0:00 Day 1 - Keynote 1: Ted Henter, Formerly Founder and President of Henter-Joyce
19:33 Day 1 - Presentation 1: Coding is accessible for everyone!
50:26 Day 1 - Panel 1: What are Coders and what do they do?
1:42:10 Day 1 - Panel 2: If I learn how to code, do I have to be a Programmer?
2:31:08 Day 1 - Keynote 2: Peter Tucic, HumanWare Brand Ambassador – Blindness Products, HumanWare
2:47:54 Day 1 - Presentation 2: What do the job availability and future of technology employment look like?
3:17:21 Day 1 - Panel 3: What does it take to get a job in coding?
4:09:41 Day 1 - Panel 4: How do I turn a cool tech idea into a business?
Day 1 - Keynote 1: Ted Henter, Formerly Founder and President of Henter-Joyce (developers of Jaws), retired -- This Keynote address highlights the opportunities that Coding provides to blind or low vision individuals. Students will be encouraged to identify with pathways currently available to them and pursuable in their future.
Day 1 - Presentation 1: Coding is accessible for everyone! - Glen Gordon, Software Fellow, Freedom Scientific/JAWS/Vispero - A presentation on the accessibility of coding will focus on the problems that individuals with visual impairments have that are not related to coding but rather are related to the technology environment that surrounds and presents coding. This creates a false sense of inaccessibility to coding itself. Learning the basics of coding and hearing about languages that might be more conducive to getting started can inspire youth to overcome their initial attitudes surrounding coding and the difficulty in getting going. How can students use a screen reader to make something happen? Stories or examples of how and why coding is accessible.
Day 1 - Panel 1: What are Coders and what do they do?
Moderator: Steve Clower, Desmos
Panelists: Juan Hernandez, Best Friends Animal Society
Stephanie Ludi, University of North Texas
Ken Perry, APH
Blind programmers will answer questions about how they advanced into their position and what a typical day of coding entails including identifying obstacles and avenues to success.
Day 1 - Panel 2: If I learn how to code, do I have to be a Programmer?
Moderator: Pete Denman, Intel
Panelists: Joe Hodge, APH
Peter Tucic, HumanWare
Ka Li, Fable Tech Labs
Not everyone who learns to code becomes a programmer. Participants will answer questions about how their career paths relate to coding and how learning to code helped their career success.
Day 1 - Keynote 2: Peter Tucic, HumanWare Brand Ambassador – Blindness Products, HumanWare - This Keynote address highlights the opportunities that Coding provides to blind or low vision individuals. Students will be encouraged to identify with pathways currently available to them and pursuable in their future.
Day 1 - Presentation 2: What do the job availability and future of technology employment look like? - Dean Hudson, Accessibility Technical Evangelist, Env, Policy & Soc Initiatives, Apple, Inc. - A presentation on job availability and the future of technology employment will identify questions such as: What do coding jobs look like? What is the difference between a backend and frontend developer? What does the current job market for programmers and non-programmers look like? Is it true that a college education is not always necessary to finding employment in this field? What are employers seeking in entry-level positions and what is different for other positions? What is the importance of knowing how to code for jobs that do not require programming but are related and intertwined with code?
Day 1 - Panel 3: What does it take to get a job in coding?
Moderator: Anna Thielke, CVS Health
Panelists: Matthew Ballinger, Oregon Commission for the Blind
Carl Wise, Vispero
Mike Hess, Blind Institute of Technology
Panelists representing Hiring Managers, Career and Transition Agencies, and blindness technology manufacturers and vendors will explain the opportunities available to blind and low vision candidates in seeking positions in the field of technology.
Day 1 - Panel 4: How do I turn a cool tech idea into a business?
Moderator: Mike May, Good Maps/Sendaro
Panelists: Dave Pinto, YesAccessible! and The Academy of Music for the Blind (AMB)
John Gardner, ViewPlus
Joe Jorgenson, Accessibyte
Panelists will detail how they started businesses and sought out taking an idea and making it a product or service. Students will learn entrepreneurship skills and identify with successes of panelists.
