem.
We’ll kick off with a fireside chat with Phoebe Wakeman, co-founder of Vitmedics, hosted by WAHM founder, Paul Forster.
The fireside chat: the hard truths of bringing healthtech to market
Phoebe helped turn years of research into a personalised nutrition and healthtech business, leading its commercial development—from brand and technology to customer experience and route to market. She has first-hand knowledge of what it takes to turn complex science into something people can understand, trust and buy.
The fireside chat will explore:
From research to product: how did they translate hard science research into a profitable D2C proposition.
Finding a route to market: what worked, what didn’t, and what had to change.
The hard-earned lessons: decisions, mistakes and advice for others building in healthtech.
We want to show that we can get healthtech products to market—and be honest about what it takes.
Followed by WAHM's Healthtech Ecosystem Social.
After the chat, stay to connect with the people building and supporting Greater Manchester’s health and medtech community:
Startup founders and teams
University researchers and NHS innovators
Investors and ecosystem supporters
Potential collaborators, partners and champions
Share what you’re working on, compare notes and make connections that could help you take your next step.
Come for the hard truths. Stay for the conversations.
WAHM exists to advocate for health and medtech innovators. We convene stakeholders building, backing, and navigating the industry to share insights, challenge expectations and move ecosystems forward.
NB: If you're a health or medtech founder, check out WAHM's Healthtech Ecosystem Roundtable at 15:00 - 17:00 on the same day (and get free access to the Healthtech Ecosystem Social). WAHM are bringing together founders in the sector to discuss regulatory challenges, funding changes, NHS partnerships versus US commercialisation, and more.