Accessible Employment Panel
3:10 pm - 3:50 pm · Discovery room
People with disabilities remain one of the most underemployed populations in the country. The gap is not because of a lack of talent or willingness to work. It exists because hiring systems, job descriptions, interview processes, and workplace cultures were not designed with disability in mind. This panel examines what it actually takes to make employment accessible, from the first job posting to long-term career development. The conversation will move past awareness and into the operational reality of inclusive hiring: how organizations can redesign recruitment to remove barriers, what happens after someone is hired, and why retention matters as much as representation in the numbers. Panelists will share what they are seeing across employment programs and workforce inclusion efforts, where progress is real, and where the same systemic gaps keep showing up. For organizations that say they want to hire inclusively, this is the conversation about what that looks like in practice.
