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Techshare India 2012

Agenda 2012

Techshare India 2012 has been planned for 2 days that is 6th & 7th February, 2012.

The Tracks for the Conference include:

  • Track 1: Policy, Law & Research.
  • Track 2: Assistive Technology.
  • Track 3: Accessibility.

Tea break on Day 1: 11:30 am - 12:00 pm, 3:40 pm - 4:00 pm
Tea break on Day 2: 11:10 am - 11.30 am, 3:40 pm - 4:00 pm
Lunch Break: 1.00 pm - 2.00 pm

Day 1 Presentations - 6th Februray, 2012

10:00 to 11:15 am:

Keynote Address & Inauguration:

  • Rob Sinclair, Chief Accessibility Officer, Microsoft
  • Javed Abidi, Honorary Director, National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP)
  • Stephen King, Group Director, Royal National Institute of Blind People
  • Shilpi Kapoor, Director, BarrierBreak Technologies

11:15 am to 12:00 pm:

Inauguration of Conference

12 pm to 1 pm:

Panel Discussion

  • Mr. Dilip Chenoy, National Skill Development Corporation
  • Dr. Govind, CEO, NIXI
  • Mr. George Abraham, CEO, Score Foundation
  • Rob Sinclair, Chief Accessibility Officer, Microsoft
Track 1
Time Track Information
2 pm to 2:40 pm Education for Persons with Disabilities - Shalini Khanna, NAB
3 pm to 3:40 pm ICT Accessibility - A Policy Perspective - Mr. Deepak Maheshwari, Director - Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd.
4:00 pm to 4:40 pm Anthropometrics in technology - Shivani Gupta, Founder & Chief Consultant, AccessAbility
5:00 pm to 5:40 pm Captioning & Indian Sign Language as Accessibility Tools of Universal Design - P J Mathew Martin, Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for Hearing Handicapped (AYJNIHH)
Track 2
Time Track Information
2 pm to 2:40 pm Can accessible gaming be fun? - Shrirang Sahasrabudhe, Accessibility Specialist and Product Technical Lead, Infosys Technologies
3 pm to 3:40 pm Dolphin Bookshelf: Integrating web services into assistive technology - Steve Bennett, Sales Director, Dolphin Computer Access
4:00 pm to 4:40 pm Windows 7 & Office 2010 Accessibility Features for all disabilities - Alok Lall, Director - Marketing, Microsoft
5:00 pm to 5:40 pm EPUB3: more than universally accessible digital books - Dipendra Minocha, Developing countries coordinator, Daisy Consortium
Track 3
Time Track Information
2 pm to 2:40 pm Multilingual Web Access in India - Technology Development and Implementation Challenges - Dr Swarn Lata, W3C India
3 pm to 3:40 pm The semantics behind HTML5 - Shwetank Dixit, Web Evangelist, Opera Software
4:00 pm to 4:40 pm Create WCAG2 compliant websites with CQ5.4 - Kiran Kaja, Accessibility Engineer, Adobe Systems
5:00 pm to 5:40 pm Coding & Testing for Mobile Web Accessibility - Rakesh Paladugula, Accessibility Consultant, Cognizant Technology Solutions

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.