Community
As an open source company we are committed to becoming a big contributor to the community of people trying to improve healthcare - where techies or medical professionals or patients or their loved ones. We want to make place for you here.​ Our primary community channel is on discord.
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We have started other community online groups to discuss, critique and collaborate on these efforts. To join click on icons.
Highlights
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Med City News - The FDA isn't Blocking Medical Breakthroughs - Our outdated innovation model is
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Axios Piece and Press Release on reaching $100 million funding milestone at Openwater
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Video of presentation to speed clinical trials of Openwater system and an update on our tech.
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Link to Openwater annotated Presentation at the Imagine Solutions Forum/Lake Nona Impact Forum March 2024
Upcoming Events
​AI + Health Demo Night
Studio 55 Hardware Hacker Space - Mary Lou Jepsen Speaking
Wed Oct. 16th 2024 | San Francisco
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Exhibiting in the Digital Health Hub Awards Pavilion
Booth Number 3254-10 - Mary Lou Jepsen Presenting
Oct 20 - 23 2024 | Las Vegas, Nevada
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Brain Mind - AI and Mind Science
Fire Pit Night - Demos by Mary Lou Jepsen
Nov 3 2024 | Palo Alto, CA
Keynote talk by Mary Lou Jepsen
Nov 11-15 2024 | Bangkok, Thailand
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Foresight Institute Vision Weekend
Internet Archive - Mary Lou Jepsen Speaking
Dec 6-8 2024 | San Francisco, CA
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JP Morgan Healthcare Conference
We will be demoing our devices at our offices near Union Square
Jan 8-11 2025 | San Francisco, CA
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The industry's most important meeting for biophotonics, biomedical optics, and imaging
Moscone Center - Exhibit Hall
Jan 25-26 2025 | San Francisco, CA
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Recent Events
ISTU International Symposium on Therapeutic Ultrasound
DWeb Camp
Uncharter 2024 Summit
Imagine Solutions
MARS Conference
Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop 50th
SynBetaBio
Lake Nona Impact Forum
SPIE Photonics West - Biophotonics Plenary
JP Morgan Healthcare Conference
Dubai Future Forum Keynote
FII 7 Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Veterinary Innovation Summit
Membrane @Necker Island
Zuzalu
DenmarkBridge
TED
JP Morgan Healthcare Conference
SciFoo
World Economic Forum - Technology Pioneer
Mary Lou Jepsen Openwater Keynote at the Imagine Solutions Event Mar 2024
Openwater Update at CNN Life Itself
Press about Openwater
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Med City News - The FDA isn't Blocking Medical Breakthroughs - Our outdated innovation model is
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Inside Precision Medicine Device Diva: Openwater Uses Cell Phone Chips to Open-Source Medical Devices
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Longevity Technology Openwater wants to transform healthcare with open-source, drug-free technology
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HIT Consultant Openwater Secures $100M to Tackle Diseases at the Cellular Level
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Pulse 2.0 Openwater: Medical Technology Company Raises $100 Million In Total Funding
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Axios Exclusive: Openwater raises $54M for open-source medical research technology
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Openwater Press Release: Openwater Achieves Quantum Leap in Medicine: Harnesses Light, Sound, and Electromagnetics to Diagnose and Treat Diseases at Cellular Level
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Gulf News Software, not drugs, is the future of medicine: leading health expert tells Dubai forum
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Newsweek Medical Marvels
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The Innovator Disrupting Therapies with Devices
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Wirtshafts Woche Das Kapital im Kopf
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Forbes Mary Lou Jepsen, Founder and CEO of Openwater named to 50 over 50 list
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World Economic Forum Openwater named Technology Pioneer at Davos
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Business Insider Openwater named top biotech startup set to take off in next 12 months
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Fierce Fierce Medtech names Openwater as one of its “Fierce 15” Med Tech Companies of 2022
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Financial Times Openwater was named One of 50 Ideas to the change the world
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Business Insider A superstar ex-Facebook and Google exec is trying to..
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Forbes How This Former MIT Professor And Google Engineer Used Holograms To Build A $28 Million Startup
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Silicon Republic 10 pioneering health-tech start-ops set to have a global impact
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Forbes The Age Of (Nearly) Infinite Scale, And How It Will Generate New Businesses
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E-Flux Telepathic Infrastructures - Norman Foster Foundation Digital X
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TechCo "Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen on transformative technology for social good"
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Fortune "Brainstorm Health - why you might not want to be tests for the Alzheimer's gene"
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Fox News Greg Gutfeld podcast
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New York Times The Brain Implants That Could Change Humanity
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Ars Technica Rob Reid and Mary Lou Jepsen and peering into the brain
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Scientific American Machines that read your brain waves
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Wired Artificial intelligence is helping us talk to animals (yes, really)
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World Economic Forum Openwater named World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
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KQED Radio Special - Hour Long discussion between John Hollar and Mary Lou Jepsen
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The Sunday Times Why Silicon Valley is intent on messing with our brains
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Financial Times Mary Lou Jepsen on the wearable MRI
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The Economist Technology Quarterly - "How brains and machines can be made to work"
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Forbes "The opposite of Artificial Intelligence could be the key to saving tech jobs"
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After On Podcast Mary Lou Jepsen on Neural Imaging and... TELEPATHY
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Quartz High Resolution MRI-Like imagery without the metal coffin
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The Verge "Wearable tech has to be really good or really wearable"
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Business Insider An ex-Facebook exec who "went home to die" is making a device
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Med Device Online "Wearable, MR-Quality imaging technology that could lead to... Telepathy?"
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ReCode "Can A high tech ski cap read my mind or tell me when I'm sick?"
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IEEE Spectrum "Why Mary Lou Jepsen left Facebook: to transform healthcare and consumer telepathy"
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Xconomy "Mary Lou Jepsen on life post-Facebook and New Startup Openwater"
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Wall Street Journal "Facebook loses virtual reality innovator"
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Engadget "Oculus exec Mary Lou Jepsen resigns to create new MRI tech"
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Spotlights
We have started a regular release of “Spotlights” that feature the everyday work we are doing and bring it forward. We hope this enabled grab-on points with the open source community and communities working in adjacent clinical areas
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Static Measurements of Pigs Blood & Microspheres by Brad Hartl, PhD.
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Extracting 3D Printable Models From MRI Data by Peter Hollender, PhD.
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Open Source Hardware Resources by Andrew Houck and Peter Herzlinger
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Open-Motion Camera Pipeline Architecture by Dr. Soren Konecky, PhD and Dr. Brad Hartl, PhD.
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Open-LIFU Hardware Design by Andrew Houck and Peter Hollender, PhD.
Discuss Openwater
Please suggest any other forums to discuss Openwater at community@openwater.health and for discord please email for an invite
This notification serves as a safety disclosure for our Open-LIFU and Open-Motion systems intended exclusively for research purposes. Openwater acknowledges that, as of January, 2024 the device has not undergone review and clearance or approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for commercial distribution and use.