Agenda

Registration

Plenary Session

• Welcome and Introductory Remarks
  
  
• Opening Keynote: Digital Inclusion Strategies for Equal Opportunities
  
  
• Round Table: Harvesting Digital Transformations for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  The opening plenary round table of the M-Enabling Summit will examine the increasingly complex interactions between digital transformation and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) strategies and review how some of the largest organizations in the world manage those interactions and leverage technology and digital accessibility to meet their DEI objectives.
  
  Moderator: To be announced
  Speakers:
  • Anil Lewis, Executive Director, Jernigan Institute, National Federation of the Blind (NFB)
  • Howard A. Rosenblum, CEO, National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
  • Accenture
    
    

Exhibitors Showcase Opening & Networking Break

Parallel Sessions

• Panel Discussion: Innovation Drivers: The Next Disrupters
  Over the past few years, innovations in user interfaces have benefitted from the considerable scale of the mobile and consumer electronics markets. This session will examine how consumer products have brought affordable accessibility features to everyone and which technology breakthroughs may be anticipated to enable new accessibility solutions and benefit from upcoming high-growth areas such as gaming or metaverse.
  
  Session Chair: Steven Hummel, Manager, Market Research, CTA
  Panelists:
  • Andreas Forsland, Founder, CEO, Chief Product Officer, Cognixion
  • Christine Hempill, Managing Director, Open Inclusion
  • Thadeu Luz, Founder, Chief AI, Hand Talk
  • Additional panelists to be announced
    
    
• Panel Discussion: Users as Digital Creators: Perspectives on Accessibility and Self-Expression
  Digital inclusion is often perceived as ensuring that Persons with Disabilities can access and interact with digital products, content, and services equally with others. This panel will focus on digital inclusion as an enabler for the self-expression of Persons with Disabilities as digital creators.
  
  Session Chair: To be announced
  Panelists: To be announced
  
  
• Innovation Sprint Meetup
  
  
• Sponsored Session: Crawford Technologies

Networking Lunch

Parallel Sessions

• Panel Discussion: Technology and Workplace
  
  Session Chair: To be announced
  Panelists: To be announced
  
  
• Panel Discussion: Broadband Connectivity for All: Future Evolutions
  Broadband availability is an essential enabler of digital inclusion for Persons with Disabilities. It is expanding quickly in the United States and abroad, supported by massive investments by Internet Service Providers. How are Persons with Disabilities benefitting from this evolution? What are the specific applications and services that best drive broadband adoption by Persons with Disabilities? Should Persons with Disabilities be offered superior service levels to ensure that mission-critical data traffic is prioritized for mobile broadband?
  
  Session Chair: CTIA
  Panelists:
  • Zachary Bastian, Manager, Strategic Alliances, Verizon
  • Additional panelists to be announced
    
    
• Meet the Leaders: Q/A with Guest Speaker
  Lightning Talk, followed by an “off the record” moderated dialogue with the audience.
  
  
• Sponsored Session: Google

Parallel Sessions

• Panel Discussion: Advocates’ Perspectives on Future Directions for Digital Accessibility Innovation
  As “Extreme Users,” Persons with Disabilities are an invaluable source of UX innovation. This session will stage disability advocates involved in technology developments who will discuss opportunities for digital accessibility innovation and how those may be best pursued, and by which mix of stakeholders.
  
  Session Chair: Jutta Treviranus, Ph.D., Professor, Director Founder, IDCR, IDI, OCAD University
  Panelists:
  • Matt Ater, VP, Corporate Business Development, Vispero
  • John Lee, Assistive Technology Specialist, Cal Poly
  • Additional panelists to be announced
    
    
• Panel Discussion: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Listening to End User’s Experience
  A direct hands-on review of real-world end-user experiences that best exemplifies the accessibility challenges and opportunities of well-known digital products, content, or services with a discussion of how organizations can better leverage users’ feedback to improve accessibility. 
  
