The Side event took place at the conference on the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities - June 16, 2016

 

Chairperson: Ms. Jean Judes - Executive Director, Beit Issie Shapiro
Speakers:
Mr. Chapal Khasnabis - Program Manager, Global cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE), WHO
Leslie Schecht - Director of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math for District 75’s NYC Public Schools 
Shiri Azenkot - Assistant Professor, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute
Ms. Gaby Admon-Rick - Commission for Equal Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Justice, Israel
Mr. David Lepofsky - Canadian advocate on disability accessibility, chair of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance and co-chair of Barrier-Free Canada