Season 2016 2016

WWDC 2016 Keynote

White House Champion of Change, Forbes 30 under 30 leader, and BBC Women of Africa Hero, Haben Girma is an acclaimed accessibility and inclusion advocate. The first deaf blind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben champions equal access to information for people with disabilities, earning her recognition from both President Obama and President Clinton. Through this presentation, Haben will share how designing with accessibility in mind benefits not just users with disabilities, but developers, too. Throughout history, disability has sparked innovation, leading to breakthroughs in wide-ranging inventions from keyboards to telephones. Hear Haben's remarkable story and learn how incorporating universal access principles into product development can increase access for people with disabilities while simultaneously improving the overall usability of your app.

Wildlife populations across the globe face innumerable threats that have resulted in dwindling numbers of many species. Ginette Hemley, SVP of Wildlife Conservation at World Wildlife Fund, will take us through many of the bold new approaches to conservation that organizations like WWF are taking to tackle these challenges. One of the most promising and potentially game-changing ideas for solving conservation problems around the world is by applying technology in creative new ways. From examining polar bear DNA to utilizing devices such as thermal imaging cameras and gunshot detectors to drawing upon the power of social networks and apps, learn about the surprising ways that WWF and its partners are harnessing the power of technology to keep up with the planet's most urgent wildlife conservation challenges.

When Ajit Narayanan began working on technologies for children with disabilities in India in 2008, it was the beginning of an incredible journey down a rabbit hole — one that took him and his team on a wild ride across the worlds of electrical engineering, autism, cross-cultural communication and the mathematics of language. His journey led him to build Avaz, a wheelchair-mounted tablet to help people with disabilities communicate, then even more ambitiously, to invent FreeSpeech, an entirely new visual language that could break down language barriers altogether. Ajit will talk about the series of events that led to the creation of the Avaz and FreeSpeech apps, their impact in India and around the world (earning him the National Award for Empowerment of People with Disabilities from the President of India) and his ideas on the transformative role that apps can play in education.

The heroes and villains of Marvel have captivated a worldwide audience for over 75 years. Marvel Games Creative Director Bill Rosemann lifts up the masks of Spider-Man, Black Panther, the Guardians of the Galaxy and more to reveal the true power behind the world's most heroic brand.