The story of tactilography
Frank Hoffmann, Rüdiger Goetz |
TEDxRuhrUniversityBochum
• May 2019
The story of tactilography: How the visually impaired improve early breast cancer detection | Frank Hoffmann & Rüdiger Goetz | TEDx Ruhr University Bochum
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Frank Hoffmann is the founder and CEO of Discovering Hands, an innovative German social business, which trains visually impaired people as Medical Tactile Examiners (METs). METs perform tactile examinations of the breast in medical offices and hospitals with significantly increased sensitivity, which improves the quality of breast cancer screening.
Rüdiger Goetz has been managing the unit KW43 BRANDDESIGN since 2005. His professional passion is not just in managing and designing brands, but for the people, stories and entrepreneurial energy behind each company. He is convinced that effective branding can only come through admiration and respect for the entrepreneurial core of a business.
In their joint talk they will explain how to turn a good idea into an even better social enterprise.
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