  Session Chair: Sharron Rush, Co-Founder, Executive Director, Knowbility
  Panelists: To be announced
  
  
• Meet the Leaders: Q/A with Guest Speaker
  Lightning Talk, followed by an “off the record” moderated dialogue with the audience.
  
  
• Sponsored Session: Google

Networking Break

Parallel Sessions

• Panel Discussion: The Rising Impact of Global Trends in Digital Accessibility
  With 185 countries having ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and expanding usage of virtual environments worldwide, digital accessibility policies and programs are on the rise globally.  This session will provide an overview of those trends and how international companies factor them in their product development, digital marketing, and web services across geographies and functional areas. 
  
  Session Chair: To be announced
  Panelists:
  • Kent Boucher, Senior Director, Accessibility Program, Oracle
  • Kiran Kaja, Accessibility Program Lead, Instagram
  • Sabine Lobnig, Director Communications, Mobile & Wireless Forum (MWF)
  • Hunter Sunrise, SVP, Head of Marketing, Postclick
  • eSSENTIAL Accessibility
    
    
• Panel Discussion: Smart Connected Mobility Solutions for Persons with Disabilities and Older Persons
  The convergence and integration of digital applications with mobility devices open a new world of solutions for Persons with Disabilities and older persons, both as end-users at home and in smart city environments, stimulating innovative infrastructure innovations.  This session will review the latest innovations and industry initiatives leveraging those trends.
  
  Session Chair: Robin Spinks, Principal Manager, Digital Accessibility, RNIB
  Panelists:
  • Jose Gaztambide, CEO and Founder, GoodMaps
  • Dr. Tom Pey, CEO and Founder, Waymap (invited)
  • Additional panelists to be announced
    
    
• Innovation Sprint Meetup
  
  
• Sponsored Session: Google

M-Enabling 10th Anniversary, Opening Night Cocktail Reception

MC: Debora Ruh, CEO and Founder, Ruh Global IMPACT

Greetings by Cocktail Reception Sponsor: Vispero

Registration

Plenary Session

• Advocacy Keynote
  
  
• Round Table: Next Steps for Digital Accessibility Policies and Standards
  Accessibility standards and guidelines play a critical role in promoting digital accessibility from a public policy angle and in setting desired outcomes for digital products, content, and services.  The panel will explore progress achieved in global harmonization and adoption, implementation gaps, and the likely evolution of accessibility standards in a rapidly evolving technology environment.
  
  Moderator: Tim Springer, CEO, Level Access
  Speakers:
  • Judy Brewer, Director WAI, W3C
  • Sachin Dev Pavithran, Executive Director, U.S. Access Board
  • Susanna Laurin, Chief Research and Innovation Officer, Funka. Pennholder for the WADex Sub-Group on monitoring, and G3ict and IAAP Representative to the EU
  • Additional speakers to be announced
    
    

Networking break

Parallel Sessions

• Panel Discussion: European Accessibility Act: Where Are We Now?
  The European Accessibility Legislation with the European Accessibility Act, the European Web Accessibility Directive, and the European Public Procurement Directive on Accessibility are being transposed into national legislation and regulations among the EU Member States.  What does the situation look like for organizations operating in the European Union? What is the impact of those new measures beyond Europe?  How much harmonization exists between the United States, the European Union, and other countries with similar legislation?  This session will provide an update on those questions, followed by an interactive discussion with panelists.
  
  Session Chair: Klaus Hoeckner, Managing Director, Austrian Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
  Panelists:
  • Shadi Abou-Zhara, Principal Standards and Policy Manager, Devices Accessibility, Amazon
  • Susanna Laurin, Chief Research and Innovation Officer, Funka. Pennholder for the WADex Sub-Group on monitoring, and G3ict and IAAP Representative to the EU
  • Neil Milliken, VP – Global Head of Accessibility & Digital Inclusion, Atos
  • Additional panelists to be announced
    
    
• Panel Discussion: Digital Inclusion Strategies for Older Persons
  Aging demographics present a challenge for organizations offering digital products, content, and services: accessibility features often rely on alternative modes of user interaction which may not work for older persons living with multiple disabilities, including sensorial, physical, and cognitive.  This session will examine possible solutions to ensure the digital inclusion of older persons.
  
