09.30 - 10.00

Registration and Coffee

10.00 – 10.40

Keynote: Starting From Scratch - getting it right from the beginning
Peter White: BBC Disability Affairs Correspondent and presenter

10.40 – 11.20

The Information Society: e-Inclusion challenges and opportunities
Guido Gybels, Director of New Technologies, RNID

11.20 - 11.45

Networking and Refreshment Break

11.45 - 12.15

Web Accessibility - standards and more: Practical illustrations of key web accessibility and usability issues from an end user's perspective - covering a range of impairments and access technologies
Robin Christopherson - Head of Accessibility Services, AbilityNet Central

12.15 - 13.15

A choice of breakout workshops:

Open Source Accessibility: a Hit or a Myth?
Chair: Mel Poluck
Panellists:
Dave Nichols, Open Source Programme Manager, The Open Source Project, The ICTHub, National Computing Centre
Mark Brier, Technical Officer, The Open Source Project
Matthew Edmonson, Programmer, The Open Source Project

Mobile devices
Chair: Derek Parkinson
Panellists:
Steve Tyler, Head of Innovation and Disability Access, RNIB
Nick Apostolidis, Assistive Technology Specialist

Web Accessibility: Procuring and Building Accessibly Web Sites and Applications: Process, Practice and PAS 78
Chair: Nicky Danino, Researcher in Internet Accessibility, University of Central Lancashire
Panellists:
Liam McGee, Managing Director, Communis Ltd
Paul Ratcliffe, Senior Consultant, Communis Ltd
Tim Pickering, Project Manager SPARC, Environment Agency
Sponsored by Communis Ltd

Education
Chair: John Lamb, Editor, Ability Magazine
Panellist: Jonathan Hassell, Accessibility Editor, BBC Jam

13.15 – 14.15

Lunch

14.15 - 15.15

A choice of breakout workshops:

Broadcasting
Chair: Dan Jellinek
Panellists:
Leen Petre, Principal Manager, Media and Culture, RNIB
Geoff Adams-Spink, Age and Disability Correspondent, BBC

Banking
Chair: Derek Parkinson
Panellists:
Dr John Gill, Chief Scientist, RNIB, View presentation
Will McMeechan, Lead Business Developer, Nationwide Building Society

Employment
Chair: John Lamb, Editor, Ability Magazine
Panellists:
Dave Emerson, Solution Architect, Ford
Jenny van Tinteren, Department for Work and Pensions

Web accessibility - theory and practice?
Chair: Mel Poluck
Panellists:
Bob Crichton, Managing Director, HOP Associates
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, UKOLN, University of Bath
Sponsored by HOP Associates

15.15 - 15.35

Coffee

15.35 - 16.15

Broadband and disability: are we ready?
Kevin Carey, director HumanITy, vice-chair RNIB, Chairman, Community Radio Fund (Ofcom)
Introduction by Adam Oliver, CSR and Digital Inclusion Champion, BT Research and Development

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