Keynotes
Shawn Lawton Henry
Shawn is Director of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) that develops strategies, standards, and resources to make digital content and technology accessible to people with disabilities. Before joining W3C, Shawn developed and implemented strategies to optimize user interface design for usability and accessibility as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, education providers, government agencies, non-profits/NGOs, and research centers. Shawn focuses her personal passion for accessibility on bringing together the needs of individuals and the goals of organizations in designing human-computer interfaces. Her book Just Ask provides a user-centered accessibility approach for developing products that are more usable for everyone.
Emine Yılmaz
Emine Yilmaz is a Professor and ELLIS Fellow at University College London, Department of Computer Science. At UCL she is one of the faculty members affiliated with the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence, where she leads the Web Intelligence Group. She also works as an Amazon Scholar for Amazon Alexa. Professor Yilmaz’s research interests lie in the fields of information retrieval and natural language processing. She has received several awards for her research, including the Karen Sparck Jones Award, a Google Faculty Research Award and a Bloomberg Data Science Research Award. Her research has been funded by several funding bodies including EU Horizon 2020, EPSRC, Alan Turing Institute, Google, Bloomberg and Elsevier.