BrightSign is a smart glove that empowers speech disabled people to have better daily communications. The glove has the potential to change millions of lives by creating a community for people with disabilities, who want both a democratic and inclusive way to communicate.

To mark the UK's Deaf Awareness Week, Aldi, in collaboration with ITV has created an advert shot entirely in sign language. A concerted effort for inclusivity, Aldi and ITV cater to the 50,000 people whose preferred means of communication is sign language.

Behavioural sciences have been applied to advertising for nearly 50 years, but industry-wide adoption is slow. Canvas8 spoke with Richard Shotton, author ofThe Choice Factory, about how behavioural sciences can help advertisers to innovate their practices to meet the challenges of tomorrow.

Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, yet business decision-makers see it as pivotal to success, with 900,000 companies expected to be using some form of the technology by 2022. How exactly are firms adopting these tools? And how can AI help them meet the needs of their customers?