Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft) - Innovating Accessibly

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Jenny Lay-Flurrie is chief accessibility officer at Microsoft. Her team is at the forefront of creating positive experiences that apply technology to make a difference in the world and in the lives of individuals, from how Microsoft hires and supports people with disabilities in employment to innovative technology that aims to revolutionize what’s possible for people with disabilities. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Lay-Flurrie discusses the importance of strategically approaching accessibility and purposefully including people with disabilities in employment and innovation.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:07.0	This is the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series.
0:11.0	Brought you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:15.0	Welcome YouTube and the Stanford communities
0:18.0	to the Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders'
0:20.0	2022 season.
0:22.6	It is so great to have you back. I am Ravi Balani, a lecture in the management science and
0:28.4	engineering department at Stanford and a director at Alchemist and Accelerator for Enterprise
0:32.5	Startups. And I'd like to welcome you to the new year of the Entrepreneur leaders series presented by STVP, the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, which is now the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center, or Sikh, and bases the business association of Stanford entrepreneurial students.
0:51.1	Before I introduce our speaker today, first off, let me say that today's ETL is the
0:55.8	brainchild of MSNE lecturer Bruce Kian. Bruce has long been advocating for the department to shed
1:01.7	more light on the intersection of disability and entrepreneurship. And so while I'm here
1:06.6	facilitating this fireside chat, don't confuse the megaphone for the muscle. This has really been
1:12.5	the work, the result of Bruce's hard work that he's been championing for a while. And I would say
1:18.0	that Bruce and myself could not be more pleased to kick off the 2022-2020 ETL series than to have
1:24.4	Jenny Lay Fleury as our kickoff keynote fireside chat.
1:28.3	Jenny LeFleury is Microsoft's chief accessibility officer,
1:33.3	and as Microsoft's chief accessibility officer, Jenny is leading the company's efforts
1:38.3	to drive great products, services, and websites that empower people and organizations to achieve more. One in seven people, one in seven
1:47.8	people in the world, over a billion people have a disability. And for 70% of those people,
1:55.0	the disability is not apparent. That means even in our Stanford class, if our Stanford class mirrors the world's
2:02.1	statistics, there's over 75 students in this class that have a disability, and you may not even
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