Keynotes
Judy Brewer
Assistant Director for Accessibility, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Executive Office of the President, White House
Victor Calise
Director, Walmart Belonging
Seth Dobbs
President and CEO, W3C
Featured Speakers
Lainey Feingold
Disability Rights Lawyer and Author, Law Office of Lainey Feingold
H.E. Ambassador Luis Gallegos Chiriboga
President, GIA Foundation; President Board of UNITAR; Honorary Chair Board of G3ict
Paolo Gaudiano
Founder and Chief Scientist, Aleria; President of ARC; Adjunct at NYU Stern School of Business
H.E. Ambassador Amandeep Singh Gill
United Nations Under-Secretary-General and S-G's Envoy on Technology
Sarah Herrlinger
Senior Director of Global Accessibility Policy & Initiatives, Apple
Andrew Holbrook
Chief Accessibility Officer, Wells Fargo
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Senior Fellow, G3ict
Peter Korn
Director of Accessibility, Amazon's Devices and Services
Preety Kumar
CEO, Deque Systems
Susanna Laurin, CPACC
IAAP GLC Honorary Chair & EU Representative
Axel Leblois
Founder and President Emeritus, G3ict
Christopher Lee, Ph.D.
President, G3ict/IAAP
Rachel Nemeth
Sr. Director, Regulatory Affairs, Consumer Technology Association, producer of CES®
Arielle Silverman, Ph.D.
Director of Research, AFB
Marc Workman
CEO, World Blind Union (WBU)
Dino Zuppa, Ph.D.
Acting CEO, Accessibility Standards Canada
Session Chairs
Monica Ackermann
Member of the G3ict Board of Directors
Jennison Asuncion
Co-Founder, Global A11y Awareness Day & Vice-Chair, GAAD Foundation
Matt Ater
Vice President of Business Development, Vispero
David Banes
Director, DB Access & Inclusion; DATEurope Board Director
Zachary Bastian
Senior Manager, Strategic Alliances, Verizon
Francesca Cesa Bianchi
Vice President, G3ict
Bill Curtis-Davidson
Director, PEAT
Joe Devon
Chair, GAAD Foundation
Monica Duhem, Ph.D.
Director, Global Advisory Center, G3ict
Mary Fernandez
Global Lead, Disability and Neuro-Inclusion, Cisco
Larry Goldberg
Accessible Media and Technology Consultant
Mike Hess
Founder and Executive Director, Blind Institute of Technology (BIT)
Shilpi Kapoor
Founder & CEO, BarrierBreak
Jacque Madison
Director of Product Accessibility - Digital Experience, Accenture
Mike May
Navigation Technology Advisor, APH
Susan Mazrui
Director, Global Public Policy, AT&T
Irene Mbari-Kirika
Founder and Executive Director, inABLE
Andrew Nielson
Director, Government-wide IT Accessibility Program, U.S. GSA
Sachin Dev Pavithran, Ph.D.
Executive Director, U.S. Access Board
Catherine Pugh
Director, Digital Health, Consumer Technology Association, producer of CES®
Habib Ragelhassi, CPACC
Digital Accessibility Expert, Amadeus
Sharron Rush
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Knowbility
Joel Snyder, Ph.D.
President, Audio Description Associates, LLC
Tim Springer
CEO, Level Access
Karen Strauss
National Disability Advocate and Historian
Alison Sutton Levy
Director, Office of Technical and Information Services, U.S. Access Board
Jonathan Thurston
CEO, Infinite Access
Jutta Treviranus, Ph.D.
Director, Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC), OCAD University
Gregg Vanderheiden, Ph.D.
Professor and Founder/Director Emeritus- Trace R&D Center, UMD iSchool, University of Maryland
Mark Walker
Head of Marketing and Porfolio, AbilityNet
Frances West
Founder, FrancesWestCo
Session Speakers
Shadi Abou-Zahra
Principal Accessibility Standards and Policy Manager, Amazon's Devices and Services
Ariana Aboulafia, Esq.
