Please join members of the Harvard Club of Australia for an early morning visit to one of Brisbane’s pioneers in next-generation wearables. Our host, Mark Kendall will share his story and the opportunities for Wearables.

Professor Mark Kendall is a biomedical engineer, inventor, scientist, entrepreneur and business-builder with more than 25 years’ experience in creating medical technologies to tackle key global health challenges. Companies licensing/advancing his patents/technologies have created a combined economic value of more than $2 billion for investors. Mark was a visiting professor at Harvard during 2015 and is founder and CEO of WearOptimo, which is leading the way in data driven wearables monitoring body functions such as dehydration and heart disease.

WearOptimo is pioneering a healthtech platform that uses a range of wearable sensors with microscopic electrodes that painlessly penetrate just the outer skin layer to measure biomarkers in real time and detect conditions from dehydration to cardiac arrest. Instead of sitting on the skin’s surface, micro-electrodes on WearOptimo’s next-generation wearables reach a hair’s width into the epidermis, to tap into biomarkers that surface-based products can’t measure. Beyond hydration, they have the potential to replace frequent blood tests and invasive implantable monitors, among other key applications.

WearOptimo has ongoing strategic and investment support from the Australian National University, and grants from the Federal and Queensland governments. Also, WearOptimo has recently welcomed further investors: announcing in late 2022 its successful first close of an additional $5 million of investment into the company.

The company is currently working on plans for a pilot plant in Queensland where it can scale up to produce up to 20 million microwearables.

Attendance is free but spaces are limited. While a priority will be offered to Harvard Club of Australia members and their invited guests, other bona fide guests are welcome to register.