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Accessible Futures: Building Tomorrow’s Canada with Nadia Hamilton – September 25, 2018

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Nadia Hamilton is the CEO of Magnusmode, an interactive app that coaches people with special needs through everyday situations using customizable flashcards, stories and a wizard character named Magnus. Through multiple partnerships with customers including CIBC and Tim Hortons, the app is on its way to becoming a world wide recognized symbol of accessibility. “The look of pride on their face when they can do something that they used to wait for someone to do for them, is priceless”.Nadia has received a number of awards including the 2011 Project Wildfire Social Business Awards, SheEO’s 2016 Radical Generosity Initiative, and Startup Canada’s National and Regional Woman Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2016.In this week’s #StartupPodcast, host Rivers Corbett talks to Nadia about using technology to make social change.

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Nadia Hamilton is the CEO of Magnusmode, an interactive app that coaches people with special needs through everyday situations using customizable flashcards, stories and a wizard character named Magnus. Through multiple partnerships with customers including CIBC and Tim Hortons, the app is on its way to becoming a world wide recognized symbol of accessibility. “The look of pride on their face when they can do something that they used to wait for someone to do for them, is priceless”.Nadia has received a number of awards including the 2011 Project Wildfire Social Business Awards, SheEO’s 2016 Radical Generosity Initiative, and Startup Canada’s National and Regional Woman Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2016.In this week’s #StartupPodcast, host Rivers Corbett talks to Nadia about using technology to make social change.

The post Accessible Futures: Building Tomorrow’s Canada with Nadia Hamilton – September 25, 2018 appeared first on Startup Canada.

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