Policy Counsel, Disability Rights in Technology, Center for Democracy & Technology
Christina Adams, CPWA
Manager, Digital Accessibility, Siteimprove
Manish Agrawal
Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft & Co-Founder, IAccessible, Inc.
Tomer Aharoni
Founder and CEO, Nagish
Zainab Alkebsi, Esq.
Chief Policy Officer, Deaf Equality
Lisette Arocha, CPWA
Accessibility & Inclusive Design Senior Manager, Products & Technology, PwC
Lourdes Arreola Prado
IAAP International Development and Chapter Manager, G3ict
Jonathan Avila, CPWA
Chief Accessibility Officer, Level Access
Everette Bacon
VP of Blindness Initiatives, Aira & NFB
Robert Baker
Workplace Programs Advisor, G3ict/IAAP
Andres Balcazar
Accessibility Consultant, Todo Accessible & G3ict/IAAP GLC
Glenn Barfield
Accessibility as a Service (AcaaS) Program Manager, HCLTech
Dylan Barrell
CTO, Deque Systems
Singleton Beato
Global EVP, Chief DE&I Officer, McCann Worldgroup
Ida Behreini
Software Engineer, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Michael Bervell
Founder and CEO, TestParty
Brandon Biggs
CEO & Co-Founder, XR Navigation
Rebecca Bond
Chief, Disability Rights Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Pete Bruhn, CPACC
Director of Digital Accessibility Solutions, Onward Search
Ira Burnim
Legal Director, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, and DI&A Steering Committee
Brianna Burrows
Digital Accessibility Manager, T-Mobile
Kyle Buzzard
Co-Founder, Head of Product, Glidance
Jazmin Cano
Senior Accessibility Product Manager, Owlchemy Labs
Andres Castrillon
Senior Director, Government Affairs, Qualcomm
Marie Cohan, CPACC
Statewide Digital Accessibility Officer, DIR (Texas Department of Information Resources)
Pierce Crowell
Section 508 Program Manager, U.S. Social Security Administration
Sue Cullen
Director of UD & ICT Accessibility, Tech for All, Inc.
Daniella Decker
Independent Consultant, ReelAbilities
Brian DeConinck
Senior Software Engineer - Accessibility, Ad Hoc
Sarah DeCosse, JD
Assistant Legal Counsel for the ADA and GINA Division, U.S. EEOC
Maria-Victoria Diaz
Founder and CEO, Dicapta
Seamus Dowdall
Legislative Director, Telecommunications & Technology, National Association of Counties (NACo)
Alex Dunn
Founder and CEO, Cephable
Chuck Eger
Sr. Director, North America, Mobile & Wireless Forum (MWF)
Kathy Eng
Senior ICT Accessibility Specialist, U.S. Access Board
Stephanie Enyart, J.D.
Chief Public Policy and Research Officer, AFB
Julie Eshleman, Ph.D.
Assistive Technology Researcher, Leonard Cheshire, Assistive Technology
Sam Evans
Certification Director, IAAP, A G3ict Division
David Fazio
Founder and President, Helix Opportunity
Derek Featherstone
VP, Accessibility and Inclusive Design, Salesforce
Jillian Fortin Burtnett
Director of Community Programs, Fable
Stephen Framil
Corporate Global Head of Accessibility, Merck & Co. Inc.
Chet Frith
Director, Section 508 Compliance, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Mike Gifford, CPWA
Open Standards & Practices Lead, CivicActions
Briana Gilmore
Head of Public Policy, Accessibility and Marginalized Communities, Uber
Nicholas Giudice, Ph.D.
Professor of Spatial Computing, University of Maine
Monica Goel
Executive Director, Digital Accessibility, CVS Health Digital
Nick Goodrum, CPWA
Director of Accessibility, Americaneagle.com
Caitlin Grogan
Group Product Manager, Sprout Social, UI Foundations and Accessibility
Nandita Gupta
CPACC, Senior Product Manager, Accessibility, Cisco
Sandy Hanebrink
Executive Director, Touch the Future, Inc.
