The Business Without Barriers Foundation, founded by Adrian Furman, was a charity partner of the Run across the USA. The extreme runner, Tomasz Sobania, ran the entire United States from New York to Los Angeles, a total of 5,200 km in 140 days. Adrian Furman and Tomasz Sobania jointly promoted the Accessibility Box, a tool created by the Foundation to support the communication of people with speech difficulties.
FORUM G2
Adrian Furman spoke in the panel “The use of new technologies in unleashing the professional potential of people with disabilities and the excluded”. He mentioned the technologies used in remote work, the fact that people with disabilities should actively look for a job, and the fact that entrepreneurship can be one of the ways of professional activation.
MIGAM
Adrian Furman talked about entrepreneurship, his companies and foundation, which operate in the area of accessibility and in which he employs mainly people with disabilities. He also talked about the importance of involving people with disabilities in the law-making process. The conversation was translated into Ukrainian and Polish Sign Language.
RADIO ŁÓDŹ DEBATE
The topic of the debate was the key assumptions of the government strategy for 2021–2030 for people with disabilities. Adrian Furman, journalist Magdalena Majewska and Pawel Redzynia – father of a child with disabilities, and Adam Zawisny, a social policy specialist, discussed the impact that this strategy can have on the activity of people with disabilities in various areas of life.
RADIO OPOLE
Adrian Furman was a guest of Radio Opole „Face to Face” broadcast. With the host of the programme, Joanna Matlak, he talked about the issues of professional activation of people with disabilities. Referring to the International Day of People with Disabilities, the subject of broadly understood accessibility was also discussed.
BRIEF
An interview with Adrian Furman, president of the AF Group, was published on the Brief.pl website as part of the #KiszlukRozmawia series. The conversation concerned, inter alia, the operations of his company in the United States Poland IT-Lab LLC and the investment policy overseas. The editor-in-chief of the interview, Grzegorz Kiszluk, also asked about the current assessment of the business condition of Polish entrepreneurs and its change after the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.
LINK to the interview.
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