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Cordelia McGee-Tubb (@cordeliadillon) is a web accessibility specialist and cartoonist. She is a Principal Accessibility Engineer at Salesforce and previously led Dropbox’s accessibility program. She’s passionate about making technology accessible and enjoyable to all, regardless of age, ability, or circumstances. Cordelia currently co-hosts 13 Letters, the accessibility podcast by Be My Eyes, where she has […]

Kate M. Sonkais the Executive Director of Teach Access and the Assistant Director of Academic Technology at the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University. She holds a M.Ed. in Bilingual/Bicultural Education and a TESOL certificate from DePaul University. She improves teaching and learning with technology through course design and support, experiential learning,

Judith (Judy) Heumann has most recently been a Senior Fellow at the Ford Foundation. She formerly served as the Special Advisor for International Disability Rights at the US Department of State from 2010-2017. She is now building an online presence under The Heumann Perspective through social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. This

Mei Lin Fung Co-founder People-Centered Internet, Vice Chair IEEE Internet Inclusion, Digital Economy & Society-World Economic Forum. People must be at the heart of the Internet which can be an Internet of the People, by the People and for the People. She co-founded the People-Centered Internet with Vint Cerf so that we all can have

Julian John is the Managing Director of Delsion, a People & Development consultancy that focuses on Learning & Development and inclusion solutions. The social goal of Delsion is to: “Make Wales a leading nation around inclusion, specifically disability inclusion in the workplace”. In 2015 Delsion led the initiative to make Swansea the 1st Disability Confident

David Banes David Banes is Director of David Banes Access and Inclusion Services and was formerly CEO, at Mada the Qatar Assistive Technology and Accessibility Center based in Doha where he was based for six years. He was responsible for developing services to ensure that people with a disability in Qatar are digitally included and is currently focused on

  This Video Has Captions Joao’s passion lies in helping others, sharing experiences, transferring knowledge, working collaboratively and passing on the latest Wearable Technology Trends. As a thought leader in wearables, digital health, IoT and healthcare innovation, he explores the intersection of Technology and Human Behaviour. Joao Bocas analyses the impact of Wearable Applications by sharing future

This video has captions Diane joined Business Disability Forum as Chief Executive Officer in February 2017 after moving from her former role as Director of Policy and Communications for United Response, a leading national disability charity. During her 13 years at United Response, Diane led and developed the charity’s campaigning, public affairs and lobbying activity,

This video has captions Nicole Windmann joined SAP’s Accessibility Competence Center in 2012. She owns the guidelines for accessible product development and design, and is SAP’s central contact point for questions regarding the accessibility of SAP products. Before she joined SAP, she led international public funded projects for economic development in Europe, Asia and South