Our sincere thanks go to the following individuals and organizations for their input on the format and selection of topics of the M-Enabling Summit:

Advocacy & Influencers

  • Jennison Asuncion, Co-Founder and Vice Chair, GAAD Foundation
  • Eric Bridges, President and CEO, American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
  • Francesca Cesa Bianchi, Vice President, G3ict
  • David Dikter, CEO, Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA)
  • Sandy Hanebrink, Executive Director, Touch the Future, Inc.
  • AnnMarie Killian, CEO, TDIforAccess
  • Christopher M. Lee, Ph.D., President, G3ict
  • Anil Lewis, Executive Director, Jernigan Institute, National Federation of the Blind (NFB)
  • Sabine Lobnig, Director of Communications, Mobile & Wireless Forum (MWF)
  • Mohammed A. Loutfy, Ph.D., CPACC, Director, Capacity Building and Advocacy, G3ict
  • Mike May, Navigation Technology Advisor, APH
  • Sandra McDonald, Sr. Web Application Developer & Web Production Manager, Kessler Foundation
  • Howard Rosenblum, Founder and Chair, Deaf Equality
  • Kate Sonka, Executive Director, Teach Access
  • Robin Spinks, Head of Inclusive Design, Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
  • Karen Strauss, National Disability Advocate and Historian
  • Jutta Treviranus, Ph.D., Chair, ASC Standard Committee; Professor and Director, Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC), OCAD University
  • Steve Tyler, Director of Assistive Technologies, Leonard Cheshire

Consulting

  • Jon Avila, Chief Accessibility Officer, Level Access
  • David Banes, Director, DB Access & Inclusion; DATEurope Board Director
  • Larry Goldberg, Accessible Media and Technology Consultant
  • Shilpi Kapoor, Founder and CEO, BarrierBreak
  • Chris Law, Ph.D., President, Accessibility Track Consulting, LLC
  • Meghan Reed, Head of Training, Consultancy, and Innovation, Evenbreak (IAAP GLC)
  • Muhammad Shabbir, Ph.D., CEO, Path Finder Solutions, Digital Accessibility Policy Expert (IAAP GLC)
  • Glenda Sims, Chief Information Accessibility Officer, Deque Systems
  • Frances West, Founder, FrancesWestCo.

End-User Organizations

  • Lisette Arocha, CPWA, Accessibility and Inclusive Design Senior Manager, PwC
  • Cathy Bodine, CCC-SLP, Professor, Department of Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Design and Computing, University of Colorado (CU); Executive Director, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Technologies and Coleman-Turner Endowed Chair in Cognitive Disability
  • Daniel Frank, MSCS, MBA, CPWA, IAAP Global Leadership Council (Wells Fargo)
  • Megan Lawrence, Global Director of Accessibility, Nike
  • Steven Lewis, Senior Manager, Legal Counsel, CapitalOne
  • Kevin Grogg, Assistive Technologies Service Owner, EY
  • Clark Rachfal, Principal, Accessibility Policy and Programs, Nike
  • Kyle Shachmut, CPACC, Sr. Director, Digital Accessibility Services, Harvard University
  • Christian Vogler, Ph.D., Director, Technology Access Program, Gallaudet University
  • Jay Wyant, Chief Information Accessibility Officer, Minnesota IT Services’ Office of Accessibility

Policy & Standards

  • Marie Cohan, CPACC, Statewide Digital Accessibility Lead for the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR), (IAAP GLC)
  • Shawn Henry, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Program Lead, W3C
  • Masahito Kawamori, Rapporteur of Q28 “Multimedia Framework for e-Health Applications” in Study Group 16, ITU
  • Susanna Laurin, CPACC, G3ict/IAAP Representative to the EU; Chair of the ETSI/CEN/CENELEC Joint Working Group on eAccessibility (IAAP GLC Honorary Chair)
  • Rachel Nemeth, Sr. Director, Regulatory Affairs, CTA
  • John Sullivan, G3ict Senior Advisor

Tech Innovation

  • Shadi Abou-Zahra, Principal Accessibility Standards and Policy Manager, Amazon Devices and Services
  • Tomer Aharoni, Co-Founder and CEO, Nagish
  • Matt Ater, Sr. Vice President, Business Development, Vispero
  • Zachary Bastian, Sr. Manager, Strategic Alliances, Verizon
  • Kristian Burch, Director, Accessibility Programs and Compliance, Salesforce
  • Victor Calise, Director, Global Accessibility Center of Excellence, Walmart Belonging
  • Bill Curtis-Davidson, Advisor, Human-Centered Digital Transformation, AI Governance, Digital Inclusion 
  • Keshia Godin, Senior Manager, Walmart Belonging
  • Sarah Herrlinger, Sr. Director, Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives, Apple
  • Michael Keane, Principal Digital Accessibility Engineer, Accessibility Center of Excellence, Consumer Office – Digital Office, Optum
  • Andrew Kirkpatrick, Senior Fellow, G3ict; Executive Consultant, Evinced
  • Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer, Microsoft
  • Susan Mazrui, Director, Global Public Policy, AT&T
  • Idan Meir, Co-Founder and CEO, RightHear
  • P.G. (Ram) Ramachandran, Head of Cloud Engineering, Kyndryl
  • Brian Scarpelli, Sr. Global Policy Counsel, ACT-The App Association
  • Jonathan Thurston, CEO, Infinite Access
  • Thomas Wlodkowski, Vice President, Accessibility, Comcast

Program Advisory Committee Honorary Chair:

  • Axel Leblois, Founder of the M-Enabling Summit and President Emeritus & Founder, G3ict