Disability:IN Conference

This year’s Disability:IN Conference is scheduled to take place on 12-15 July.

The event will allow DE&I/HR professionals to engage with industry peers, experts and companies to learn how they are gaining the disability advantage, through tools like the Disability Equality Index. The event will also provide the opportunity to:

  • Source a diverse group of talent through our NextGen Leaders programme featuring highly-skilled college students with disabilities. 
  • Meet and discuss opportunities with disability-owned business enterprises (DOBEs), including disabled veteran-owned and service-disabled veteran-owned. 
  • Celebrate leaders in disability inclusion at the Inclusion Awards and top-scoring companies of the Disability Equality Index as the “Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion”. 
  • Connect with Disability:IN Affiliates and learn how to engage locally. 
  • Learn how including people with disabilities is playing a role in the future of ESG and sustainability. 

KEY SPEAKERS

Speakers at the event this year will include leading CEOs, HR & DE&I executives. They include:

  • Steven Mizell, Executive VP, Chief Human Resources Officer, Merck 
  • Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft
  • Ann Powell, Executive VP and Chief Human Resources Officer, Bristol Myers Squibb 
  • Carlos Cubia, Global VP and Chief Diversity Officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance 
  • Regina Heyward, Head of Supplier Diversity, Mass Mutual 
  • Melonie Parker, Chief Diversity Officer, Google 
  • Julie Sweet, Chief Executive Officer, Accenture,
  • Rodney Martin, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Voya Financial 
  • Janice Little, Executive VP, Chief Human Resources, Lowe’s Companies 
  • Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer, Microsoft (also Disability:IN Board Chair) 
  • Ted Kennedy, Jr, Board Chair, American Association of People with Disabilities 

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