Event agenda

Coffee, pastries, and informal networking

Start the day at a relaxed pace by arriving early, clearing UN security without a rush, and enjoying coffee and pastries while reconnecting with colleagues and meeting new participants.

Opening Ceremony

Join us for energy and emotion as we open the Zero Project Conference 2026!

Keynote: Nico Langmann, Founder, Nico Langmann Foundation

Zero Project Scaling Solutions: Meet RampMyCity

Accessible Tourism Forum

This forum brings together practitioners from across Europe, Latin America, and global inclusive tourism to highlight practices on removing barriers in travel, hospitality, and destinations for persons with disabilities.

Hardware and smartphones designed for blind and low-vision users

This session features Zero Project Awardees of 2026—from global corporations to emerging startups—showcasing how innovations are transforming smartphones and wearables into inclusive guides and personal assistants.

The Implementation of the European Accessibility Act

How to speak about disability

Deaf, neurodiverse, pwds: Language shapes lives. This session is about the right language, how it currently evolves, and differences that exist.

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time is where accessibility hits “play” and never lags. In dedicated slots, entrepreneurs and developers showcase the state of the art in accessible gaming — proving that inclusive design is the ultimate power-up.

Building Access, One Hack at a Time: Fundación Todos Podemos Ayudar

How L'Oréal Drives Disability Inclusion Globally

ICT-based solutions to improve access to healthcare services

This session features Zero Project Awardees of 2026 from Latin America, Africa, and Asia demonstrating how ICT solutions enhance accessibility and expand healthcare access in eye health, teleaudiology, relay services, and disability case management.

Zero Project Scaling Solutions: The six Fellows of 2026

This forum spotlights six disability inclusion innovations ready for cross-border transfer and expansion to new countries through the Zero Project Scaling Solutions Programme.

The accessibility of public spaces in Rome

Accessibility powering employment: leadership by business, hosted by ILO Global Business and Disability Network

This session explores the powerful link between digital and physical accessibility and the employment of persons with disabilities within business sector companies.

Hosted by

International Labour Organization (ILO)

Switzerland

Building Inclusion from the court: The potential of Wheelchair Tennis

Prime Cuts of Inclusive Service: Morgan's Butchery

Full participation for all artists and audiences

This session features Zero Project Awardees of 2026 from Europe and South America showcasing inclusive cultural practices advancing participation for creators and audiences alike.

When a Webcam Becomes Access: Sense Pilot

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time is where accessibility hits “play” and never lags. In dedicated slots, entrepreneurs and developers showcase the state of the art in accessible gaming — proving that inclusive design is the ultimate power-up.

Blind baseball demo

Children who are blind or visually impaired will show how they play baseball by listening to the sound of the ball and working together as a team.

Access to healthcare for persons with intellectual disabilities

This session highlights Zero Project Awardees of 2026 from three continents. Their innovative solutions are advancing equitable healthcare access for persons with intellectual disabilities through policy, training, and technology.

Autism‑Inclusive Haircuts and Grooming

Mapping Access: Soochow Realinder Technologies

It’s showtime! Part 1: Scalable and inclusive ICT innovations

This session features live pitches from disability-led tech innovators, followed by brief Q&A with leading experts on AI and assistive technology.

Practical solutions for inclusive nutrition programmes

Bevica Scholarship Programme for an Inclusive Future

How Disabled Leadership can transform the most powerful systems

Zero Project Call for Nominations 2027 (#ZeroCall27) – Nominate, Innovate, Elevate!

The Zero Project Call for Nominations 2027 (#ZeroCall27) will be centred around the topic and theme of Independent Living, Political Participation, and ICT.

When Children Lead Accessibility Change: Child Support Tanzania

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time is where accessibility hits “play” and never lags. In dedicated slots, entrepreneurs and developers showcase the state of the art in accessible gaming — proving that inclusive design is the ultimate power-up.

Accessibility by design: corporate models driving inclusion

This session features Zero Project Awardees of 2026 from Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Among them are global corporations showcasing how accessibility is integrated by design across products, services, and corporate strategy.

A Digital Euro for Everyone - Lessons from Austria’s Financial Inclusion Forum

The Accessibility Gap in School Policy Documents - and how to bridge it

Supporting young children with disabilities and their families in crisis and displacement

Users and stakeholders perspectives in times of crisis

This session will highlight the experiences and perspective of persons with disabilities during migration, war and environmental crisis, taking into account the relevance of accessibility.

