CANCELLED: WeWalk - Assisted Technology for the Blind

Kürşat Ceylan, blind since birth, the Turkish entrepreneur was struggling to find his hotel, holding a cane in one hand and pulling his luggage with the other while trying to get GPS directions from his phone  He attended a primary school for the blind before going to a mainstream secondary school and college, where he studied psychology. It was here that he first applied to a program called the Young Guru Academy, a non-profit supporting students to develop socially conscious innovations.   At Young Guru, Ceylan met the people who would become his WeWalk cofounders and began to work on various projects to benefit the visually impaired, including an indoor navigation system and an audio description technology for movie theaters.