Click “Launch Event” to identify the ACB Media stream for each event.
Events in June 2025
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Affiliate Role Call Affiliate Role Call
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June 23, 2025Nominating Committee Room Opens Nominating Committee Room Opens
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June 23, 2025Nominating Committee Nominating Committee
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June 23, 2025Session closes and Nominating committee begins in delegate room Session closes and Nominating committee begins in delegate room
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Resolutions and First Reading of Constitution and Bylaws Report Resolutions and First Reading of Constitution and Bylaws Report
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Microsoft Copilot for Work Microsoft Copilot for Work
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June 26, 2025Learn how AI enhances skills and productivity for the blind community. Discover Copilot tools that streamline workflows, foster collaboration, and equip the community with digital skills for the modern workplace. Speaker: Crystal Jones, Microsoft
Audio Description Best Practices in Movie Theaters Audio Description Best Practices in Movie Theaters
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June 26, 2025Did you know that most theatrical releases are audio described? Learn from a blind movie goer, AMC Theaters, the National Alliance of Theater Owners, and others on how to make your visit to the movie theater a successful one by enjoying the magic of cinema with the help of audio description. Moderator: Carl Richardson, Co-Chair, ACB Audio Description Project, Boston, MA Presenters: Alex Howard, Enthusiastic Blind Theater-Goer and Co-Creator of The Dark Room Podcast, Burbank, CA; Cinema United (formerly known as National Association of Theater Owners (Invited); AMC Theatres (Invited)
Writing Audio Description with AI Tools Writing Audio Description with AI Tools
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June 26, 2025Discussion and demonstrations of audio description AI writing and assessment tools and how they work on their own and with essential human collaboration Moderator: Renee Arrington-Johnson Presenters: JOEL SNYDER, PhD., Author of The Visual Made Verbal, President, Audio Description Associates, LLC, Takoma Park, MD; Caroline Desrosiers, Founder and CEO, Scribely, Truckee, CA; Brett Oppegaard, Ph.D., Professor, School of Communication and Information, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Manoa, HI; Professor Sri Kurniawan, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA; and Rick Morin, ACB Media and IT Manager, Burlington, MA
Using Technology to Help Those Living with a Dual Sensory Loss Live to the Fullest Using Technology to Help Those Living with a Dual Sensory Loss Live to the Fullest
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June 26, 2025Join Scott Davert, Coordinator of the Technology Research, and Innovations Center for the deaf blind at HKNC, as he explains how we can use technology to live without dual sensory loss to the fullest.