Disability Innovation Summit [DAY 2]

Day 1: watch live

DAY 2: Exploring a new horizon

Disability innovation tomorrow...what next

Disability justice: a disability innovation ambition or contradiction?
Para sport: a vehicle for community level social change?
Systems Strengthening, Disability innovation and Finance: is it possible to create the mechanisms for change?
Future tech: revolutionary solutions and AI – the new face of disability inclusion?

Exploring a new horizon

Vicki Austin - GDI Hub CEO

A new horizon: on joy and justice

Chris Patnoe - Google

Inclusive innovation & AI

Dr Kush Kanodia holding the paralympic torch over his head while in a white track suit

Dr Kush Kanodia- Disability rights and race equality champion, a multiple award-winning social entrepreneur and a systems leader.

How disabled people are leading innovation and systems change in the UK

Rama in a white shirt looking at the camera while smiling

Rama Gheerawo- Director, The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art RCA Reader in Inclusive Design

Creativity, design, leadership, and tech - where we are and what comes next

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Nick Gompertz - AAC innovator/ developer and former NHS doctor

What next for disability innovation; assistive tech build in as the new standard of tech accessibility for all?

Puneet with black hair, wearing a checked shirt while smiling at the camera

Puneet Singhal, Global Network Young People with Disabilities

Disability Justice and Stigma – Pathways to Change

BREAK [11.00-11.30 BST]

SECTION 2 [11.30-13.00 BST]

Professor Sujath with black and grey hair smiling at the camera. She is wearing spectacles

Sujatha Srinivasan-Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Honorary Professor, UCL.

Beyond Barriers: Journeying from Exclusion to Inclusion with Rehabilitation Research and Device Development (R2D2) and National Center for Assistive Health Technologies (NCAHT-IITM).

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Roshni Poddar- Research fellow at Microsoft in Bangalore

Learning opportunities for blind students - numeracy, logical thinking and accessible artifacts.SEEDS: Scalable Educational Experiences with Digital Scaffolding (for students with vision impairments)

Vicki Austin - GDI Hub CEO

Para sport: a vehicle for community level social change? Legacy around the London Paralympics.

Jennie Wong- Project Manager for Para Sport Against Stigma

Can para-sport drive community level change in Sub Saharan Africa?

Samuel Nakhozwe Nkhoma - I’mPOSSIBLE Educator/Para athlete/Lawyer

Can para-sport drive community level change in Sub Saharan Africa?

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Prof. Mufunanji Magalasi- Associate Professor of drama and development communication at the University of Malawi.

Can para-sport drive community level change in Sub Saharan Africa?

LUNCH [13:00-14.00 BST]

SECTION 4 [14.00-15.30 BST]

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Pascal Bijleveld- CEO of ATScale

Catalyzing action for millions more people to access assistive technology in LMICs.

Photo: Lydia smiles and tilts their head slightly to the side, looking confidently at the camera. They are a young-ish East Asian person with a streak of teal in their short black hair, wearing glasses, a cobalt blue jacket and navy tie, with a blue copper wall behind them. Photo by Sarah Tundermann.

Lydia X. Z. Brown - Founding Executive Director, The Autistic People of Color Fund Vice Chair & Past President, Disability Rights Bar Association Lecturer in Disability Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, Georgetown University

Resisting Cooptation of Disability Justice Revolutionary Dreams.