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Frances West – Founder of Frances West Co.

Awaiting Quality Captions Frances West is a champion for the rights for persons with disabilities on a global scale.  Frances served as IBM’s first Chief Accessibility Officer, as well as the Director of the IBM Human Ability & Accessibility Center until June 2016. Since retiring from IBM, Frances founded FrancesWestCo, a company providing inclusive digital […]

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Nancy Doyle – Work and Organisational Psychologist, Neurodiversity Specialist, Social Entrepreneur, Founder of Genius Within CIC

Awaiting Quality Captions Nancy is a Consultant Occupational Psychologist based in the UK and the USA; a dual national.  Nancy has worked in organisational consultancy, neurodiversity and social inclusion, as overlapping specialisms until 2011 when she founded Genius Within CIC, a non-profit enterprise which now employs around 100 people.  Genius Within delivers positive assessments, coaching,

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Jake Abma – Accessibility Lead for ING Netherlands

 Awaiting Quality Captions Accessibility Lead for ING Netherlands For the last four years Jake has set up a raft of initiatives to make sure products and services are accessible to people with the widest range of capabilities. He’s a passionate promoter of accessibility both inside and outside the Bank. Product Owner ING has introduced different

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Rosemary Musachio – CPACC, Chief Accessibility Officer at Ruh Global Communications,

Awaiting Quality Captions When Rosemary was born on September 13, 1966 at an American naval hospital in Pozzuoli, Italy, the doctor asked her parents, “What will you do with her?”  Her parents looked at each other and thought he was crazy.  The ignorant physician asked because she had brain damage, which resulted in cerebral palsy. 

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Dr. Flip Schrameijer – Sociologist, Mental health specialist, Novelist, & Founder of Architecture for Autism

Awaiting Quality Captions Flip is a Dutch sociologist with a PhD in social psychology who worked for seventeen years at the Netherlands Centre for Mental Health as a researcher and manager. Self-employed since 1996 as a researcher, writer and consultant. Wrote several books on mental health issues (two about the problems and treatment of disturbed

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Aurélien Levy – CEO of Temesis

Awaiting Quality Captions Aurélien is CEO of Temesis, a French company working on digital accessibility and quality. He works as a consultant and he is one of the main authors of the French government’s accessibility guidelines RGAA version 1 and 2. He is also and international speaker (CSUN, Funka accessibility days, A11y Québec, Confoo Montreal, etc)

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Emily Plummer – Front End Engineer at Buffer, Co-Organizer at Donut.js

Awaiting Quality Captions   Emily Plummer is a Front End Engineer at Buffer as well as the co-organizer of Donut.js, a tech community event in Portland, Oregon. She is passionate about making Buffer and the rest of the web inclusive for all users. Follow Emily on Twitter!

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Dr. David A. Bray – Senior Executive & CIO for the FCC, Eisenhower Fellow to Taiwan and Australia, Harvard Executive In-Residence

Awaiting Quality Captions Dr. David A. Bray began work in public service at age 15, later serving in the private sector before returning as IT Chief for the CDC’s Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Program during 9/11; volunteering to deploy to Afghanistan to “think differently” on military and humanitarian issues; and serving as a Senior Executive

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Peter Armstrong – Manager of Digital Content, Accessible Media Inc. (AMI)

 Awaiting Quality Captions Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) Manager of Digital Content Peter Armstrong has more than 10 years’ experience in digital marketing. He’s developed a passion for and expertise in accessibility while working with people with disabilities during the last five years. Prior to joining AMI in September, 2015, he worked with the Toronto 2015

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Thomas Logan – CEO, Equal Entry & CoFounder of A11Y NYC

Awaiting Quality Captions Thomas Logan is the CEO of Equal Entry and cofounder of A11yNYC – Accessibility New York City. Thomas has been working in the accessibility field for over 13 years. He got his start at UNC with a student project to make a digitized ancient world map accessible through sound and touch to a graduate student

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