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 Meryl Evans, CPACC (she / her / deaf) is an author, professional speaker, and accessibility marketing consultant with over 20 years of experience who happens to be born hearing-free aka profoundly deaf. She’s an accessibility marketing consultant who helps her clients in different industries with their projects to achieve their marketing and accessibility goals.


Meryl is a highly sought and regarded speaker on accessibility and inclusion with a focus on people with disabilities and accessible communication. She has spoken at TEDx, AccessU, ID24, Content Marketing World, axe-con, PCMA Convening Leaders, and many companies’ internal events. She’s a member of the core research team at XR Access and a group member of the W3C Immersive Captions Community. She’s also the co-host of A11yNYC and A11yVR, meetups that explore different aspects of accessibility. You can follow her on social media for content related to accessibility. 

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Andy Garrett is GSK global programme director - Workplace Adjustments Service – enabling employees to request and receive the adjustments/accommodations/accessibility solutions they need to be their best selves at work, including for working remotely. 

Andy is member of GSK Global Disability Council (GDC) in his capacity as co-lead for GSK’s global Disability Confidence Network employee resource group. Providing employee voice and disability subject matter expertise support to key disability inclusion workstreams led by the Disability Council.    Andy is also a founding ambassador for Purple Space (www.purplespace.org) 

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Jose Rubinger is a mission-driven serial entrepreneur that creates sustainable businesses that have benefited the Social, Education, and Health sectors for the past 15 years. His love for technology led him to conceptualize Key2enable Assistive Technology in the past years, together with his business partners in Brazil , filling a gap in the EdTech industry for Special Education.

With K2E, he was highly awarded: Singularity University, GSVC BerkeleyHaas, Kryptolabs, Gitex, are some of the recognitions our CCO received, among many others. Jose envisions innovation in the digital accessibility field, empowering people with motor, physical and intellectual disabilities to develop their skills using exponential technologies.

Esha Khurshid is a Psychologist, behavioral therapist and Social entrepreneur. She started her education in dental surgery and soon moved on to pursue her degree in psychology. She completed various certifications in ABA (applied behavioral analysis) in teaching speech and independent skills for people with learning and social interaction difficulties. She also completed certifications in CLM (competent learner model) for people with learning difficulties. 

In 2022 she joined Key2enable, an innovative educational assistive technology for POD. Key2enable is a 35 times international award winning startup. Esha joined in the capacity of chief visionary officer and advisor to CEO. Her role is to grow the company’s vision through curating special projects and collaborations. 

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Joschi Kuphal has been active as a web designer, developer and creative entrepreneur for over 25 years. Starting in the mid-90s, while studying interior design, he developed his first websites in HTML, and later Flash. With his diploma in his pocket, he founded the web and advertising agency tollwerk (https://tollwerk.de) in 2000, which he continues to shape to this day. He has shared leadership of tollwerk with his team in an equal, cooperative and self-organizing way since 2022. Accessibility has been the focus of his work for almost 10 years, and it keeps him increasingly busy as a consultant, auditor and lecturer.

In 2013, Joschi founded the Open Device Lab Nuremberg (https://odl-nbg.de), which marked a turning point in the previously quiet work environment at tollwerk. For the first time, Joschi turned his focus towards an international community – and soon found himself leaving his mark on this young, but growing network. Connecting with and being connected to this community became his new passion (obsession?). This encouraged him to found numerous community initiatives and event series, which he continues to do to this day. These include:

* the Accessibility Club (https://accessibility-club.org): a flexible, international format around web accessibility and assistive technologies (2014 – present)
* the CoderDojo Nuremberg (https://coderdojo-nbg.org): an open programming school for children and young people between the ages of 5 and 17 (2016 – present)
* the Material Conference Series (https://material.is) in Rekyjavík, Iceland (2017 – present).

Joschi’s efforts are characterized by his tireless drive to make information and knowledge as accessible as possible and to train everyone to be able to use the tools of our time sustainably and confidently. None of his initiatives are commercially oriented; rather, they all thrive on volunteerism and the unflagging efforts of passionate communities. He is convinced that things get complicated as soon as money comes into play!

