Dear AccessWorld readers,
It has been one busy, action-packed time at AccessWorld lately! It seems we just wrapped up with ATIA and the AFB Leadership Conference, and we are now in the throes of preparing for CSUN.
The AFB Leadership Conference 2016 was held March 3–5 in our nation's capital, Washington, DC. I am excited to say the conference attracted over 400 established and emerging leaders in the blindness field. Conference attendees included technology experts, corporate representatives, university professors, teachers of students with visual impairments, orientation and mobility instructors, rehabilitation professionals, and parents. They came from diverse organizations and institutions spanning the public and private sectors, including school districts, schools for the blind, Veterans Administrations, hospitals, private agencies, and universities.
As in the past, this year's conference sessions were eligible for ACVREP and CRC CEUs and focused on technology, leadership, employment, education, transition, seniors experiencing vision loss, orientation and mobility, and rehabilitation.
AFB and the AccessWorld team would like to thank our generous conference sponsors: JPMorgan Chase & Co., Delta Gamma, Google, IBM, Vanda Pharmaceuticals, CTIA, Sprint, AT&T, Canon, Facebook, Freedom Scientific, Microsoft, NIB, HumanWare, APH, T-Mobile, ABD Direct, TracFone, LifeScience Technologies, CTA and the CTA Foundation, and the NRTC on Blindness and Low Vision at Mississippi State University.
It's not too early to mark your calendars and save the date for AFB Leadership Conference 2017, which will take place March 2–4, once again at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in our nation's capital, Washington, DC!
Sincerely,
Lee Huffman, AccessWorld Editor-in-Chief
American Foundation for the Blind
