Keynotes
Victor Calise
Director, Walmart Belonging
Seth Dobbs
President and CEO, W3C
Session Chairs
Jennison Mark Asuncion
Co-Founder, Global A11y Awareness Day & Vice-Chair, GAAD Foundation
Matt Ater
Vice President of Business Development, Vispero
David Banes
Access and Inclusion
Zach Bastian
Manager, Strategic Alliances, Verizon
Bill Curtis-Davidson
Director, PEAT
Pina D’Intino, CPACC
Sr. Accessibility Adviser, Strategist and Business Implementation, Aequum Global Access Inc.
Joe Devon
Chair, GAAD Foundation
Monica Duhem, Ph.D.
Director, Global Advisory Center, G3ict
Mary Fernandez
Global Lead, Disability and Neuro-Inclusion, Cisco Systems
Larry Goldberg
Accessible Media and Technology Consultant
Mike Hess
Founder and Executive Director, Blind Institute of Technology (BIT)
Shilpi Kapoor
Founder & CEO, BarrierBreak
Christopher Lee, Ph.D.
President, G3ict/IAAP
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
Rachel Nemeth
Sr. Director, Regulatory Affairs, Consumer Technology Association, producer of CES®
Sachin Dev Pavithran, Ph.D.
Executive Director, U.S. Access Board
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
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
Andres Castrillon
Senior Director, Government Affairs, Qualcomm
Francesca Cesa Bianchi
Vice President, G3ict
Marie Cohan, CPACC
Statewide Digital Accessibility Program Administrator, DIR (Texas Department of Information Resources)
Ernie Crawford
President and Founder, Crawford Technologies
Pierce Crowell
Section 508 Program Manager, U.S. Social Security Administration
Sarah DeCosse, JD
Assistant Legal Counsel for the ADA and GINA Division, U.S. EEOC
Maria-Victoria Diaz
Founder and CEO, Dicapta
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
Lainey Feingold
Disability Rights Lawyer and Author, Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Stephen Framil
Corporate Global Head of Accessibility, Merck & Co. Inc.
Chet Frith
Director, Section 508 Compliance, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
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
Mike Gifford, CPWA
Open Standards & Practices Lead, CivicActions
Briana Gilmore
Head of Global Accessibility Policy, 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, UI Systems, Sprout Social
Nandita Gupta, CPACC
Accessibility Product Manager @ Accessibility Insights, Microsoft
Sandy Hanebrink
Executive Director, Touch the Future, Inc.
Willette Harris
Accessibility Technical Business Partner for Collaboration, Cisco Systems
Alan Hejl, CPACC
Founder and Lead Consultant, Spark Access
Christine Hemphill
Founder and Managing Director, Open Inclusion
Shawn Henry
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Program Lead, W3C
Eric Hind
Accessibility @ Google Workspace
Klaus Hoeckner
Managing Director, Austrian Association for the Blind and Low Vision
Andrew Holbrook
Chief Accessibility Officer, Wells Fargo
Kurt Iobst
Global President, Neurodiversity Abilityforce ERG, Salesforce
Ryan Jones
VP of Software and Product Management, Vispero
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.
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Senior Fellow, G3ict
Regina “Gina” Kline
Founder and Managing Partner, Enabled Ventures
Peter Korn
Director of Accessibility, Amazon's Devices and Services
Preety Kumar
CEO, Deque Systems
Andrew LaHart, CPACC
Senior Accessibility Program Manager, Atlassian
Susanna Laurin, CPACC
IAAP GLC Honorary Chair & EU Representative
Erin Leary
Product Accessibility Program Manager, Reality Labs, Meta
Axel Leblois
Founder and President Emeritus, G3ict
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
Josh Loebner, Ph.D.
Global Head of Inclusive Design, VML
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
Josh Mendelsohn
Acting Chief, Disability Rights Office, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, FCC
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
Rob Moser
Vice President, Global Consumer Design, Whirlpool
Lina Nadar
Accessibility Program Lead, Walmart Canada
Andrew Nielson
Director, Government-wide IT Accessibility Program, U.S. GSA
Michael O’Hare
Director, Systems Accessibility, Tech for All, Inc.
Bruno Osorio
Executive Chairman, Adamastor Studio and Foxtech
Troy Otillio
CEO, AIra
Tom Pey, Ph.D.
Founder & CEO, Waymap
Alwar Pillai
CEO & Co-Founder, Fable
Dan Pomeroy
Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP), U.S. GSA
Anessa Powell
Account Manager North & South America, Valuable 500
Craig Radford
CEO and Co-Founder, 360 Empower
Rita Reynolds
Chief Information Officer, NACo
Kevin Rydberg
Managing Accessibility Consultant, Siteimprove
Brian Scarpelli
Senior Global Policy Counsel, ACT | The App Association
Kyle Shachmut
Sr. Director, Digital Accessibility Services, Harvard University
Arpitha Shetty
Director, Inclusive Design/Localization, Walmart International UX
Arielle Silverman, Ph.D.
Director of Research, AFB
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 ITL Accessibility Program, U.S. GSA
Kate Sonka
Executive Director, Teach Access
Kate Sweeney
Section 508 Program Director, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Maria Town
President & CEO, AAPD
Natalie P. Tucker
Accessibility Lead, Genuine Parts Company
Christian Vogler, Ph.D.
Professor, Director, Technology Access Program, Gallaudet University
Thomas Wlodkowski
Vice President, Accessibility, Comcast
Kai Wong
Principal, Solutions Delivery - Accessibility, Teladoc Health, Inc.
Hillary Wool
Partner, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Marc Workman
CEO, World Blind Union (WBU)
Jay Wyant
Chief Information and Accessibility Officer, State of Minnesota
Charlotte Yeh
Chief Medical Officer, AARP
Kevin Yoo
CEO and Co-Founder, Haptic
Heather York
VP, Marketing and Government Affairs, VITAC
Dino Zuppa, Ph.D.
Acting CEO, Accessibility Standards Canada
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
Pina D’Intino, CPACC
Sr. Accessibility Adviser, Strategist and Business Implementation, Aequum Global Access Inc.
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