Inclusive - India: Digital First Agenda
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Thursday, 14 December 2023
Keynote Address
9:30 am to 10:00 am: Meet & Greet
10.00 am to 10. 10 am : Opening
10.10 am to 10.30 am: Keynote - Government Perspective on Accessibility in India: Shri Rajesh Aggarwal, Secretary, DEPwD, MSJE, Government of India
10:30 am to 10:50 am: Keynote - Structured Negotiation: A winning strategy for advancing accessibility: Lainey Feingold, Lawyer, author, and public speaker at Law Office of Lainey Feingold
10:50 am to 11:10 am: Keynote- Robert Hsu - Senior Manager in Digital Experience & Accessibility, HSBC
11:10 am to 11:30 am: Tea/ Coffee Break
| Schedule | Inclusion Track | Accessibility Track |
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| 11:30 am to 12:10 pm | Building Inclusion in organizations Moderator: Shashank Kapur - Director - Strategy and Growth, BarrierBreak Speakers:
| WCAG 2.2 - Where do we go from here? Moderator: Srinivasu Chakravarthula - Director - Product Accessibility, Freshworks Speakers:
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| 12:20 pm to 1:00 pm | Disability & Accessibility Legislation in India and Globally Moderator: Rahul Bajaj, Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director, Mission Accessibility Speakers:
| Building Accessible SAAS Products for All Moderator: Shilpi Kapoor , CEO BarrierBreak Speakers:
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| 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm | Lunch | Lunch |
| 2:00 pm to 2:40 pm | Innovation & Impact: Can emerging assistive technologies improve workplace accessibility? Moderator: Arman Ali - Executive Director at NCPEDP Speakers:
| Digital Accessibility Testing - Holistic approach of Manual and Automation Testing Prashant Ranjan Verma - General Secretary at National Association for the Blind Delhi Speakers:
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| 2:50 pm to 3:30 pm | Accessibility in Procurement: Creating an Inclusive Supply Chain Moderator: Shilpi Kapoor - CEO, BarrierBreak Speakers:
| The future of AI in Digital Accessibility Moderator: Christopher M. Lee - PhD, VP & Managing Director, G3ict/IAAP Speakers:
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| 3:40 pm to 4:00 pm | Tea / Coffee | Tea / Coffee |
| 4:00 pm to 4:40 pm | Building Accessibility Skills & Professional Certifications in the Industry Moderator : George Abraham - CEO, Score Foundation Speakers:
| Implementation of Accessibility in Business and Its Impact Moderator: Leenika Khattar, Director - DEIB, NASSCOM Speakers:
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4:45 pm to 5:00 pm: Closing remarks: Christopher M. Lee - PhD, VP & Managing Director, G3ict/IAAP
Speakers & Moderators
Ajit Narayanan - Senior Staff Engineer, Google
Balendu Sharma Dadhich - Director- Local Languages & Accessibility, Microsoft
Lainey Feingold - Lawyer, author, and public speaker at Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Rajesh Aggarwal - Secretary, DEPwD, MSJE, Government of India
Srinivasu Chakravarthula - Director - Product Accessibility, Freshworks
Rahul Bajaj - Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director, Mission Accessibility
Shalini Khanna - Founder Director, NAB India and Chairperson, SCPwD
Dipendra Manocha - Director Developing Countries Program, Daisy Consortium
Shilpi Kapoor - CEO, BarrierBreak
Christopher M. Lee -
PhD, VP & Managing Director, G3ict/IAAP
Amar Jain - Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director, Mission Accessibility
Fahad Lambate - Associate Accessibility Director, BarrierBreak
Neil Milliken - VP & Global Head of Accessibility & Digital Inclusion at Atos
Leenika Khattar - Director of DEIB, NASSCOM
Shashank Kapur - Director - Strategy and Growth, BarrierBreak
Priti Rohra - Chief Accessibility Officer, BarrierBreak
Robert Hsu - Senior Manager in Digital Experience & Accessibility, HSBC
Arman Ali - Executive Director at NCPEDP
Aradhana Lal
Senior Vice President – Sustainability & ESG, Lemon Tree Hotels
Monika Singhal
Principal Consultant, Wipro Technologies
Utsav Choudhury - Program Manager, NIUA
Sushmita Ranjan
Senior Manager, User Interface/ User Experience, Salesforce
Dr Meenu Bhambhani -Vice President- GIDE, State Street
Rahul Gambhir -Digital accessibility specialist Senior Manager, Union Bank of India
George Abraham - CEO, Score Foundation
Sumeet Agrawal - Domain Consultant, Accessibility Research and Innovation, TCS
Vishal Pujar - Head of Accessibility GDC India, Atos
Aparna Singhal - Distinguished Engineer working in Pitney Bowes
Ashutosh Chadha - Director and Country Head Corporate Affairs and Public Policy – India and South Asia, Microsoft
Dipti Prasad - Founder, Nobaflix
Pradnya Desai - Managing Director ATCI , Accenture
Prashant Ranjan Verma - General Secretary at National Association for the Blind Delhi
Anandi Thyagarajan - Managing Director, Business Transformation, Accenture
Rupmani Chhetri - Co-Founder, SignAble Communications
Nirat Bhatnagar - Founder, Belongg Community Ventures
Avneesh Singh - Chief Operating Officer, DAISY Consortium
Subhash Chandra Vashishth - Director, CABE Foundation