Hosted by

AccessibleEU (Project leader: Fundación ONCE)

Spain

BLIK payment system - inclusive digital finance for all

Nightlife and parties that everyone can attend and enjoy

Including the disability sector in global crisis response

Technological advances in accessible emergency preparedness

This forum will focus on how the European Accessibility Act enables innovative accessible technologies to deliver more equitable crisis response.

Hosted by

AccessibleEU (Project leader: Fundación ONCE)

Spain

Investing in Disability Inclusive Crisis Response

Networking Dinner

Inclusive Mosaic Workshop

Hands-on mosaic workshop for 10–25 #ZeroCon26 participants, led by instructors with intellectual disabilities from Fundació Espurna. Create your own mosaic.

The Disability Case Management app

#ZeroCon26: Recap of Day 1 and Preview of Day 2

Scaling Inclusive E-Commerce for Entrepreneurs with Disabilities: Alibaba Foundation

Haptics, Avatars, AI: communication access for the deaf and hard of hearing

This session features Zero Project Awardees of 2026 from Africa, Europe, and Asia advancing communication for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing through innovation in haptics, AI translation, and STEM education.

Delivering Accessible Workforce Training Directly via WhatsApp: Edge Tec

Forum: KI für Entscheidungen / Forum on AI for Decision-Making

Forum zu Künstlicher Intelligenz für Selbstvertreter:innen: Wie kann KI bei Entscheidungen helfen und Texte einfacher machen?

European Society for the Mental Health of Deaf People (ESMHD) International Meeting, Vienna 2026

Meeting Theme: "Trauma in the Deaf Community"

Playing Music Through Gaze: EyeHarp

From Silence to Signal: Talk to Me Goose

In-room networking

Step out of the rush of the conference and into a quieter, more intentional space.

Access Through Open Data with the 11y-Score

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time is where accessibility hits “play” and never lags. In dedicated slots, entrepreneurs and developers showcase the state of the art in accessible gaming — proving that inclusive design is the ultimate power-up.

From Description to Inclusion: Nobaflix

From Job Mapping to Built Enviroment: Egalite

How do mainstream audiences engage with disability?

This session examines how disability is framed, communicated, and experienced by mainstream audiences across some of today’s most influential media and cultural platforms.

Mainstreaming Accessibility and Universal Design in Higher Education Curricula

The "Health for All - Now!" Initiative for an inclusive healthcare system

Passing the CEO Baton at Fable

How to do innovative and inclusive business in Vienna

Vienna has a great ecosystem for social business and impact-oriented start-ups. Find out more about the opportunities and services on offer and learn first-hand from innovative businesses: the pros and cons, opportunities and obstacles.

Hosted by

Vienna Business Agency

Austria

Elections - Open Data, AI, and Accessible Technology

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time is where accessibility hits “play” and never lags. In dedicated slots, entrepreneurs and developers showcase the state of the art in accessible gaming — proving that inclusive design is the ultimate power-up.

A human-centered approach to developing digital financial services

EASPD´s SUPPORT project: Addressing Long‑Term Unemployment

Golf, rugby, athletics: building community through sports

Join and learn how the Zero Project Awardees of 2026 are leveraging sport as a platform to advance social inclusion, accessibility, and community participation.

Making Visual Arts and Arts Spaces Accessible

Braille at Scale: Boltay Huroof

It’s showtime! Part 2: Scalable and inclusive ICT innovations

This session features live pitches from disability-led tech innovators, followed by brief Q&A with leading experts on AI and assistive technology.

Prosthetics that are high-quality, affordable and available

This session features Zero Project Awardees of 2026 from Africa, South America, and North America shaping the next generation of affordable and adaptive prosthetics—ranging from recycled materials to AI-powered design and localized manufacturing.

Making Films and Screenings Accessible for All

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time is where accessibility hits “play” and never lags. In dedicated slots, entrepreneurs and developers showcase the state of the art in accessible gaming — proving that inclusive design is the ultimate power-up.

Applications empowering neurodiversity

This session will highlight Zero Project Awardees from Latinamerica and Europe that have developed applications for users who identify as neurodivergent.

Canon World Unseen - The Exhibition You Don’t Need to See

Using Weaving and Mosaics for Participation and Creativity

Emerging technologies enhancing access to public spaces

Human Rights, Sustainability & Business

A call for business‑driven human‑rights action: experts discuss how to align disability equality with sustainability and responsible business to make CRPD principles central to global practice.

