2021 M-Enabling Day2 9:00AM: Keynote – Taryn Mackenzie Williams
Keynote Leadership Discussion: Taryn Mackenzie Williams, Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment, U.S. Department of Labor Taryn Mackenzie Williams is the newly appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor for Disability Employment Policy. In this…
2021 M-Enabling Day1 4:50PM: Breakout – Thought Leadership Session
Presented by Crawford Technologies
2021 M-Enabling Day1 4:00PM: Panel – Inclusive Entertainment and Extended Reality
The acceleration of R&D investments and innovations in immersive technologies raise the question of how Extended Reality (XR) applications may benefit Persons with Disabilities for work, education and inclusive entertainment…
2021 M-Enabling Day1 3:10PM: Panel – Web Site Overlays: Risk or Opportunity?
Few areas of accessibility technologies have generated as much publicity as web site accessibility overlays. This discussion will present key issues, concerns and challenges facing both the accessibility industry and…
2021 M-Enabling Day1 2:30PM: Panel – AI Applications
AI Applications: Bridging the Digital Divide. A Spotlight on Transformative Opportunities. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is progressively transforming the field of digital accessibility, by enabling new levels of performance in assistive…
2021 M-Enabling Day1 2:00PM : Keynote – Dr. Sachin Dev Pavithran
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sachin Dev Pavithran, Executive Director, U.S. Access Board On perspectives on digital inclusion and the directions set by President’s Biden Executive Order on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility…
2021 M-Enabling Day1 11:45AM : Panel – Innovation Drivers and Latest Accessibility Breakthroughs
Innovation drivers such as AI, Near-Field-Communication, micro-electronics performances and miniaturization, speech recognition, wearable technologies, brain computer interfaces are all driving accessibility innovation and breakthroughs at a rapid pace. This panel…
2021 M-Enabling Day1 10:15AM : Panel – Data Blitz: State of Accessibility, How Organizations Leverage Digital Transformations for Inclusion
The 2021 State of Accessibility report, jointly conducted by Level Access, G3ict and IAAP among more than 1,200 participating organizations reveals major shifts in organizational trends in the implementation of…
2021 M-Enabling Day1 09:30AM : Panel – Successes and Failures: What Worked and What Did Not Work during the Pandemic?
The acceleration of digital transformations during the COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented accessibility challenges and opportunities for Persons with Disabilities to transact in everyday life activities, work and learn. This panel…
2021 M-Enabling Day1 09:15AM : Keynote Leadership Discussion
We gather each year at M-Enabling to learn about new ways that technology can make daily life more accessible and enable people with disabilities. But two significant barriers – one…