Sambhavi Chandrashekar

Dr. Sambhavi "Sam" Chandrashekar leads the accessibility initiatives at D2L corporation as their Global Accessibility Lead. She is a recognized accessibility champion and an award-winning inclusive educator/researcher with over 15 years of strategic and direct operational experience in implementing technology-based accessibility projects successfully in academia, non-profit sector and industry. Sam actively influences policy and legislation as the Vice-Chairperson of Accessibility Standards Canada's Accessible & Equitable Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee, as the Co-Chair of the Global Leadership Council of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals and as an Advisory Council Member of the Canadian Accessibility Network.