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