Nader Hamda

A serial entrepreneur specializing in products that use technology to make children’s lives better, Nader Hamda has presented his vision for a tech-driven future for education at California Institute of Technology (CalTech), City of STEM Science Festival, and FETC 2018. Watching his daughters grow up in a world of smartphones and scrolling to nowhere, Hamda founded Ozobot, a company on a mission is to inspire young minds to take the leap from consuming technology to creating it. Ozobot’s robots, Evo and Bit, can be coded two ways: online with the OzoBlockly code editor and screen-free with Ozobot’s patented Color Codes. Today, Evo and Bit are inspiring the next generation of coders and creators in over 10,000 schools; connecting the physical and digital worlds; and replacing solitary screen time with endlessly engaging user-to-user, user-to-bot, and bot-to-bot interactions.