AI for Accessibility: Transforming Airport Transport with Smart Wheelchairs

📌 About the Event

🎓 Don’t miss the grand finale of the Cambridge Technology & AI 2025 (CTA2025) Webinar Series, powered by worai.ai! In this special closing edition, we tackle one of the most impactful frontiers in AI:

AI for Accessibility: Transforming Airport Transport with Smart Wheelchairs

Air travel can be stressful for passengers with limited mobility — but artificial intelligence is rewriting that experience. Smart, autonomous wheelchairs are setting a new standard in accessibility, independence, and dignity for travelers.

In this session, you’ll gain an insider’s look at how AI-driven mobility is reshaping airport transport. Our featured speaker, David Nyarko, will share lessons from the pioneering BWI Airport Autonomous Wheelchair Project, including:
✅ How AI, robotics, and computer vision enable safe, reliable autonomous navigation in crowded airports
✅ The real-world design challenges of accessibility, safety, and user trust
✅ The future of AI-powered mobility solutions and their potential to transform public spaces worldwide

These innovations are more than just technological advances — they’re a movement toward inclusion and equity in global travel.

Whether you’re interested in AI, robotics, transportation, healthcare, or universal design, this session will inspire and inform, showing how technology can empower millions of travelers with greater freedom and choice.

💡 Be part of the conversation shaping the future of accessible travel — and see how AI is opening doors, and airports, to a more inclusive world.

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📢 Featured Speaker

David Nyarko is a doctoral engineering student and Graduate Research Lead at Morgan State University, specializing in applied AI and robotics software engineering. An award-winning innovator with more than $102,000 in competition winnings, David leads pioneering work in autonomous systems, including the BWI Airport Autonomous Wheelchair Project, featured in The Baltimore Banner and the Baltimore Business Journal.

His accolades include first place at the Capital One/Delaware State University Innovation Pitch Competition ($100K seed funding) with Team AgroVision’s AI-powered hydroponic farming system, recognition at MIT’s AI & Education Summit, and multiple honors from Emory University’s Health AI Datathons.

With expertise spanning machine learning, computer vision, and autonomous navigation, David merges technical excellence with a humanitarian mission: building AI solutions that transform industries while uplifting underrepresented communities. His leadership has earned him distinction from the National Society of Black Engineers and recognition across major media outlets.