Keynotes
Peter Korn
Director of Accessibility, Amazon's Devices & Services
Jenny Lay-Flurrie
Chief Accessibility Officer, Microsoft
Jutta Treviranus, Ph.D.
Chair, ASC Standard Committee and Director, Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC), OCAD University
Session Chairs
Tomer Aharoni
CEO, Nagish
Lisette Arocha, CPWA
Accessibility & Inclusive Design Senior Manager, Products & Technology, PwC
Jennison Asuncion
Co-Founder, Global A11y Awareness Day & Vice-Chair, GAAD Foundation
Matt Ater
Vice President, TPGi, A Vispero Company
Everette Bacon
VP of Blindness Initiatives, Aira Technologies & NFB
David Banes
Access and Inclusion
Victor Calise
Director, Global Culture, Equity and Inclusion
Walmart
Walmart
Francesca Cesa Bianchi
VP, Institutional Relations & Advocacy, G3ict
Bill Curtis-Davidson
Co-Director
PEAT
PEAT
Pina D’Intino, CPACC
Accessibility Strategist and Consultant
Aequum Global Access
Aequum Global Access
Daniella Decker
Independent Consultant
Caroline Desrosiers
Founder & CEO, Scribely
Monica Duhem, Ph.D.
Director, Global Advisory Center
G3ict
G3ict
Sam Evans
Certification Manager, IAAP
Lainey Feingold
Disability Rights Lawyer and Author, Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Geoff Freed
Director, Digital Accessibility Consulting, Perkins Access
Larry Goldberg
Accessible Media and Technology Consultant
Klaus Hoeckner
Managing Director
Austrian Association for the Blind and Low Vision
Austrian Association for the Blind and Low Vision
Shilpi Kapoor
Founder & CEO, BarrierBreak
AnnMarie Killian
CEO, TDI
Chris Land
Sr. Accessibility Technical Program Manager, Oracle
Axel Leblois
President and CEO, G3ict/IAAP
Christopher Lee, Ph.D.
Managing Director, G3ict/IAAP
Sabine Lobnig
Director of Communications
Mobile & Wireless Forum
Mobile & Wireless Forum
Mike May
Navigation Technology Advisor
APH
APH
Rachel Paul
Membership Service & Outreach Manager, IAAP
Karen Peltz Strauss
National Disability Advocate and Historian
Greg Pollock
VP, Business Development, CSD
Sonali Rai
Media, Culture and Immersive Technologies Lead, RNIB
Brian Scarpelli
Senior Global Policy Counsel, ACT | The App Association
Rob Sinclair
Global Head of Accessibility
Atlassian
Atlassian
Alison Sutton Levy
Director, Office of Technical and Information Services, U.S. Access Board
Katy Talikowska
CEO, Valuable 500
James Thurston
Accessible Digital Transformation Lead, Norh America
Atos
Atos
Theresa Vaughan
Senior Researcher, NCAN; G3ict/NeuroAbilities Advisory Council Chair
Christian Vogler, Ph.D.
Director, Technology Access Program Gallaudet University
Mark Walker
AbilityNet
Frances West
Founder
FrancesWestCo
FrancesWestCo
Session Speakers
Shadi Abou-Zhara
Principal Accessibility Standards and Policy Manager, Amazon
Eyra Abraham
Certified Auditor (FHCA) – Disability Inclusion & Accessibility, ForHumanity
Iyad Abu Doush, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Research and Grants, Professor, American University of Kuwait
Monica Ackermann
Head of Accessibility
Scotiabank
Scotiabank
Manish Agrawal
Co-Founder, IAccessible, Inc.
Ramses Alcaide, Ph.D.
