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

Panel Discussions
Schedule	Inclusion Track	Accessibility Track
11:30 am to 12:10 pm	Building Inclusion in organizations Moderator: Leenika Khattar, Director - DEIB, NASSCOM Speakers: Rahul Gambhir – Senior manager, Union Bank of India Aradhana Lal - Senior Vice President – Sustainability & ESG, Lemon Tree Hotels Meenu Bhambani - Vice President, Head of Corporate Citizenship and Inclusion and Diversity, APAC at State Street Anandi Thyagarajan -Managing Director, Business Transformation, Accenture	WCAG 2.2 - Where do we go from here? Moderator: Srinivasu Chakravarthula - Director - Product Accessibility, Freshworks Speakers: Priti Rohra - Chief Accessibility Officer, BarrierBreak Avneesh Singh - Chief Operating Officer, DAISY Consortium Aparna Singhal - Distinguished Engineer, Pitney Bowes
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: Subhash Chandra Vashishth – Director, CABE Foundation Lainey Feingold - Lawyer, author, and public speaker at Law Office of Lainey Feingold Amar Jain - Co-Founder & Non-Executive Director, Mission Accessibility	Building Accessible SAAS Products for All Moderator: Shilpi Kapoor , CEO BarrierBreak Speakers: Srinivasu Chakravarthula - Director - Product Accessibility, Freshworks Sushmita Ranjan - Senior Manager, User Interface/ User Experience, Salesforce Nirat Bhatnagar - Senior Advisor, Dalberg and Founder, Belongg
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: Rupmani Chhetri - Co-Founder, SignAble Communications Dipendra Minocha - Director Developing Countries Program, Daisy Consortium Utsav Choudhury - Program Manager at National Institute of Urban Affairs	Digital Accessibility Testing - Holistic approach of Manual and Automation Testing Prashant Ranjan Verma - General Secretary at National Association for the Blind Delhi Speakers: Fahad Lambate - Associate Accessibility Director, BarrierBreak Monika Singhal – Principal Consultant, Wipro Technologies Sumeet Agrawal - Domain Consultant, Accessibility Research and Innovation, TCS
2:50 pm to 3:30 pm	Accessibility in Procurement: Creating an Inclusive Supply Chain Moderator: Shilpi Kapoor - CEO, BarrierBreak Speakers: Balendu Sharma - Director- Local Languages & Accessibility, Microsoft Vishal Pujar - Head of Accessibility, GDC India (Atos Group) To be confirmed	The future of AI in Digital Accessibility Moderator: Christopher Lee - Vice President, Chief Learning Officer, and IAAP Managing Director Speakers: Ajit Narayanan - Senior Staff Engineer, Google Abhay Kapur - Product Manager, BarrierBreak Ashutosh Chadha - Director and Country Head Corporate Affairs & Public Policy, Microsoft India
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: Neil Milliken - VP & Global Head of Accessibility & Digital Inclusion at Atos Christopher Lee - Vice President, Chief Learning Officer, and IAAP Managing Director Shalini Khanna - Founder Director, NAB India Centre for Blind Women and Disability Studies and Chairperson, SCPwD	Implementation of Accessibility in Business and Its Impact Moderator: Shashank Kapur - Director - Strategy and Growth, BarrierBreak Speakers: Dipti Prasad - Founder, Nobaflix Pradnya Desai - Managing Director ATCI , Accenture To be confirmed

4:45 pm to 5:00 pm: Closing remarks: Christopher Lee - VP and Chief Learning Officer, and IAAP Managing Director

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

Avneesh Singh - Chief Operating Officer, DAISY Consortium

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

Subhash Chandra Vashishth - Director, CABE Foundation

Christopher M. Lee -
VP and Managing Director, G3ict

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

Rupmani Chhetri - Co-Founder, SignAble Communications

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

Robert Hsu - Senior Manager in Digital Experience & Accessibility, HSBC