  Session Chair: Steven Lewis, Senior Manager, Legal Counsel, CapitalOne
  Panelists:
  • Lisette Arocha, Accessibility & Inclusive Design Manager, Products & Technology (GP&E), PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Kevin Rydberg, Managing Accessibility Consultant, Siteimprove
  • Additional panelists to be announced
    
    
• Meet the Leaders | Q/A with Guest Speaker
  Lightning Talk, followed by an “off the record” moderated dialogue with the audience.
  
  
• Sponsored Session: Apex CoVantage

Networking Lunch

Parallel Sessions

• Panel Discussion: Advancing the Accessibility of Virtual and Hybrid Meetings and Conferencing
  The rapid and massive adoption of virtual meetings, teleservices, and collaboration tools across all sectors of activities presents great opportunities for the inclusion of persons with disabilities if accessibility is factored in all their processes. This session will review the progress made by platform vendors in offering accessibility features, remaining opportunities for further improvements, and how to ensure greater awareness and proper utilization of those accessibility features by organizations.
  
  Session Chair: Kevin Grogg, Assistive Technologies Service Owner, Ernst & Young
  Panelists:
  • Kyle Shachmut, Assistant Director, Digital Accessibility, Harvard University
  • Ryan Bonheyo, Business Development Associate, Communication Service for the Deaf, Inc.
  • Michael Keane, Principal Digital Accessibility Engineer, Optum/UnitedHealth Group
  • Additional panelists to be announced
    
    
• Panel Discussion: New Opportunities for Assistive Technologies in an Interconnected Environment
  While Assistive Technologies providers have historically promoted standalone user-centered solutions, much potential exist for assistive technologies innovators to leverage the Internet of Things, Smart Homes or Smart Cities innovations as well as low-cost consumer devices offering alternative modes of communications.  This session will stage a dialogue between industry and advocates to examine collaboration opportunities between the assistive technologies, consumer electronics and mobile industries in promoting Persons with Disabilities’ independent living, developing standards, tools, and platforms that enable seamless interactions with their environment.
  
  Session Chair: To be announced
  Panelists: To be announced
  
  
• Innovation Sprint Meetup
  
  
• Sponsored Session: Deque

Parallel Sessions

• Panel Discussion: Neurotechnologies, a New Frontier for Wearables in Gaming and Assistive Solutions
  AI-enabled neurotechnologies are emerging as an entirely new field of innovation in assistive solutions that can transform the lives of persons with disabilities. And while neuro-technologies, including Brain-Computer Interfaces, have been explored for a while, competition and research and development investments are accelerating with major players entering the field, opening the door to marketable solutions for mobile, wearable, and gaming platforms.
  
  Session Chair: To be announced
  Panelists: To be announced
  
  
• Panel Discussion: Generational and Intersectional Digital Gaps: Why It Matters
  Leading organizations in matters of Disability Inclusion are increasingly looking at the importance of factoring in the intersectionality of disability and race, color, sex, age, cultural background, or gender identity.  How can Digital Inclusion strategies contribute to addressing stigma, discrimination, isolation, lack of understanding, or exclusion by peers when multiple factors are at play?  An exchange of perspectives between DEI leaders and advocates will be followed by Q&A with participants.
  
  Session Chair: To be announced
  Panelists: To be announced
  
  
• Meet the Leaders: Q/A with Guest Speaker
  Lightning Talk, followed by an “off the record” moderated dialogue with the audience.
  
