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Episode Overview:

Technology is helping revolutionize the most intimate healthcare journeys, and Irene Alvarado is at the forefront of reimagining fertility treatment.

As founder and CEO of Berry Fertility, she's transforming a complex and deeply personal medical experience through human-centered technology.

Drawing from her personal fertility journey and engineering expertise at Google, Irene is building a comprehensive platform that empowers patients and clinicians alike.

While together, Irene shares how she and her team are leveraging AI and intuitive design to be a supportive companion through one of life's most challenging medical processes.

Additionally, Irene also discusses how her team’s mission goes beyond software- it's about reducing complexity, providing personalized support, and making fertility treatments more accessible and manageable for everyone involved.

Join us as we explore how innovative and human-centered technology can fundamentally reshape fertility treatments. Let’s go!

Episode Highlights:

Converted personal fertility treatment challenges into Berry Fertility, pioneering a patient-centered technological solution
Engineered an all-in-one fertility management app that consolidates fragmented healthcare tools for patients and clinics
Deployed AI-powered chat tools to revolutionize clinic support and address critical workforce shortages
Uncovered emerging industry trends expanding fertility service accessibility and reducing treatment costs
Launched a free consumer app providing comprehensive fertility treatment resources and global patient support

About our Guest:

Irene Alvarado is the founder and CEO of Berry Fertility, the fertility management app for IVF, IUI, embryo transfer, and egg freezing.

As CEO, Irene oversees the company’s overarching vision, product, and brand. She is also co-founder at Early Works, a product studio incubating vertically niche, applied AI software startups. Irene founded Berry Fertility after going through a fertility treatment herself.

Irene was previously a software engineer at Google, GitHub/Microsoft, and a geospatial startup at Samsung Accelerator. She helped create and launch digital products that reached millions of users, like the first massively used AI-powered coding assistant powered by large language models.

Irene has a M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University in Human Computer Interaction and a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia University. She was previously an adjunct professor at New York University.

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Bridging Fertility Care Through Technology with Irene Alvarado

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