Agenda
M-ENABLING FORUM EUROPE
Thursday, September 19, 2019
7.00 - 8.00 Showcase Setup
8.00 - 9.00 Registration, Welcome Coffee in Showcase Area
9.00 - 9.15 Opening
Francesca Cesa Bianchi, Vice President, Institutional Relations, G3ict- Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs
Regine Gessner, Managing Director Germany, E.J. Krause & Associates, Inc.,
Axel Leblois, President and Executive DIrector G3ict - Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs
9.15 - 10.45 Keynote Inmaculada Placencia Porrero, Senior Expert, Disability & Inclusion, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion European Commission
9.35 - 09.45 Q/As Session
9.45 -10.45 Plenary Session: General Progress of Digital Accessibility in Europe
A snapshot of the progress of digital accessibility in Europe, including macro data from the G3ict’s DARE Index and Country case studies focusing on implementation success factors.
Moderator: Gerry Ellis, Feel The BenefIT, Ireland
Kick-off presentation on “The Progress of Digital Accessibility in Europe as Measured by Advocates – DARE Index”: Francesca Cesa Bianchi, Vice President Institutional Relations, G3ict – Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs
Panellists:
David Zanoletty Garcia, Chief of Accessible Technology and R&D Department Fundación ONCE, Spain
Dr Dušan Caf, Director at the Digitas Institute and Founder of the Digital Society Forum, Slovenia
Robin Spinks, Principal Manager, Digital Accessibility Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), Vice Chair Technology Committee World Blind Union, United Kingdom
Q/As Session
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee Break in Showcase Area
11.15 - 12.15 Plenary Session: Latest Advances in Innovation and Impact on Solutions for Users
A discussion of how AI, voice application, IoT, robotics, cloud-based solutions and other new technologies continue to transform the field of digital accessibility and user’s experiences.
Moderator: Christoph Jo. Müller, Board President of the BEH Association of Manufacturers and Retailers of Assistive Technology, EVP CSS MicroSystems GmbH, Germany
Panellists:
Alejandro Moledo, Policy Coordinator, European Disability Forum, Belgium
Dagmar Greskamp, Expert Work and Inclusion, Aktion Mensch e.V., Germany
Lidia Best, Vice Chair, European Federation of Hard of Hearing People, United Kingdom
Stein Erik Skotkjerra, Head of Accessibility Relations, Siteimprove, Denmark
12.15 - 12.30 Presentation of Moderators and Panellists for the Afternoon Parallel Sessions
12.30 - 13.45 Break – Lunch Imbiss
13.45 - 15.15 Parallel Sessions
Moderators break the audience of their session into working groups/theme tables, each panelist leads a group.
Conference Room 4: Solutions for Senior Living in the City and at Home
Moderator: Sabine Lobnig, Deputy Director, Communication & Regulation, Mobile & Wireless Forum (MWF), Austria
Panellists:
Ina Voelcker, Project Officer of the Secretariat for International Policy on Ageing, Project Officer of the Service Point on Digitalisation and Education for Older People, German National Association of Senior Citizens‘ Organisations
(BAGSO e.V.), Germany
Miroslav Vrankic , CEO E-GLAS, Founder ATAAC Conference Zagreb, Croatia
Renate Welter, Vice President, Germany Association for Hearing Impaired People, Germany together with Claire Sabler Landesmann, Member of ÖSB, Austria
Conference Room 3: Leveraging Technologies for Accessible Workplaces and Better Employment
Moderator: Antony Ruck, Chairman British Technology Association (BATA), United Kingdom
Panellists:
Ángel Pérez, Senior Technology and Innovation Lead, Leonard Cheshire, United Kingdom
Hansjörg Lienert, CEO Dräger + Lienert GbR, Germany
Hendrik Peters, Head of Office of Prof. Dr. Angela Faber (Head of Department Schools Department Schools, Inclusion Office, Social Compensation, LVR), Germany
Malcom Glenn, Head of Global Policy, Accessibility and Underserved Communities at Uber, USA
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Mathias Hüsing, Deputy Head of the Institute of Mechanism Theory, Machine Dynamics and Robotics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Conference Room 6: Inclusive Digital Environments in Education
Moderator: Susanna Laurin, Research & Innovation Officer, Funka, Sweden Representative for G3ict/IAAP to the European Commission
Panellists:
Anne-Marie Nebe, Accessibility & Usability Expert, T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH, Test and Integration Center, Germany
Dr. G. Anthony Giannoumis Professor, Social Entrepreneur, Advocate, Norway
Matthias Grote, Lead Department Work & Employment, Caritas, Germany
Maureen Piggot, Member of the Board, Inclusion Europe, Belgium
15.15 - 15.45 Coffee Break in Showcase Area
15.45 - 16.45 Plenary Session: Presentation of Results of the Afternoon Parallel Sessions
Moderator: Mag. Klaus-Peter Höckner, CEO, Austrian Association Supporting the Blind and Visually Impaired People, Member of the Austrian Disablity Forum and Member of the Global Leading Council (GLC) of IAAP Austria
Rapporteurs of Parallel Sessions:
Sabine Lobnig, Deputy Director, Communication & Regulation, Mobile & Wireless Forum (MWF), Austria
Antony Ruck, Chairman British Technology Association (BATA), United Kingdom
Susanna Laurin, Research & Innovation Officer, Funka, Sweden Representative for G3ict/IAAP to the European Commission
Q/As Session
16.45 -17.00 Closing Plenary, Opportunities Ahead
Announcing the launch of IAAP Chapter for German-speaking countries (International Association for Accessibility Professionals) by Mag. Klaus Höckner
Axel Leblois, Director G3ict - Global initiative for Inclusive ICTs
17.00 - 18.00 Final Networking with Refreshments
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