axe-con 2024 Agenda

All live sessions will have captions and ASL provided.

Thursday February 22

Tuesday February 20

Time	Keynotes
9:00am	Responsible and Ethical AI Dr. Rumman Chowdhury,
10:00am	Human-Centered AI and Accessibility Dylan Barrell,

Time	Development	Design	Organizational Success with Accessibility	Wildcard
11:00am	Empowering People with Disabilities Using GitHub Copilot Ed Summers,	“That’s great, but how do I convince my boss?”: Overcoming Bias to Advocate for Change David Dylan Thomas,	Navigating the Accessibility Iceberg: Approaches for Organizational Accessibility Excellence Kelsey Hall,	The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape Lainey Feingold,
12:00pm	The Future of axe Tools Dylan Barrell,	Assembling a network of accessibility advocacy through UX design Ray Dahl, PhD,	How to Build an Accessibility Program and Culture Mike Shebanek, Greg Williams, Gurpreet Kaur,	What WCAG 2.2 Means for Native Mobile Accessibility Rachael Yomtoob, Devanshu Chandra,
1:00pm	Integrate Accessibility Snapshot Testing into the Mobile Build Process Andrea Skeries, Nicole Bergstrom, David Brunow, Lauren Ludovicy, Wilfred Ilagan,	Does your design conform with WCAG accessibility guidelines — or does it comply? Cintia Pereira Romero Garcia,	How to Outgrow your Accessibility Partner Chas Steinmetz,	Future of accessibility guidelines Wilco Fiers, Glenda Sims,
2:00pm	AI Systems for Accessibility Noé Barrell, Dylan Sheffer,	Designing Accessible Dashboards Emily Kund,	Don’t let your vision be a dream David Tisserand,	Building an Enterprise-Level Accessibility Skills Program for Development Teams Shivaji Kumar,

Wednesday February 21

Time	Keynotes
11:00am	Advocating for Change Jonah Berger,

Time	Development	Design	Organizational Success with Accessibility	Wildcard
9:00am	Coming Soon! Mystery Speaker,	The Folly of Chasing Demographics Heydon Pickering,	Coming Soon Kathy Martinez,	Disability Inclusion Beyond Accessibility Standards Giselle Mota,
10:00am	Get It Right the 1st Time: Stop 80%+ of A11Y Bugs During Development Glenda Sims, Sachin Gupta,	Neuroinclusive Content Design Laurie Cameron-Back,	Driving Accessibility Transformation Through Policy: P&G’s Accessibility Journey Paul Gallagher,	The impact of AI on people with disabilities Matthew Johnston,
12:00pm	Enhancing Digital Accessibility at Signet Jewelers: A Strategic Approach to Utilizing Axe Tools Stephanie Andrecovich, Amanda Hennel,	Capturing Disabled Voices: How we are building our own research panel Zoe Portlock,	Establishing a Scalable A11y Education Ecosystem Alexis Lucio, Catharine McNally, Lindsey Wild,	AI as an A11y (Ally) Kelly Goto, Colin Wong,
1:00pm	Accessible Component Libraries: The Foundation of Accessibility at Scale Rachael Yomtoob,	Building a culture of accessibility through design annotation Damian Sian, Taniya Bhosale,	Turning an oil tanker in a storm Stuart Trevithick,	From Exclusion to Inclusion: Advancing Accessible Gaming Together Morgan Baker,
2:00pm	Easy Digital Accessibility: What’s Your +1? Kathryn Weber-Hottleman,	Multisensory Design: Accessibility as a Creative Practice for Designers Lauren Race,	Measuring and Benchmarking Accessibility Niki Ramesh,	Improving Accessibility through Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) Sheri Byrne-Haber,

Thursday February 22

Time	Keynotes
2:00pm	Helping Debunk Disability Stigma Squirmy and Grubs,

Time	Development	Design	Organizational Success with Accessibility	Wildcard
9:00am	GitHub Accessibility Roundup: Upgrades Empowering Developers Ben Allen,	Building Your Program Through Metrics and Storytelling Matthew Luken,	Coming Soon! Mystery Speaker,	How AI will help us re-invent accessibility, lower industry load, and cover more disabilities. Gregg Vanderheiden,
10:00am	The Next Generation of Automated Accessibility Testing for Mobile Apps Megan Pletzer,	The Power of User Research to Increase Fitness Accessibility Emma Torres, Andrea Sutyak,	How to get stakeholder buy-in for your product’s accessibility Noorul Ameen,	Inaccessible Marketing Emails Suck! Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli,
11:00am	Using the WebAIM Million and User Surveys to Inform Accessibility Efforts Jared Smith,	Know where you’re going: understanding HTML for better collaboration and better designs KJ Schmidt,	Ignite change; 5 sure-fire strategies to locate a C-Suite digital accessibility champion to help remove roadblocks as you transform your organization to one of digital inclusion. Patrick Sturdivant,	Accessibility and Generative AI: The good, the bad, and the ugly Mary Ann Jawili,
12:00pm	How Do You Make Accessibility Testing as Efficient as Possible? Harris Schneiderman,	What is “equivalent” text alternatives for artistic and cultural visual content? Willa Armstrong, Dr. Rachael Bradley Montgomery,	Disability Inclusive Marketing: What’s the Playbook? Elodie Fichet, Ph.D.,	Digital Wildfire – Burnout and Bias Soren Hamby,
1:00pm	Coming Soon! Mystery Speaker,	Demystifying the APCA (Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm) James Sullivan,	Digital Accessibility and Knowing When to Flex Laila Coulton,	A11y in Cybersecurity Panel Patrick Sturdivant, Justin Merhoff, Emily Kiehl, Aliyu Yisa,