Program Advisory Committee

Our sincere thanks go to the following individuals and organizations for their input on the format and selection of topics of the M-Enabling Summit:

Advocacy & Influencers

  • Jennison Asuncion, Co-Founder and Vice Chair, GAAD Foundation
  • Francesca Cesa Bianchi, MA, CPACC, Vice President, G3ict
  • Stephanie Enyart, Chief Public Officer and Research Officer, American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
  • Sandy Hanebrink, Executive Director, Touch the Future, Inc.
  • Christopher M. Lee, Ph.D., CEO/President, G3ict
  • Anil Lewis, Executive Director of Blindness Initiatives, National Federation of the Blind (NFB)
  • Sabine Lobnig, Director of Communications, Mobile & Wireless Forum (MWF)
  • Mike May, Navigation Technology Advisor, APH
  • Jonathan Mosen, Executive Director for Accessibility Excellence, National Federation of the Blind (NFB)
  • Howard Rosenblum, Founder and Chair, Deaf Equality
  • Kate Sonka, Executive Director, Teach Access
  • Robin Spinks, Head of Inclusive Design, Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
  • Karen Strauss, National Disability Advocate and Historian
  • Jutta Treviranus, Ph.D., Chair, ASC Standard Committee; Professor and Director, Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC), OCAD University
  • Steve Tyler, Director of Assistive Technologies, Leonard Cheshire

Consulting

  • Jon Avila, Chief Accessibility Officer, Level Access
  • David Banes, Director, DB Access & Inclusion; DATEurope Board Director
  • David Berman, CPWA, ADS, President, Berman Communications (IAAP GLC Member and past Chair 2024-2025)
  • Larry Goldberg, Accessible Media and Technology Consultant
  • Shilpi Kapoor, Founder and CEO, BarrierBreak (G3ict Board Chair)
  • Meghan Reed, Head of Training, Consultancy, and Innovation, Evenbreak (IAAP GLC Member)
  • Glenda Sims, Chief Information Accessibility Officer, Deque Systems
  • Frances West, Founder, FrancesWestCo

End-User Organizations

  • Cathy Bodine, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Professor, Department of Bioengineering, College of Engineering, Design and Computing, University of Colorado (CU); Executive Director, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Technologies and Coleman-Turner Endowed Chair in Cognitive Disability
  • Daniel Frank, MSCS, MBA, CPWA
  • Steven Lewis, Senior Manager, Legal Counsel, CapitalOne (G3ict Board Member)
  • Kevin Grogg, Assistive Technologies Service Owner, EY
  • Clark Rachfal, Principal, Accessibility Policy and Programs, Nike
  • Kyle Shachmut, Ph.D., CPACC, Sr. Director, Digital Accessibility Services, Harvard University (IAAP GLG Vice-Chair 2026-2027)
  • Christian Vogler, Ph.D., Director, Technology Access Program, Gallaudet University
  • Jay Wyant, Chief Information Accessibility Officer, Minnesota IT Services’ Office of Accessibility

Policy & Standards

  • Marie Cohan, CPACC, Statewide Digital Accessibility Lead for the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR), (IAAP GLC Member)
  • Shawn Henry, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Director, W3C
  • Masahito Kawamori, Rapporteur of Q2 "e-Health” in Study Group 21, ITU
  • Susanna Laurin, CPACC, G3ict/IAAP Representative to the EU; Chair of the ETSI/CEN/CENELEC Joint Working Group on eAccessibility (IAAP GLC Honorary Chair)
  • Rachel Nemeth, Vice President, Regulatory and Government Affairs, CTA
  • Muhammad Shabbir, Ph.D., CEO, Path Finder Solutions, Digital Accessibility Policy Expert
  • John Sullivan, G3ict Senior Advisor

Tech Innovation

  • Shadi Abou-Zahra, Principal Accessibility Standards and Policy Manager, Amazon Devices and Services
  • Tomer Aharoni, Co-Founder and CEO, Nagish
  • Matt Ater, Sr. Vice President, Business Development, Vispero
  • Zachary Bastian, Sr. Manager, Strategic Alliances, Verizon
  • Sambhavi Chandrashekar, Ph.D., CPACC, Global Accessibility Lead, D2L (IAAP GLC Chair 2026-2027)
  • Bill Curtis-Davidson, Executive Director & Principal Research Scientist, Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI), Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Design
  • David Dikter, CEO, Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA)
  • Sarah Herrlinger, Sr. Director, Global Accessibility Policy and Initiatives, Apple
  • Kurt Iobst, CPACC, Customer Accessibility Advisory Lead, Office of Accessibility; Global President Neurodiversity BRG, Salesforce
  • Michael Keane, Principal Digital Accessibility Engineer, Accessibility Center of Excellence, Consumer Office – Digital Office, Optum
  • Susan Mazrui, Director, Global Public Policy, AT&T
  • Idan Meir, Co-Founder and CEO, RightHear
  • Jessica Rafuse, Strategic Partnerships, Accessibility, Microsoft
  • Habib Ragelhassi, CPACC, Accessibility Lead, Amadeus
  • P.G. (Ram) Ramachandran, Head of Cloud Engineering, Kyndryl
  • Brian Scarpelli, Sr. Global Policy Counsel, ACT-The App Association
  • Ed Summers, Head of Accessibility, GitHub
  • Jonathan Thurston, CEO, Infinite Access
  • Thomas Wlodkowski, Vice President, Accessibility, Comcast

Program Advisory Committee Honorary Chair

  • Axel Leblois, M-Enabling Summit Founder & Founder and President Emeritus, G3ict