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We know there is a significant opportunity to leverage technological innovation to drive an inclusive future, but what is needed to create an inclusive now?
Introducing Remarkable Insights – a series of webinars which brings the often underrepresented thinkers, bright minds and voices into the conversation. We explore themes related to disability tech and inclusion and give voice to those who have historically been left behind as technology transforms the society around us.
So join us as we strive to answer “how might we use Remarkable Insights to create an inclusive now?”
This year’s IDPwD theme is ‘Leadership and participation of persons with disabilities toward an inclusive, accessible and sustainable post-COVID-19 world’. To celebrate and honour this theme we are hosting a Remarkable Insights conversation with a focus on Inclusivity in the post-COVID Age. We are thrilled to be welcoming Hannah Diviney, Co-Editor In Chief & Head of Creative at Missing Perspectives, as guest moderator for this event, as well as an amazing lineup of panelists!
Our moderator will be Hannah Diviney, Co-Editor In Chief & Head of Creative at Missing Perspectives, with panelists:
Auslan Interpreter: Therese Lewis
It is important for designers of technology to engage with people with disabilities to achieve the most usable designs. 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.
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Moderator: Pete Horsley, Founder, Remarkable
Auslan Interpreter: David Childs
While the world looked to the skies with Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos blasting into the edge of space, where might be the next frontier for technology? Brain-computer interface (BCI), a neural device that translates a person’s brain activity into external responses or directives, might sound like science fiction. Yet we are getting closer to the day where we can directly interact with and control machines with our minds. What does this mean for those with a disability?
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Moderator: Pete Horsley, Founder, Remarkable (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Auslan Interpreter: Taryn Coswello
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has allocated $700m per annum for Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) to provide 28,000 Australians with complex support needs with access to appropriate housing. SDA funding has the potential to stimulate around $5 billion in private sector investment and transform the old model of segregation to provide people with disabilities more choice and control. Achieving these major changes will require many parties to consider the role they can play.
Panelists
Moderator: Pete Horsley, Founder, Remarkable (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Auslan Interpreter: Therese Lewis
In an era of connected technologies, many cities are turning to technology and smart city solutions to build more liveable environments. What would it take to build cities of the future in which everyone can live and thrive?
We can define the ideal smart city as a place that incorporates technology to make city life more accessible and efficient, without feeling like technology is present. The question then is, accessible for who?
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Moderator
Pete Horsley, Founder, Remarkable Technology Accelerator (Sydney, Australia)
Auslan Interpreter:Tyson Boal
This year’s IDPwD theme is see the ability in disability. Our panel for this Remarkable Insights Conversation are individuals challenging the way disability is viewed. A neuroscientist advocating for greater acceptance of medical students and doctors with disabilities, a ‘regular’ Mumma who is sharing the real and raw side to Autism Spectrum Disorder with her podcast ‘Autism Our Way – No Shame in Sharing’, and a host of a different type of podcast shining a bright light on sex and disability which aims to explore parts of the disabled experience that we don’t often hear about.
Panelists
Moderator
Pete Horsley, Founder, Remarkable Technology Accelerator (Sydney, Australia)
Auslan Interpreter: Kerrie Lakeman
One in five people identify as having a disability. This means globally the people with disability market is estimated at 1.27 billion people, a market comparable in size to China. Together with their friends and family, this is a huge market with the collective spending power of USD9 trillion in annual disposable income each year.
Socially responsible investing is top of the agenda for many conscious investors. This is reflected in the increased number of impact investment funds. The burgeoning appetite for impact investing in Australia indicates an increase of allocation towards impact investments of more than fivefold to $100 billion over the next five years.
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Rich Donovan, CEO at The Return on Disability Group. Rich is a globally recognized subject matter expert on the convergence of disability and corporate profitability. He has spent more than 10 years focused on defining and unlocking the economic value of the disability market.
Rich created the Return on Disability concept and model. The Barclays Return on Disability ETN listed on the New York Stock Exchange on September 11th, 2014 under the ticker RODI.
He has been named one of the Top 50 Most Influential People with Disabilities in the world by UK-based Powerful Media and Shaw Trust in October 2016. @richdonovannyc
Rachel Yang, Investment Manager, Giant Leap Fund at Impact Investment Group. Giant Leap is a venture capital fund backing founders using business as a force for good, driving social and environmental change. The fund is backed by the Impact Investment Group, a leading Australian funds manager whose mission is to shift capital towards impact investments.
