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2025 CREATE Community Day

Image: UW CREATE logo/icon - Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences.Join CREATE for an afternoon of learning, conversation, and innovation!

This year’s panel discussions will focus on current legal challenges to access and rights and explore how accessible technology research makes it from the lab to the real world.

CREATE’s research showcase, co-sponsored by HuskyADAPT, will offer a glimpse into some of the outstanding work being done in the field of accessible technology here at the UW. Come meet the researchers and discover what’s new!

Wednesday, May 28th

Gates Center for Computer Science & Engineering (CSE2), Zillow Commons 4th floor
Schedule of Events

1:15 – 2:30pm: Panel Discussion – Technology, Access, and the Law

Scheduled panelists:

    • Jonathan Lazar: Executive Director of the Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility
    • Elizabeth Pendo: Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington School of Law
    • Lee Tremblay: Northwest Regional Representative of the National Lawyers Guild
    • TBD

 

2:45 – 4:00pm: Panel Discussion – Translation: Bringing Research into the World

Scheduled panelists:

    • Kirk Adams: Managing Director at Innovative Impact, LLC
    • Michael Bervell: Founder and CEO at TestParty
    • Mary Goldberg: Co-Director at IMPACT Center
    • Michele Williams: Owner and Accessibility Consultant, M.A.W. Consulting, LLC

 

4:00 – 5:00pm: Research Showcase – Co-sponsored by HuskyADAPT

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