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A few days ago we announced the 2023 agenda for Sight Tech Global , which featured 15 panels and fireside chats taking place over Dec. 6-7 from 8:00 a.m. PT until noonish. It’s free and online: Register today! It’s an incredible line-up that focuses in a big way on the controversial generative AI, which has […]
Last week, we released the first group of main stage sessions for Sight Tech Global and promised to release the complete agenda and the rest of the sessions this week. We like to keep promises here at Sight Tech so here is the agenda with all of the main state sessions (apart from a few […]
Our fourth annual Sight Tech Global promises to be the most exciting and provocative yet. The impact of OpenAI’s generative AI technology is the biggest reason why, but so are many developments across the spectrum of technologies innovators are applying to assistive technology. Below is a sampling of 11 sessions on this year’s agenda. In […]
Sight Tech Global took place on December 7 and 8 2022. You can see the agenda here. Each of the main stage sessions from those two days are now available on YouTube. here is the Day One playlist and here is one for Day Two. And here are the individual sessions: We will publish links […]
The Sight Tech Global “In Person” all-day event will be held in San Jose, California on December 9, 2022 at the San Jose office of the Vista Center (101 N Bascom Ave San Jose, CA 95128).
Sight Tech Global started out in 2020 as a purely virtual event, but our partners told us they were eager for a small, in person event that brought together top technologists, designers and product people working in assistive tech. We thought that sounded like a lot of fun, not to mention rewarding if we could […]
The third annual Sight Tech Global conference, a virtual, free and highly accessible event on December 7 and 8 convenes some of the world’s top experts working on assistive tech, especially AI, for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Sensors and data are proliferating. Whether it’s from a phone, a car or smart home devices, astonishing amounts of data fuel the work of researchers and product developers conceiving new products and experiences. Among those who stand to benefit, even more than they already do, are people who are blind or visually disabled. That’s why Sight […]
Millions of people who are blind or visually impaired use a technology known as a screen reader to access the Web. However, few websites are coded to work properly with screen readers. Global web standards that specify how to support screen reader users as well as other people with disabilities have been available since 1999, […]
At last year’s inaugural Sight Tech Global event, a virtual event dedicated to applications of AI and related tech to accessibility for people who are blind, one of the most popular sessions belonged to Saqib Shaikh. The Microsoft engineer co-founded and leads the Seeing AI mobile app, which embeds a remarkable number of services beneficial to people who […]
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