The two sides of Social Media when you have a facial difference

Presentation of a New OECD Report - AI, Employment and Neurodiversity

The fully inclusive dance class

A diverse team of dance teachers will guide participants in blending movement, creativity, and accessibility. All dance levels are welcome—just bring your passion

Artificial Intelligence - Is It Reframing Assistive Technologies?

Hosted by

Equitable AI Alliance

Austria

Innovating Inclusion: Africa’s Disability‑Driven Transformation

Award Ceremony

The Zero Project Awards 2026 for Accessibility, ICT, and Crisis Response, will honor innovative solutions from across the globe and all sectors of society.

Awardee Celebration Dinner

Let us raise a glass, share a meal, and come together for a joyful evening celebrating the Zero Project Awardees of 2026. 

#ZeroCon26: Recap of Day 2 and Preview of Day 3

Morning Yoga - Rise and Shine

Start the final day of #ZeroCon26 with a short, accessible mindful movement practice designed to gently energize the body, steady the mind, and ease participants into the program with presence and focus.

Why Digital Accessibility is Imperative to Business Growth

Maps, apps, and haptics for independent navigation

This session explores Zero Project Awardees of 2026 from three continents that have developed digital and tactile innovations that enhance independent navigation for persons with disabilities.

D20: Advancing Disability Inclusion Through Global Collaboration

AI imagery of persons with disabilities

This forum will outline how disability representation can often be misaligned or missing in AI and what can be done about it.

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time is where accessibility hits “play” and never lags. In dedicated slots, entrepreneurs and developers showcase the state of the art in accessible gaming — proving that inclusive design is the ultimate power-up.

The Ability Network: Creating a global digital ecosystem for disability inclusion

Communication guide with pictograms for emergency situations

Creating Jobs for Persons With Disabilities in the Industry Sector

Campaigning for a Good F*** - the Fight for Inclusive Nightlife Spaces 

Unsere persönlichen Highlights der #ZeroCon26

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time is where accessibility hits “play” and never lags. In dedicated slots, entrepreneurs and developers showcase the state of the art in accessible gaming — proving that inclusive design is the ultimate power-up.

Accessing events through Easy Language

Inclusive Community Engagement in the Australian National Autism Strategy Development

Bridging continents - the Zero Project regional conferences

This session provides insights into the Zero Project’s growing network of regional conferences—from Chile to Singapore to India—by giving the floor to the regional partners who share how these events foster global connections.

Designing for Everyone: Universal Design and Accessibility

How to design for all? Core principles, key concepts, and examples from public spaces, services, products, and information, showing practical solutions that improve inclusion for everyone.

How HOKO’s accessible sewing tech unlocks jobs for Persons with Disabilities

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time

#ZeroCon26 Gaming Time is where accessibility hits “play” and never lags. In dedicated slots, entrepreneurs and developers showcase the state of the art in accessible gaming — proving that inclusive design is the ultimate power-up.

A UNESCO initiative: how media coverage of climate action can be inclusive of persons with disabilities

Billion Strong: strengthening inclusion through community leadership

Accessibility as a Human Right

How accessibility, grounded in the UN CRPD and other conventions becomes an enforceable human right through national laws, remedies, courts and strategic disability rights litigation.

Forum der Selbstvertreter:innen / Forum of self-advocates

Forum von und für Selbstvertreter:innen, die von österreichischen und internationalen Projekten im Bereich Katastrophenschutz lernen, in einfacher deutscher und englischer Sprache.

Closing Gaps in High-Quality Disability Healthcare

Advancing gender and disability inclusion across the Global South

Keynote: Marie Oshioka, CEO, Heralbony Europe

Closing Get-Together

Join us for a recap of three energetic and engaging days of #ZeroCon26 in which the Zero Project Team would like to extend its gratitude to all participants for coming to Vienna and raise a glass during an informal reception and get-together.

#ZeroCon26: Farewell Drinks

As #ZeroCon26 comes to a close, join us for a relaxed and celebratory farewell to reflect on shared moments, meaningful conversations, and new connections made.

The #ZeroCon26 Afterparty - Diversity Dance

“Diversity Dance” is a barrier-free clubbing event in Vienna, organised by the Diversity Ball in collaboration with Zero Project Conference 2026.

Hosted by

Diversity Ball

Austria