Sponsors Sessions

Wednesday 24 July - 17:30 - 18:30

Amphi Bleu

RIT NTID Session

National Technical Institute for the Deaf - Rochester Institute of Technology

New Innovations in Higher Education at NTID: Research, International Outreach, and Interpreter Training

Peter C. Hauser, Ph. D -NTID Center on Cognition and Language
Thomastine Sarchet - NTID International Educational Outreach
Rico Peterson - NTID Access Services

Amphi Bordeaux

GOOGLE session

Leveraging machine learning to make communication more accessible

Talk Description: Learn about what Google is doing to make communication more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing users and how it ties to Google’s mission of making the world’s information universally accessible and useful.

Talk Presenters:

Sagar Savla, Product Manager
Laura D'Aquila, Software Engineer
Abigail Klein, Software Engineer
Brian Kemler, Product Manager

Thursday 25 July - 17:30 - 18:30

Amphi Bleu

Sprint Accessibility session

Creating an Ecosystem to Enable Equal Access to Telecommunication Services for Deaf, Deafblind and Hard of Hearing People.

Seth Bravin, Director of Strategic Alliances
Karl Ewan, Manager, Access and Marketing

Amphi Bordeaux

Acceo Tadeo / Orano session

In daily life or at work : Acceo & Tadeo remove barriers of communication between hearing people and deaf people

Julien Monnet, Tadeo Director
Julien Allart, Acceo Director
Nasreddine Chab "Nasro", Médiateur scientifique en LSF et LSI, Musée des Arts et Métiers (CNAM)
Alexia Bailly, President-Fondator of the association Solidarité Sourds Bénin (SSB)

Animated by:

Bruno Gomila, Retired

Friday 26 July - 17:30 - 18:30

Amphi Bleu

Google session

Accessible Speech

Talk Description: Learn how Google is leveraging machine learning (ML) to make rapid improvements and advances in accessible speech and see demonstrations of recently announced projects such as Euphonia, Parrotron and Live Relay.

Talk Presenters:

Joel Shor, Software Engineer
Sam Sepah, Program Manager
Fadi Biadsy, Research Scientist
Dimitri Kanevsky, Research Scientist
Sapir Caduri, Software Engineer