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 […]

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

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

Eugene is the CEO of Venngage, a design platform that helps organizations produce accessible documents at scale. He focuses on moving accessibility upstream – shifting from remediation to creation with built-in checks, templates, and governance. His team partners with public sector and higher-ed institutions to standardize accessible-by-default outputs across departments. 

Erika is the co-founder and Director of Strategy at Mule. She has advocated for the importance of evidence-based design and clear language since the late 20th century.  Erika is the author of Just Enough Research, now in its second edition, and Conversational Design, both from A Book Apart. Erika works to help organizations and individual

Rochelle Ratkaj Moser is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Ratkaj Designs, a creative agency that brings together the power of design and the purpose of philanthropy. With a focus on accessibility, inclusion, and mission-aligned visual storytelling, Rochelle has spent her career helping nonprofits and social impact organizations bettercommunicate their values, advocate for change,

Gail Ramster is a Senior Research Associate in inclusive design at the Royal College of Art’s Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. She applies people-centred approaches to service, information and urban design challenges, and leads the Public Toilets Research Unit, with twenty years of research captured in her co-authored book, Designing Inclusive Public Toilets: Wee the

Gina’s research focuses on digital accessibility and experience design. Gina established and now leads Forrester’s coverage of the digital accessibility space and has a deep background and interest in the topic. She advises organizations on how to establish and scale sustainable accessibility practices and is an expert on the digital accessibility platform (DAP) market. Her

David Banes is the Chair of the Equitable AI Alliance and General Secretary of DATEurope, the European Association for the Assistive Technology Industry. With a career in leading innovation in accessibility and assistive technology services in Europe and the Middle East, alongside supporting the development of emerging technologies and innovations, he now works globally to

Laura Wissiak is a UX researcher and accessibility advocate specializing in assistive technology for people with low vision and blindness. As Chief Research Officer at Hope Tech, she leads the development of assistive tech hardware for mobility. Recognized by Forbes Austria and Forbes Europe for her contributions to social impact, Laura is committed to advancing