UnTapped BC Workplace Inclusion Awards Event 2022
UnTapped BC Workplace Inclusion Awards Event 2022
Wed, Sep 28, 11:00 AM
PARQ Vancouver • Vancouver, BC
$89.25 - $105
Spirit at Work: The Future of Accessibility and Inclusion
Date and time
Location
Suite 700 -1090 W Georgia St
Adler School of Professional Psychology
Vancouver, BC V6E 4V2
Canada
Refund policy
Description
The Future of Accessibility and Inclusion: The Digital World Needs Ramps Too!
Join Rob Attwell, Founder/COO of myBestHelper, as he explores how information and communication technologies - and wireless technologies in particular - offer the potential to assist those with mobility issues and other impairments. They promise more independence and participation in work, life and play, but technology is both an enabler and a barrier to people with disabilities.
Rob will pose thought-provoking questions such as:
• How can we make the ‘technology world’ as accessible as the ‘physical world’ to all people with disabilities?
• How is Canada to create a better place for them, and ultimately ourselves, as the population ages and experiences the onset of disabilities?
• What are the challenges we see in our own future as we navigate in a digital world?
About Our Speaker
Rob Attwell is Founder/COO of myBestHelper, an early stage company that helps families find caregivers. myBestHelper won first place at Startup Weekend Vancouver 2011; was third in the 2012 British Columbia Innovation Council's New Ventures Competition and was selected for the 2012 Canadian Technology Accelerator in Silicon Valley by the Canadian Innovation Exchange. The company is active in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto.
Mr. Attwell is also Chair of the Neil Squire Society, a not-for-profit that provides services to over 1400 Canadians with disabilities in Canada each year. Rob is passionate about making technology accessible for all Canadians.