Speakers
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 now open.
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.
Register
Participant registration is open to all and no charge. Anyone with access to the Internet is able to participate.
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Announcing Sight Tech Global 2021
Shortly after the first Sight Tech Global event, in December last year, Apple and Microsoft announced remarkable new features for mobile phones. Anyone could point the phone camera at a scene and request a “scene description.”
Imagine being blind and trying to attend a virtual event. Try that next time you stage one.
How do you make a virtual event accessible for people who are blind or visually impaired? When I started work on Sight Tech Global back in June this year, I was confident that we would find the answer to that question pretty quickly. With so many virtual event platforms and online ticketing options available to virtual event […]
ACB, Benetech, Salesforce, Perkins and more announce breakouts at STG
Sight Tech Global is little more than two weeks out, and today we published the detailed agenda for Dec. 2 & 3. The show runs from 8 a.m. to noonish Pacific standard time. If you have not already grabbed a free pass to the 100% virtual event, now is the time! Sight Tech Global will […]
Apple’s Jeff Bigham, disability rights lawyer Haben Girma, author Sara Hendren and more to join 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…
Virtual events accessibility is hard, but Sight Tech Global has a plan
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…
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…
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 […]
Announcing Sight Tech Global, an event on the future of AI and accessibility for people who are blind or visually impaired
Few challenges have excited technologists more than building tools to help people who are blind or visually impaired. It was Silicon Valley legend Ray Kurzweil, for example, who in 1976 launched the first commercially available text-to-speech reading device. He unveiled the $50,000 Kurzweil Reading Machine, a boxy device that covered a tabletop, at a press […]