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Techshare India 2010

Agenda

Agenda for Day 1

Presentations & Workshops on Day 2 - 16th February, 2010

  • Enabling Persons with Disabilities at marketplace - IBM's perspective - Anupama Vaish, PwD Program Lead, IBM India Pvt Ltd
  • The Power of Connectivity for Fun, Learning, and Life with Easy-Tech Assistive Technology - Adam Wing, Vice President of International Business, AbleNet
  • AAC - Making every voice heard - Aswin Chandrasekaran, CEO, Invention Labs Engg Products Pvt Ltd
  • Touch Activated Audio Descriptive Tactile Models for Museum Exhibits - Rebecca A Fuller, Primary Investigator, RAF Models, Inc
  • Technology that can Break the Barriers of Deafness - Dr. Madan M. Vasishta, Associate Professor, Gallaudet University
  • Looking beyond Screen Readers - Shwetank Dixit, Web Evangelist, Opera Software
  • Caring for the Care Giver: Enabling Care Givers to take better care of Persons with Disabilities - Ratanjit Singh Sohal, Director - Innovation & Technology, Uttejna Technologies
  • Multimedia Accessibility: Captioning, Audio description and more - Vivek Gaikwad, Multimedia Engineer
  • Video 'Sign Language' Relay Interpreting - Arun C Rao, Executive Director, The Deaf Way Foundation
  • Correlation of Audiological findings vis-a-vis Questionnaire designed for Internet based hearing assessment-a Study - Dr. Vijaylaxmi Basavaraj, Director, AIISH - Mysore, All India Institute of Speech & Hearing
  • Enabling full, easy, affordable PC access for the Blind and Visually Impaired - Matthew Wohl, CEO, Tactile World Ltd.
  • Get more from Microsoft Office, with SuperNova Screen Reader Magnifier v11.50 - Steve Bennett, Sales Director, Dolphin Computer Access
  • National Policy on Electronic Accessibility and Case Study on Implementing Accessibility on Indian Government - Shilpi Kapoor, Managing Director, BarrierBreak Technologies
  • Empowerment for All: Indigenous Assistive Technology Solutions - Swati Chakraborty, Co-ordinator, ICT, Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy
  • Advancements in Accessibility Technologies at IBM Research - Dr. Ashish Verma, IBM India Pvt Ltd
  • Need for Web Accessibility for developing countries: Yahoo! initiatives - Srinivasu Chakravarthula, Accessibility Manager, Yahoo Software Development India Pvt. Ltd.
  • Affordable DAISY Players for Developing Countries - Prashant Ranjan Verma, Consultant, Training and Technical Support, DAISY Consortium
  • The IT Governance Umbrella and Accessibility - Thomas Logan, VP of Product Development, HiSoftware Inc.
  • Very Affordable Internet for Everyone including People With Disabilities - Emdad Khan, CEO, InternetSpeech Inc
  • What's next with Mobile Speak? Touch Gestures, Cross Platform and Reading On the Go - Dinesh Kaushal, Software Developer, Code Factory
  • Accessibility in Enterprise Software: A case study - Gayathri Karanam, QA Engineer, CA
  • Role of attitude and access in inclusive growth: the mass media experience - Janaki Pillai, Ability Foundation
  • Assistive technologies for Indian languages, current scenario and challenges - Saurabh Malav, Independent Software Developer / Accessibility Consultant
  • Accessible Forms - Mamta Tandel, Accessibility Project Manager, BarrierBreak Technologies
  • Open source tools for creating DAISY Books - Avneesh Singh, Prashant Verma, and Dipendra Manocha Country manager - Technical Development, DAISY Consortium
  • Creating Accessible Websites - Microsoft
  • Empowering Organisations to Create Accessible, Alternative Format Information - Steve Bennett Sales Director, Dolphin Computer Access

Photographs of Techshare India 2010

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  • Shilpi Kapoor, Managing Director of BarrierBreak Technologies explaining about assistive technology products to Shri Mukul Wasnik, Union Minister for Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
  • Shri Mukul Wasnik, Union Minister for Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment giving speech at Techshare India 2010. Also, seated at the podium are Javed Abidi, Shilpi Kapoor and Stephen King. Arun Rao is facilitating with sign language interpretation.
  • Shri Mukul Wasnik, Union Minister for Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment talking with one of the exhibitors at the event.
  • GoTalk AAC devices displayed at the Experience Zone of Techshare India stall which includes GoTalk pocket, GoTalk 4+, GoTalk 9+, and GoTalk 20+.
  • A volunteer explaining to a group of participants at one of the stalls at the event.
  • A volunteer demonstrating to a participant at the Yahoo India stall
  • Shri. Javed Abidi, director of National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) inaugurating the event with the presence of Shilpi Kapoor, Shri Mukul Wasnik, Arun Rao and Calvin Harris.
  • Mr. Steve Bennett of Dolphin Computer Access chatting with Miss. Priti Rohra of BarrierBreak Technologies.
  • Group of visually impaired persons discussing at the event.