  
• Sponsored Session: Siteimprove

Networking Break

Parallel Sessions

• Panel Discussion: Smart Cities at the Forefront of Digital Inclusion
  The global smart city market has grown to more than $1.6 trillion as of 2021. This growing economic opportunity inherently involves the opportunity to engage, inform and improve the lives of citizens. For the 25% of people in U.S. cities who are aging or living with disabilities, smart city technologies can be built to deliver better access and fuller participation in the life of their cities. New interconnected solutions enable improved mobility solutions, increased opportunity for aging-in-place, and applications and services that support independent living and transform cities into more enabling environments. This session will review how the impact of this ecosystem goes beyond any one community and how this its connectivity innovations have the potential to support millions of families and caretakers while providing a platform for citizen entrepreneurs to craft unique civil tech solutions.
  
  Session Chair: To be announced
  Panelists: To be announced
  
  
• Panel Discussion: Accessibility of Software as a Service (SaaS)
  Software as a Service (SaaS) has grown exponentially over the past decade and provides applications and services to millions of businesses, education institutions, and government agencies.  This session will examine the lack of accessibility of many SaaS offerings in the marketplace, how this has become a critical challenge for many organizations, and how disability advocates and organizations buying those services should engage with SaaS providers in addressing those gaps. 
  
  Session Chair: Shilpi Kapoor, CEO, BarrierBreak
  Panelists:
  • Brian Scarpelli, Senior Global Policy Counsel, ACT-The App Association
  • Christopher W. Land, Senior Accessibility Technical Program Manager, Oracle
  • Additional panelists to be announced
    
    
• Innovation Sprint Meetup
  
  
• Sponsored Session: Sorenson Communications

M-Enabling Innovation Sprint Presentations, Professional Meetups & Networking

M-Enabling A11y Expert Forum on Digital Inclusion Implementation Strategies

Presented by IAAP, the M-Enabling Summit A11y Expert Forum will repeat its successful approach of facilitating discussions among CAOs, CIOs, DEI, Compliance, and Accessibility executives to share their experience in implementing digital accessibility strategies with lightning talks, round tables, and open forums.

Registration

Lightning Talks: CAOs Perspectives on Digital Inclusion and Accessibility: Why It Matters? 

Followed by a dialogue with participants on digital inclusion and accessibility implementation strategies.

Moderator: Rob Sinclair, Global Head of Accessibility, Atlassian
Presenters: To be announced

Round Table: Building a Strategy and Roadmaps for Digital Accessibility

A sharing of experience among organizations implementing maturity models for actionable organizational output.

Moderator: James Thurston, VP, Global Strategy and Development, G3ict
Speakers:

• Jonathan Thurston, Director of Digital Accessibility, Walmart
• Adam Spencer, CEO, AbleDocs
• Additional speakers to be announced

Networking Break

Panel Discussion: Monitoring Accessibility Across the Organization, Metrics, and Dashboards

Moderator: Dan Goldstein, Esq, former partner at Brown, Goldstein & Levy
Panelists:

• Christine Hemphill, Managing Director, Open Inclusion
• Susan Scott-Parker, OBE, HonD, Founder, Business Disability International
• Robert Baker, IAAP SB4All

Data Blitz: Maturity Models Implementation Tools and Resources

Presenters:

• Professional Development Framework of Competencies and Roles: Pina D’Intino, Business Transformation, Accessibility Strategist and Consultant, Aequum Global Access
• Strategic and Accessibility Emerging Leaders: Neil Milliken, VP – Global Head of Accessibility & Digital Inclusion, Atos
• Certification: Accenture
• Jonathan Hassell, Ph.D., CEO and Founder, Hassell Inclusion

Open Forum: Highlights and Future Action Steps

Moderator: Christopher M. Lee, Ph.D., VP, CLO, IAAP Managing Director, G3ict
Speakers:

• Rob Sinclair, Global Head of Accessibility, Atlassian
• Jonathan Thurston, Director of Digital Accessibility, Walmart
• Christine Hemphill, Managing Director, Open Inclusion
• Pina D’intino, Business Transformation, Accessibility Strategist and Consultant, Aequum Global Access

Closing Remarks

• Susanna Laurin, Vice Chair, IAAP Global Leadership Council, G3ict and IAAP Representative to the EU

Adjournment