Rachel is also on the Board of Startup Victoria, a non-profit, grassroots organisation supporting startup founders succeed and is a member of the Victorian State Government’s Innovation Taskforce. Rachel’s background is in management consulting and corporate finance, and she previously co-founded a non-profit organisation to raise funds and awareness for Motor Neurone Disease. @RachelYang_
Tamara Reinisch, Associate Partner, ORIMA Research. Tamara leads ORIMA Research’s Disability Services Research team, providing a dedicated focus on disability research practice by investing in R&D, sector collaboration and specialist skill development. Tamara has 20 year experience in the disability sector and specialises in policy, organisational strategy, innovation, design thinking and change management. She has held senior roles at the National Disability Insurance Agency (Markets/Providers), Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, and the Victorian Disability Services Commissioner. Tamara’s passion and commitment to transform lives in the Australian community triggered her work with disability sector organisations to ensure the voice of people with a lived experience is driving business success and market transformation.
Moderator
Pete Horsley, Founder, Remarkable Technology Accelerator (Sydney, Australia)
Auslan Interpreter:Mark Sandon
Over the last decade, the voice of the Disability Community is being heard more loudly and more often. Thanks to the many figures who have fought for equality, greater authentic exposure in the media and significant social policy reform through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
The NDIS, launched by the Australian government in 2013, provided the long-awaited change in the services and supports delivered for people with disability, enabling them to have greater choice and control. This transformation ‘The Greatest Nation Building Project on Earth’ presents enormous opportunities – providing significant job creation both for people with disabilities and the disability support workforce; stimulating digital innovation, creating new markets and the potential for new investment.
We talk to three leaders on why the disability sector and how schemes such as NDIS will be central for governments, businesses and communities as we focus on economic recovery.
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Moderation by Jordan O’Reilly, Co-founder and CEO of Hireup, an online platform revolutionising the way Australians with disability find, hire and manage their own home care and support workers. Jordan recently wrote “The Australian disability sector must be central to our economic recovery. Here’s why.” calling on the Australian government to hone it’s focus in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the way we think about the disability sector, positioning it as central to our entire community’s recovery and future prosperity. @jbrianoreilly
Auslan Interpreter: Chelsea Turner
Gaming accessibility has come a long way in recent years with the rise by major developers to incorporate accessibility. Unlike most traditional sports, a physical disability doesn’t leave a professional gamer all but exempt from competing at the highest levels. With more and more people with disabilities getting into eSport, what is the next change in making eSports communities more inclusive. I am part of this live session with a remarkable panel to share our insights on how might we enable greater inclusion and access to eSports for people with disability.
Steve Spohn is the Chief Operations Officer and
Community Outreach Director for AbleGamers charity, award-winning author, and advocate for people with disabilities. Featured on CNN, NBC and other mainstream news outlets as an assistive technology and game
accessibility expert, Steven brings all his knowledge and much more to championing for people with disabilities in the video game space as a means of defeating social isolation. @StevenSpohn
Humphey Hadley is a Content Creator, Accessibility Specialist, Videographer, Photographer, and coffee lover from Wellington, New Zealand. While
broadcasting on Twitch, he focuses on showing and sharing with the world what he’s capable of doing in spite of having Epidermolysis Bullosa. He is a well-travelled public speaker, giving talks on every aspect of his life and on the role of video games and tech in helping people with disabilities – and the importance of making everything accessible so we can all make the most of them!
Ellen Jurik is a Game Director, Writer, Designer, and Producer. She is the Studio Narrative Director and Senior Producer at Blowfish Studios in Sydney, and was recognised on the 2019 Gender Equality InGames list. Since her first job at Interzone Games in Perth, through her time as a Producer at Gameloft in Auckland, and her time with Blowfish, she has been involved in the pitching, production, development, design, and writing of games across a variety of genres and platforms. @ellenjurik
Moderator
Pete Horsley, Founder, Remarkable Technology Accelerator (Sydney, Australia)
Auslan Interpreter: Tyson Boal
At this time, with millions of people encountering inaccessibility we ask you to see things differently by viewing innovation through the disability lens. Technology has become the beacon of light as humans and businesses navigate the ‘new normal’. This new normal is not so new for one in five people globally with a disability who have had to navigate the world differently out of necessity.
Panelists:
Moderator
Pete Horsley, Founder, Remarkable Technology Accelerator (Sydney, Australia)
Auslan Interpreter:Taryn Coswello
In Australia 48% of working age (aged 15-64) people with disability are employed compared with 80% without disability*. Improving employment participation rates for people with disabilities in today’s labour force is a critical global issue. This presents an opportunity for disability-led innovators to transform work in order to pave the way for a more inclusive society.
By thinking beyond future of work, hear from the panel as they discuss how they are solving the disability unemployment crisis, harnessing technology to create more meaningful work and advocating for true action to promote enabling work environments.
Panelists
Moderator
Pete Horsley, Founder, Remarkable Technology Accelerator (Sydney, Australia)
Auslan Interpreter: Gerry Shearim