Rylin Rodgers serves on Microsoft’s Accessibility Team as a Disability Policy Director. She strives to impact disability policy in the areas of technology, workforce and fundamental right. Rylin’s work is influenced by her lived experiences with disability. She is dyslexic and has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and the mother of two young adults with physical disabilities and medical […]
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Mike Hazlewood is the Co-Founder & CEO of SensePilot, a pioneering startup dedicated to redefining how individuals with mobility and dexterity impairments interact with the digital world. By leveraging standard webcams to enable hands-free control for PCs and gaming, SensePilot aims to disrupt the traditional cost and hardware barriers associated with Assistive Technology. The company
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Andreas Schachl is a seasoned tech leader with decades of experience steering international software teams through every stage of product and project development. He believes that people are the true engine of any successful organization, so he pairs hands‑on mentorship with rigorously crafted processes to turn ambitious ideas into proven results. Together with his friend Hans‑Peter Kranewitter, Andreas
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Convinced that talent has no boundaries, Karine has dedicated her career to developing people and pushing the diversity and inclusion agenda forward. In her 25+ year career, she notably served as global talent lead for Capgemini Invent, where she was a strong advocate of gender parity and promoting women’s programs. As Head of D&I for
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Shlomit Shteyer is a Director of Technical Program Management at Salesforce with over a decade of experience driving software programs from strategy to successful delivery across multiple countries and organizations of all sizes. Her passion for accessibility began during her time at Twitter, where she was first introduced to the product accessibility space. Since joining
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Heather Hepburn is a passionate accessibility evangelist who kick-started the accessibility programme at Skyscanner. Now as Head of Accessibility, she’s leading the charge in making Skyscanner a flagship of disability inclusion, their products accessible to all, and travel planning easier for people with disabilities. She also lectures on accessibility, is on the Teach Access Europe steering
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Christopher Patnoe is the Lead for EMEA Accessibility and Disability Innovation at Google. He leads Google’s efforts around the accessibility of product, policy and partnerships across EMEA – with a particular focus on Emerging Markets. He has 30 years experience in Tech working at companies like Apple, Sony Ericsson and Disney where he’s built hardware,
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Brandon Biggs is an entrepreneur, researcher, inclusive designer, developer, and life-long learner. He is the CEO of XR Navigation, an Engineer at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, Co-Founder and board treasurer at Sonja Biggs Educational Services Inc., and a PhD student at the Georgia institute of Technology. In 2016, he received his bachelors in music
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A native New Yorker raised in old Harlem, Gisele is a TEDx speaker on networking and relationship building. Gisele takes the fear out of networking and offers practical, easy to implement ideas to network your way to your ‘next.’ She possesses an MBA from Harvard Business School and is an operations executive who makes organizations
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Mr. Abdus Sattar Dulal was born in 1960 in Bangladesh. At the age of 15, he survived a life-threatening fall from a tree — by the grace of Allah, his life was spared. The accident left him in a coma for 42 days and required a long seven-year recovery. Since then, he has lived with
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