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(Note: for security reasons at BPA, a photo
ID is required) Breakfast is on your own to bring from the cafeteria.
7:30-7:50 Welcome, introductions and networking
- Jilma Meneses, OBLN Board President, OHSU
7:50 -8:30 Panel: The Growing Role of IT in
Accommodation of Disability: the impact on worker productivity and the
challenges to IT
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The impact of powerful new
Adaptive/Assistive Technology (AT) software to employee
productivity: AT has made large advancements in recent years. It
is no longer necessary to type into computers or to see the screen
to excel in computer use and be productive.
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IT staff are key leaders in
accommodation teams around installation, customization, and
maintenance of adaptive technology software on workstation computers
and within networks. How the IT interface with HR around
accommodation works.
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The interface of IT professionals,
accommodation requests, and AT expertise: Go it alone? Bring in
help? How to assess the need, find the right AT software, get it
working and keep it working.
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Challenges to IT staff around accommodation.
Presenters will discuss how IT professionals are
part of the accommodation team at Comcast and Bonneville Power, how AT
helps employees in the workplace, and the how-to's of bringing there
successful practices into various business environments.
Presenters:
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Godfrey Beckett, HR Manager for Diversity
and EEO, Bonneville Power
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Brian Furumasu, Chief IT Officer, Bonneville
Power
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Luke Robinette, Billing Supervisor, Comcast
Cable
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Comcast IT staff, TBA
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Winslow Parker, Adaptive Computer
Technician, OR Commission for the Blind
8:30-8:50 Audience questions and answers
with panelists
8:50 -9:00 Demonstration of AT software,
Naturally Speaking, by Access Technologies Inc. |
