The Coleman Institute Annual Conferences
The Coleman Institute annual conference is a major Institute activity with a university, regional, and national reputation. Institute Executive Director David Braddock, PhD, has organized and chaired the nine conferences since the Institute's founding in 2001. Held along the front-range in Colorado in the early fall, they are attended by 250 to 400 participants from more than 25 states with several international visitors each year.
Poster sessions on cognitive technology topics are at the heart of the conferences. CU faculty and students display their research posters and exhibits, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration across CU's campuses and with research partners worldwide. These sessions highlight progress and stimulate academic discourse involving colleagues from other research universities. In addition, the speakers, panelists and participants at these conferences represent a diverse community of concern where knowledge and insight are shared not only by academics, but also by leaders in government, industry and the disabilities communities including parents, advocates and service providers.
In fact, beginning in 2008 and continuing in 2009 and beyond, the Institute is collaborating with ANCOR, the American Network of Community Options and Resources to support their interest is using technology to improve quality of life and independent living for people with cognitive disabilities. They held their first technology leadership summit, hosted by the Institute as a follow-on to the Institute's 2009 conference.
Mark your calendar! October 21, 2010 is the date for the tenth annual Coleman Institute Conference on Cognitive Disability and Technology. We will be returning to the Westin Hotel for an expanded series of events.
Links to Past Years' Agendas, Presentations and Posters.
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Past conference speakers have included: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, executive vice president, the John F. Kennedy Foundation; Timothy Shriver, Chairman of the Board, International Special Olympics; John Seeley Brown, former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corporation; Vinton Cerf, Chief Technology Evangelist, Google (and co-designer of the protocols and architecture of the Internet); and Raymond Kurzweil, inventor and entrepreneur, to name a few.
View the Alphabetical Roster of the Institute's Annual Conference Speakers, 2001-2009.