CEO, Neurable
Gary Aussant
Director, Digital Accessibility Consulting, Perkins Access
Jonathan Avila, CPWA
Chief Accessibility Officer, Level Access
Robert Baker
Organizational Workplace Programs, G3ict/IAAP
Dylan Barrell
CTO, Deque Systems
Zach Bastian
Manager, Strategic Alliances, Verizon
Alexandra Bennewith
VP, Government Relations, United Spinal Association
Howard Berke
President & CEO, Enabled Interactive Technologies
David Berman, CPACC, CPWA, ADS
President, David Berman Communications
Seth Bravin
National Sr. Executive, Accessibility Government & Business Strategy, T-Mobile
Ben Breen
Accessible Gaming Officer, RNIB; @SightlessKombat
Jason Broughton
NLS, U.S. Library of Congress
Mike Buckley
Chairman and CEO, Be My Eyes
Sawyer Burton
Front-End Application Developer, INNoVA
Stephanie Cadieux
Chief Accessibility Officer, Government of Canada
Andrea Campos
Customer UX Director, Claro Brasil
Sambhavi Chandrashekar, Ph.D., CPACC
IAAP GLC Member; Global Accessibility Lead, D2L
Siddhant Chothe
Co-Founder, TekVsion
Michael Cooper
Web Accessibility Technical Strategist
Becky Copeland
CEO, VTCSecure
Ernie Crawford
CEO, Crawford Technologies
Noel Duffy
Chair of the Board
Dolphin Computer Access
Dolphin Computer Access
Alex Dunn
Founder and CEO, Cephable
Julie Eshleman
Assistive Technology UX Researcher
Leonard Cheshire
Leonard Cheshire
René Espinoza Jimenez
Founder and CEO, Lazarillo
Agustín Esposito-Vigíl
Accessibility Manager, Netflix
Mary Fernandez
Director of Disability Inclusion, Cisco Systems
Stephen Framil
Corporate Global Head of Accessibility, Merck & Co. Inc.
Daniel Frank, MSCS, MBA, CPWA
IAAP GLC
H.E. Ambassador Luis Gallegos Chiriboga
President, GIA Foundation, G3ict Chair of the Board & UNITAR Chair, Board of Trustees
Robert Gaunt, CPACC
President, Canadian National Institute of the Blind
Dan Goldstein, Esq.
Founding Partner Retired, Brown, Goldstein & Levy; IAAP DI&AC Program Founder
Caitlin Grogan
Co-Lead, Accessibility, Sprout Social
Kevin Grogg
Assistive Technologies Service Owner
EY
EY
Doug Hacker
Director of Product Accessibility, Pearson
Peter Hackes
Founder, Performedia
Patrick Hall
NIST AI RMF Contributor & Assistant Professor, GWU
Lise Hamlin
Director, Public Policy, HLAA
Sandy Hanebrink
Executive Director, Touch the Future, Inc.
Karen Hawkins, CPACC
Principal of Accessible Design, Level Access
Christine Hemphill
Founder and Managing Director
Open Inclusion
Open Inclusion
Eve Hill
Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy
Stephen Irish
Business Services Manager, INNoVA
Jenna Issary
Producer, Live and Interactive Audiodescription, Descriptive Video Works
Peter Jarvis
Senior Executive VP, Storm Interface
Mitali Kamat
Manager, Accessibility and Inclusive Design, Products and Technology, PwC
Shane Kanady
G3ict Senior Fellow
Karthik Kannan
Co-Founder and CTO, Envision
Charan Karusala
Data Analyst
Andrew Kirkpatrick
Director, Accessibility, Adobe Systems
Ayan Kishore
CEO, Benetech
Regina “Gina” Kline
Founder and Managing Partner
Enabled Ventures
Enabled Ventures
Naeem Komeilipoor
Founder and CTO, AAVAA
Kelsey Koupal
User Experience Researcher, AURC, Shepherd Center
Linda Kozma-Spytek
Consultant & Professional Adviser on Technology, HLAA
Jhillika Kumar
Founder & CEO, Mentra
Sandy Lacey
Executive Director, Howe Innovation Center
Perkins School for the Blind
Perkins School for the Blind
Hannes Juhlin Lagrelius
Program Officer, Global Program for Inclusive & Accessible Urban Development, WBU
Susanna Laurin, CPACC
G3ict/IAAP Representative to the EU
Marshall Law
Co-Founder & Business Development, Rivalry Tech
Shawn Lawton Henry
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Program Lead, W3C/MIT
Mohammed Loutfy, Ph.D., CPACC
Director, Capacity Building and Advocacy
G3ict
G3ict
Jacque Madison
Director of Product Accessibility, Accenture
Chaithanya Mamidoju
Accessibility Lead, TracFone Brands - Verizon Value Org
Luis Mauch
Co-Founder, Beplay
Susan Mazrui
Director, Global Public Policy, AT&T
Irene Mbari-Kirika
Founder and Executive Director, inABLE
Mark McCusker
Chair, GLC
IAAP
IAAP
Idan Meir
Co-Founder & CEO
RightHear
RightHear
Charlie Merritt
Co-Founder & VP, Business Development, Stalwart COM; Nerve Gaming; @QuadCapable
Josh Miller
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
3Play Media
3Play Media
Mark Miller
Director of Sales, TPGi, A Vispero Company
Neil Milliken
VP – Global Head of Accessibility & Digital Inclusion
Atos
Atos
Alejandro Moledo del Rio
Deputy Director
European Disability Forum
European Disability Forum
Yashar Moradbakhti
CEO, Lingio
Cat Noone
CEO & Co-Founder
Stark
Stark
David O’Neill
Technical Fellow, Vispero
Mike Paciello
Founder, WebABLE
Christopher Patnoe
Head of Accessibility and Disability Inclusion, EMEA
Google
Sachin Dev Pavithran, Ph.D.
