Keynote Speakers  
   
 
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Dr. Indrajit Banerjee
Director, Knowledge Societies Division, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO

Indrajit Banerjee is currently the Director of the Knowledge Societies Division, Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO. Previously he was Chief of Information and Communication Technology in the Education, Science and Culture Section of the Communication and Information Sector. He obtained his Ph.D in Communication and in Didactics from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (France), and did his postdoctoral studies at the Université du Québec, Montreal (Canada). He served as Secretary-General of the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) in Singapore.
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Axel Leblois
President and Executive Director, United Nations G3ict
The unstoppable momentum of the CRPD around the world: status report and success factors for ICT Accessibility Axel Leblois spent over 20 years at the helm of information technology companies in the United States including as CEO of Computerworld Communications, CEO of IDC - International Data Corporation, Vice-Chairman of IDG - International Data Group, President of Bull HN Worldwide Information Systems - formerly Honeywell Information Systems, CEO of ExecuTrain and President of W2i, the Wireless Internet Institute. Axel Leblois served as a Senior Special Fellow of UNITAR, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, and is a founding trustee of its North American affiliate CIFAL Atlanta. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of USICD, U.S. International Council on Disabilities, and GAATES, Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments. In addition, he serves on the Advisory Board of Mada, Qatar Assistive Technology Center, and on the Scientific Advisory Board of Cloud4all. He is an adjunct professor at OCAD University/Inclusive Design Institute. He served as chairman of the board of the Atlanta International School and is chairman of the board of CASIE, the Center for the Advancement and Study of International Education. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on ICT accessibility for persons with disabilities organized for policy makers, civil society and the private sector to foster collaboration among multiple stakeholders. In his capacity, Mr. Leblois oversees all the publishing, capacity building and advocacy activities of G3ict. Mr. Leblois holds an MBA from INSEAD and is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris.
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Prof. Annelies Braffort
Research director at CNRS Head of the Sign Language team (M&TALS) France
Sign Language processing: from resources to applications
Annelies Braffort is a senior researcher at CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research). She leads the Sign Language Processing team at LIMSI-CNRS laboratory, located in the Paris-Saclay University. Her main research topics on French Sign Language concern corpus analysis, linguistic modelling and automatic processing of LSF. Current efforts in the team are made towards LSF resources and automatic generation via the animation of virtual signers.


 
 

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