The team at Tech Cocktail cordially invites you to join the community for Sessions, the monthly speaker series in Downtown Las Vegas.

This month’s Sessions is part of a special Tech Cocktail Week called “The Wellth Generation presented by Tech Cocktail, Health Tech Women & Wellthily” and the focus is to discuss and share ideas on how to elevate the overall wellness experience for patients, thereby transforming healthcare to “wellthcare”.

Thanks to the event sponsors, tickets to this special event are free here! It is being held June 13, 2014 from 6:00pm-8:00pm at Learning Village (727 Fremont Street Las Vegas, NV 89101).

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“We are excited about this event,” said Justin Thorp, VP of Marketing & Community Development at Tech Cocktail. “With the great innovations in mobile and wearable devices, in addition to big data analysis, the health tech space is EXPLODING. We’re excited to have these four amazing entrepreneurs coming to downtown Las Vegas to share stories from entrepreneurial road that they’ve walked.”

Featured speakers include:

  • Jessica Grossman, Start-Up CEO and Board Member. Jessica Grossman MD, is a serial entrepreneur focused on woman’s health.
  • Amy Li, Founder of Dance4HealingDance4Healing is an integrative health startup inspired by her own fight against stage 4 cancer, based on published neuroscience and psychological studies, uses artificial intelligence, behavior design, and gamification to build an ecosystem for music and dance therapeutic recovery, starting with cancer patients.
  • Monisha Perkash, CEO & Co-founder at Lumo BodyTech. Monisha Perkash is CEO & Co-founder at Lumo BodyTech, makers of the Lumo Lift and Lumo Back posture and activity trackers. She and her team are shaking up the wearable tech space with fashion-forward designs to help people look and feel great. They have recently received notable coverage in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Oprah Magazine, and ABC News.
  • Evonne Heyning, CoFounder and Director, EDDEFYSocial Producer, Technologist, Artist and Community Designer, Evonne Heyning has worked at the intersection of meaningful media and creative campaigns for 20 years. As a social enterprise leader she produces and designs ventures for social good and as an interactive media producer she weaves together live broadcast, events and social media engagement.

Want to view a past Session?  – Past speakers brought to Downtown Vegas have included Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, Blip Co-founder Dina Kaplan, Moon Express founder Naveen Jain, Heidi Sieck from Democracy.com and many others. Sessions events happen in Downtown Vegas, Chicago and Washington DC – but you can always watch videos from past Tech Cocktail Sessions online.

Connecting the technology community – At Tech Cocktail events you are bound to connect with potential new employees, developers, designers and more. Tech Cocktail could be the place where you meet your next employee, co-founder or even get a date. If you are a company looking to hire, you can also leverage the Tech Cocktail Job Board to get the message out early – or you could sponsor the event and use it as your own personal job fair. Click here to contact us for sponsorship information.

Interested in sponsoring Tech Cocktail Week?  Tech Cocktail offers a range of sponsorship options for every budget. Whether you’re looking to just support the event so local startups can get more coverage, or leverage the event to get exposure around your product or company (or find people to hire!), we have affordable opportunities for you. Learn how your company can be a part of the event here.

About Wellthily: We launched Wellthily, Co: the first wellness company to focus on your health & well-being as you travel, whether you’re 30,000 feet in the air or 3,000 miles from home. Wellthily, Co. has partnered with select hotels, restaurants, and vendors in major cities to bring you the best and brightest in the wellness space in and around your home-suite-home. From safe running routes to keep your ticker tocking as you see the sites, to massage therapists, local organically-focused fare, yoga, and everything in between.. We’ve got you covered roundtrip.

About HealthTech Women: By bringing together women across the healthcare ecosystem on a monthly basis across major metropolitan cities, women  can now; collaborate more openly, learn about emerging technologies that are shaping this space, while also becoming mentors to other founders and healthcare professionals.  Since we were founded in early 2012, our events have included talks and discussions from thought leaders from all parts of the healthcare space, while our events and dinners have been held at some of the most innovative spaces in and around the San Francisco bay area.