Digital Inclusion:
Strategies for Equal Opportunities

The 2022 M-Enabling Summit Conference and Innovation Showcase is the networking hub and meeting place for all who implement digital inclusion strategies or develop assistive solutions and accessible digital products, contents and services for workplaces, learning environments or consumer markets.  

With its theme of “Digital Inclusion: Strategies for Equal Opportunities,” the 2022 M-Enabling Summit will facilitate networking and brainstorming in exploring major trends in business, government and education that are accelerating the pursuit of universal accessibility for digital products, content and services. With its venue in the Washington, D.C. area, the M-Enabling Summit attracts key stakeholders facilitating unique exchanges, collaborations, solutions sharing and thought leadership activities.  

The 2022 M-Enabling Summit features dialogs through panel discussions, open conversations with movers and shakers in digital inclusion, instant polls, networking meetups, brainstorming and live debates among advocacy leaders, business executives, and technology providers. Participants will benefit from unique insights on latest trends and technologies to best meet the imperative of digital inclusion and ensure that Persons with Disabilities and aging persons have full access to critical digital contents and services.  

M-Enabling Summit participants will have access to digital proceedings post-Summit with on demand access to key sessions, research reports and other materials. 

In its 10th anniversary edition, the M-Enabling Summit will contribute to shaping the global digital inclusion agenda. A powerful differentiator in establishing a positive culture and gaining a competitive advantage, digital inclusion is embraced globally by leading organizations across all sectors of activity. 

Bringing together professionals, corporations, service organizations, and key thought leaders, the M-Enabling Summit is an all-inclusive conference and showcase with rich networking opportunities for professionals involved in digital inclusion, fostering innovative technology that benefits more than one-billion Persons with Disabilities worldwide.

The 2022 M-Enabling Summit will host a thought leadership Expert Forum presented by the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) October 26th on strategies to scale up digital accessibility implementations.

The M-Enabling Summit is committed to working with the venue, service providers, and vendors to a “health safety first” approach throughout all phases of event production and onsite execution based on CDC and local authorities’ guidelines.  Health safety guidelines will be updated periodically based on applicable CDC and local authorities’ recommendations for public meetings.

Key Topics

  • Deploying digital inclusion strategies in the Organization: Smart Business for All
  • Scaling up digital accessibility with Automation and AI: Challenges and opportunities  
  • Digital labor market and entrepreneurship for Persons with Disabilities 
  • Next steps for digital accessibility policies and standards 
  • Innovation at work: XR, metaverse, wearables, micro-electronics, NFC 
  • Broadband connectivity for work, education, and independent living 
  • Technology and services for accessible virtual workplaces 
  • Policy perspectives on digital inclusion  
  • Generational and intersectional digital gaps 
  • Neurotech and Brain-Computer Interfaces for assistive solutions 
  • Inclusive digital marketing and customer services solutions 
  • Open dialogues with digital inclusion movers and shakers 
  • The rising impact of global trends in digital accessibility 
  • Advocates’ perspectives on future directions for digital accessibility innovation 
  • The good, the bad and the ugly: Listening to end user’s experience 
  • Smart mobility solutions for persons with disabilities and older persons
  • Drivers and solutions for inclusive digital gaming
  • Digital transformations in education at the forefront of virtual accommodation

Sponsors

What Attendees Have to Say About the Summit:

A great forum for accessibility newcomers and veterans to share best practices, learn, and make new connections.” 

Hale Pulsifer, Customer Accessibility Lead, Fidelity Investments 

Quite frankly, one of the more interesting and well-organized accessibility-themed conferences that I have attended in recent years.

Steven Winters, Policy Advisor, Transport Canada

Informative and keeps the community pressing for improved accessibility.

Harry Denby, Program Manager, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Supporting Organizations