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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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Joe Devon – Co-Founder of GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day)

Awaiting Quality Captions  Joe Devon is a serial entrepreneur and computer programmer with over 30 years of development experience. Joe has worked on projects spanning Search Engine technology, Performance Management, Investment Banks, Telcos & Media. In addition to starting several companies, Joe serves/d as an advisor at several startups,  leading industry conferences and nonprofits. Last but not least, Joe Co-Founded Global Accessibility Awareness

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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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Stefan Trömel – Senior Disability Specialist of The International Labour Organization (ILO)

Awaiting Quality Captions   Stefan Trömel, Senior Disability Specialist in the International Labour Organization (ILO) since August 2013. His current duties include the coordination of the ILO Global Business and Disability Network. Between 2008 and 2013, held the position of Executive Director of the International Disability Alliance, the global umbrella organization of organizations of persons

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