Michael Lorz

Managing Director

EnableMe Foundation

Switzerland

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The EnableMe Foundation empowers people with disabilities across the world by providing information, self-help peer communities & digital services.
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Dr. Michael Lorz (44) is the founding managing director of EnableMe Foundation. The foundation empowers more than one million people with disabilities annually across the world by providing enabling information, self-help peer communities & digital services. 

Michael is also the co-managing director of the Stiftung MyHandicap that focuses on digital inclusion services in Switzerland. He is driven by impact and passionate about digital solutions and the domain of non-visible disabilities. Previously, he has inter alia been the founding managing director of the foundation at the University of St.Gallen (HSG Foundation).

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Wednesday, 21 February 2024

12:00 - 13:30

Forum on Artificial Intelligence and disability inclusion

Format:Live streamTrack:Location: M2
  • Assistive technologies
  • ICT innovations
  • English captions | International Sign
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In this Forum, exciting new AI-based solutions will be presented, as well as methods discussed, which seek to ensure that disability inclusion in reflected in AI development.

Thursday, 22 February 2024

10:00 - 11:00

Forum on Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises

Format:Live streamTrack:Location: M2
  • Focus: Low- income countries
  • Education in Emergencies
  • English captions | International Sign
  • Graphic facilitation

Global leaders and seasoned practitioners deliberate on disability-inclusive responses to climate change ramifications and humanitarian crises such as wars and natural disasters.

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