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 seven 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 20 states with several international visitors each year.
Faculty research poster sessions on cognitive technology topics are at the heart of the conferences. CU faculty, students and their colleagues display their posters and exhibits, encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration across CU’s campuses and with research partners worldwide. These sessions display progress and insight 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 is shared not only by academics, but also by leaders in government, industry, the disabilities communities and philanthropy.
The Eighth Annual Coleman Institute Conference will be held October 16, 2008 at the St. Julien Hotel, Boulder, Colorado. You can see the preliminary agenda (pdf) and register here.
The distinguished plenary speakers are:
- Michael Bérubé, PhD, Paterno Family Professor in Literature, Science, Technology and Society, Pennsylvania State University
- Bill Coleman, Founder and CEO, Cassatt, Inc. and Founding Donor of the Coleman Institute
Additional panels and speakers include:
Health Promotion for People with Cognitive Disabilities
- James Rimmer, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Holly Wyatt, MD, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
Coleman Institute Supported Advances in Biomedical Science and Technology
- Daniel Abrams, MD, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
- Curt R. Freed, MD, University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
- M. Karen Newell-Rogers, PhD, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Smart Home/Personal Support Technologies
- Rodney Bell, Asset Consulting
- Jeff Darling, Rest Assured, LLC
- Dan Davies, AbleLink Technologies, Inc.
- Duane Tempel, Sound Response and University of Wisconsin
- Greg Wellems, Imagine! Colorado
Cognitive Accessibility and the Web
- Chester Finn, Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered
- Clayton Lewis, PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Michael Paciello, The Paciello Group
- Paul Timmers, PhD, e-Inclusion, European Commission, Directorate of General Information, Society & Media
- Cynthia Waddell, JD, Center for Disability and the Internet
- Scot Weeres, Accessibility Directorate, Ministry of Community and Social Services, Ontario, Canada
- Cameron Wilson, Association for Computing Machinery
Information including agendas, speakers and panelists, and selected presentations, posters and abstracts, is available for all conferences.
Year 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001
Roster of the Institute's Annual Conference Speakers, 2001-2008