When and where: Thursday night at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, Downtown.

#OnFire: Dr. Vonda Wright’s brainchild, Women’s Health Conversations, a two-day conference featuring innovative speakers on topics concerning women’s brains, body and bliss, kicked off with Hot For Your Health: a millennial-driven networking event showcasing three speakers who discussed the intersections between technology and health care. One of the speakers, Dr. Julielynn Wong, founded Medical Makers, which creates medical devices and supplies through 3-D printing to deliver them to places that would not have access. “We are harnessing our collective knowledge and compassion to help others. This is the power of 3-D printing,” she said.

Dr. Wright has seen how women can change their families’ health trajectories as they make 80 percent of all health care decisions. “I have read studies that if you educate the oldest daughter of any family, that knowledge is passed down. If we want to improve the health of this nation, it starts with our girls.” As an exciting new addition to this year’s event that focused on technology, self-driving Tesla cars were parked out front of the AWC, where guests were encouraged to hop in. Talk about riding the wave of the future!

#SEEN: Susan Docherty, speaker and CEO of Canyon Ranch; Lynn Banaszak, speaker and executive director of Disruptive Health Technology Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Also attending were Dr. Richard Carmona, former U.S. surgeon general; Dr. Kellie Middleton, Dr. Gloria Minella, Kim Lyons, Dr. Jason Hoellwarth, Michael Ellison, La’Tasha D. Mayes, Varsha Mathur, LUXE Creative event producer Martin Potoczny, Heather Martin, Dan Spice, Sean Gray, Lisa Hall, Dorothea Leftwich and Barbara Arroyo.

First Published: November 7, 2016, 5:00 a.m.