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Inclusive and Accessible Workplaces Lead to Better Products Gary Birch (new window), Executive Director of the Neil Squire Society was a speaker at this year’s #BCTECH Summit (new window). He joined Nina Johal (new window), Senior Director, Global Executive Talent Acquisition, Microsoft; Naitik Mehta (new window), CEO & Co-Founder, NextBillion.org; and Jocelyn Maffin (new window), […]
Dr. Gary Birch, Executive Director of the Neil Squire Society will be appointed to the Order of British Columbia, along with fifteen other exceptional civic leaders who will receive the honor at an investiture ceremony at Government House in Victoria on December 14, 2017.
Our Executive Director Dr. Gary Birch was the keynote speaker at the Ability Starts Here Symposium in Halifax, which focused on Inclusive education and employment.
Dr. Gary Birch, Executive Director of the Neil Squire Society has been invited by The Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, to participate in the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy: Innovation, Growth and Social Prosperity. The Ministerial meeting takes place from June 21-23, 2016 in Cancun, Mexico.
Dr. Gary Birch, Officer of the Order of Canada, and a recognized global expert on the impact of assistive technology for people with disabilities, will be representing civil society and the coordination mechanism as co-chair of Round Table 3 of the 9th session of the Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, taking place June 14-16, 2016 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, New York.