{"id":1066,"date":"2014-10-19T23:50:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T06:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2014-10-26T00:36:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T07:36:28","slug":"innovation-at-work-conference-goes-very-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Innovation at Work Conference Goes Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Eventbrite_2014_Banner_350px.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1134\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"Eventbrite_2014_Banner_350px\" src=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Eventbrite_2014_Banner_350px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Eventbrite_2014_Banner_350px.png 350w, https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Eventbrite_2014_Banner_350px-300x131.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>The Innovation at Work conference \u2014 AASCEND&#8217;s 8th and celebrating our 15th anniversary \u2014 was a pretty darn huge success! (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/?page_id=1105\">program<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>&amp;<strong>\u00a0<a title=\"Conference details\" href=\" https:\/\/aascend.org\/?page_id=1110\">details<\/a><\/strong>)\u00a0Keynote speaker <strong>Alex Plank<\/strong>, founder of the premier autism online community <a title=\"Wrong Planet\" href=\"http:\/\/wrongplanet.net\">WrongPlanet<\/a>, highlighted the increased media presence of people on the autism spectrum and detailed vital efforts to ensure accurate portrayals. Keynote <strong>Jose Velasco<\/strong>, vice president at software giant SAP, outlined revolutionary efforts to hire autistic people in Silicon Valley. Other companies similarly presented at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/autismtheory.org\/eventbrite\/tech_session.pdf\">special Friday session<\/a><\/strong> for Silicon Valley employers. These changes herald a <strong>sea change in autism employment.<\/strong> <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">S<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">C<\/span><span style=\"color: #33cccc;\">E<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">N<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">D<\/span><\/strong> continues to play a significant role in supporting and accelerating this change so that it becomes embedded in the culture of employment and not just a fad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IAW_16_IMG_36542.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1120\" style=\"border: none;\" title=\"SAP VP Jose Velasco on SAP's Autism at Work program\" src=\"https:\/\/aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IAW_16_IMG_36542-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IAW_16_IMG_36542-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IAW_16_IMG_36542-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IAW_16_IMG_36542.jpg 704w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many wonderful and brilliant people presented on panels and in the bracing variety of breakout sessions. Many others worked behind the scenes to make the conference a success. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Thank you all!<\/strong><\/em><\/span> The <strong>Women&#8217;s Panel<\/strong> in particular was an inspiring presence at the conference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Here are some pictures of the day. If we accidentally violated your privacy with any of the pictures please let us know so that we can fix the error, with our apologies. And if there isn&#8217;t a picture of you it&#8217;s likely we just didn&#8217;t have one! 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(program\u00a0&amp;\u00a0details)\u00a0Keynote speaker Alex Plank, founder of the premier autism online community WrongPlanet, highlighted the increased media presence of people on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/?p=1066\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aascend.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}