Executive DirectorU.S. Access Board
Nir Pechuk
CEO, Extentek
Tom Pey, Ph.D.
CEO & Founder
Waymap
Waymap
Alwar Pillai
CEO & Co-Founder
Fable
Fable
Federico Batista Poitier
Accessibility Policy Officer, UCLG
Bianca Prins
Global Head of Accessibility
ING
ING
Clark Rachfal
Director of Advocacy and Governmental Affairs, ACB
Craig Radford
Co-Founder, 360 Empower
Mary Rainer-Skala
Director, Special Initiatives, IAAP
Gautam Rao, CPWA
Global Head of Accessibility
EY
EY
Theresa Reno-Weber
COO & President for North America, GoodMaps
William Reuschel
Inclusive Design Practice Lead
Applause
Applause
Michal Rimon
CEO, Access Israel
Philip Rizcallah, P. Eng
CEO, Accessibility Standards Canada, Government of Canada
Rylin Rodgers
Disability Policy Advisor
Microsoft Accessibility
Microsoft Accessibility
Howard A. Rosenblum
CEO, NAD
Marcie Roth
Executive Director and CEO, World Institute on DIsability (WID)
Rebecca Roussell
Senior VP DEI Communications, Current Global
Susan Scott-Parker, OBE, HonD
Founder
Business Disability International
Business Disability International
Saqib Shaikh
Software Engineering Manager, Project Lead for Seeing AI, Microsoft
Ariel Simms
President and CEO, RespectAbility
Rick Smith
Director of Business Development
Elo Touch Solutions
Elo Touch Solutions
Sara Smolley
Co-Founder & VP, Strategic Partnerships, Voiceitt
Tim Springer
CEO, Level Access
Johanna Steiner
Senior Learning & Business Development Manager, Lingvano
Chas Steinmetz
SVP, Digital Accessibility, PNC Financial Services
Ed Summers
Head of Accessibility, GitHub
Greg Suprock
Head of Solutions Architecture
Apex CoVantage
Apex CoVantage
Jonathan Thurston
Director of Digital Accessibility
Walmart
Walmart
Aidan Tierney
Lead Product Manager Accessibility, eBay
Mark Urban
CDC/ATSDR Accessibility Program Manager
Gregg Vanderheiden, Ph.D.
Professor and Founder/Director Emeritus- Trace R&D Center, UMD iSchool, University of Maryland
Sabine Wachernig
Strategic Partnerships, Zero Project
Kevin White
Accessibility Technical Lead, W3C
Karen Williams, CPACC
Director, Accessibility Principal
TIAA
TIAA
Thomas Wlodkowski
Vice President, Accessibility, Comcast
Hillary Wool
Principal
Boston Consulting Group
Boston Consulting Group
Lakshmi Ziskin
Sr. Product Manager, Prime Video Content Accessibility, Amazon
Innovation Sprint
Susan Cullen
Director of UD & IT Accessibility
Tech for All, Inc.
Tech for All, Inc.
David Fazio
President
Helix Opportunity
Helix Opportunity
IAAP Workshops Speakers
Ashley Abaragu
Program Manager, Knowbility
Chad Chelius, ADS
Director of Training Solutions
CHAX Training and Consulting
CHAX Training and Consulting
Zachary Gadoury
Accessibility Specialist, Mobile Applications
Fidelity Investments
Fidelity Investments
Jan McSorley, CPACC
Collaborative Accessibility Change Leader, Accessibility Consultant
Sharron Rush
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Knowbility
Jayne Schurick
UX Researcher, Knowbility
Mark Steadman
Director, Software Engineering, Mobile Accessibility
Fidelity Investments
Fidelity Investments