New opportunities: Removing the barriers to employment

by MaRS Discovery District
February 8, 2022

The winners of the MaRS and CIBC Inclusive Design Challenge: Access to Work tackle the chronic unemployment and under-employment that many people with disabilities face, in honour of International Day for Persons with Disabilities.

Learn about game-changing solutions from Lime Connect, SenseTech Solutions, Zera Café, Liebs & Co. and SPOT that aim to help workers, or potential workers, with disabilities find meaningful work.

Submit your solution to our next challenge: https://challenges.marsdd.com/challenge/idc-supportatwork/

TRANSCRIPT: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12GVDhR8xS45nSBT0YYrbAi90A810iL5HaREmq0oCrFw/edit

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MaRS Discovery District
https://www.marsdd.com/
MaRS is the world's largest urban innovation hub in Toronto that supports startups in the health, cleantech, fintech, and enterprise sectors. When MaRS opened in 2005 this concept of urban innovation was an untested theory. Today, it’s reshaping cities around the world. MaRS has been at the forefront of a wave of change that extends from Melbourne to Amsterdam and runs through San Francisco, London, Medellín, Los Angeles, Paris and New York. These global cities are now striving to create what we have in Toronto: a dense innovation district that co-locates universities, startups, corporates and investors. In this increasingly competitive landscape, scale matters more than ever – the best talent is attracted to the brightest innovation hotspots.