JoAnna Hansen
Head of Accessibility for Worldwide Stores, Amazon
Willette Harris
Accessibility Technical Business Partner for Collaboration, Cisco
Sarah Heinzen
Senior Product Designer, Microsoft Inclusive Tech Lab
Alan Hejl, CPACC
Founder and Lead Consultant, Spark Access
Bryna Helfer, Ed.D.
Director of the Employment Supports and Innovative Partnerships, ODEP, U.S. Department of Labor
Christine Hemphill
Founder and Managing Director, Open Inclusion
Shawn Henry
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Program Lead, W3C
Eric Hind
Accessibility @ Google Workspace
Isabel Hodge
Executive Director, U.S. International Council on Disabilities (USICD)
Klaus Hoeckner
Managing Director, Austrian Association for the Blind and Low Vision
Ali Ingersoll
Global Head of Community, Open Inclusion
Kurt Iobst
Global President, Neurodiversity Abilityforce ERG, Salesforce
Ryan Jones
VP of Software and Product Management, Vispero
Kate Kalcevich
Head of Accessibility Innovation, Fable
Matthew Kaplowitz
President, and Chief Creative Officer, Bridge Multimedia
Mousumi Kapoor
CEO and Head of Technology, Continual Engine
Mick Keane
Principal Digital Accessibility Engineer, Accessibility Center of Excellence, Consumer Office – Digital Office, Optum
AnnMarie Killian
CEO, TDIforAccess, Inc.
Regina “Gina” Kline
Founder and Managing Partner, Enabled Ventures
Andrew LaHart, CPACC
Senior Accessibility Program Manager, Atlassian
Erin Leary
Product Accessibility Program Manager, Reality Labs, Meta
Stephane Leblois
Chief Community and Programmes Officer, Valuable 500
Steven Lewis
Senior Manager, Legal Counsel, Canada Legal, CapitalOne
Anil Lewis
Executive Director, Jernigan Institute, NFB
Thomas Logan, CPWA
Founder and CEO, Equal Entry
Mohammed Loutfy, Ph.D., CPACC
Director, Capacity Building and Advocacy, G3ict
Fred Maahs, Jr.
Founding Partner, Journeyable
Karthik Mahadeven
Co-Founder and CEO, Envision
Tamar Makharashvili
Inclusive Tourism, UDL, and Accessibility Audit Expert, Tbilisi Municipality City Hall Mayor’s Committee for People with Disabilities & G3ict CAN
Sarah Massengale, CPACC
Web Accessibility Auditor, McGraw Hill and IAAP GLC Member
Agustya Mehta
Director of Concept Engineering, Meta
Josh Mendelsohn
Acting Chief, Disability Rights Office, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, FCC
Justin Merhoff
Director of Security, Deque Systems
Josh Miller
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, 3Play Media
Amos Miller
Founder and CEO, Glidance
Cari Miller, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, AI Procurement Lab
Neil Milliken
VP – Global Head of Accessibility & Digital Inclusion, Atos
Satwik Mishra
Acting Executive Director, World Economic Forum's Centre for Trustworthy Technology
Ligia Mora
Senior Product Manager, Crawford Technologies
Rob Moser
Chief Design Officer, Whirlpool
Lina Nadar
Accessibility Program Lead, Walmart Canada
Michael O’Hare
Director, Systems Accessibility, Tech for All, Inc.
Bruno Osorio
Executive Chairman, Adamastor Studio and Foxtech
Troy Otillio
CEO, AIra
Rachel Paul, MBA
Membership Director, IAAP
Tom Pey, Ph.D.
