Director of Training, The Paciello Group Billy Gregory is the Director of Training at The Paciello Group. After failing to realize his dream of becoming a rockstar, Billy fell in love with the internet. Billy is active in the Toronto, Canada Accessibility Community as Co-Organizer of #a11yTO which organizes Accessibility Camp Toronto, its monthly meet-up
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Jonathon Ende
CEO, SeamlessDocs Jonathon is a serial entrepreneur and currently CEO of SeamlessDocs, one of the leading govtech companies. He is incredibly passionate about government innovation and digital inclusion. Recently Jonathon was named 342 in the Inc 5000 for tremendous growth. He has been honored by the GREAT Tech Awards winning a grant from the British
Walei Sabry
Digital Accessibility Coordinator, NYC Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities Born in Egypt and raised in New York, Walei has had significant transitions in his life. First from one country to another and then through varying degrees of vision. The journey from being sighted to blind has given Walei many insights into this transition. The
Jess Matthews
Chief Content Officer, New York City Mayor’s Office With more than ten years of experience in digital communications, Jess’ expertise in earned, paid and owned content distribution, targeted audience engagement and data analysis spans work with small start-ups, large universities, strategic ad agencies and noted publishers such as The New York Times. She was appointed
Speakers and Presenters
Kelly X. Jin
Chief Analytics Officer and Director, NYC Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics Kelly Jin is Chief Analytics Officer for the City of New York, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, and Co-Chair of the NYC Automated Decision Systems Task Force. Before New York, Kelly served as Director at the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.
Conference Schedule & Program
Time Programs 9:30-10:00am Registration and breakfast 10:00-10:05am Introduction Walei Sabry and Chi Nguyen, NYC DiCon Organizers Inclusion is a big task, and we know we can’t do it alone. Walei and Chi will share how the NYC Digital Inclusion Conference got its start and ways that you can stay involved after the conference. 10:05-10:10 am
Conference 2019
Welcome to the 2nd annual NYC Digital Inclusion Conference (DiCon)! To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 16, 2019, the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities and Creative Communications at the Mayor’s Office are hosting a one-day conference on digital accessibility and inclusion. Tickets are currently sold out. You can still join our conference
Conference Accessibility
At last year’s conference, we put in a lot of work to ensure accessibility. We held the event in an accessible venue as well as provided the program in alternative formats. Our digital accessibility toolkit was hosted on our accessible website. Finally, we hired ASL interpreters, live captioners, and recruited volunteer audio describers. This year