This event is part of the Remarkable Insights series.

“In the near future disability will be synonymous worldwide with innovation,” Regina Kline, Founder and CEO, SmartJob.

Echoing Gina's insights, we believe it's critical for designers of technology to engage with people with disabilities to design the most innovative, accessible, and usable solutions. Better yet, empowering people with disabilities to design and build the technologies themselves!

Design for user empowerment means that those with disabilities have control of technology designs intended for them to solve their own accessibility problems.

Join us to hear from our panelists in rethinking the principles and processes of design. This is an opportunity to identify the main opportunities from principles to practice when designing to spur on inclusive innovation.

Panelists

Christine Hemphill, Founder and Managing Director, Open Inclusion (UK)
Christopher Patnoe, Head of Accessibility and Disability Inclusion, EMEA, Google (UK)
Léonie Watson, Director, TetraLogical (UK)

Moderator: Pete Horsley, Founder, Remarkable

Auslan interpreter: David Childs

Introducing our panel:

Christine Hemphill is an inclusive researcher, designer and innovator. She is the Managing Director of Open Inclusion, an agency based in the UK but operating globally that she founded 7 years ago to bring the value of disability- and age-inclusive insight to design and innovation. Prior to setting up Open she spent a number of decades working in corporate marketing, strategy, service and digital design, using customer-centred techniques to inform solutions. These often leveraged emerging technologies and new approaches for innovative solutions. Now she supports others to think more deeply about which customers are informing their solutions, and prefers learning directly from and designing with those with specific knowledge, lived experiences and needs. Christine and the team at Open Inclusion are using disability inclusive and empowered design to create innovative services that make it easier for insight to be heard from those with the knowledge, by those creating the solutions. @openforaccess

Christopher Patnoe is the Head of Accessibility and Disability Inclusion for EMEA for Google. He leads Google's efforts around the accessibility of product, people (both Googler and end users) and partnerships. He has more than 20 years experience in Tech working at companies like Apple, Sony Ericsson and Disney where he's built hardware, software, and services. His current passion is Accessibility at the intersection of immersive technologies (AR/VR) and consumer hardware. He is the chair for the Immersive Captions Community Group with the W3C, is a co-Chair of the XR Association Accessibility Working Group, and sits on the Board of Trustees for the American Foundation for the Blind and the GAAD Foundation. Christopher has a degree in Music from UC Berkeley. @cdpatnoe @Google

Léonie Watson is Director of TetraLogical; a member of the W3C Advisory Board; co-Chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group; and a member of the BIMA Inclusive Design Council. Amongst other things, Léonie is co-organiser of the Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) conference; co-author of the Inclusive Design Principles; and mentor to young people interested in the fields of accessibility and inclusive design. She is also a Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP). Léonie is often found at conferences, talking about web standards, accessibility mechanics, and pushing the boundaries of inclusive design (with existing technologies like SVG, HTML, ARIA, and JavaScript, as well as new technologies like AI and WebVR). She has also written about some of these things for Smashing magazine, SitePoint.com, and Net magazine, as well as on her own site tink.uk. @LeonieWatson @TetraLogical

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