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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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Highlights

  • Med City News - The FDA isn't Blocking Medical Breakthroughs - Our outdated innovation model is
  • Axios Piece and Press Release on reaching $100 million funding milestone at Openwater​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Upcoming Events

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​IEM Innovation Week

IEM Innovation Week highlights a variety of events focused on advances and new directions in medical engineering. 

April 28 - May 2, 2025 | Minneapolis, MN

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European Stroke Organization Conference

ESOC is Europe’s leading forum for advances in research and clinical care of patients with cerebrovascular diseases.

May 21–23 2025 | Helsinki, Finland

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Open Hardware Summit

May 30-31 2025 | Edinburgh, Scottland

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NANS Neural Interfaces

June 12 – 14, 2025 | Arlington, VA

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Internatopnal Symposium for Theraputic Ultrasound

May 5-8 2025 | San Jose Convention Center, California

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6th Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation Conference

July 9-11, 2025  | Hong Kong

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Society for Neuroscience

November 15-19, 2025  | San Diego, CA

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Recent Events

Mary Lou Jepsen Openwater Keynote at the Devcon D/Acc day November 2024

Openwater Update at CNN Life Itself 

Press about Openwater

  1. Business Wire University of Arizona Study Finds Openwater’s Open-LIFU 2.0 Device Achieves Significant Depression Symptom Reduction After Less Than Two Hours Total Treatment Time

  2. DealMaker This Innovator-Entrepreneur Built $100 Laptops & Now Raised $100 Million To Develop Wearable Therapeutic Tools

  3. Med City News - The FDA isn't Blocking Medical Breakthroughs - Our outdated innovation model is

  4. Inside Precision Medicine Device Diva: Openwater Uses Cell Phone Chips to Open-Source Medical Devices 

  5. Longevity Technology Openwater wants to transform healthcare with open-source, drug-free technology

  6. HIT Consultant Openwater Secures $100M to Tackle Diseases at the Cellular Level

  7. Pulse 2.0  Openwater: Medical Technology Company Raises $100 Million In Total Funding

  8. Axios Exclusive: Openwater raises $54M for open-source medical research technology

  9. Openwater Press Release: Openwater Achieves Quantum Leap in Medicine: Harnesses Light, Sound, and Electromagnetics to Diagnose and Treat Diseases at Cellular Level

  10. Gulf News Software, not drugs, is the future of medicine: leading health expert tells Dubai forum

  11. Newsweek Medical Marvels

  12. The Innovator Disrupting Therapies with Devices

  13. Wirtshafts Woche Das Kapital im Kopf

  14. Forbes Mary Lou Jepsen, Founder and CEO of Openwater named to 50 over 50 list

  15. CNN Openwater therapies for Cancer and Depression (video)

  16. World Economic Forum Openwater named Technology Pioneer at Davos

  17. Business Insider Openwater named top biotech startup set to take off in next 12 months

  18. Fierce Fierce Medtech names Openwater as one of its “Fierce 15” Med Tech Companies of 2022

  19. Forbes Mary Lou Jepsen named to top 50 women in tech

  20. Financial Times Openwater was named One of 50 Ideas to the change the world

  21. Business Insider A superstar ex-Facebook and Google exec is trying to.. 

  22. Forbes How This Former MIT Professor And Google Engineer Used Holograms To Build A $28 Million Startup

  23. Wired Mary Lou Jepsen on AR, VR and Reading your Mind 

  24. Silicon Republic 10 pioneering health-tech start-ops set to have a global impact

  25. Forbes The Age Of (Nearly) Infinite Scale, And How It Will Generate New Businesses

  26. E-Flux Telepathic Infrastructures - Norman Foster Foundation Digital X

  27. Wired Thought-Reading Machines and the Death of Love 

  28. TechCo "Dr. Mary Lou Jepsen on transformative technology for social good" 

  29. Fortune "Brainstorm Health - why you might not want to be tests for the Alzheimer's gene"

  30. Fox News Greg Gutfeld podcast

  31. New York Times The Brain Implants That Could Change Humanity

  32. Ars Technica Rob Reid and Mary Lou Jepsen and peering into the brain

  33. Scientific American Machines that read your brain waves

  34. Wired Artificial intelligence is helping us talk to animals (yes, really)

  35. World Economic Forum Openwater named World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer

  36. KQED Radio Special - Hour Long discussion between John Hollar and Mary Lou Jepsen

  37. The Sunday Times Why Silicon Valley is intent on messing with our brains

  38. TED Mary Lou Jepsen TED talk 

  39. Financial Times Mary Lou Jepsen on the wearable MRI 

  40. The Economist Technology Quarterly - "How brains and machines can be made to work"

  41. Forbes "The opposite of Artificial Intelligence could be the key to saving tech jobs"

  42. After On Podcast Mary Lou Jepsen on Neural Imaging and... TELEPATHY

  43. Quartz High Resolution MRI-Like imagery without the metal coffin 

  44. The Verge "Wearable tech has to be really good or really wearable"

  45. Business Insider An ex-Facebook exec who "went home to die" is making a device

  46. Med Device Online "Wearable, MR-Quality imaging technology that could lead to... Telepathy?"

  47. Vox live from SxSW with Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode

  48. ReCode "Can A high tech ski cap read my mind or tell me when I'm sick?"

  49. IEEE Spectrum "Why Mary Lou Jepsen left Facebook: to transform healthcare and consumer telepathy"

  50. CNBC The former Google[x] exec is building a high tech hat

  51. Xconomy "Mary Lou Jepsen on life post-Facebook and New Startup Openwater"

  52. Wall Street Journal "Facebook loses virtual reality innovator"

  53. Engadget "Oculus exec Mary Lou Jepsen resigns to create new MRI tech"

  54. CNET "Oculus exec Mary Lou Jepsen resigns to cure diseases"

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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

 

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's platform has not received FDA clearance or approval for commercial distribution.

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