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> Subject: [tech-vi Announce List] Announcing Sight Tech Global 2021
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> Visually impaired accessible technology - BingNews - Thursday, July
> 15, 2021 at 9:51 PM
> 
> Announcing Sight Tech Global 2021
> 
> [https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/image-17.png?w=711]
> 
> Shortly after the first  Sight Tech
> Global<https://sighttechglobal.com/> 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.” In a flash, a cloud-based, computer vision AI
> determined what was in the scene and a machine-voice read the
> information. Learning that “a room contains three chairs and a table”
> might not seem like a big advance for the sighted, but for blind or
> visually impaired people, the new feature was a notable milestone for
> accessibility technology: An affordable, portable and nearly universal
> device could now “see” on behalf of just about anyone.
> 
> Technologies like scene description will be on the agenda at the
> second annual Sight Tech Global event, December 1-2, 2021. The free,
> sponsor-supported, virtual and global event will convene many of the
> world’s top technologists, researchers, advocates and founders to
> discuss how rapid advances in technology, many centered on AI, are
> altering — both improving and complicating — accessibility for people
> with sight loss.
> 
> Register<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfberR7NW3F74cBNleiOVauGQ8wrSV0FcZqf1HH5X60mUrS6Q/viewform>
> today — it’s free.
> 
> At the heart of Sight Tech Global is the hard question: How do highly
> advanced, AI-based technologies actually become compelling, affordable
> products that folks who are blind or visually impaired readily adopt?
> It took 40 years, for example, for the $50,000 “Kurzweil reading
> machine,” a boxy desktop device, to evolve into what blind people take
> for granted today, a free app available on any mobile phone that can
> “read” just about any text. As anyone working in the field will tell
> you, shaping technologies into truly useful, everyday, affordable
> tools for people with vision loss is no less demanding than it was 40
> years ago.
> 
> The agenda for last year’s Sight Tech Global
> <https://sighttechglobal.com/agenda/> convened many of the best minds
> across the spectrum of accessibility-related
> technologies<https://sighttechglobal.com/speakers/>, including
> Microsoft’s Saqib Shaikh, Amazon’s Josh Miele, Apple’s Chris Fleizach,
> Orcam’s Amnon Shashua, civil rights lawyer Haben Girma, author and
> professor Sara Hendren and researcher and professor Danna Gurari. In
> addition to those speakers were a dozen well attended breakout
> sessions<https://sighttechglobal.com/agenda/?status=all&stage=breakout-session&date=all>
> led by Perkins Access, Salesforce, APH, Humanware and others.
> 
> Because the event was free, virtual and highly
> accessible<https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/30/imagine-being-blind-and-trying-to-attend-a-virtual-event-try-that-next-time-you-stage-one/>,
> more than 4,000 people from 70 countries attended the event last
> December. All the sessions (video and transcript) are still available
> on demand via the agenda<https://sighttechglobal.com/agenda/> or on
> YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwJhe8kfyvmp8PRg9dexrOg/videos>.
> Attendees gave the event a generous thumbs up: 4.7 out of 5  for
> programming and 4.6 out of 5 for accessibility.
> 
> Now is the time to register so that our all-volunteer team can keep
> you posted on agenda updates and ensure you have a chance to sign up
> for limited-attendance breakout sessions. You can register
> here.<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfberR7NW3F74cBNleiOVauGQ8wrSV0FcZqf1HH5X60mUrS6Q/viewform>
> 
> Got programming ideas? We are happy to hear from you — especially
> founders, inventors and researchers who have working technology
> products! The programming committee includes Jim Fruchterman (Benetech
> / TechMatters), Larry Goldberg (Verizon Media), Matt King (Facebook),
> Professor Roberto Manduchi (UC Santa Cruz) and Will Butler (Be My
> Eyes). Contact us
> Info at sighttechglobal.com<mailto:Info at sighttechglobal.com>.
> 
> Calling all sponsors! We’re delighted that Google, TechCrunch and
> Verizon Media have already signed on for 2021, and nearly all last
> year’s sponsors<https://sighttechglobal.com/2020-sponsors/> have
> signaled that they plan to renew their support for this significant
> event. Private donors are also welcome! To learn more, read
> here<https://sighttechglobal.com/sponsorship-opportunities/> or
> contact us a sponsor at sighttechglobal.com<mailto:sponsor at sighttechglobal.com>.
> 
> Sight Tech Global is a production of the Vista Center for the Blind
> and Visually Impaired<https://www.vistacenter.org/>, a 501(c)(3), that
> has been serving the Silicon Valley area for 75 years. Vista’s
> executive director, Karae Lisle, is the event’s chair. Vista is the
> beneficiary of all sponsorships and donations to Sight Tech Global. In
> 2020, 92% of the proceeds from Sight Tech Global went to support the
> Vista Center’s work to help thousands of people with vision loss in
> the Bay Area lead their best life.
> 
> Please join us at Sight Tech Global in December!
> 
> 
> 
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> 
>     David Goldfield
> Assistive Technology Specialist
> 
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> WWW.DavidGoldfield.info
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