Our annual conference gets larger each year, and 2021 is our biggest yet! We held our second virtual conference and had over 4,000 attendees from nearly 50 countries!
Here are some key highlights about the conference:
- 50+ sessions
- Over 250 speakers, including 5 Fortune 1000 CEOs
- 64 Expo Booths
- 300+ DOBE matchmaking conversations with corporate partners
- Over 1500 people from 37 countries, registered for the Inclusion Works meeting
- 2 accessible exercise activities
- 515 NextGen Leader Matchmaking conversations with corporate partners
- 15 NextGen Leader Sessions
- 16 NextGen Leader iLab pitches
- Introduced the Global Disability Equality Index
- 11 Inclusion Award Winners Announced
- 272 Disability Equality Index (DEI) top-scoring companies announced
- Opened registration for the 2022 Disability Equality Index (DEI)
- Unveiled 2021 DEI Findings
Conference registrants will continue to have on-demand access to all the plenary sessions, breakout sessions, and expo booths in the Hub until at least the end of 2021.
Save the date for our 2022 Annual Conference and Expo from July 18th to July 21st. We hope to be in person at Dallas. Stay tuned for more information in the late fall.
Additionally, you are invited to join our Are You IN? campaign, which was launched last year and has received nearly 2000 signatures, as well as 65 and growing CEOs from Fortune 1000 companies. The campaign empowers business to understand & evaluate their journey, engage with Disability:IN programming, and share best practices and learnings to advance disability inclusion. We encourage you to visit DisabilityIN.org/AreYouIn and show the world you are in by:
- Join the Are You IN? List
- Register for the Disability Equality Index
- Sign the CEO letter urging companies to meet disability inclusion standards
- Build your corporate inclusion roadmap
- Join our investor statement
- Share your vision on social media using our INSIDER toolkit with the hashtag: #AreYouIN
Thank you for your continued commitment to Disability:IN and we look forward to the next conference in 2022!
