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1:1s, panels, demos with top technologists, researchers, founders, designers and advocates.
A Vista Center Production
December 1–2, 2021
Shaping New Technologies to Create a More Accessible World for People with Blindness and Visual Impairments
Sight Tech Global is the first global, virtual conference dedicated to fostering discussion among technology pioneers on how rapid advances in AI and related technologies will fundamentally alter the landscape of assistive technology and accessibility.
Registration is free and will open soon.
Free & 100% Virtual
Event Description
Expert Moderation
Expert moderators, including TechCrunch editors and prominent figures focused on improving accessibility in the blindness community.
Nothing about us without us
All sessions will include the guidance and participation by people who are blind or visually impaired.
Virtual, Global, Free
The virtual event is free and will stream live as well as be available on demand after the event.
Accessible and Usable
Expert oversight from internal and contracted accessibility teams to ensure an accessible event.
A Benefit
All proceeds are for the benefit of the non-profit Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired headquartered in Silicon Valley.
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Sight Tech Global provides links to the plain-text transcripts of each of the Main Stage sessions.
Sight Tech Global will present 35 speakers in 15 sessions focused on the cutting edge of AI-related technologies and accessibility, especially for the blind and visually impaired.
ACB, Benetech, Salesforce, Perkins and more announce breakouts at STG
Sight Tech Global will present 35 speakers in 15 sessions focused on the cutting edge of AI-related technologies and accessibility, especially for the blind and visually impaired.
Apple’s Jeff Bigham, disability rights lawyer Haben Girma, author Sara Hendren and more to join Sight Tech Global
The other day we announced the first ten sessions for Sight Tech Global, a virtual event Dec. 2-3 that is convening the world’s top technologists to discuss how AI-based technologies are revolutionizing the future of accessibility. Today, we’re pleased to announce three additional sessions …
Virtual events accessibility is hard, but Sight Tech Global has a plan
Wednesday morning at 9:15 a.m. PST we sent an email announcing that registration for the event is finally open. We were dismayed to discover shortly afterwards that the payment processing on EventBrite, our registration partner, was broken. Eventbrite was quick to fail over to another payment processor and by 10:00 a.m. payments were working again. Free passes were available throughout and the optional $25 donation to the Vista Center is now working as well. …
OrCam Technologies co-founder Amnon Shashua to speak at Sight Tech Global
If the measure of progress in technology is that devices should become ever smaller and more capable, then OrCam Technologies is on a roll. The Israeli firm’s OrCam MyEye, which fits on the arm of a pair of glasses, is far more powerful and much smaller than its predecessor. With new AI-based Smart Reading software released in July, the device not only “reads” text and labels but also identifies people by name and describes other …
Microsoft researcher Dr. Cecily Morrison will discuss keeping AI ‘personal’ at Sight Tech Global
For Dr. Cecily Morrison, research into how AI can help people who are blind or visually disabled is deeply personal. It’s not only that the Microsoft Principal Researcher has a 7-year-old son who is blind, she also believes that the powerful AI-related technologies that will help people must themselves be personal, tailored to the circumstances …
Seeing AI founder Saqib Shaikh will speak at Sight Tech Global
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella introduced Saqib Shaikh on stage at BUILD in 2016, he was obviously moved by the engineer’s “passion and empathy,” which Nadella said, “is going to change the world.” That assessment was on the mark because Shaikh went on to co-found the mobile app Seeing AI, which is a showcase for the power of AI applied to the needs of people who are blind or visually impaired.
Announcing Sight Tech Global, an event on the future of AI and accessibility for people who are blind or visually impaired
We live in a world where a computer can drive a car at 70 MPH without human assistance but there is not yet any comparable device to help a blind person walk down a sidewalk at 3 MPH. A social media site can identify billions of people in an instant but a blind person can’t readily identify the person standing in front of them.