Ideagen Global - Catalyze Magazine - Spring 2024
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale. Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back with our Spring 2024 edition. Inside, view conversations from the AI, Health, Tech, & Finance Summit hosted in Miami, Florida! This months covers features speakers: Chetna Singh, BJ Moore, Ruth Hunter, David Lloyd, Manoli & Nicole Lagos, Bill Novelli, Dr. César Lara, donna Bungard, Conor Walsh, Brian Hecker, & Andrew Leedham.
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all the content, events, articles, and collaboration that we do. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
Ideagen's monthly Catalyze Magazine is back with our Spring 2024 edition. Inside, view conversations from the AI, Health, Tech, & Finance Summit hosted in Miami, Florida!
This months covers features speakers: Chetna Singh, BJ Moore, Ruth Hunter, David Lloyd, Manoli & Nicole Lagos, Bill Novelli, Dr. César Lara, donna Bungard, Conor Walsh, Brian Hecker, & Andrew Leedham.
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A C C U R A T E L Y R E P R E S E N T I N G T H O S E<br />
W I T H D I S A B I L I T I E S<br />
Donna: It kind of depends. We're talking about disability as a big group, but there is a great<br />
deal of diversity and intersectionality within that, and I would argue that some industries are<br />
probably further along for some types of disabilities than others. For example, in the US, there<br />
are a lot of barriers for people with intellectual disabilities to get more senior roles, and while<br />
I'm saying that generally, there is data out there. Whereas what we see in Spain, they just<br />
elected the first Parliamentarian with Down syndrome, and she's remarkable. She's not<br />
remarkable because of her disability; she's a remarkable woman, and it's remarkable that<br />
society has allowed her to elevate to that place.<br />
A disability is a character trait, just as any other character trait. The fact that the barriers were<br />
broken down for her to be able to rise to that level is what makes the story so incredible, not<br />
necessarily about her overcoming. People don't overcome these things; this is part of who we<br />
are. I didn't overcome being a woman in tech. I haven't overcome anything, but people can<br />
have various breakdowns in those pathways. I'd argue that some industries are going to be<br />
much more inclusive of certain kinds of disabilities than others, and what we need to do is just<br />
level the playing field.<br />
Donna Bungard, & George Sifakis<br />
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