Past Events
- CSUN's Twentyfirst Annual International Technology
and Persons with Disabilities Conference
March 20-25, 2006
California State University, Northridge Center
Los Angeles, California
The Center on Disabilities has advanced to the stage of conducting the longest-running and largest annual university sponsored conference on technology and persons with disabilities. This annual conference serves as a major training venue for professionals around the world involved in the field of disability and technology.
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- Government Technology Conference Southeast 2005
November 15-17, 2005
Omni CNN Center
Atlanta, Georgia
Government Technology Conference is the nation's largest and most respected technology training event and exposition for state & local government in the southeast. Designed by Government-for-Government, GTC delivers a cutting-edge educational program addressing the most important policy, management and technology issues facing government today. GTC provides an unbiased forum for government professionals and the IT industry to openly discuss and develop solutions for the public sector.
- Accessible Emergency Notification and Communication: State of the Science Conference
November 2-3, 2005
Gallaudet University
Washington, DC
The goals of this conference are to identify needs and gather possible solutions for accessible emergency notification and communication; to encourage interaction among industry, government, and consumer experts so that accessibility considerations are more likely to be built into notification and communication products and procedures, and to create a literature on the state of the science in this area.
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- State Science and Technology Institute's 9th Annual Conference
October 19-21, 2005
InterContinental Buckhead-Atlanta Hotel
Atlanta, Georgia
For a few days this fall, more than 300 of the nation's greatest thinkers and practitioners for building tech-based economies convened in Atlanta.
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- Workplace Accommodations: State of the Science Conference
September 15-16, 2005
Georgia Tech Conference Center, Technology Square
Atlanta, Georgia
This conference established a national dialogue on the current state and future directions of workplace accommodations. The conference was attended by over 110 researchers, practitioners, policy makers, product designers, employers and employees with disabilities who were interested in improving access to the workplace for people with disabilities. The conference format included plenary sessions, paper presentations in breakout sessions, and extensive opportunity for networking and discussion. The conference program featured thirty-three presentations from experts representing NIDRR research and training projects (i.e., RERCs, RRTCs, DBTACs), vocational rehabilitation, national and state organizations, and industry.
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- The State of Technology (SOT) Conference 2004
The Wireless RERC hosted the State of Technology Conference on May 11-12, 2004. The international conference brought togehter the leading researchers, practitioners, academicians, consumers, industry, and advocates in the important area where wireless technology and rehabilitation research intersect. Read More...