Dior and UNESCO Turned VivaTech Into a Stage for Community Built Women’s Health Platforms
The Women@Dior x UNESCO initiative, supported by Dior, empowers 1,800 young women globally through mentorship and projects, promoting inclusivity and change in women's health care.
Dior and UNESCO Turned VivaTech Into a Stage for Community Built Women’s Health Platforms
CHRISTIAN DIOR COUTURE has used VivaTech 2026 to spotlight how young women entrepreneurs are harnessing technology to transform women’s health, extending the impact of its Women@Dior & UNESCO mentoring programme from education into real world, community led solutions. Positioned within LVMH’s Innovation Talks, the session showed that for Dior, innovation and empowerment are not abstract themes, but lived through mentees building products for conditions they and their communities face every day.
A VivaTech conversation rooted in Women@Dior
At VivaTech in Paris, Dior hosted “Women@Dior x UNESCO: Empowering the Next Generation of Changemakers,” a talk focused on how young entrepreneurs are using tech to address women’s health challenges. The House framed innovation as a way to make care more accessible, personalised and impactful, especially in areas often under served or taboo.
The session opened with Sarah Charieyras, VP Engagement & CSR at Christian Dior Couture, and Åsa Regnér, Deputy Director General…
of UNESCO, reflecting on why empowering young women with tools, confidence and opportunities is critical to making them changemakers rather than just beneficiaries.
Their remarks build on years of partnership in which Women@Dior has supported over 1,800 young women from more than 50 countries through mentoring, online courses and social impact projects.
Dream for Change: SheSync and HERĀ The conversation then centred on two Women@Dior mentees whose Dream for Change projects were selected as winning initiatives in the 2025–2026 Women@Dior & UNESCO cohort.
Dream for Change is the programme’s hands-on incubator, where mentees design concrete projects that empower girls and women in their local communities. SheSync: integrated perimenopause support Patricia Pereira Diogo, co founder of SheSync, presented an integrated wellness platform dedicated to women navigating perimenopause…
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