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Stéphanie is a User Researcher and Designer who focuses on building user-centered, inclusive and accessible products and services. She spent the last 12+ years helping her clients deliver successful projects in different industries (banking, financial, automotive, healthcare, press, travel, etc.) 

She likes to share her passion for her UX work all around the world. She has taken this beyond her successful blog, conferences and workshops. She discusses a wide range of topics, including mobile UX, enterprise UX, cognitive biases, inclusive design, design process and designer – developer relationship. You can follow her on social media for qualitative curated UX design content. 

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Jodie Greer is the Founder of Be #PeopleSmart, a disability inclusion and accessibility consultancy based in the UK, supporting businesses around the world. Jodie has been passionate about disability inclusion ever since she can remember, and has made it her mission to put more human-centricity back into the workplace. Jodie describes herself as currently non-disabled and believes disability inclusion isn’t really about disabilities, it’s simply about people. Jodie says there’s no diversity without disability, and the value of equitable workplaces just makes for smart business.

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Jutta Treviranus is the Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) and a professor in the faculty of Design at OCAD University in Toronto (http://idrc.ocadu.ca ).  Jutta established the IDRC in 1993 as the nexus of a growing global community that proactively works to ensure that our digitally transformed and globally connected society is designed inclusively.  Dr Treviranus also founded an innovative graduate program in inclusive design at OCAD University.  Jutta is credited with developing an inclusive design methodology that has been adopted by large enterprise companies, as well as public sector organizations internationally. Among her work in accessibility standards, she chaired the Authoring Tool Accessibility Working Group of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. Since 2013 she has raised awareness of the implications of AI decision systems for people with disabilities. 

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Bruno Osório is the CEO of Adamastor Studio, a game development studio based in Portugal. He was born with cerebral palsy, which forces him to use a wheelchair to move. Is life objective is to be an inspirational icon for new companies and entrepreneurs, showing that, despite all the difficulties, it's always possible to make things happen. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, and his goal was always to create a business.
 
"I believe I'm able to change the world and be successful!"
Bruno Osório

Since childhood, Bruno's relationship with video games has always been an umbilical one. With video games, he could kick a ball and become whatever he wanted! Video games are one of his greatest passions, not only for entertainment but mainly because it was with them that he accepted my physical condition. He pretty much owes everything that he is today to video games! Therefore, the creation of Adamastor Studio is a way for him to thank the industry for everything it has done for him.

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Jennifer Nikoro is the director of LBD FOUNDATION. Jennifer Nikoro was recently appointed as a disability task force member in International Arbitration by the International Court of Arbitration in Paris.  She is also a member of the Board of Appeal of Classification at the International Paralympics Committee, Germany, aimed at classifying athletes with disability for the Olympics. She is an Advisory Board Member of Future Additive Manufacturing in Africa (FAMA). She is a Board Member of the African Diversity & Inclusion Center – ADIC, Uganda. Jennifer is a lawyer trained in Mediation and Arbitration. Born without the right arm, Jennifer is a jealous lover of young adults and children with disabilities in Africa, He desires to see them harness their potential. Jennifer currently studies at Ulster University, Birmingham where she is undergoing her master’s degree in International business with human resource management. 

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Ali Ingersoll is a day trader, disability strategy consultant, Ms. Wheelchair North Carolina 2022,  writer, blogger, editor, and public speaker. She started her advocacy mission after being repeatedly denied medically necessary equipment by insurance companies over the last 10 years since becoming a C6 quadriplegic and full-time wheelchair user after a shallow water diving accident.  Ali’s passion lies in coaching people with disabilities on how to improve their quality of life by teaching them to self-advocate in order to live a life of independence, dignity, and grace.

Disability  Inclusion in our society is a priority Ali focuses on improving every day.   Ali has a firm philosophy of paying it forward by giving back to the community through working with stakeholders in the government, non-profit world, and partnering  organizations to create a more inclusive society and disability employment environment. She believes it’s important to band together as one in order to affect the greatest change on the national stage and in local communities.

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