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.

Event poster for built different about disabled founders. Logos for 3 organisations and four photos of speakers.

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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