Agenda

San Francisco, CA

Tuesday, October 15th and Wednesday, October 16th

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October 15

Greetings and Introductions
- Philip Nelson, Eve Andersson, and Michael Brenner
What's new in Machine Learning
- Philip Nelson, Director, Software Engineering, Google
Transforming device accessibility with ML
- James Stout, Software Engineer, Google
Innovation through collaboration: The future of accessible technology [Abstract]
- Blair Casey, Assistant Executive Director, Team Gleason Foundation
Opportunities for AI to transform service delivery and outcomes for people with communication disorders [Abstract]
- Margaret Rogers, Chief Staff Officer for Science and Research, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Aphasia: A disorder of language. Can AI help? [Abstract]
- Nina Dronkers, Visiting Scientist, UC Berkeley, Professor of Neurology, UC Davis Director Emerita, Center for Aphasia and Related Disorders, VA Northern California Health Care System

Enabling independence with Machine Learning
- Eve Andersson, Director, ML fairness & Accessibility Engineering, Google
Transitioning from geometric algorithms to ML for eye tracking
- Jay Beavers, Engineering Manager, Enable Team, Microsoft

Accessibility & the AI Autumn [Abstract]
- Jeffrey Bigham, Associate Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, CMU
ICM LivingLab : Listen, gather, let’s build it, together [Abstract]
- Romain Gombert, LivingLab & Medtech Development Manager, ICM-Brain & Spine Institute
Innovation and Technology: This is me. Riding the Waves of Opportunity [Abstract]
- Robin Spinks, Senior Innovation Manager, Royal National Institute of Blind People
Beyond Navigation: Translating maps into useful audio description for people who are blind or visually impaired [Abstract]
- Brett Oppegaard, Associate Professor, School of Communications, University of Hawaii
Toward large-scale Android accessibility analyses and repair [Abstract]
- James Fogarty, Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
Improving American Sign Language search by learning from user queries [Abstract]
- Richard Ladner, Professor Emeritus in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Parrotron: An end-to-end speech-to-speech conversion model and its applications to hearing-impaired speech [Abstract]
- Fadi Biadsy, Staff Research Scientist, Google
- Suzan Schwartz, Program Manager, Google
Varieties of accessibility from a neurological perspective [Abstract]
- Robert T. Knight, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, UC Berkeley

Day One Summary and Welcome to Day Two
Communication needs of persons with hearing impairment: Current and developing technologies [Abstract]
- Charlotte Reed, Senior Research Scientist, Research Lab of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Project Euphonia
- Michael Brenner, Research Scientist, Google
Need in augmentative communication: Authentic voice and efficient language access [Abstract]
- John Costello, Director, Augmentative Communication, Boston Children's Hospital
Panel: Data for AI-enabled Solutions
- Alison Cernich, Deputy Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), NIH
- Adam Politis, Chief, Speech Language Pathology Section, Rehabilitation Medicine Department, NIH Clinical Center
- Jay Beavers, Engineering Manager, Enable Team, Microsoft
- Katrin Tomanek, Software Engineer, Google
- Michael Brenner, Research Scientist, Google
- Suzan Schwartz, Program Manager, Google

Start with one
- Irene Alvarado, Creative Technologist, Google
Scaling hardware and software from one to many
- Anupam Pathak, Founder and CEO, liftware.com
Global open innovation around neglected problems
- Gidi Grinstein, Founder, TOM: Tikkun Olam Makers
Bizarre hardware design
- Christopher O’Dowd, Hardware Engineer, Microsoft

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