Haben Girma in Austin on May 15
The Forrest Four-Cast: May 7, 2019
SXSW 2019 hosted more than a dozen sessions focused on accessibility including titles like “Austin’s Blind Gaming Champ Shares His Amazing Story,” “The Blind Cook: MasterChef Winner, Christine Ha,” and “Is Corporate Inclusion Diversish?”
If you want even more information on the current and future state of accessibility, then be sure to attend the annual John Slatin AccessU from May 15–17 at St. Edward’s University in Austin.
Keynote speaker at John Slatin AccessU for 2019 is disability rights attorney and advocate Haben Girma. The first ever deaf-blind graduate of Harvard Law School, she was named a White House Champion of Change in 2013 and was part of the prestigious Forbes’s “30 Under 30” list in 2016. Catch her at 11:45 am on Wednesday, May 15.
Other sessions at this year’s event offer hands-on digital accessibility training by the world’s leading experts, as well as valuable networking opportunities, technology demos, and breakfast and lunch each day. Whether you’re a designer, developer, project manager, administrator, or responsible for online content or development, classes at John Slatin AccessU teach practical skills you can immediately use.
Get full registration information John Slatin AccessU for 2019 here.
Austin Events for the Week of May 6
May 7: Feminist Hack ATX Power Hour
May 7: Philanthropitch Austin
May 7: Female Founder Roundtable: Smashing Ceilings & Raising the Bar
May 7: User Experience Design Immersive Info Session
May 7: Data Science Immersive Info Session
May 7: Software Engineering Immersive Info Session
May 7: ProfitWell Recur: Monetization & Pricing Strategy Workshop
May 7: Intro to Fundraising in Texas
May 7: Common Culture Lab Meet Up
May 7: Austin iPhone Developers Meet Up
May 7: Austin Deep Learning Journal Club
May 8: Startup Grind Austin
May 8: Austin Food Marketing Meet Up
May 8: Austin eCommerce Meet Up
May 8: Austin Python Meet Up
May 8: Introduction to Data Analytics
May 9: IBM Watson Cognitive Tech Meet Up
May 9: Austin Technology Council Women in Tech Roundtable
May 9: Video Game Makers Unite Meet Up
May 9: Austin WordPress Meet Up
May 9: Introduction to Coding: HTML & CSS
May 9: Women in Tech “Intergenerational Conflict & Mentorship”
May 9: Startup Bootstrapping Meetaway
May 9: Wordpress Austin Community Day
More Upcoming Austin Events
May 13: Scooters — Let’s Fix This Mess
May 13: Learn to Code: JavaScript Functions & Scope
May 13: E4 Youth Showcase & Awards
May 14: Austin Forum on the Impact of 5G Networks
May 14: Hack Day for MDN Web Docs at AccessU 2019
May 14: Austin Technology Council Engineering Leadership Roundtable
May 15–17: John Slatin AccessU 2019
May 15: General Assembly Grad Showcase
May 15: School of Design and Creative Technologies Student Showcase
May 16: DivInc Open House
May 16: Product Prodigy Demo Day — Prototype
May 17–18: Outlier Podcast Festival
May 18–19: Austin Record Convention
May 23: Austin A-List Ceremony
May 29: Admiral William McRaven Book Reading
May 29–31: Dig-In: The Future of Digital Insurance
May 30: Austin Technology Council 30th Anniversary Celebration
June 6–9: ATX Television Festival
June 7: Matthew Inman Book Reading
June 19: Neal Stephenson Book Reading
July 1: 2020 SXSW PanelPicker entry process begins
July 5–7: RTX Austin
Nov 13–14: Time Machine 2019
Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW, the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.