Founder & CEO, Waymap
Alwar Pillai
CEO & Co-Founder, Fable
Greg Pollock
VP, Business Development, CSD
Anessa Powell
Account Manager North & South America, Valuable 500
Craig Radford
CEO and Co-Founder, 360 Empower
Marcie Roth
Executive Director and CEO, World Institute on DIsability (WID)
Brian Scarpelli
Senior Global Policy Counsel, ACT | The App Association
Paul Schroeder
Vice President, Impact & Outreach, American Printing House for the Blind (APH)
Kyle Shachmut
Sr. Director, Digital Accessibility Services, Harvard University
Nicky Shaw
U.S. Operations Manager, Storm Interface
Arpitha Shetty
Director, Inclusive Design/Localization, Walmart International
Glenda Sims, CPWA
Chief Information Accessibility Officer (CIAO), Deque Systems
Suzy Rosen Singleton
Sr. Advisor to Special Advisor on International Disability Rights (Detailee), U.S. Department of State
David Sloan
Chief Accessibility Officer, TPGi, A Vispero Company
Kristen Smith-O’Connor
Sr. ICT Accessibility Specialist, Government-wide IT Accessibility Program, U.S. GSA
Kate Sonka
Executive Director, Teach Access
Kate Sweeney
Digital Accessibility Program Director, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Pete Thompson
Vice President of North American Sales, imageHOLDERS Ltd.
Maria Town
President & CEO, AAPD
Dan Tripp
Senior Digital Accessibility Engineer, Siteimprove
Natalie P. Tucker
Accessibility Lead, Genuine Parts Company
Christian Vogler, Ph.D.
Professor, Director, Technology Access Program, Gallaudet University
Stephanie Warlick, CPACC
Founder and CEO, 5FT View
Cassie Winters
Digital Accessibility Policy Lead, Office of Management and Budget, Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer
Thomas Wlodkowski
Vice President, Accessibility, Comcast
Kai Wong
Principal, Solutions Delivery - Accessibility, Teladoc Health, Inc.
Hillary Wool
Partner, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Jay Wyant
Chief Information Accessibility Officer, State of Minnesota
Charlotte Yeh, MD, FACEP
Innovative & Passionate Ambassador for Healthy Aging, Yeh Innovation, LLC, former Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services, Inc.
Kevin Yoo
CEO and Co-Founder, Haptic
Heather York
VP, Marketing and Government Affairs, VITAC
IAAP Workshops Speakers
Jarek Beksa
Senior Lecture Media Design School and CEO Sonnar Interactive
Denis Boudreau, CPWA
Author, Founder & Principal Trainer, Inklusiv Communications
Miranda Capra, Ph.D., CWPA
Accessibility Director II, Truist
Jennifer Chadwick, CPACC
Senior Accessibility Strategist, Aequum Global Access
Louise Clark, MA, CPWA
Accessibility Strategist, United States Digital Service
Bill Curtis-Davidson
Director, PEAT
Dawn Skaggs
Chief Program Officer, World Institute on Disability (WID)
Monica Duhem, Ph.D.
Director, Global Advisory Center, G3ict
Rob Fentress, CPWA
Senior Web Accessibility Solutions Designer, Virginia Tech
Zachary Gadoury
Accessibility Specialist, Mobile Applications, Fidelity Investments
Dan Goldstein, Esq.
Founding Partner (retired), Brown, Goldstein & Levy; IAAP DI&AC Program Founder
Jonathan Hassell, Ph.D.
CEO and Founder, Hassell Inclusion
Christine Hemphill
Founder and Managing Director, Open Inclusion
Eve Hill
Disability Rights Attorney, Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy
Bruno Osorio
Executive Chairman, Adamastor Studio and Foxtech
Marcie Roth
Executive Director and CEO, World Institute on DIsability (WID)
Mark Steadman
Director, Software Engineering, Mobile Accessibility, Fidelity Investments
John Sullivan
G3ict Senior Fellow and Advisor
Jonathan Thurston
CEO, Infinite Access