EMPOWER CONFERENCE 2021

SCHEDULE

Day 1

28th October 2021, Thursday

10am to 5pm IST

SESSION 1

Timings

Student Design Challenge 

SESSION 2

Timings

Workshop – ML for Accessibility

SESSION 3

Timings

Workshop – Accessible STEM Content

Day 2

29th October 2021, Friday

10am to 8:30pm IST

SESSION 1

Timings

Opening Session & Keynote 

SESSION 2

Timings

AT for Locomotor Disabilities

SESSION 3

Timings

Wearable & IoT Technologies in AT

SESSION 4

Timings

Keynote

SESSION 5

Timings

Product Demo

SESSION 6

Timings

AT for the Global South

Day 3

30th October 2021, Friday

10am to 8:30pm IST

SESSION 1

Timings

Commercial AT Product Platforms

SESSION 2

Timings

AT for Communication

SESSION 3

Timings

Inclusive Design

SESSION 4

Timings

Product Expo

SESSION 5

Timings

Keynote  & Closing Session

Please note more details about the sessions, timings and speakers will be updated shortly.

KEYNOTE & INVITED
SPEAKERS

VIBHA
KRISHNAMURTHY

Developmental Pediatrician & Executive
Director Ummeed Child Development Centre

Unmeed Centre – People

CATHERINE
HOLLOWAY

Co-founder, Academic Director of Global Disability
Innovation Hub and Professor at UCL’s Interaction Centre.

https://www.disabilityinnovation.com/who-we-are/our-team/dr-catherine-holloway

RAJA
KUSHALNAGAR

Professor and Director, IT Program, Gallaudet University , 
Washington, USA.

https://my.gallaudet.edu/raja-kushalnagar

RAMA
GHEERAWO

Director, The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Art, UK

https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/rama_gheerawo/

Arun
Jayaraman

Executive Director, Technology & Innovation Hub (tiHUB); Director,
Max Näder Center for Rehabilitation Technologies &
Outcomes Research; Associate Professor of PM&R,
Medical Social Science, PTHMS, Northwestern University

https://www.sralab.org/researchers/arun-jayaraman-pt-phd

INVITED SPEAKERS

Dr. Arun
Jayaraman

Executive Director, Technology & Innovation Hub (tiHUB); Director, Max Näder Center for Rehabilitation Technologies & Outcomes Research; Associate Professor of PM&R, Medical Social Science, PTHMS, Northwestern University

https://www.sralab.org/researchers/arun-jayaraman-pt-phd

Rama
Gheerawo

Director, The Helen Hamlyn

 Centre for Design

https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/rama_gheerawo/

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