Wednesday – Agenda

M-Enabling A11y Expert Forum on Strategies to Drive Increasing Accessibility & Inclusion

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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.

Emcee: Christopher M. Lee, Ph.D., Vice President, CLO & IAAP Managing Director, G3ict

Registration & Breakfast

Lightning Talks: Perspectives on Improving Inclusion and Accessibility: Rights, Benefits, and Bottomline  

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

Moderator: Rob Sinclair, Global Head of Accessibility, Atlassian
Presenters:

• Victor Calise, Director, Global Culture, Equity and Inclusion, Walmart; National/International Accessibility Leader/Paralympian
• Eve Hill, Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy
• Angie Max, Accessibility and Inclusive Design Director, Products and Technology, PwC
• Marcie Roth, Executive Director and CEO, World Institute on Disability (WID)
• Karen Tamley, President and CEO, Access Living

Round Table: Data for Understanding Progress: What Is Useful?

Organizations of all types, in all sectors, and across all geographies are increasingly interested in improving their accessibility and inclusion. What kinds of information can be most useful in supporting that progress? What is available to organizations or could be?

Moderator: Robert Baker, Strategic Accessibility Program Consultant, and President, Be-Accessible LLC
Speakers:

• Dan Goldstein, Esq, Founding Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy (retired)
• Christine Hemphill, Managing Director, Open Inclusion
• Rhiannon Parker, Chief Innovation Officer, The Valuable 500
• Susan Scott-Parker, OBE, HonD, Founder, Business Disability International
• Tim Springer, CEO, Level Access & eSSENTIAL Accessibility

Networking Break

Lightning Talks: How Do We Measure Progress?

It is possible and can be incredibly useful to assess an organizations current approach to accessibility and inclusion. Organizations of all types can draw on a variety of methods, good practices, and tools to understand their own systems, policies, programs, and outcomes related to accessibility and inclusion.

Moderator: James Thurston, Vice President, Global Strategy and Development, G3ict
Presenters:

• Annie Carrillo Soubic, Partner, HearColors - Accesibilidad Web
• Pina D’Intino, Business Transformation, Accessibility Strategist Consultant, Aequum Global Access
• Jonathan Hassell, Ph.D., CEO and Founder, Hassell Inclusion
• Neil Milliken, VP - Global Head of Accessibility & Digital Inclusion, Atos
• Marisol Villena Salerno, Product IT Manager - Inclusive Metaverse, Accenture

Round Table: Building and Implementing Roadmaps and Strategies

A sharing of experience among organizations creating and using strategy documents and roadmaps to drive actual organization change and progress on accessibility and inclusion.

Moderator: Pina D’Intino, Business Transformation, Accessibility Strategist Consultant, Aequum Global Access
Speakers:

• Larry Goldberg, Invited Expert, Co-founder of Procure Access
• Birkir Gunnarsson, Director, Accessibility Engineering, Fidelity Investments
• Greg Pollock, Vice President of Business Development, Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD)
• Jonathan Thurston, Director of Digital Accessibility, Walmart
• Yuval Wagner, Founder and President Access Israel

Open Forum: Highlights, Takeaways, and Future Action Steps

Moderator: Rob Sinclair, Global Head of Accessibility, Atlassian
Speakers:

• Jonathan Thurston, Director of Digital Accessibility, Walmart
• Christine Hemphill, Managing Director, Open Inclusion
• Marcie Roth, Executive and CEO, World Institute on Disability (WID)
• James Thurston, Vice President, Global Strategy and Development, G3ict

Closing Remarks

• Mark McCusker, Chair, IAAP 2022 Global Leadership Council
• Susanna Laurin (CPACC), Chief Research and Innovation Officer, Funka; IAAP and G3ict Representative to the EU; and ETSI/CEN/CENELEC eAccessibility JWG Chair

Adjournment