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LTW26: Built Different: How Disabled Founders Are Redefining Innovation
Exploring how lived experience of disability drives founders to spot gaps and failure points others miss — and how disability-led design has historically produced technology that benefits everyone.
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Live at London Tech Week conference Olympia, 10th June 12.00-12.30.
A collaboration between Tech For Disability and Good Tech of Catch 22.
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We'll be with a panel of founders:
Discussing the specific barriers disabled founders face: from accessing funding and navigating investor assumptions, to managing industry expectations not designed with them in mind.
Asking whether the startup ecosystem should move beyond traditional growth metrics — and what new funding and support models would need to look like to reflect impact, representation, and lived experience.
Moderating with a panel of lived experience speakers:
Coté Auil, Global Disability Innovation Hub - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariajoseauil/
Ammar Boukhemkhem, Founder, NuraXR and NuraVoices - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ammar-boukhemkhem-652508158/
Mahdi Shariff, CEO and Co-Founder, Humble AI - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahdishariff/
Valerie Oyiki, Koala For Work - https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerieoyiki/
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